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Associate Staff Scientist
Ph.D. 2000, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Insect neurobiology and sensory physiology
My research interests focus on insect sensory physiology, behavior and animal communication. The ultimate goal of my investigations is to understand the neural mechanisms underlying adaptive behavior. I ask what organisms do, how they do it, and why they do it, for which I study physiological and behavioral mechanisms. This endeavor necessarily requires a multi-level system approach, from sensory signals, to neurons and network of neurons, to behavior. I work with insects, a group which has evolved a variety of incredible adaptations and strategies, and therefore offer an excellent opportunity for studies of sensory function. In the laboratory of John Hildebrand I study mechanisms of olfactory information processing in the giant sphinx moth Manduca sexta. My goal is to understand the rules by which the brain detects and discriminates behaviorally relevant odors. In another project we study olfactory processes in kissing bugs with the ultimate goal of developing an odor-baited trap, along with currently unknown aspects of the basic physiology of these epidemiologically important insects.
Selected recent publications
1.Dacks AM, Guerenstein PG, Reisenman CE, Riffell JA, Lei H, Hildebrand JG (2009). Olfaction in invertebrates: Manduca. In: Squire LR (Ed.). Encyclopedia of Neuroscience, Vol. 7, pp: 49-57. Oxford: Academic Press.
2. Reisenman CE, Riffell JA, Hildebrand JG (2009). Neuroethology of oviposition behavior in the sphinx moth Manduca sexta. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1170: 462-467.
3. Strausfeld N, Reisenman CE (2009). Dimorphic olfactory lobes in the arthropoda. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1170: 487-496.
4. Reisenman CE, Heinbockel T, Hildebrand JG (2008). Inhibitory interactions among olfactory glomeruli do not necessarily reflect spatial proximity. Journal of Neurophysiology 100: 554-564.
5. Reisenman CE, Giurfa M (2008). Chromatic and achromatic stimulus discrimination of long wavelength (red) visual stimuli by the honeybee Apis mellifera. Arthropod-Plant Interactions 2: 137-146.
6. Reisenman CE, Lazzari CR (2006). Spectral sensitivity of the photonegative reaction of the blook-sucking bug Triatoma infestans (Heteroptera: Reduviidae). Journal of Comparative Physiology A 192: 39-44.
7. Reisenman CE, Christensen TA, Hildebrand JG (2005). Chemosensory selectivity of output neurons innervating an identified, sexually isomorphic glomerulus. The Journal of Neuroscience 25: 8017-8026.
8. Reisenman CE, Christensen TA, Francke W, Hildebrand JG (2004). Enantioselectivity of projection neurons innervating identified olfactory glomeruli. The Journal of Neuroscience 24: 2602-2611.
Background
Curriculum vitae
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