Lab of PD Dr. Wolfgang Stein

Position: Assistant professor
Address: Albert-Einstein-Allee 11, 89081 Ulm, Germany
Phone: ++49- 731-50-22636
Fax: ++49- 731-50-22629
E-mail: wstein(at)neurobiologie.de
Homepage: www.neurobiologie.de

Recent publications

Scientific career:

2012 - present: Assistant professor at Illinois State University, Normal, IL.
2006 - 2011: Assistant professor at the Institute of Neurobiology, Ulm University, Germany.
2000 - 2006: Research associate at the Institute of Neurobiology, Ulm University, Germany, in the laboratory of Dr. Harald Wolf.
1999 - 2000: Postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Neuroscience, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA, in the laboratory of Dr. Michael P. Nusbaum.
1998 - 1999: Postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Biological Cybernetics/theoretical Biology, University of Bielefeld, Germany, in the laboratory of Dr. Holk Cruse.
03/1998 - 08/1998: Postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Neurobiology, Ulm University, Germany, in the laboratory of Dr. Harald Wolf.
02/1998 Ph.D. (Dr. rer. nat.), Department of Biology, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany. Dissertation: "Task-dependent changes in the femur-tibia joint control system of the stick insect Cuniculina impigra".
1995 - 1998: Ph.D. student at the Department of Biology, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany. Advisors: Dr. Ulrich Bässler and Dr. Ansgar Büschges.
1995: Diploma in Biology at the Department of Biology, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany. Title: "Habituation of muscles responses in the stick insect".
1994 - 1995: Diploma student (Biology) at the Department of Biology, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany. Advisors: Dr. Ulrich Bässler and Dr. Joachim Deitmer.

Post-doctoral research summary

2006 - 2011: Ulm University and Illinois State University. Explored the processing of sensory information from different sense organs on the motor circuits in locusts and crustaceans (own lab). Experimental research and computer modeling.
2000 - 2006: Ulm University. Characterized the effects of neuromodulatory projection neurons on the selection of motor patterns from multifunctional networks (own lab and lab of Dr. Harald Wolf). Experimental research.
1999 - 2000: University of Pennsylvania. Studied the convergence and divergence of cotransmitters on pattern generation in the stomatogastric nervous system of the crab (lab of Dr. Michael P. Nusbaum). Experimental research.
1998 - 1999: University of Bielefeld. Characterized the interaction of different sense organs in the walking system of stick insects (lab of Dr. Holk Cruse and Dr. Josef Schmitz). Experimental research.
1998: Ulm University: Explored vibration sensitivity of the femoral chordotonal organ in the stick insect (lab of Dr. Harald Wolf and Dr. Ulrich Bässler). Experimental research.

Graduate and undergraduate research summary

1995 - 1998: University of Kaiserslautern. Investigated the neuronal basis of adaptive gain changes in the walking system of the stick insect Cuniculina impigra (lab of Dr. Ulrich Bässler). Experimental research.
1994 - 1995: University of Kaiserslautern. Studied habituation with intracellular recordings from muscles in the stick insects Cuniculina impigra and Carausius morosus (lab of Dr. Ulrich Bässler). Experimental research.

Fellowships, Grants & Awards

06/2011 Heisenberg fellowship of the German Research Foundation (DFG)
06/2011 Grant STE937/9-1 of the German Research Foundation (DFG).
07/2009 Grant STE937/7-1 of the German Research Foundation (DFG).
10/2008 Teaching Award 2008 of Ulm University for excellence in teaching and training of students.
01/2007 Grant STE937/5-1 of the German Research Foundation (DFG).
03/2006 Albert & Ellen Grass Faculty Award for studies and research at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, USA.
06/2003 Grants STE937/2-1 and 2 of the of the German Research Foundation (DFG).
05/2003 Startup grant Ulm University.
02/1999 Fellowship DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service); declined.
08/1998 Research project ("Olfactory behavior of the locust, Schistocerca gregaria") at the International Center for Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE) in Nairobi, Kenia. Fellowship of GARN (German-American Academic Network).
08/1996 & 08/1997 Fellowship of the German-American Academic Council (GAAC) Foundation for participation at the seminars "The Organization of Behavior in Higher & Lower Animals" in Dietramszell, Germany and Bodega Bay, California, USA. Faculty: Dr. Martin Heisenberg (Würzburg) and Dr. Masakazu Konishi (Pasadena, USA).
1995 - 1998 Fellowship of the Graduiertenförderung Rhineland-Palatinate at the University of Kaiserslautern.