Associate Professor Paul Szyszka

2026

Journal - Research Article

Banerjee, S., Earl, C., Robson, S. C., Szyszka, P., & Beck, C. W. (2026). Seizures, increased interhemispheric synchrony, altered brain transcriptomics and a leaky blood-brain barrier result from loss of ap3b2 in a CRISPR tadpole model of DEE48. Frontiers in Neurology, 17, 1777738. doi: 10.3389/fneur.2026.1777738

2024

Journal - Research Article

Raiser, G., Galizia, C. G., & Szyszka, P. (2024). Olfactory receptor neurons are sensitive to stimulus onset asynchrony: Implications for odour source discrimination. Chemical Senses, 49, bjae030. doi: 10.1093/chemse/bjae030

Banerjee, S., Szyszka, P., & Beck, C. W. (2024). Knockdown of NeuroD2 leads to seizure-like behaviour, brain neuronal hyperactivity and a leaky blood-brain barrier in a Xenopus laevis tadpole model of DEE75. Genetics, 277(3), iyae085. doi: 10.1093/genetics/iyae085

Panthi, S., Chapman, P. A., Szyszka, P., & Beck, C. W. (2024). Characterisation and automated quantification of induced seizure-related behaviours in Xenopus laevis tadpoles. Journal of Neurochemistry, 168, 4014-4024. doi: 10.1111/jnc.15836

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Banerjee, S., Szyszka, P., & Beck, C. (2024). Tadpoles, seizures, and leaky brains: An intriguing model of severe epilepsy. Proceedings of the Australasian Neuroscience Society (ANS) Annual Scientific Meeting. Retrieved from https://ans-2024.m.tas.currinda.com

Mas, F., Nakano, R., Szyszka, P., Chakravarthy, A., Hunt, S. K., Sullivan, T., & Najar-Rodriguez, A. (2024). A novel push-pull system combining acoustic repellent and odorant lure to control insect pests in productive areas. Proceedings of the 72nd Entomological Society of New Zealand (ESNZ) Conference. Retrieved from https://ento.org.nz/

Tavera, M. A., Szyszka, P., & Mas, F. (2024). Identification of nest associated odours from Ngaro huruhuru Aotearoa (New Zealand native bees). Proceedings of the 72nd Entomological Society of New Zealand (ESNZ) Conference. Retrieved from https://ento.org.nz/

2023

Journal - Research Other

Szyszka, P., Emonet, T., & Edwards, T. L. (2023). Extracting spatial information from temporal odor patterns: Insights from insects. Current Opinion in Insect Science, 59, 101082. doi: 10.1016/j.cois.2023.101082

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Tavera, M. A. A., Hart, N. B., Szyszka, P., & Mas, F. (2023). Chemical profile analysis of New Zealand native bees, 'Ngaro huruhuru'. Proceedings of the 71st Entomological Society of New Zealand (ESNZ) Conference. (pp. 51). Retrieved from https://ento.org.nz/

2022

Journal - Research Article

Neupert, S., McCulloch, G. A., Foster, B. J., Waters, J. M., & Szyszka, P. (2022). Reduced olfactory acuity in recently flightless insects suggests rapid regressive evolution. BMC Ecology & Evolution, 22, 50. doi: 10.1186/s12862-022-02005-w

Neupert, S., Jandt, J. M., & Szyszka, P. (2022). Sugar alcohols have the potential as bee-safe baits for the common wasp. Pest Management Science, 78, 3005-3011. doi: 10.1002/ps.6925

2020

Journal - Research Article

Popov, T., & Szyszka, P. (2020). Alpha oscillations govern interhemispheric spike timing coordination in the honey bee brain. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 287(1921), 20200115. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2020.0115

2019

Journal - Research Article

Sehdev, A., Mohammed, Y. G., Tafrali, C., & Szyszka, P. (2019). Social foraging extends associative odor—food memory expression in an automated learning assay for Drosophila melanogaster. Journal of Experimental Biology, 222, jeb207241. doi: 10.1242/jeb.207241

Sehdev, A., & Szyszka, P. (2019). Segregation of unknown odors from mixtures based on stimulus onset asynchrony in honey bees. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 13, 155. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2019.00155

Sehdev, A., Mohammed, Y. G., Triphan, T., & Szyszka, P. (2019). Olfactory object recognition based on fine-scale stimulus timing in Drosophila. iScience, 13, 113-124. doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2019.02.014

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Banerjee, S., Damsteegt, E., Szyszka, P., & Beck, C. (2019). Using Xenous laevis tadpole as a model for testing anti-inflammatory drugs as treatment for intractable epilepsy. Proceedings of the 16th Asian Conference on Transcription. (pp. 65-66). Retrieved from https://act2019.p.events4you.currinda.com/days/2019-12-02

2018

Journal - Research Article

Egea-Weiss, A., Renner, A., Kleineidam, C. J., & Szyszka, P. (2018). High precision of spike timing across olfactory receptor neurons allows rapid odor coding in Drosophila. iScience, 4, 76-83. doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2018.05.009

