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  • 1992 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Randolf Menzel is affiliated with Freie Universität Berlin in Germany. Their research spans multiple interconnected fields, primarily focusing on Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Neuroscience.

Their scientific work covers a broad range of topics including Plant and animal studies, Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior, Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research, Insect and Pesticide Research, Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies, Memory and Neural Mechanisms, and Animal Behavior and Reproduction.

Menzel has published extensively in well-known scientific venues. Some of the frequent publication venues include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, PLoS ONE, Journal of Experimental Biology, and Scientific Reports.

Their recent papers illustrate the diversity and focus of their research:

  • "Sleep in honey bees is affected by the herbicide glyphosate" (2020, Scientific Reports)
  • "A unified platform to manage, share, and archive morphological and functional data in insect neuroscience" (2021, eLife)
  • "A short history of studies on intelligence and brain in honeybees" (2020, Apidologie)
  • "Honey bees infer source location from the dances of returning foragers" (2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • "In Search for the Retrievable Memory Trace in an Insect Brain" (2022, Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience)

Menzel collaborates frequently with researchers such as Zhengwei Wang, Uwe Greggers, Benjamin H. Paffhausen, Aron Duer, and Jürgen Rybak, reflecting ongoing partnerships in their research projects.

Their scientific focus also delves into several subfields, notably Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Insect Science, and Sensory Systems.

In recognition of their contributions, Randolf Menzel was named a Member of Academia Europaea in 1992.

Best Publications

  • Classical conditioning of proboscis extension in honeybees (Apis mellifera).

    M. E. Bitterman;R. Menzel;Andrea Fietz;Sabine Schäfer

  • Learning and memory in the honeybee

    Martin Hammer;Randolf Menzel

  • The spectral input systems of hymenopteran insects and their receptor-based colour vision.

    Dagmar Peitsch;Andrea Fietz;Horst Hertel;John de Souza

  • The concepts of ‘sameness’ and ‘difference’ in an insect

    Martin Giurfa;Shaowu Zhang;Arnim Jenett;Randolf Menzel

  • Memory dynamics in the honeybee

    R. Menzel

  • Learning and memory in honeybees: from behavior to neural substrates.

    R Menzel;U Muller

  • Multiple sites of associative odor learning as revealed by local brain microinjections of octopamine in honeybees.

    Martin Hammer;Randolf Menzel

  • Evaluation of atlas selection strategies for atlas-based image segmentation with application to confocal microscopy images of bee brains.

    Torsten Rohlfing;Robert Brandt;Randolf Menzel;Calvin R. Maurer

  • Searching for the Memory Trace in a Mini-Brain, the Honeybee

    Randolf Menzel

  • Cognitive architecture of a mini-brain: the honeybee

    Randolf Menzel;Martin Giurfa

  • Localization of short-term memory in the brain of the bee, Apis mellifera

    J. Erber;Th. Masuhr;R. Menzel

  • Ultraviolet as a component of flower reflections, and the colour perception of Hymenoptera.

    Lars Chittka;Avi Shmida;Nikolaus Troje;Randolf Menzel

  • The evolutionary adaptation of flower colours and the insect pollinators' colour vision

    Lars Chittka;Randolf Menzel

  • Representations of odours and odour mixtures visualized in the honeybee brain

    Jasdan Joerges;Armin Küttner;Cosmas Giovanni Galizia;Randolf Menzel

  • Honey bees navigate according to a map-like spatial memory

    Randolf Menzel;Uwe Greggers;Alan Smith;Sandra Berger

  • The honeybee as a model for understanding the basis of cognition.

    Randolf Menzel

  • Colour preferences of flower-naive honeybees

    M. Giurfa;J. Núñez;L. Chittka;R. Menzel

  • Learning and memory in the honeybee.

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  • Detection of coloured stimuli by honeybees: minimum visual angles and receptor specific contrasts

    M. Giurfa;M. Giurfa;M. Vorobyev;M. Vorobyev;P. Kevan;P. Kevan;R. Menzel

  • Associative learning modifies neural representations of odors in the insect brain.

    Till Faber;Jasdan Joerges;Randolf Menzel

  • Symmetry perception in an insect

    Martin Giurfa;Birgit Eichmann;Randolf Menzel

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin Giurfa
Martin Giurfa Sorbonne University
Bertram Gerber
Bertram Gerber Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg
C. Giovanni Galizia
C. Giovanni Galizia University of Konstanz
Jean-Christophe Sandoz
Jean-Christophe Sandoz University of Paris-Saclay
Thomas J. Carew
Thomas J. Carew New York University
André Fiala
André Fiala University of Göttingen
Hanna Mustaparta
Hanna Mustaparta Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Silke Sachse
Silke Sachse Max Planck Society
Charles R. Gallistel
Charles R. Gallistel Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Sara J. Shettleworth
Sara J. Shettleworth University of Toronto

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