Martin Haesemeyer is a Research Associate at Harvard University working in the labs of Florian Engert and Alexander Schier. His main interest lies in understanding how the brain computes and how it represents information. To this end he employs a range of technologies from high-speed behavioral recording and manipulation to functional calcium imaging in larval zebrafish as well as advanced machine learning techniques.

He studied Biology at the University of Cologne, Germany completing his master’s thesis in the lab of Ruth Lehmann at the Skirball Institute in New York on the transmigration of Drosophila melanogaster immune cells during development. He was awarded his PhD from the University of Vienna, Austria, for his work in the lab of Barry Dickson on elucidating how a small set of neurons orchestrates the behavioral post-mating switch in Drosophila melanogaster.

Publications

Bolton, A. D., Haesemeyer, M., Jordi, J., Schaechtle, U., Saad, F. A., Mansinghka, V. K., Tenenbaum, J. B., & Engert, F. (2019). Elements of a stochastic 3D prediction engine in larval zebrafish prey capture. bioRxiv 755777 Link

Haesemeyer, M., Schier, A. F., & Engert, F. (2019). Convergent temperature representations in artificial and biological neural networks. Neuron, 103(6), 1123-1134. Link

Randlett, O., Haesemeyer, M., Forkin, G., Shoenhard, H., Schier, A. F., Engert, F., & Granato, M. (2019). Distributed plasticity drives visual habituation learning in larval zebrafish. Current Biology, 29(8), 1337-1345. Link

Haesemeyer, M., Robson, D. N., Li, J. M., Schier, A. F., & Engert, F. (2018). A brain wide circuit model of heat evoked swimming behavior in larval zebrafish. Neuron, 98(4), 817-831. Link

Haesemeyer, M., Robson, D. N., Li, J. M., Schier, A. F., & Engert, F. (2015). The Structure and Timescales of Heat Perception in Larval Zebrafish. Cell systems, 1(5), 338-348. Link

Portugues, R.*, Haesemeyer, M.*, Blum, M. L., & Engert, F. (2015). Whole-field visual motion drives swimming in larval zebrafish via a stochastic process. Journal of Experimental Biology, 218(9), 1433-1443. Link

Lacoste, A. M., Schoppik, D., Robson, D. N., Haesemeyer, M., Portugues, R., Li, J. M., … & Schier, A. F. (2015). A convergent and essential interneuron pathway for Mauthner-cell-mediated escapes. Current Biology, 25(11), 1526-1534. Link

Haesemeyer, M., & Schier, A. F. (2015). The study of psychiatric disease genes and drugs in zebrafish. Current opinion in neurobiology, 30, 122-130. Link

Feng, K.*, Palfreyman, M. T.*, Häsemeyer, M., Talsma, A., & Dickson, B. J. (2014). Ascending SAG neurons control sexual receptivity of Drosophila females. Neuron, 83(1), 135-148. Link

Häsemeyer, M. (2010). Identification and characterization of the cellular targets of sex-peptide mediating the post mating switch in female Drosophila melanogaster (Doctoral dissertation, Universität Wien). Link

Siekhaus, D., Haesemeyer, M., Moffitt, O., & Lehmann, R. (2010). RhoL controls invasion and Rap1 localization during immune cell transmigration in Drosophila. Nature cell biology, 12(6), 605-610. Link

Häsemeyer, M., Yapici, N., Heberlein, U., & Dickson, B. J. (2009). Sensory neurons in the Drosophila genital tract regulate female reproductive behavior. Neuron, 61(4), 511-518. Link