Rate My Professor Bart Geurten

Geurten teaches AGRI 101 Agricultural Innovation, BIOL 112 Animal Biology, ZOOL 223 Animal Physiology, ZOOL 314 Neurobiology, ZOOL 412 Neurobiology and Behaviour, and COSC 420 Deep Learning. He supervises PhD students such as Asj Taylor on behavioural and neuronal correlates of olfactory attention in honey bees and Jon Rolfes on ecology and conservation of lizards; master's student Jess Carroll on the influence of thermal stimuli on insect aggression; honours student Theo Dodd on bifurcations in brain evolution; and project student Ella Voight. Former postdocs in his lab include Dr. Phoebe Chapman (2023–2024) and Dr. Luna Grey (2025–2026), with the lab having graduated four PhDs, 21 master's students, and eight bachelor's students. Key publications include Garg et al. (2025), 'Patient-specific mutation of contact site protein Tomm70 causes neurodegeneration' (Disease Models & Mechanisms); Hehlert et al. (2025), 'NOMPC ion channel hinge forms a gating spring that initiates mechanosensation' (Nature Neuroscience); Garg et al. (2024), 'Axon demyelination and degeneration in a zebrafish spastizin model of hereditary spastic paraplegia' (Open Biology); Çoban et al. (2024), 'The caloric value of food intake structurally adjusts a neuronal mushroom body circuit mediating olfactory learning in Drosophila' (Learning & Memory); Eckmeier et al. (2008), 'Gaze strategy in the free flying zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata)' (PLoS One); and Geurten et al. (2007), 'Neural mechanisms underlying target detection in a dragonfly centrifugal neuron' (Journal of Experimental Biology).