Lüdke, A., Raiser, G., Nehrkorn, J., Herz, A. V. M., Galizia, C. G., & Szyszka, P. (2018). Calcium in Kenyon cell somata as a substrate for an olfactory sensory memory in Drosophila. Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, 12, 128. doi: 10.3389/fncel.2018.00128

Chan, H. K., Hersperger, F., Marachlian, E., Smith, B. H., Locatelli, F., Szyszka, P., & Nowotny, T. (2018). Odorant mixtures elicit less variable and faster responses than pure odorants. PLoS Computational Biology, 14(12), e1006536. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1006536

Journal - Research Other

Szyszka, P., & Galizia, C. G. (2018). The role of the sucrose-responsive IR60b Neuron for Drosophila melanogaster: A hypothesis. Chemical Senses, 43(5), 311-312. doi: 10.1093/chemse/bjy020

2017

Chapter in Book - Research

Nowotny, T., & Szyszka, P. (2017). Dynamics of odor-evoked activity patterns in the olfactory system. In I. S. Aranson, A. Pikovsky, N. F. Rulkov & L. S. Tsimring (Eds.), Advances in dynamics, patterns, cognition: Challenges in complexity. (pp. 243-261). Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-53673-6_15

Journal - Research Article

Raiser, G., Galizia, C. G., & Szyszka, P. (2017). A high-bandwidth dual-channel olfactory stimulator for studying temporal sensitivity of olfactory processing. Chemical Senses, 42(2), 141-151. doi: 10.1093/chemse/bjw114

Nagari, M., Szyszka, P., Galizia, G., & Bloch, G. (2017). Task-related phasing of circadian rhythms in antennal responsiveness to odorants and pheromones in honeybees. Journal of Biological Rhythms, 32(6), 593-608. doi: 10.1177/0748730417733573

Dylla, K. V., Raiser, G., Galizia, C. G., & Szyszka, P. (2017). Trace conditioning in Drosophila induces associative plasticity in mushroom body kenyon cells and dopaminergic neurons. Frontiers in Neural Circuits, 11, 42. doi: 10.3389/fncir.2017.00042

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Pequeno-Zurro, A., Nitschke, J., Szyszka, P., Shaikh, D., & Couzin-Fuchs, E. (2017). Modelling active antennal movements of the American cockroach: Towards biorobotic models of active sensing. Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium on Swarm Behavior and Bio-Inspired Robotics. Retrieved from http://www.ohk.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/SWARM2017

2015

Chapter in Book - Research

Szyszka, P., & Galizia, C. G. (2015). Olfaction in insects. In R. L. Doty (Ed.), Handbook of olfaction and gustation. (3rd ed.) (pp. 531-546). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons. doi: 10.1002/9781118971758.ch22

Journal - Research Article

Shen, M., Szyszka, P., Deussen, O., Galizia, C. G., & Merhof, D. (2015). Automated tracking and analysis of behavior in restrained insects. Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 239, 194-205. doi: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2014.10.021

Shen, M., Li, C., Huang, W., Szyszka, P., Shirahama, K., Grzegorzek, M., … Deussen, O. (2015). Interactive tracking of insect posture. Pattern Recognition, 48(11), 3560-3571. doi: 10.1016/j.patcog.2015.05.011

Rigosi, E., Haase, A., Rath, L., Anfora, G., Vallortigara, G., & Szyszka, P. (2015). Asymmetric neural coding revealed by in vivo calcium imaging in the honey bee brain. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 282(1803), 20142571. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2014.2571

2014

Chapter in Book - Research

Szyszka, P., & Stierle, J. S. (2014). Mixture processing and odor-object segregation in insects. In E. Barkai & D. A. Wilson (Eds.), Odor memory and perception: Progress in brain research (Vol. 208). (pp. 63-85). Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/B978-0-444-63350-7.00003-6

Journal - Research Article

Szyszka, P., Gerkin, R. C., Galizia, C. G., & Smith, B. H. (2014). High-speed odor transduction and pulse tracking by insect olfactory receptor neurons. PNAS, 111(47), 16925-16930. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1412051111

Pamir, E., Szyszka, P., Scheiner, R., & Nawrot, M. P. (2014). Rapid learning dynamics in individual honeybees during classical conditioning. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 8, 313. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2014.00313

Galili, D. S., Dylla, K. V., Lüdke, A., Friedrich, A. B., Yamagata, N., Wong, J. Y. H., … Szyszka, P., & Tanimoto, H. (2014). Converging circuits mediate temperature and shock aversive olfactory conditioning in Drosophila. Current Biology, 24(15), 1712-1722. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2014.06.062

Froese, A., Szyszka, P., & Menzel, R. (2014). Effect of GABAergic inhibition on odorant concentration coding in mushroom body intrinsic neurons of the honeybee. Journal of Comparative Physiology A, 200(3), 183-195. doi: 10.1007/s00359-013-0877-8

Journal - Research Other

Szyszka, P. (2014). Follow the odor. Science, 344(6191), 1454. doi: 10.1126/science.1255748

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper

Shen, M., Huang, W., Szyszka, P., & Merhof, D. (2014). Interactive framework for insect tracking with active learning. Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Pattern Recognition. (pp. 2733-2738). IEEE. doi: 10.1109/ICPR.2014.471

