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Prof. Dr. Ansgar Büschges

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Institute of Zoology
University of Cologne
Biocenter Cologne
Zülpicher Strasse 47b
50674 Cologne
Germany

Tel: 0221-470-2607
Fax: 0221-470-4889

Website: https://zoologie.uni-koeln.de/en/research-groups/bueschges-group
E-Mail: ansgar.bueschges@uni-koeln.de

Curriculum Vitae

  
Date of birth April 1st, 1961 in Aldekerk/Germany
Marital status married, 2 children


Education and Affiliations

1986 Diploma thesis in the Department of Biological Cybernetics of Prof. Dr. H. Cruse at the Fac. of Biologie at the University of Bielefeld
1986-1989 Graduate student in the Department of Animal Physiology with Prof. Dr. U. Bässler, Division of Biology at the Univ. of Kaiserslautern
1989 Dissertation (PhD / Dr. rer. nat.) at the University of Kaiserslautern
1989-1991 Postdoctoral Fellow in the Fac. of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, with Prof. Dr. K.G. Pearson
1991-1997 Research Associate (C1) in the Department of Animal Physiology in the Division of Biology at the University of Kaiserslautern
1995 Habilitation for Zoology
1997-1998 Visiting scientist at the Nobel Institute for Neurophysiology with Prof. Dr. S. Grillner, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
since 1998 Head of the Department of Animal Physiology at the Institute for Zoology at the University of Cologne
 
2001-2002		 Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study Berlin; convenor of the special research group on „Neural Control of Locomotion“
2011-2014   Dean of Research of the Faculty of Math. and Natural Sciences,UoC
2014-2017 Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, UoC
2018-2021 UoC Vice Rector for Academic Career and Equal Opportunities


Awards/Services for the Scientific Community

1989-1991 Fellowship of Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research
1997-1998 Heisenberg-Fellow of the DFG
1997-1998 Research Fellowship of the Axel-Wenner-Gren-Foundation
2001-2002 Daimler-Chrysler-Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study Berlin
2010 Offer of the TU Munich W3-Prof. “Technical Neuroscience” (declined)
2007-2015 Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Member of the Neuroscience Study Section (FK Neurowissenschaften; 206)
since 2012 Member of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of North-Rhine-Westfalia
2014-2024 Convenor of the DFG funded GRK1960 “Neural Circuit Analysis”
since 2014 Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Biozentrum Würzburg
since 2015 Member of the Directorate (Vorstand) of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes
2015-2023 Treasurer of the German Neuroscience Society

 
since 2019 Vice-President of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes
since 2020 Board Member of the DFG funded CRC1451 “Key Mechanisms of Motor Control”
since 2023 Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Faculty of Biology at the LMU München
since 2023 Vice-President of the German Neuroscience Society


Member of Editorial Boards of Scientific Journals:
The Journal of Neurophysiology (Editorial Board); Biological Cybernetics (Editorial Board); Frontiers in Neuroscience (Review Editor), Frontiers in Physiology (Review Editor), Journal of Comparative Physiology A (Advisory Board Member)


Selected original publications – past five years:

  • Dinges GF, Chockley AS, Bockemühl T, Ito K, Blanke A, Büschges A (2020) Location and arrangement of campaniform sensilla in Drosophila melanogaster. J Comp Neurol 529(4):905-925. doi: 10.1002/cne.24987
  • Feng K, Sen R, Minegishi R, Dübbert M, Bockemühl T, Büschges A, Dickson BJ (2020). Distributed control of motor circuits for backward walking in Drosophila. Nature Comm, 11(1), 1-17. doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-19936-x
  • Bidaye SS, Laturney M, Chang AK, Liu Y, Bockemühl T, Büschges A, Scott K (2020) Two Brain Pathways Initiate Distinct Forward Walking Programs in Drosophila. Neuron Aug 12: S0896-6273(20)30576-6. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2020.07.032
  • Grabowska M, Toth TI, Büschges A, Daun S. J Neurosci. (2022) Existence of a Long-Range Caudo-Rostral Sensory Influence in Terrestrial Locomotion. J. Neurosci. 42(24):4841-4851. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2290-20.2022.
  • Guschlbauer C, Hooper SL, Mantziaris C, Schwarz A, Szczecinski NS, Büschges A. (2022) Correlation between ranges of leg walking angles and passive rest angles among leg types in stick insects. Current Biology 2022 Apr 21: S0960-9822(22)00582-6. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2022.04.013.
  • Gebehart C, Hooper SL, Büschges A. (2022) Non-linear multimodal integration in a distributed premotor network controls proprioceptive reflex gain in the insect leg. Current Biology 32(17):3847-3854. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2022.07.005
  •  Haustein M, Blanke A, Bockemühl T, Büschges A. (2024) A leg model based on anatomical landmarks to study 3D joint kinematics of walking in Drosophila melanogaster. Front Bioeng Biotechnol. 12:1357598. doi: 10.3389/fbioe.2024.1357598
  • Ruthe, A., Mantziaris, C., Büschges, A. (2024). The synaptic drive of central pattern-generating networks to leg motor neurons of a walking insect is motor neuron pool specific. Current Biology 34(4):910-915 doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2024.01.026


Reviews/Books (selected):

  • Hooper SL, Büschges A (2017) Neurobiology of Motor Control – Fundamental Concepts and New Directions. S.L. Hooper & A. Büschges (eds.) Wiley Blackwell
  • Mantziaris C, Bockemühl T, Büschges A (2020) Central pattern generating networks in insect locomotion. Dev Neurobiol 80(1-2):16-30; doi: 10.1002/dneu.22738
  • Büschges A, Pflüger H-J, Bässler U (2021) Catalepsy and Twig Mimesis in Insects and Its Neural Control. In: Mechanisms and Functions of Tonic Immobility (Sakai M, eds.; Entomology Monographs; Springer Berlin, New York), p135
  • Büschges, A., & Gorostiza, E. A. (2023). Neurons with names: Descending control and sensorimotor processing in insect motor control. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 83, 102766. doi: 10.1016/j.conb.2023.102766