Education:

B. S. equivalent in Zoology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, Europe            1990

Summer course “Tropical ecology”; Organization for tropical studies                      1993

M. S. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona                          1994

Topic: Conservation of “magnocellular” neurons of the dipteran optomotor pathway: evolutionary and functional implications.

Advisors: Dr. Nicholas J. Strausfeld and Dr. Wayne P. Maddison

Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology with a minor in Neurobiology              1996

Topic:  Neural pathways underlying visually guided flight control in flies (Diptera): evolutionary implications and phylogenetic consequences of cellular architecture.

Advisors: Dr. Nicholas J. Strausfeld and Dr. Wayne P. Maddison

Summer course “Neural Systems and Behavior”; Marine Biological Laboratory,    1998         

Professional Experience:

University of Vienna, Erstes Zoologisches Institut,

Research Assistant                                                                July & August 1989

University of Arizona, Arizona Research Laboratory Division of Neurobiology

Research Assistant Interdisciplinary                                                1991 to 1993

Research Assistant Interdisciplinary                                                             1996

Cornell University, Department of Neurobiology and Behavior

Postdoctoral Associate                                                                    1997 to 1999

Research Associate                                                                       2000 to 8/2003

University of Cincinnati, Department of Biological Sciences

 Assistant Professor                                                                 Jan. 2003*-present

 (on leave from 1/1/03 to 8/31/03)

Grant Awards and Fellowships:

University of Arizona; Research Training Group in the Analysis of Biological Diversification. Equipment Grant.                                           1993, 1994 & 1995

University of Arizona; Research Training Group in the Analysis of Biological Diversification. Fellowship                                                                             1996

 

Organization for Tropical Studies.  Post Course Award for research in Costa Rica  1993

 

Universtiy of Arizona; Center for Insect Sciences, Vector Biology Group

Equipment Grant                                                                                             1993

Universtiy of Arizona; Center for Insect Sciences, Vector Biology Group

            Graduate Fellowship                                                                              1993-1995

University of Arizona, Department for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Graduate Student Travel Fund                                                                       1995

National Science Foundation, Standard Award, Sensory Systems                    1999-2001

“Organizational Principles and Plasticity of Eye Stalks in Fies and Other Arthropods”. This grant awarded to P.I. Dr. Ron Hoy, however I have fundamentally contributed to the proposal) 

Award # IBN-9974512, $250,003 for 3 years.

National Science Foundation, Standard Award, Sensory Systems                    2002-2005

“The functional organization and evolution of novel insect visual systems”

This Grant was awarded in collaboration with Dr. Ron Hoy

Award # IBN-211770, $315,001 for three years.

In November 2003 the remainder of the award ($250,280.84) was transferred to my exclusive Pi-ship and to the University of Cincinnati.  The revised budget includes a no-cost extension until November 2006.

Honors:

            Young investigator award of the Society for Neuroethology                   July 2001

Society memberships:

            Society for Neuroscience

            International Society for Neuroethology

            Deutsche Neurobiologische Gesellschaft

Teaching:

            University of Arizona:

                        Human Anatomy – Lab                                                                          1990

                        Introductory biology – Lab                                                                     1991

                        Supervision of one undergraduate student

            Cornell University:

                        Supervision of 7 undergraduate students                                      1996-2003

                        NASA Sharp Plus High school student                                                 1999

Evolution of Sensory Systems (lecture and seminar class)             Fall 2001

            University of Cincinnati:

                        Graduate Student Seminar                                                         Spring 2004

                        Special Topics in Insect Biology                                               Winter 2005

Presentations at Meetings:

1993 Buschbeck, EK and NJ Strausfeld. Conservation of “magnocellular” neurons of the dipteran optomotor pathway: evolutionary and functional implications. Proceedings of the 21^st Göttingen Neurobiology Conference  page 361

1993 Buschbeck, EK and NJ Strausfeld. Flight stability and organization of “magnocellular” neurons in Diptera. 23^rd Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience.

1993 Buschbeck, EK and NJ Strausfeld.  Meeting of the Southwestern Association of Biologists

1993 Buschbeck, EK and NJ Strausfeld. Poster Hexapodium of the Center for Insect Science

1994 Buschbeck, EK and NJ Strausfeld. Proceedings of the 22nd Göttingen Neurobiology Conference.

1994 Buschbeck, EK and NJ Strausfeld. Optomotor circuitry in insect vision: comparative and evolutionary studies of conserved retinotopic pathways. 24^th Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience.

