Dr. Anton Windfelder

We had a fantastic  lab meeting today – and a wonderful surprise: Isabel Luley prepared a personalized little Nikolaus gift bag for each of us. In the photo you can see our team proudly holding up their gift bags – a moment that perfectly captures the team spirit, joy, and sense of community we share in our lab. 🙌 I am incredibly grateful for this amazing group – for the energy, creativity, and fun we bring to our work every single day. Good science needs a good environment, and I think this...

At this year’s Science Day of the Faculty of Medicine at JLU Giessen, I was especially proud to see how visible and diverse our research on Manduca sexta  has become. From my Windfelder Lab , the following projects were presented: 🔹 Anouk Haschke  – showcasing exciting results on behavioral fever  (behavior-induced fever) and complementary imaging-based analyses , including CT-based assessments of gut-wall alterations in the insect model. Her poster demonstrated impressively how Manduca  can...

This week I had the pleasure of visiting Sandfeldschule, where I introduced the students of classes 2a and 2b to the world of insects. I...