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CURRICULUM VITAE
Wulfila Gronenberg
Department of Neuroscience Telephone: (520) 626-5422
College of Science, School of Mind, Brain & Behavior Fax: (520) 621-8282
University of Arizona Email: wulfilag@email.arizona.edu
PO Box 210077 Website: http://neurosci.arizona.edu/wulfilag
Tucson AZ 85721-0077
Education
1972 - 74 Technical University Berlin, Germany: Chemistry
1974 - 77 Free University Berlin, Germany: Biology
1977 - 79 Free University Berlin, Germany: Zoology (Master’s Program)
1980 - 84 Free University Berlin, Germany: Zoology (Ph.D. Program)
Chronology of Employment
1977 - 1984
Animal Physiology, Free University of West Berlin: Graduate Research Assistant
1984 - 1984
Department of Biology, Technical University of West Berlin: Postdoctoral Research Assistant
1985 - 1988
Department of Zoology, University of Frankfurt, Germany: Postdoctoral Research Associate
1988 - 1990
Arizona Research Labs (ARL) Division of Neurobiology, University of Arizona: Postdoctoral Research Associate
1991
ARL Division of Neurobiology, University of Arizona: Assistant Research Scientist
1991-1995
Dept. of Behavioral Physiology and Sociobiology, University of Würzburg, Germany: Assistant Professor
1995 - 1999
Dept. of Behavioral Physiology and Sociobiology, University of Würzburg:
Associate Professorwithout tenure
1999 - 2001
ARL Division of Neurobiology, University of Arizona: Associate Professor
(tenure pending)
2001 - 2016 ARL Division of Neurobiology (now Dept. of Neuroscience), U of A: Associate Professor (tenured)
2016 - current ARL Division of Neurobiology (now Dept. of Neuroscience), U of A: Full Professor
Institutions, degrees and dates awarded
March 1977 Free University Berlin, Germany: “Vordiplom” Biology (equivalent to BSc)
Oct. 1979 Free University Berlin, Germany: “Diplom” Biology (equivalent to MSc)
April 1984 Free University Berlin, Germany: Ph.D. Zoology
Jan. 1995 University of Würzburg, Germany: “Habilitation”
(prerequisite for serving as faculty in Germany)
Major fields:
Neuroscience; neuroethology; animal behavior; zoology
Honors and Awards
Honors College Faculty Mentor Award 2011Show Less
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Courses
- MISMethods in Insect Science
- TKBANNATo Know a Brain: A Neuroevolutionary and Neuroethological Approach
- EPEcological Physiology
- ABSSSBAnimal Brains, Signals, Sex, and Social Behaviors
- ISBInsect Systems Biology
- REEResearch in Ecology and Evolution
- FPSNFundamental Principles in Systems Neuroscience
Grants
- Collaborative Research: Navigation and the Neural Integration of Multimodal Sensory Information in the Brain of an Arthropod
Principal Investigator (PI)
2015
$365.0K
- Collaborative Research: Collective intelligence and social brain evolution in ants
Principal Investigator (PI)
2014
$530.0K
- Collaborative Research: Social Organization, Behavioral Development, and Function
Principal Investigator (PI)
2007
$100.9K
Technologies / Patents
News
- 'Bug Brain Soup' Expands Menu for Scientists Studying Animal Brains
2021
- Students Improving Scientific Knowledge to Present Work
2013
- Four UA Students Named Goldwater Scholars
2010
Publications (82)
Recent
- The central nervous system of whip spiders (Amblypygi): Large mushroom bodies receive olfactory and visual input.
2021
- Olfactory System Morphology Suggests Colony Size Drives Trait Evolution in Odorous Ants (Formicidae: Dolichoderinae)
2021
- Allometric analysis of brain cell number in Hymenoptera suggests ant brains diverge from general trends.
2021
- Linking Colony Size with Foraging Behavior and Brain Investment in Odorous Ants (Formicidae: Dolichoderinae).
2020
- Learning of bimodal versus unimodal signals in restrained bumble bees.
2020
- Brain evolution in social insects: advocating for the comparative approach.
2019
- Brain composition and scaling in social bee species differing in body size
2019
- Peripheral sensory organs vary among ant workers but variation does not predict division of labor.
2018
- Performance, morphology and control of power-amplified mandibles in the trap-jaw ant(Hymenoptera: Formicidae)
2017
- Social complexity influences brain investment and neural operation costs in ants
2016
- Specialization and group size: brain and behavioural correlates of colony size in ants lacking morphological castes.
2015
- Specialization and group size: brain and behavioral correlates of colony size in ants lacking morphological castes
2014
- Honey bees (Apis mellifera) learn to discriminate the smell of organic compounds from their respective deuterated isotopomers
2014
- Investment in higher-order central processing regions is not constrained by brain size in social insects
2014
- Molecular traces of alternative social organization in a termite genome
2014
- Investigating neural mechanisms underlying division of labor in Temnothorax ants.
