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Jacob Stierle

PhD Student

 Jacob Stierle . Universität Konstanz
Fachbereich Biologie
D - 78457 Konstanz, Germany

Tel: +49-7531-88-2264
Fax: +49-7531-88-3894

room: M 1120a

email: Jacob.Stierle/-/uni-konstanz.de

web: https://neuro.uni-konstanz.de

Curriculum vitae

1982                Born in Immenstadt / Allgäu
2001                Abitur, Gymnasium Sonthofen
2001-2007     Study of biology, University of Konstanz
since  2008    PhD student in the Lab of Prof. Galizia
Current research

I am interested in the coding of olfactory information. By using calcium imaging, I investigate the representation of complex odors in the antennal lobe (AL) of the honeybee. Unrevealing the effect of lateral inhibition, across the output neurons of the AL, the projection neurons (PNs), helps us to understand the contribution of the AL network to olfactory coding. By applying different odor components and their mixtures. I am searching for the physiological basis that enables the recognition of odor components in their mixtures. Odor responses of glomeruli and single PNs are recorded using 2 photon excitation. Together with Paul Szyszka, I investigate mixture interactions on inter- and intraglomerular level.
Funding 
This project is funded by the DFG
Publications

Stierle JS, Galizia CG, Szyszka P (2013) Millisecond stimulus onset-asynchrony enhances information about components in an odor mixture. J Neurosci 33: 6060-6069

Szyszka P, Stierle JS, Biergans S, Galizia CG (2012) The Speed of Smell: Odor-Object Segregation within Milliseconds. PLoS ONE, 7: e36096. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0036096

Najar-Rodriguez AJ, Galizia CG, Stierle J, Dorn S (2010)
Behavioral and neurophysiological responses of an insect to changing ratios of constituents in host plant-derived volatile mixtures.
Journal of Experimental Biology 213: 3388-3397

Poster
Stierle J, Galizia CG, Szyszka P (2011)
In vivo two-photon calcium imaging with single neuron resolution in the honeybee. FOM Konstanz, 17.-20. April 2011

Stierle J, Biergans S, Galizia CG, Szyszka P (2011)
Odor segmentation from temporally incoherent mixtures in honeybees. Ninth Göttingen meeting of the German Neuroscience Society, 23. – 27. März 2011

Stierle J, Szyszka P, Girardin C, Galizia CG (2009)
 Processing of imperfect odor mixtures in the honeybee antennal lobe. March 25.–29.2009, 8th Göttingen Meeting of the German Neuroscience Society

Kreissl S, Stierle J, Strasser C (2007)
Allatostatin in the olfactory system of the honey bee. Proc 7th Meeting of the German Neuroscience Society