Marc Spehr , Prof. Dr.
Marc Spehr, Lichtenberg Professor für Chemosensation, studied Biology in Bochum. He wrote his dissertation at the Department of Cellular Physiology, which he finished in 2002. Afterwards, he became a Postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, School of Medicine, University of Maryland in Baltimore, MD, USA. In 2006, he became an Independent Leader of the Research Group Chemosensory Mechanisms of Social Communication at Ruhr-University Bochum funded by the DFG Emmy Noether-Program. He was appointed Lichtenberg Professor for Chemosensation at the RWTH Aachen University in 2009.
Analyzing Structural and Functional Testicular Anatomy
Fleck, Kenzler et al. have shown that, in mice, muscle-like cells are located within the walls of seminiferous tubules. Using CLARITY and a Leica digital light-sheet (DLS) microscope, Fleck, Kenzler…Read article
Sniffing Out the Secrets of Social Behavior
Yet we are only just beginning to understand the complexities and functional differences of the sense of smell in mammals. Prof. Marc Spehr, head of the Department of Chemosensation at RWTH Aachen…Read article