Matthis Drolet (since October 2009)

„Implicit and explicit processing of vocal expressions of emotion“

Cognitive Ethology Lab, German Primate Centre, Goettingen

Thesis Committee: Prof. Fischer, Prof. Frahm, Prof. Thiel

Ahmed El Hady (since October 2009)

„Closed loop optical neurostimulation: Insight into sensory information processing“

MPI for Dynamics and Self Organization, Theoretikerical Neurophysics, Goettingen

Thesis Committee: Prof. Wolf, Prof. Stuehmer, Prof. Weiler

Arne Feinkohl (since October 2009)

„Multimodal interactions in stimulus-specific adaptation“

Dept of Biology and Environmental Sciences, Working Group Animal Physiology and Behaviour, Oldenburg

Thesis Committee: Prof. Klump, Prof. Fischer, Prof. Colonius

Tomoko Oshima-Takago (since October 2009)

„Molecular physiology of the hair cell ribbon synapse“

Dept of Otorhinolaryngology, Univ of Goettingen Medical School

Thesis Committee: Prof. Moser, Prof. Goepfert, Prof. Klump

Sebastian Puschmann (since April 2010)

„Neural correlates of auditory change awareness“

Cognitive Neurobiology, Institute for Psychology, University of Oldenburg

Thesis Committee: Prof. Thiel, Prof. Klump, Prof. Treue

Sebastian Hermann (since June 2010)

„The regulation of horizontal cell-networks in the fish retina and its modulation by light, dopamine, and retinoic acid“

Working Group Neurobiology, University of Oldenburg

Thesis committee: Prof. Weiler, Prof. Janssen-Bienhold, Prof. Brose, Prof. Schild

Aaron Wong (since June 2010)

„Confocal imaging of Ca2+ signal and exocytosis at single synapse of inner hair cells“

Thesis committee: Prof. Moser, Prof. Neher, Prof. Brose, Prof. Köppl

Meike Annika Schweisfurth (since October 2010)

„Mapping the primary somatosensory cortex: Identifying borders and attential influences“

BiomedNMR, Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Goettingen

Thesis committee: Prof. Frahm, Dr. Schweizer, Prof. Thiel, Prof. Treue

Julia Furche (since December 2010)

„Statistical learning procedures for the classification of spike trains“

Applied Statistics, Institute for Mathematics, University of Oldenburg

Thesis committee: Prof. Kneib, Prof. Klump, Prof. Kretzberg, Prof. Gollisch

Juan Daniel Florez Weidinger (since January 2011)

“Modelling the origins of spatial and temporal variability in visual cortical representations”

Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-organisation, Dep. Nonlinear Dynamics

Thesis committee: Prof. Wolf, Prof. Treue, Prof. Schield, suggested: Prof. Weiler

Somdatta Karak (since January 2011)

„Understanding the possible role of dyneins in neuronal motility in the Drosophila ear“

Cellular Neurobiology, University of Goettingen

Thesis committee: Prof. Göpfert,

Derik Behrens (since January 2011)

„Evaluating a mouse model for the study of age-related hearing loss“

Animal Physiology and Behaviour, University of Oldenburg

Thesis committee: Prof. Klump, Prof. Köppl, Prof. Moser

Friederice Pirschel (since July 2011)

„Encoding and decoding of tactile stimuli in neurons of the leech CNS“

Computational Neuroscience, Dept of Biology and Environmental Sciences, University of Oldenburg 

Thesis committee: Prof. Kretzberg, Prof. Köppl, Prof. Gollisch

Arndt Meyer (since July 2011)

„The role of connexin 30.2 in retinal signaling“

Dept of Neurobiology, University of Oldenburg

Thesis committee: Prof. Weiler, PD Dr. Dedek, Prof. Brose