2013

Journal - Research Article

Stierle, J. S., Galizia, C. G., & Szyszka, P. (2013). Millisecond stimulus onset-asynchrony enhances information about components in an odor mixture. Journal of Neuroscience, 33(14), 6060-6069. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5838-12.2013

Nowotny, T., Stierle, J. S., Galizia, C. G., & Szyszka, P. (2013). Data-driven honeybee antennal lobe model suggests how stimulus-onset asynchrony can aid odour segregation. Brain Research, 1536, 119-134. doi: 10.1016/j.brainres.2013.05.038

Dylla, K. V., Galili, D. S., Szyszka, P., & Lüdke, A. (2013). Trace conditioning in insects: Keep the trace! Frontiers in Physiology, 4, 67. doi: 10.3389/fphys.2013.00067

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper

Strauch, M., Müthing, C., Broeg, M. P., Szyszka, P., Münch, D., Laudes, T., … Merhof, D. (2013). The looks of an odour: Visualising neural odour response patterns in real time. BMC Bioinformatics, 14(Suppl. 19), S6. doi: 10.1186/1471-2105-14-S19-S6

Shen, M., Szyszka, P., Galizia, C. G., & Merhof, D. (2013). Automatic framework for tracking honeybee's antennae and mouthparts from low framerate video. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing. (pp. 4112-4116). IEEE. doi: 10.1109/ICIP.2013.6738847

2012

Journal - Research Article

Szyszka, P., Stierle, J. S., Biergans, S., & Galizia, C. G. (2012). The speed of smell: Odor-object segregation within milliseconds. PLoS ONE, 7(4), e36096. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0036096

Biergans, S. D., Jones, J. C., Treiber, N., Galizia, C. G., & Szyszka, P. (2012). DNA methylation mediates the discriminatory power of associative long-term memory in honeybees. PLoS ONE, 7(6), e39349. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0039349

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper

Strauch, M., Broeg, M. P., Müthing, C., Szyszka, P., Deussen, O., Galizia, C. G., & Merhof, D. (2012). INCIDE the brain of a bee: Visualising honeybee brain activity in real time by semantic segmentation. Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Biological Data Visualization (BioVis). (pp. 17-24). IEEE. doi: 10.1109/BioVis.2012.6378588

2011

Journal - Research Article

Szyszka, P., Demmler, C., Oemisch, M., Sommer, L., Biergans, S., Birnbach, B., … Galizia, C. G. (2011). Mind the gap: Olfactory trace conditioning in honeybees. Journal of Neuroscience, 31(20), 7229-7239. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.6668-10.2011

Rath, L., Galizia, C. G., & Szyszka, P. (2011). Multiple memory traces after associative learning in the honey bee antennal lobe. European Journal of Neuroscience, 34(2), 352-360. doi: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2011.07753.x

Galili, D. S., Lüdke, A., Galizia, C. G., Szyszka, P., & Tanimoto, H. (2011). Olfactory trace conditioning in Drosophila. Journal of Neuroscience, 31(20), 7240-7248. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.6667-10.2011

2009

Journal - Research Article

Yamagata, N., Schmuker, M., Szyszka, P., Mizunami, M., & Menzel, R. (2009). Differential odor processing in two olfactory pathways in the honeybee. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 3, 16. doi: 10.3389/neuro.06.016.2009

2008

Journal - Research Article

Szyszka, P., Galkin, A., & Menzel, R. (2008). Associative and non-associative plasticity in Kenyon cells of the honeybee mushroom body. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 2, 3. doi: 10.3389/neuro.06.003.2008

Galizia, C. G., & Szyszka, P. (2008). Olfactory coding in the insect brain: Molecular receptive ranges, spatial and temporal coding. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, 128(1), 81-92. doi: 10.1111/j.1570-7458.2007.00661.x

2005

Journal - Research Article

Szyszka, P., Ditzen, M., Galkin, A., Galizia, C. G., & Menzel, R. (2005). Sparsening and temporal sharpening of olfactory representations in the honeybee mushroom bodies. Journal of Neurophysiology, 94(5), 3303-3313. doi: 10.1152/jn.00397.2005

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Menzel, R., Galizia, G., Müller, D., & Szyszka, P. (2005). Odor coding in projection neurons of the honeybee brain. Chemical Senses, 30 (Suppl. 1), (pp. i301-i302). doi: 10.1093/chemse/bjh234

2004

Journal - Research Article

Galán, R. F., Ritz, R., Herz, A. V. M., & Szyszka, P. (2004). Uncovering short-time correlations between multichannel recordings of brain activity: A phase-space approach. International Journal of Bifurcation & Chaos, 14(2), 585-597. doi: 10.1142/S0218127404009557

2001

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper

Ritz, R., Galán, R. F., Szyszka, P., & Herz, A. V. M. (2001). Analysis of odor processing in the mushroom bodies of the honeybee. Neurocomputing, 38-40, (pp. 313-318). doi: 10.1016/S0925-2312(01)00375-7