1995 Buschbeck, EK and NJ Strausfeld. Proceedings of the 23^rd  Göttingen Neurobiology Conference.

1995 Buschbeck, EK and NJ Strausfeld. 25^th Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience.

1995 Buschbeck, EK and NJ Strausfeld. Annual meeting of the Society of North American Dipteriologists.

1997 Buschbeck, EK and RR Hoy. 27^th Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience.

1998 Buschbeck, EK and RR Hoy. 5^th Congress of the International Society for Neuroethology.

1999 Buschbeck, EK, JL Roosevelt and RR Hoy. 29^th Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience.

2000 RA Wyttenbach, MC Nelson, EK Buscbheck and RR Hoy. Hearing in the Madagascar hissing cockroach. 30^th Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience.

2001 Buschbeck, EK, JL Roosevelt and RR Hoy. How eye stalks develop: a structural comparison of pupal development in the stalk-eyed fly Cyrtodiopsis and in Drosophila. Proceedings of the 28^th Göttingen Neurobiology Conference. page 519.

2001 Buschbeck, EK, JL Roosevelt and RR Hoy How stalk-eyed flies develop their eye stalks. 6^th Congress of the International Society for Neuroethology.

2001 Spence, AJH, EK Buschbeck, CD James, RR Hoy and MS Isaacson. Studies of invertebrate neural networks using custom microfabricated electrode arrays.  31^th Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience.

2002 VanderSal, ND, DO Elias, EK Buschbeck and RR Hoy. Neuroanatomy of the optic neuropils in jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) Program No. 848.7. 2002 Abstract Viewer/Itinerary Planner. Washington, DC: Society for Neuroscience, Online.

2003 Buschbeck, EK and RR Hoy. Nerve growth without apparent tension in the stalk-eyed fly Cyrtodiopsis whitei. Program No. 142.20. 2003 Abstract Viewer/Itinerary Planner. Washington, DC: Society for Neuroscience, Online.

2004 Buschbeck, EK.  Developmental and evolutionary evidence that the strepsipteran eye evolved from compound eyes. 7^th Congress of the International Society for Neuroethology.

2005 Mandapaka, K. and EK Buschbeck. Structural Description of the visual system of the larvae of Thermonectus marmoratus. 6^th Annual Graduate Poster Forum, University of Cincinnati.

2005 Maksimovic S. and EK Buschbeck. Spatial resolution and functional characteristics of the visual system in Xenos peckii.  6^th Annual Graduate Poster Forum, University of Cincinnati.

2005 K. Mandapaka, K. Hagen, E.K. Buschbeck. Fourteen retinas but only six eyes: the larval visual system of Thermonectus marmoratus (Dytiscidae) Program No. 295.11. 2005 Abstract Viewer/Itinerary Planner. Washington, DC: Society for Neuroscience, Online. 

2005 S. Maksimovic, J.E. Layne, E.K. Buschbeck. Functional characteristics and spatial resolution of the visual system of Xenos peckii (Strepsiptera) Program No. 295.12. 2005 Abstract Viewer/Itinerary Planner. Washington, DC: Society for Neuroscience, Online

Invited Presentations:

2000. Interfacing the Physical and Biological Worlds. University at Albany, Symposium on Nanobiotechnology.

2001. Ein ganz neurer Augentyp: das visuelle Sytem der Strepsipteren. Department of Zoology, University of Vienna, Austria.

2001. Fly Neurons, Visual System Evolution and Strepsiptera. At the Meeting of the International Society for Neuroethology in Bonn, Germany.

2001. The unusual eye of the twisted-wing insect (Strepsiptera) At the International Conference for Invertebrate Vision in Lund, Sweden.

2001. Diversity in form and function: learning from unusual visual systems. Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cincinnati.

2002. “Diversity in form and function: learning from unusual visual systems.  Department of Zoology, University of Washington.

2002. Strepsiptera, an insect order with bizarre eyes At the East Coast Nerve Net meeting. in Woodshole, MA.

2004. Diversity in form and function: learning from unusual visual systems VSG seminar, Department of Developmental Biology, Children’s Hospital, Cincinnati, OH.

2005. Insect visual systems; new principles from unusual eyes. Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology; Ohio State University.

2005. Entomology Exploration.  Public lecture at Bug Fest 2005; Cincinnati Museum Center; Cincinnati, OH.