MSc. Francesca Protti Sanchez
PhD Student: Jan 2020 - March 2025(co-supervision with Dr. Hannah Rowland, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany.)
Topic: 'A bird's eye view of warning signals.'
Dr. Anastasia Morandi Raikova
Postdoc: Dec 2021 - Dec 2023PhD Student: Oct 2017 - Oct 2021
Topics: 'Neural basis of spatial and social cognition in domestic chicks'.
MSc. Benedikt Paul Fuhr
Master Student: Feb 2023 - Oct 2023Topic: 'Mapping of the contra- ispi- and bilateral visual responses in the entopalliumin of domestic chicks.'
MSc. Laura Alisa Bock
Master Student: Feb 2023 - Oct 2023Topic: 'Mapping of the contra- ispi- and bilateral visual responses in the visual Wulst of domestic chicks.'
Dr. Dmitry Kobylkov
Post-doc: Apr 2020 - Oct 2023(co-supervision with Prof. Giorgio Vallortigara, ERC advanced grant SPANUMBRA, CIMeC, University of Trento)
Topic: 'Neural basis of numerical cognition in domestic chicks'.
MSc. Francesca Sellitti
Master Student: Feb 2022 - March 2023Research Assistant: March 2023 - July 2023
Topic: 'Time-course of c-Fos expression in domestic chicks.'
Jeske Enzerink
Internship: Feb 2023 - June 2023Topic: 'c-Fos mapping of neural activity in domestic chicks'
BSc. Burak Senay
Internship: Feb 2023 - June 2023Topic: 'Preliminary processing of images of parvalbumin staining in chicks brains.'
BSc. Gianmaria Melissano
Internship: Feb 2023 - May 2023Topic: 'Analysis of c-Fos expression in the hippocampus of domestic chicks.'
MSc. Alba Cumplido Mayoral
Master Student: Feb 2022 - Dec 2022Topic: 'Neural basis of social novelty recognition in domestic chicks.'
MSc. Vlad Mardare
Master Student: Aug 2021 - Oct 2022Topic: 'Electrophysiological investigation of the visual Wulst in domestic chicks.'
BSc. Mari Bonse
Intern (Erasmus): March - July 2022Topic: 'Neural basis of aversive taste recognition in domestic chicks.'
MSc. Carlos Daniel Corrales Parada
Master Student: Feb - Nov 2019Research Assistant: Jan 2021 - Aug 2021
Topic: 'Neural basis of individual recognition in domestic chicks.'
MSc. Aleksandra Simdianova
Master Student: Oct 2020 - July 2021Topic: 'Egocentric orientation in domestic chicks. Behavioural and brain experiments'
BSc. Francesca Fabris
Internship: Sept 2020 - Feb 2021Topic: 'Neuroanatomical investigation of brain hemispheric lateralisation in domestic chicks'
MSc. Marta Rodriguez Aramendia
Internship: Oct 2019 - Sept 2020Topic: 'Hippocampal activation in domestic chicks during active and passive explorations of a novel environment'
BSc. Sofija Perovic
Internship: March 2020 - May 2020Topic: 'Neural basis of reversal learning in domestic chicks'.
BSc. Elena Pedaci
Internship: Oct 2019 - March 2020Topic: 'Hippocampal activation of immediate early genes in domestic chicks'.
BSc. Marlen Gironimi
Internship: July 2019 - Feb 2020Topic: 'Hippocampal activation of immediate early genes during novel environment exploration in domestic chicks'.
MSc. Giacomo Costalunga
Research Assistant: Sept 2018 - Aug 2019Topic: 'Light-incubation effects on lateralisation of single unit responses in the visual Wulst and Entopallium of domestic chicks'
BSc. Leonard Valentin Böger
Intern (Erasmus): March - June 2019Topic: 'Neural basis of individual recognition in domestic chicks'.
BSc. Rukiye Aydin
Intern: Aug 2018 - Feb 2019Topic: 'Neuroanatomical investigation of brain hemispheric lateralisation in domestic chicks'.
MSc. Lorenzo Grilli
Master Student: Mar-Dec 2018Master Thesis: 'Visual response properties in the telecephalon of domestic chicks: searching for face selective neurons'.
Dr. Lori Schweikert
Visiting Postdoc: Oct-Dec 2018Topic: 'Perception of aposematic signals in domestic chicks and its neural basis'.
Hannah Rowland Lab, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany
Dr. Fabio Miazzi
Visiting Postdoc: Oct-Nov 2018Topic: 'Perception of aposematic signals in domestic chicks and its neural basis'.
Hannah Rowland Lab, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany
BSc. Elena Eccher
Intern: Jan-Aug 2018Topic: 'Investigation of the hippocampal functions in domestic chicks by using immediate early genes products to map neuronal activity'.
BSc. Krubeal Danieli
Intern: Jan-Aug 2018Topic: 'Neuroanatomical lateralisation of the visual system in domestic chicks (Gallus gallus)'.
Dr. Rachel Bhushan
PhD Student in a collaborative project: 2015-2017Sang Ah Lee Lab, University of Trento, Italy
Project Topic: Representation of environmental shape in the hippocampal formation of domestic chicks (Gallus gallus)
MSc. Eliana Boschetti
Master Student: Mar-Oct 2015; Research Assistant: Mar-May 2017Master Thesis: "Neuronal basis of numerical cognition in the domestic chick (Gallus gallus)."
Dr. Sarah Golücke
Visiting PhD Student: Nov-Dec 2016Barbara Caspers Lab, University of Bielefeld, Germany
Topic: "Neuronal correlates of nestlings odour perception in zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata)."
MSc. Francesca Morbioli
Master Student: Mar-Dec 2015; Research Assistant: Jan-Oct 2016Master Thesis: "Brain activity in naïve chicks exposed to alive motion of a conspecific: an immediate early genes (IEG's) study."
MSc. Sara Dorigatti
Master Student: Oct 2014-Aug 2016Master Thesis: "Activation of septal and amygdaloid nuclei in response to the first exposure to an alive conspecific in visually naive domestic chicks (Gallus gallus)."