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Fabian Pallasdies PhD student phone: +49-(0)30-2093-98407 email: fabipallasdies gmail.com “I have been astonished and pleased that your splendid work on the jellyfishes did not make you throw every other subject to the dogs” |Charles Darwin

BIOGRAPHY

I started studying biology at the FU Berlin and quickly realized that I grew a special interest for the theoretical aspects of the field. Therefore I stated studying mathematics in parallel to gain some insights into techniques used in theoretical biology. I did my B.Sc in the group of Niels Blüthgen, working on a theoretical model of the Wnt pathway based on reporter gene data and later moved to Bonn to study evolutionary biology. I wrote my master's thesis in the group of Raoul-Martin Memmesheimer where I worked on a computational model of the jellyfish nervous system, which has greatly affected my research interests today. I am interested in studying nervous systems and behavior from an evolutionary perspective. I am especially interested in the early evolution of neurons and nerve nets and therefore focus on studying the nervous systems of cnidaria and ctenophora.

PUBLICATIONS

Pallasdies, F., Goedeke, S., Braun, W., & Memmesheimer, R. (2019). From single neurons to behavior in the jellyfish Aurelia aurita. eLife, 8, e50084.

Caspar, K. R., Mader, L., Pallasdies, F., Lindenmeier, M., & Begall, S. (2018). Captive gibbons (Hylobatidae) use different referential cues in an object-choice task: insights into lesser ape cognition and manual laterality. PeerJ, 6, e5348.