Name
Dr. Pingkalai Senthilan
Position
Research Assistant, Institute of Neurobiology and
Genetics
Theodor-Boveri Institute at the Biocenter
University of Würzburg
Am Hubland
97074 Würzburg
Phone +49 0931-31 84234
Affiliation
Born
Sex
Children
pingkalai.senthilan@uni-wuerzburg.de
25.10.1981
female
0
Career
since 2011 Post-doctoral fellow, Institute of Neurobiology and
Genetics, Würzburg
2009-2011 PhD (Dr.rer.nat), Cellular Neurobiology, Georg-AugustUniversity of Göttingen, Germany
2007-2009 PhD-work, Institute of Zoology, University of Cologne,
Germany (Stipend from International Graduate School in
Genetics and Functional Geneomics, Cologne)
2001-2006 Studies in Biology, University of Cologne, Germany
Research
Fields
Developmental, molecular, and functional parallels between
photosensation and mechanosensation; hearing in Drosophila
melanogaster; Identification and Characterization of mechanosensory
genes, different rhodopsins and their function
Professional Since 2011
Activities
2009-2010
Awards
Member of the German Genetics Society (GfG)
Co-Organizer of `Neuroprosthetics: From Sensorimotor
Research to Applications´, GGNB, Göttingen
2009
DAAD research internship – “RISE”
2007-2008
Co-Organizer of ‘the 2nd Crossroads in Biology International Symposium´, Cologne
2009-2011
Göttingen Graduate School for Neuroscience and
Molecular Bioscience (GGNB)
2008
Award for the best poster presentation, Crossroads in
Biology, Cologne
2006-2008
PhD Scholarship: International Graduate School of
Genetics and Functional Genomics (IGSGFG), Cologne,
Germany
Publications
1. Senthilan PR, Piepenbrock D,Ovezmyradov G, Nadrowski B, Bechstedt S, Pauls S,
Howard J, Göpfert MC (2012) Drosophila Auditory Organ Genes and Genetic Hearing
Defects (submitted)
2. Nadrowski B, Effertz T, Senthilan PR, Göpfert MC (2010) Antennal hearing in insects
- New findings, new questions. Hearing Research
3. Lu Q, Senthilan PR, Effertz T, Nadrowski B, Göpfert MC (2009) Using Drosophila for
studying fundamental processes in hearing. Integrative and Comparative Biology
4. Senthilan PR, Lu Q, Göpfert MC (2009) Grundlagen des Hör- und
Gleichgewichtssystems. Plinkert, Hören und Gleichgewicht - Göpfert, Grundlagen des
Hör- und Gleichgewichtssystems