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Ajay Narendra

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Senior Lecturer in School of Natural Sciences, Macquarie University

I am interested in understanding how insects navigate in their natural habitats. I am equally fascinated by the sensory structures and neural machinery minaiture insects have evolved to memorise, integrate and recall information which are essential for locomotion.

Experience

  • 2019–present
    Senior lecturer, Macquarie University
  • 2015–2018
    Senior research fellow, Macquarie University
  • 2006–2014
    Postdoctoral research fellow, The Australian National University

Education

  • 2007 
    Macquarie University, PhD

Publications

  • 2022
    Current Biology, Anaesthesia disrupts distance but not direction of path integration memory
  • 2021
    Journal of Experimental Biology, Ocellar spatial vision in Myrmecia ants.
  • 2020
    Current Biology, Vertical lobes of the mushroom body are essential for view-based navigation in Australian Myrmecia ants
  • 2020
    Frontiers in Behavioural Neuroscience , The Antarium: a reconstructed visual reality device for ant navigation research

Grants and Contracts

  • 2022
    Limits of miniaturisation to enhance spatial memory capacities
    Role:
    Chief Investigator
    Funding Source:
    Australian Research Council
  • 2017
    Function of ocelli in insects
    Role:
    Chief Investigator
    Funding Source:
    Hermon Slade Foundation

Professional Memberships

  • Animal Behaviour Society
  • International Society for Neuroethology

Research Areas

  • Animal Neurobiology (060805)