Pathway to Independence - an interview with Max Farnworth.

IF 3.6 2区生物学 Q1 DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Development Pub Date : 2025-08-15 DOI:10.1242/dev.205094

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Abstract

Max Farnworth completed his PhD in Gregor Bucher's lab at the University of Göttingen, Germany, where he explored how heterochrony shapes the evolution and development of insect brains. He then joined the lab of Stephen Montgomery at the University of Bristol supported by a Walter Benjamin Scholarship, to investigate how two enigmatic brain regions co-evolve to support novel behaviours, using neotropical butterflies as a model system. Currently, Max is a Senior Research Associate developing new tools to study the evolution of neural circuits. Max has been selected as one of our 2025 PI fellows, a group of researchers who will be supported by Development's Pathway to Independence programme as they aim to secure independent positions. We spoke to Max to learn more about why he decided to apply to the programme, and what research questions he hopes to address with his own lab.

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独立之路-对马克斯·法恩沃思的采访。

Max Farnworth在德国Göttingen大学的Gregor Bucher实验室完成了他的博士学位，在那里他探索了异时性如何影响昆虫大脑的进化和发展。随后，他加入了布里斯托尔大学（University of Bristol）斯蒂芬·蒙哥马利（Stephen Montgomery）的实验室，并获得了沃尔特·本杰明奖学金（Walter Benjamin Scholarship）的资助，以新热带蝴蝶为模型系统，研究两个神秘的大脑区域是如何共同进化以支持新行为的。目前，Max是一名高级研究员，正在开发研究神经回路进化的新工具。马克斯已被选为我们的2025 PI研究员之一，这是一组研究人员，他们将得到发展的独立之路计划的支持，因为他们的目标是获得独立职位。我们采访了Max，了解了他为什么决定申请这个项目，以及他希望通过自己的实验室解决哪些研究问题。

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Development 生物-发育生物学

CiteScore

6.70

自引率

4.30%

发文量

433

审稿时长

3 months

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