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Björn Brembs

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- Dr. rer. nat., Dept. Genetics and Neurobiology, Universität Würzburg, 2000
- PostDoc, Dept. Neurobiology & Anatomy, University of Texas, Houston Health Science Center, 2000-2003
- Independent Researcher, Institute of Biology - Neurobiology, Freie Universität Berlin, 2003-2009
- Habilitation in Zoology, Freie Universität Berlin, 2009
- Heisenberg Fellow of the DFG, Institute of Biology - Neurobiology, Freie Universität Berlin, 2009-2012
- Adjunct professor, Department of Genetics, Universität Leipzig, Apr-Sep. 2012
- Professor of Neurogenetics, Institute of Zoology, Universität Regensburg, 2012-present

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Freie Universität Berlin

Universität Regensburg

Work details

Professor of Neurogenetics

Universität Regensburg

October 2012

Institute of Zoology - Neurogenetics

My main research topics focus around the general organization of behavior with regards to reward, punishment and decision making: How do brains accomplish adaptive behavioral choice? All animals possess a repertoire of inborn behaviors and continuously modify and adjust them to meet the requirements of the environment by learning. To study these processes, I use operant (instrumental) conditioning paradigms and contrast them with classical (Pavlovian) conditioning situations in flies (Drosophila) and snails (Aplysia). Such comparisons highlight the differences and similarities between behavioral and environmental learning, the two forms of predictive learning. After now 10 years of research in this field, I begin to have the suspicion that the main function of brains may be best described in terms of output/input systems. Brains generate spontaneous behavior and monitor the incoming sensory stream for the portion which is controlled by the behavior. Operant behavior and operant learning are the main mechanisms by which this function is accomplished. Related past research interests include the neurobiology of aggression, behavioral ecology, the evolution of cooperation and evolutionary psychology. Specialties: Methods used include a number behavioral paradigms in various invertebrate and vertebrate model systems, in vitro conditioning of isolated nervous systems, opto- and electrophysiology, mutants/transgenes, molecular biology and some pharmacology. Computer modeling of simple networks complements the experimental work.

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April 25, 2016

PKC in motorneurons underlies self-learning, a form of motor learning in Drosophila

Julien Colomb, Björn Brembs

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1971 PubMed 27168980

June 18, 2019 - Version: 1

Assessing the size of the affordability problem in scholarly publishing

Alexander Grossmann, Björn Brembs

https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.27809v1

September 30, 2016 - Version: 1

Genetic analysis of behavior in Drosophila

Björn Brembs

https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.2491v1

February 4, 2016 - Version: 1

PKC in motorneurons underlies self-learning, a form of motor learning in Drosophila

Julien Colomb, Björn Brembs

https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.1712v1

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August 22, 2022

A survey of researchers’ code sharing and code reuse practices, and assessment of interactive notebook prototypes

Lauren Cadwallader, Iain Hrynaszkiewicz

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13933 PubMed 36032954

October 19, 2020

Using trace elements to identify the geographic origin of migratory bats

Jamin G. Wieringa, Juliet Nagel, David M. Nelson, Bryan C. Carstens, H. Lisle Gibbs

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10082 PubMed 33133780

October 30, 2019

Worldwide inequality in access to full text scientific articles: the example of ophthalmology

Christophe Boudry, Patricio Alvarez-Muñoz, Ricardo Arencibia-Jorge, Didier Ayena, Niels J. Brouwer, Zia Chaudhuri, Brenda Chawner, Emilienne Epee, Khalil Erraïs, Akbar Fotouhi, Almutez M. Gharaibeh, Dina H. Hassanein, Martina C. Herwig-Carl, Katherine Howard, Dieudonne Kaimbo Wa Kaimbo, Patricia-Ann Laughrea, Fernando A. Lopez, Juan D. Machin-Mastromatteo, Fernando K. Malerbi, Papa Amadou Ndiaye, Nina A. Noor, Josmel Pacheco-Mendoza, Vasilios P. Papastefanou, Mufarriq Shah, Carol L. Shields, Ya Xing Wang, Vasily Yartsev, Frederic Mouriaux

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7850 PubMed 31687270

October 15, 2019

Tissue-specific evaluation of suitable reference genes for RT-qPCR in the pond snail, Lymnaea stagnalis

Alexander P. Young, Carmen F. Landry, Daniel J. Jackson, Russell C. Wyeth

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7888 PubMed 31637135

July 16, 2019

UK universities compliance with the Concordat to Support Research Integrity: findings from cross-sectional time-series

Elizabeth Wager

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7292 PubMed 31341741

June 7, 2017

Combined effects of waggle dance communication and landscape heterogeneity on nectar and pollen uptake in honey bee colonies

Fabian Nürnberger, Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter, Stephan Härtel

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3441 PubMed 28603677

July 21, 2016

Article processing charges for open access publication—the situation for research intensive universities in the USA and Canada

David Solomon, Bo-Christer Björk

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2264 PubMed 27547569