Karin Fisch

PhD Student

Address:
LMU - Department Biology II
Großhaderner Straße 2
82152 Planegg-Martinsried , Germany

Phone: +49-89-2180-74807
Email: fisch[at]bio.lmu.de

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Research group: Jan Benda

Research topics

Locust auditory system
Mechanosensory signal transduction
Noise sources
Channel noise

Background

Master in Neuroscience at the University of Cologne

Topic of my master thesis (Electrophysiology & Computersimulation):
"Influence of ground contact signals provided by tarsal receptors on stick insect leg
motoneuron activity."

Diploma (FH) in Computer Science at the University of Applied Sciences Trier
Topic of my diploma thesis (Medical Image Processing): "Automatic functional
brain structure localization for Deep Brain Stimulation."

Projects

Auditory signal transduction in insects (Bernstein partner project)
Intracellular recordings from axons of locust auditory receptor cells
Modelling of the locust auditory transduction cascade
Modelling of stochastic opening ion channels
Interspike interval statistics