Straw Lab - Visual Navigation in Insects, Experimental and Computational Neuroethology

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The Straw Lab investigates the computational and neural principles underlying insect visual navigation. To achieve high-resolution data necessary for this work, they develop and utilize advanced tracking and videography systems (including fast lock-on outdoor tracking and multicopter drones). These methods enable the precise measurement and modeling of the neural basis of flight and navigation in ecologically relevant behaviors, such as honey bee foraging and the visual-motor control of fruit flies.

Andrew Straw - Positions, awards and degrees

since 2016Professor, Institute of Biology I & Member, Bernstein Center Freiburg, University of Freiburg, Germany
2021-2026Volkswagen Foundation (VolkswagenStiftung), Momentum Program, BeeTracked
2012-2017ERC Starting Grant FlyVisualCircuits
2010-2015IMP Fellow, Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), Vienna, Austria
2010Senior Research Fellow, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
2004-2010Postdoc, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
2004Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of Adelaide, Australia
1997Bachelor of Science, Biological Sciences, Magna Cum Laude, University of Southern California, USA

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