Bernd U. Budelmann, Ph.D., Professor

  • Affiliations: Department of Neuroscience & Cell Biology & Department of Otolaryngology
  • Route: 1069, 2.138D Medical Research Building (MRB)
  • Tel: (409) 772-3661
  • Fax: (409) 772-2789
  • bubudelm@utmb.edu

Bernd U. Budelmann, Ph.D.

General Information

                                • Dr. Budelmann is a native of Hamburg, Germany. He conducted his dissertation research at the Max-Planck-Institute for Behavioral Physiology in Seewiesen, Germany and earned his Dr.rer.nat (= Ph.D.) degree in Zoology in 1970 from the University of Munich, Germany. Subsequently he has been a Postdoctoral Fellow of the Max-Planck-Society. In 1972, he joined the University of Regensburg, Germany, as an Assistant and later Associate Professor. In 1975, he earned a Dr.rer.nat.habil. degree in Zoology from the University of Regensburg. From 1979-1984, he has been a Heisenberg Fellow of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. He joined the Marine Biomedical Institute of UTMB in 1987 and is now a  Professor in the Departments of Neuroscience & Cell Biology and Otolaryngology.

Dr. Budelmann conducted research at the Stazione Zoologica, Italy, from 1968-1985 on a regular basis twice a year, and has been a guest scientist of the Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada and of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR at the Sechenov Institute in Leningrad. From 1981-1998 he collaborated with the late Professor J.Z. Young, F.R.S., F.B.A., St. Petersburg, UK, and from 1989-1995 with the late T.H. Bullock, La Jolla, CA. From 1991-1996, he has been a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Stazione Zoologica "Anton Dohrn" in Naples, Italy, and from 1996-1999 was one of its Scientific Consultants. From 1994-2000, he served as elected Executive Secretary of the Cephalopod International Advisory Council (CIAC).

Dr. Budelmann's research interests focus on cephalopod equilibrium receptor systems, their relevant brain structures, the oculomotor system, and all other sensory and motor systems that are involved in equilibrium orientation. He is currently working on the actions of transmitters, specifically of nitric oxide, in the cephalopod equilibrium receptor systems. His other research interests include the cephalopod's lateral line analogue system and other cephalopod mechanoreceptors, as well as invertebrate receptor hair cells.

Publications

                                • Gozansky, E.K., Ezell, E.L., Budelmann, B.U. and Quast, M.J. Magnetic resonance histology: in situ single cell imaging of receptor cells in an invertebrate (Lolliguncula bevis, Cephalopod) sense organ. Magn. Reson. Imag. 21:1019-1022, 2003.

                                  Komak, S., Boal, J.G, Dickel, L. and Budelmann, B.U., Behavioural responses of juvenile cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis) to local water movements. Mar. Fresh. Behav. Physiol. 38:117-125, 2005.