Thomas Hesselberg's profile
What I do
Currently I work at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute on a a comparative study on behavioural plasticity in orb-weaving spiders.
Affiliations
Current affiliations
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- Position
- Postodoctoral Fellow
- Company
- Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
- Duration
- 2008 - 2009
- Further information
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- Position
- Science consultant
- Company
- ZenSci Consult
- Further information
Location
- City:
- Panamá, Provincia de Panama, Panama
- Hub:
- Central America
Interests
General interest in science, but professionally my interest primarily lie in biomechanics and biomimetics as well as animal behaviour and neuroethology.
Projects
Behavioural plasticity in orb-weaving spides (postdoc).
Visual control of flight in Drosophila (postdoc).
Functional morphology and locomotion in ragworms (PhD project).
Web-building behaviour in spiders (MSc project).
Publications
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Hesselberg T, Lehmann F. Turning behaviour depends on frictional damping in the fruit fly Drosophila Journal of Experimental Biology (24) , 4319 - 4334 (2007) doi: 10.1242/jeb.010389
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Hesselberg T. Biomimetics and the case of the remarkable ragworms. Die Naturwissenschaften (8) , 613-21 (Epub 11 Jan 2007) PubMed ID:(17216427)
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Hesselberg T, Vincent J. A comparative study of the functional morphology of parapodia and setae in nereids (Polychaeta: Nereididae) anim biol (1) , 103 - 120 doi: 10.1163/157075606775904704
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HESSELBERG T, VINCENT J. The function of parapodial setae in a nereidid polychaete moving on two different substrata Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology (2) , 235 - 244 doi: 10.1016/j.jembe.2006.03.008
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Hesselberg T, Vollrath F. The effects of neurotoxins on web-geometry and web-building behaviour in Araneus diadematus Cl. Physiology & behavior (2-3) , 519-29 PubMed ID:(15276818)
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