Curriculum Vitae for Dr. Erica Ehrhardt

2016 PhD, Neuroscience, Graduate School of Systemic Neurosciences, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität. Thesis title: Embryonic development of a sensory system: the antenna of the grasshopper Schistocerca gregaria (funded bythe GSN). Thesis Advisory Committee: Prof G.S. Boyan, Dr Y. Liu and Dr O. Griesbeck.
2012 MSc, Neuroscience, Graduate School of Systemic Neurosciences, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität. Thesis title: Motion tracking by non-linearretinal processing (funded by the DAAD). Thesis Advisor: Prof T. Wachtler.
2010 BA, Biochemistry and German, Bowdoin College. Awarded honors in biochemistry. Thesis: The effect of myosuppressin on nitric oxide feedback in the heart of the lobster Homarus americanus. Thesis Advisor: Prof P. Dickinson.

Publications

Boyan GS, Graf P, Ehrhardt E (in press) Patterns of cell death in the embryonic antenna of the grasshopper Schistocerca gregaria. Dev Genes Evol
Boyan GS*, Ehrhardt E* (2017) Ontogeny of pioneer neurons in the antennal nervous system of the grasshopper Schistocerca gregaria. Dev Genes Evol 227:11-23 *These two authors contributed equally to this work.
Ehrhardt E, Graf P, Kleele T, Liu Y, Boyan GS (2016) Fates of identified pioneer cells in the antennal nervous system of the grasshopper Schistocerca gregaria. Arth Struct Dev 45:23-30
Boyan GS, Ehrhardt E (2015) Pioneer neurons of the antennal nervous system of the grasshopper Schistocerca gregaria project to protocerebral pioneers in the grasshopper Schistocerca gregaria. Dev Genes Evol 225:377-382
Ehrhardt E, Liu Y, Boyan GS (2015) Axogenesis in the antennal nervous system of the grasshopper Schistocerca gregaria revisited: the base pioneers. Dev Genes Evol 225:39–45
Ehrhardt E, Kleele T, Boyan GS (2015) A method for immunolabeling neurons in intact cuticularized insect appendages. Dev Genes Evol 225:187-194