Responsibilities
Head of Research Group, Div. Neurobiology
Contact
Dept. Biology II
Division Neurobiology
Email:
boyan@biologie.uni-muenchen.de
Website:
https://neuro.bio.lmu.de/members/former-members/boyan_g/res-boyan_g/index.html
Further Information
Keywords: Insects, Nervous system, Development
Research methods: Immunohistochemical tracing of nerve pathways, dysregulation of axon pathways in cultured insect embryos via antibody blocking, confocal microscopy
Brief research description: Embryonic development of the nervous system in insects (Drosophila and grasshoppers). Role of stem cells in generating the neuroarchitecture of the insect brain. Cellular and molecular regulation of axon pathways in the insect antenna
GSN Graduates: Dr. Erica Ehrhardt
Selected publications:
George Boyan, Yu Liu, Satkartar Khalsa, Volker Hartenstein (2017). A conserved plan for wiring up the fan-shaped body in the grasshopper and Drosophila. Dev Genes Evol 227:253–269
George Boyan, Erica Ehrhardt (2019) Dysregulation of axogenesis in the antennal nervous system of the embryonic grasshopper Schistocerca gregaria. Invert Neurosci 19:1-5
George Boyan and Erica Ehrhardt (2020a) Epithelial domains and the primordial antennal nervous system of the embryonic grasshopper Schistocerca gregaria. Invertebrate Neuroscience 20:6
Erica Ehrhardt and George Boyan (2020b) Evidence for the cholinergic markers ChAT and vAChT in sensory cells of the developing antennal nervous system of the desert locust Schistocerca gregaria Invertebrate Neuroscience 20:19
George Boyan and Erica Ehrhardt (2022) Early embryonic development of Johnston's Organ in the antenna of the desert locust Schistocerca gregaria. Dev Genes Evol (doi.org/10.1007/s00427-022-00695-2)