Friedrich G. Barth

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Friedrich Günther Barth (born April 18, 1940 in Munich ) is a German-Austrian zoologist ( arachnologist ) and neurobiologist .

Life

From 1959 Barth studied biology, human physiology and neurosciences at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and with a Fulbright scholarship at the University of California, Los Angeles . He was a member of the German National Academic Foundation. In 1967 he received his doctorate at Hansjochem Autrum at the University of Munich and in 1971 he completed his habilitation in Munich. From 1974 he was professor of zoology at the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main and. In 1987 he became professor of zoology at the University of Vienna and head of the animal physiology and neurobiology departments.

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He investigates behavior in orb web spiders and predatory spiders controlled by mechanoreceptors and the structure and modeling of their mechanical receptors (touch sensors of the hair and their detection of air movements, force and strain sensors in the exoskeleton) as well as the communication of stingless bees via vibrations.

Memberships, honors, editing

In 2002 he received the Karl-Ritter-von-Frisch Medal of the German Zoological Society , in 2002 the Cardinal Innitzer Prize and in 2007 the City of Vienna Prize for Natural Sciences .

He is a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (1998), the Leopoldina (1999), the Academia Europaea and the Austrian Academy of Sciences (1991). In 1994 he was the founder of the Austrian Neuroscience Association (ANA) and its president in 2006/07.

He is editor of the Journal of Comparative Physiology A (Neuroethology, Sensory, Neural and Behavioral Physiology).

Fonts

  • with JT Albert, OC Friedrich, H.-E. Dechant: Arthropod touch reception: spider hair sensilla as rapid touch detectors, Journal of Comparative Physiology A, Volume 187, 2001, pp. 303-312
  • Vibratory communication in spiders: Adaptation and compromise at many levels, in: M. Lehrer (Ed.), Orientation and communication in arthropods, Basel: Birkhäuser, 1997, pp. 247-272
  • Senses and behavior: from the life of a spider. Springer, Berlin 2000
    • English translation: A spider's world: senses and behavior, Springer 2002
  • Spider mechanoreceptors, Current Opinion in Neurobiology, Volume 14, 2004, pp. 415-422.
  • Spider strain detection, in: FG Barth, JAC Humphrey, MV Srinivasan (Eds.): Frontiers in sensing: from biology to engineering. Springer, 2011, pp. 251-273
  • Sensory perception: adaptation to life style and habitat, in: FG Barth, P. Giampieri-Deutsch, H.-D. Klein (ed.), Sensory perception: mind and matter, Springer, 2011, pp. 89-107
  • with P. Fratzl: Biomaterial systems for mechanosensing and actuation, Nature, Volume 462, 2009, pp. 442–448
  • Arthropod strain sensors, in: Bushan Bharat (Ed.), Encyclopedia of nanotechnology, Springer, 2012, pp. 127-136
  • The slightest whiff of air: Airflow sensing in arthropods, in: H. Bleckmann, J. Mogdans, LS Coombs (ed.), Flow sensing in air and water -behavioral, neural and engineering principles of operation, Springer, 2014, chapter 7 , Pp. 169-196
  • A spider's tactile hairs, Scholarpedia 2015

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Member entry by Friedrich G. Barth (with picture) at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , accessed on June 29, 2016.
  2. ↑ Member entry of Friedrich G. Barth (with picture and CV) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on June 29, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Barth, Friedrich G.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Barth, Friedrich Günther (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Austrian neurobiologist and zoologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich