We are always looking for motivated students who want to do a research module or their Bachelor's or Master's thesis in our group.

Experimental projects (supervised by Jutta Kretzberg supported by Ihor Arkhypchuk):

• Electrophysiological intracellular recordings in the medicinal leech
• Dye-injection for morphological analysis
• Voltage-sensitive dye recordings (only for M.Sc. thesis)

Modelling (supervised by Jutta Kretzberg and / or Go Ashida, supported by Kevin Sandbote, Fiona Teske, Daniela Schwarz):

• Single-cell modelling
• Modelling of biological neuronal networks

Data analysis (supervised by Jutta Kretzberg and / or Go Ashida, supported by Kevin Sandbote, Fiona Teske, Daniela Schwarz):

• Analysis of spike data
• Optimization of biophysical neuron models

Examples of recent M.Sc. theses

• Ihor Arkhypchuk: "Mutual Interaction of Leech Touch Cells and Interneurons via Electrical and Chemical Connections". 07/22
• Dominik Kessler: „Bridging the Gap between Vector Strength and Correlation Index”. 08/2021
• Pelin Ayyildiz: "Neural Network as a Method to Globular Bushy Cell Model Fitting". 02/2021
• Kevin Sandbote: "Single- and Multi-Compartment Models of Cell Intrinsic Plasticity in Leech Neurons" 02/2021
• Sven Leach, "Striving for Perfection: Optimizing Neuron Model Parameters with Evolutionary Algorithms", Master thesis Neurocognitive Psychology, 09/2018
• Zurna Ahmed, "Intracellular Recordings and Hodgkin – Huxley Model Simulation of Leech
  Neurons", Master thesis Neuroscience, 09/2017
• Alexander Trende, "Comparison of time series analysis methods for the classification of a biological neuronal network", Master thesis Physics, 01/2017
• Oliver Kühn, "Voltage Sensitive Dye Imaging of the Leech Local Bend Network - Impact of Touch Cells" , Master thesis Biology, 11/2016
• Sonja Meiser, "Anatomische, Physiologische und Funktionelle Charakterisierung der Anterior-Pagoda Zelle des medizinischen Blutegels", Master thesis Biology, 08/2016