2014
- Division of labor and structural plasticity in an extrinsic serotonergic mushroom body neuron in the ant Pheidole dentata
2013
- Plasticity of the worker bumblebee brain in relation to age and rearing environment
2013
- Chromatic processing in the anterior optic tubercle of the honey bee brain
2013
- Decision-making and associative color learning in harnessed bumblebees (Bombus impatiens)
2012
- Neural organization and visual processing in the anterior optic tubercle of the honeybee brain
2011
- Coming of age in an ant colony: Cephalic muscle maturation accompanies behavioral development in Pheidole dentata
2011
- Draft genome of the red harvester ant Pogonomyrmex barbatus
2011
- Africanized honeybees are slower learners than their European counterparts
2010
- Brain composition and olfactory learning in honey bees
2010
- Sensory allometry, foraging task specialization and resource exploitation in honeybees
2010
- Brain allometry and neural plasticity in the bumblebee bombus occidentalis
2010
- Color processing in the medulla of the bumblebee (Apidae: Bombus impatiens)
2009
- Visual processing in the central bee brain
2009
- Learning from learning and memory in bumblebees
2009
- Brain size: a global or induced cost of learning?
2009
- Olfactory learning and memory in the bumblebee Bombus occidentalis
2009
- Brains and brain components in African and European honey bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae) - A volumetric comparison
2008
- The processing of color, motion, and stimulus timing are anatomically segregated in the bumblebee brain
2008
- Higher order visual input to the mushroom bodies in the bee, Bombus impatiens
2008
- Correlation between facial pattern recognition and brain composition in paper wasps.
2008
- Correlation between facial pattern recognition and brain composition in paper wasps
2007
- Brain allometry in bumblebee and honey bee workers
2005
- Electrical potentials indicate stimulus expectancy in the brains of ants and bees
2005
- Multisensory convergence in the mushroom bodies of ants and bees
2004
- Mushroom Body Volumes and Visual Interneurons in Ants: Comparison between Sexes and Castes
2004
- Highly selective catalyst-directed pathways to dihydropyrroles from vinyldiazoacetates and imines
2003
- Segregation of visual input to the mushroom bodies in the honeybee (Apis mellifera)
2002
- Motor control of the mandible closer muscle in ants
2002
- Reduction of brain volume correlates with behavioral changes in queen ants
2002
- Subdivisions of hymenopteran mushroom body calyces by their afferent supply
2001
- Optimizing force and velocity: Mandible muscle fibre attachments in ants
1999
- Smaller brains and optic lobes in reproductive workers of the ant Harpegnathos
1999
- Morphologic representation of visual and antennal information in the ant brain
1999
- The control of mandible movements in the ant Odontomachus
1999
- Ant mushroom bodies reflect living conditions and species specific behavior
1999
- Modality-specific segregation of input to ant mushroom bodies
1999
- Afferent projections of infrared-sensitive sensilla in the beetle Melanophila acuminata (Coleoptera: Buprestidae)
1999
- Ameisen - Leben in einer Welt von Duft· und Berührungsreizen
1998
- Trap-jaws revisited: The mandible mechanism of the ant Acanthognathus
1998
- Jaws that snap: Control of mandible movements in the ant Mystrium
1998
- Mandible muscle fibers in ants: Fast or powerful?
1997
- Antennal muscles and fast antennal movements in ants
1997
- Proprioceptors and fast antennal reflexes in the ant Odontomachus (Formicidae, Ponerinae)
1997
- Fast actions in small animals: Springs and click mechanisms
1996
- The mandible mechanism of the ant genus Anochetus (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) and the possible evolution of trap-jaws
1996
- The trap-jaw mechanism in the dacetine ants Daceton armigerum and Strumigenys sp.
1996
- Neuroethology of ants
1996
- The fast mandible strike in the trap-jaw ant Odontomachus - I. Temporal properties and morphological characteristics
1995
- The fast mandible strike in the trap-jaw ant Odontomachus - II. Motor control
1995
- Oculomotor control in calliphorid flies: organization of descending neurons to neck motor neurons responding to visual stimuli.
1995
- Oculomotor control in calliphorid flies: head movements during activation and inhibition of neck motor neurons corroborate neuroanatomical predictions.
1995
- Trail communication in the ant Megaponera foetens (Fabr.) (Formicidae, Ponerinae)
1994
- The sensory basis for the trap-jaw mechanism in the ant Odontomachus bauri
1994
- Central projections of the sensory hairs on the gemma of the ant Diacamma: substrate for behavioural modulation?
1993
- Fast trap jaws and giant neurons in the ant Odontomachus
1993
- Premotor descending neurons responding selectively to local visual stimuli in flies.
1992
- Descending pathways connecting the male-specific visual system of flies to the neck and flight motor.
1991
- The organization of plurisegmental mechanosensitive interneurons in the central nervous system of the wandering spider Cupiennius salei
1990
- Descending neurons supplying the neck and flight motor of Diptera: physiological and anatomical characteristics.
1990
- Descending neurons supplying the neck and flight motor of Diptera: organization and neuroanatomical relationships with visual pathways.
1990
- Anatomical and physiological observations on the organization of mechanoreceptors and local interneurons in the central nervous system of the wandering spider Cupiennius salei
1989
- Anatomical and physiological properties of feedback neurons of the mushroom bodies in the bee brain.
1987
- Physiological and anatomical properties of optical input-fibres to the mushroom body in the bee brain
1986