Welcome to the homepage of the Department of Animal Physiology at the University of Rostock. Above we provide information on our major research topics, the degree courses we offer for bachelor and master students and many other useful information of interest. 

The Department of Animal Physiology and their members are interested in locomotor systems of insects at organismic, cellular, and physical level. We aim to understand how flying animals transform sensory information into locomotor commands for flight. Other research is devoted to the function of insect wings, the generation of air flows around wings, and population genetics. At present we offer a bachelor degree course in Biosciences and a master degree in Integrative Zoology "iZoo". For more information please visit the iZoo homepage.