Johannes Larsch

About me:

I studied Biology at the University of Konstanz, Germany. Working on olfaction in Drosophila melanogaster with Giovanni Galizia and Leslie Vosshall, I developed a passion for neuronal circuits that control behavior. For my PhD, I joined the lab of Cori Bargmann at the Rockefeller University. There, I used the exquisite genetic tricks available in the roundworm C. elegans to study how activity in a handful of neurons guides locomotion of an animal towards food. In 2015, I returned to Germany for a postdoc with Herwig Baier at the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology. During this time, I turned my attention to swarm behavior in the tropical zebrafish Danio rerio to ask how individuals recognize each other and where in the brain this recognition takes place.

In 2023, I joined the Center for Integrative Genomics as an Assistant Professor.