Curent topics

Bachelor, master, admissions work & internship topics

At our Chair, there is the opportunity to actively participate in the research of a working group within the framework of internships and theses (Bachelor's, Master's, admission to the teaching profession).

The following working groups regularly offer topics. Please find out about the current research priorities on the working group and personal pages and contact the respective working group leaders:

Image compostion of a honeybee and a spike train from a intracellular recording

Pfeiffer lab -
Neuroethology of spatial orientation

Foraging leaf cutting ants carrying leaf fragments through a long acrylic glas tunnel

Roces lab -
Behavioral ecology

Correlativ light- and electron-microscopic image of mushroom body calyx tissue

Rössler lab -
Neuroethology of social insects

Pollen-collecting honeybee attempts landing on a cherry blossom

Scheiner lab-
Behavioral biology of the honeybee

Bumblebee (<i>Bombus lucorum</i>) flies mit extended tongue towards a plantain flower (<i>Plantago</i>)

Spaethe lab -
Sensory ecology

Schematized honeybees and structural formula of organic chemicals

Thamm lab -
Molecular behavioral physiology

Please note:

The processing period for a bachelor's thesis is usually 4 months (including a 6-week preparatory internship), for a master's thesis it is usually 9 months (including a 10-week preparatory internship) and for an experimental thesis at least 10 weeks (if possible in a block).