Melanie Hähnel-Taguchi

Short CV

  • 01/2016 – present   
    Group leader at Developmental Biology Unit, University of Freiburg
  • 01/2015 – 08/2015   
    Adjunct teaching faculty, St. Johns River State College, Jacksonville, Florida
  • 05/2010 – 11/2015   
    Postdoctoral researcher in the Liao lab at Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience, University of Florida
  • 03/2009 – 4/2010   
    Postdoctoral researcher in the Grünewald lab, Goethe University Frankfurt.
  • 2005 – 2009   
    Doctoral studies in the Menzel lab at Neurobiology Unit, Free University of Berlin. Dissertation: Characterization of mushroom body extrinsic neurons in the honeybee (Apis mellifera) and their role in learning and memory formation: a calcium imaging study.
  • 08/2005   
    Diploma Thesis in the DeBruyne lab at Neurobiology Unit, Free University of Berlin. Thesis title: Contribution from odor responses in individual olfactory sensilla to the electroantennogram in wildtype and mutant Drosophila melanogaster.
  • 1999 – 2005   
    Study of Biology, Free University of Berlin
     

Awards and Funding

  • Since 03/2016
    Margarete-von-Wrangell Fellowship (Habilitationsstipendium für Frauen des Landes Baden-Württemberg)
  • 2016   
    Sachmittelförderung der Wissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft Freiburg
  • 01/2012 – 12/2014   
    DFG Postdoc Stipendium
     

Publications