Prof. Dr. Andrew Straw
Focus of research
- Neural circuits for visuo-motor behavior in Drosophila
- Development of technology for behavioral and neural experiments
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- Since 2016 Professor, Institute of Biology I, University of Freiburg, Germany
- 2012–2017 ERC Starting Grant FlyVisualCircuits
- 2010–2015 IMP Fellow, Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), Vienna, Austria
- 2004–2010 Postdoc, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- 2004 PhD, University of Adelaide, Australia
- 1997 BS, University of Southern California
Recent publications
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Sanchez, S., Escobedo, R., Bastien, R., Lenseigne, B., Denis, A., Moreau, M., Combe, M., Straw, A. D., Sire, C., & Theraulaz, G. (2026). An open-source closed-loop Virtual Reality system to investigate social interactions and collective behavior in fish. PLOS One, 21(1), e0339909. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0339909
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Stentiford, R., Harrap, M. J. M., Titov, V. V., Lochner, S., & Straw, A. D. (2026). Precise, individualized foraging flights in honeybees revealed by multicopter drone-based tracking. Current Biology, 36(5), 1320–1328.e3. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2026.01.045
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Titova, A., & Straw, A. D. (2024). Contradictory behavioral effects of neuronal perturbations on behavioral responses to linearly polarized light in freely walking Drosophila. openRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.03.15.584848
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Vo-Doan, T. T., Titov, V. V., Harrap, M. J. M., Lochner, S., & Straw, A. D. (2024). High-resolution outdoor videography of insects using Fast Lock-On tracking. Science Robotics, 9(95), adm7689. https://doi.org/10.1126/scirobotics.adm7689
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Diester, I., Bartos, M., Boedecker, J., Kortylewski, A., Leibold, C., Letzkus, J. J., Nour, M. M., Schönauer, M., Straw, A. D., Valada, A., Vlachos, A., & Brox, T. (2024). Correction: Internal world models in humans, animals, and AI. In Neuron (Vol. 112, Issue 16, p. 2823). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2024.07.021