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Faculty of Mathematics and Natural SciencesInstitute of Zoology - AG Ito

Curriculum Vitae for Dr. Erica Ehrhardt

  • 2016 PhD, Neuroscience, Graduate School of Systemic Neurosciences, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität. Thesis title: Embryonic development of a sensory system: the antenna of the grasshopper Schistocerca gregaria (funded bythe GSN). Thesis Advisory Committee: Prof G.S. Boyan, Dr Y. Liu and Dr O. Griesbeck.
  • 2012 MSc, Neuroscience, Graduate School of Systemic Neurosciences, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität. Thesis title: Motion tracking by non-linearretinal processing (funded by the DAAD). Thesis Advisor: Prof T. Wachtler.
  • 2010 BA, Biochemistry and German, Bowdoin College. Awarded honors in biochemistry. Thesis: The effect of myosuppressin on nitric oxide feedback in the heart of the lobster Homarus americanus. Thesis Advisor: Prof P. Dickinson.

Publications

  • Boyan GS, Graf P, Ehrhardt E (in press) Patterns of cell death in the embryonic antenna of the grasshopper Schistocerca gregaria. Dev Genes Evol
  • Boyan GS*, Ehrhardt E* (2017) Ontogeny of pioneer neurons in the antennal nervous system of the grasshopper Schistocerca gregaria. Dev Genes Evol 227:11-23 *These two authors contributed equally to this work.
  • Ehrhardt E, Graf P, Kleele T, Liu Y, Boyan GS (2016) Fates of identified pioneer cells in the antennal nervous system of the grasshopper Schistocerca gregaria. Arth Struct Dev 45:23-30
  • Boyan GS, Ehrhardt E (2015) Pioneer neurons of the antennal nervous system of the grasshopper Schistocerca gregaria project to protocerebral pioneers in the grasshopper Schistocerca gregaria. Dev Genes Evol 225:377-382
  • Ehrhardt E, Liu Y, Boyan GS (2015) Axogenesis in the antennal nervous system of the grasshopper Schistocerca gregaria revisited: the base pioneers. Dev Genes Evol 225:39–45
  • Ehrhardt E, Kleele T, Boyan GS (2015) A method for immunolabeling neurons in intact cuticularized insect appendages. Dev Genes Evol 225:187-194