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Prof. Dr. Karl Georg Götz

Address:	Spemannstr. 41 72076 Tübingen
Room number:	1.B.10
Phone:	+49 7071 601 560
Fax:	+49 7071 601 577
E-Mail:	karl.goetz

Karl Georg Götz

Position: Emeritus Unit:

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Karl Georg Götz was the assistant of Werner Reichardt, before he became a director of the department Neurophysiology of Insect Behavior at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics himself in 1968. He stayed till his retirement in 1998. His research focused on the optomotoric reactions and the neural basics of the orientation of Drosophila. He used neurological mutants of Drosophila to reveal how genetic instructions are translated into functional structures of the fly's central nervous system.

Articles (44):
•	Berndt I , Franz VH , Bülthoff HH , Götz KG and Wascher E (January-2005) Effects of rearranged Vision on Event-related Lateralizations of the EEG during Pointing Biological Psychology 68(1) 15-39.
•	Schuster S , Strauss R and Götz KG (2002) Virtual-reality techniques resolve the visual cues used by fruit flies to evaluate object distances. Current Biology 12 1591-1594.
•	Strauss R , Götz KG and Renner M (October-2001) Task-specific association of photoreceptor systems and steering parameters in Drosophila Journal of Comparative Physiology A 187 617-632.
•	Guo A and Götz KG (1997) Association of visual objects and olfactory cues in Drosophila. Learning & Memory 4 192-204.
•	Strauss R , Schuster S and Götz KG (1997) Processing of artificial visual feedback in the walking fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Journal of Experimental Biology 200 1281-1296.
•	Lehmann F-O and Götz KG (1996) Activation phase ensures kinematic efficacy in flight-steering muscles of Drosophila melanogaster. Journal of Comparative Physiology A-Sensory Neural And Behavioral Physiology 179 311-322.
•	Heide G and Götz KG (1996) Optomotor control of course and altitude in Drosophila melanogaster is correlated with distinct activities of atleast three pairs of flight steering muscles. Journal Of Experimental Biology 199 1711-1726.
•	Dickinson MH and Götz KG (1996) The wake dynamics and flight forces of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Journal of Experimental Biology 199 2085-2104.
•	Götz KG (June-9-1995) Processing of visual input in the fruitfly Drosophila. I. Conversion of the retinal image into a stack of sensory maps; hereditary defects. International Centre for Theoretical Physics Triest-Triest.
•	Götz KG (June-9-1995) Processing of visual input in the fruitfly Drosophila. II. Flight control by evaluation of the movements of figure and ground. International Centre for Theoretical Physics Triest-Triest.
•	Götz KG (June-9-1995) Processing of visual input in the fruitfly Drosophila. III. Functional flexibility; search and choice. International Centre for Theoretical Physics Triest-Triest.
•	Dickinson MH and Götz KG (1993) The active control of wing rotation by Drosophila. J.exp.Biol. 182 173-189.
•	Dickinson MH and Götz KG (1993) Unsteady aerodynamic performance of model wings at low Reynolds numbers. J.exp.Biol. 174 45-64.
•	Götz KG (1991) Bewertung und Auswahl visueller Zielobjekte bei der Fliege Drosophila. Zool.Jb.Physiol. 95 279-286.
•	Zanker JM and Götz KG (1990) The wing beat of Drosophila melanogaster II. Dynamics. Phil.Trans.R.Soc.Lond.B 327 19-44.
•	Götz KG (1988) Cortical templates for the self-organization of orientation-specific d- and l-hypercolumns in monkeys and cats. Biol.Cybern. 58 213-223.
•	Götz KG (1987) Course-control, metabolism and wing interference during ultralong tethered flight in Drosophila melanogaster. J.exp.Biol. 128 35-46.
•	Götz KG (1987) Do "d-Blob" and "l-Blob" hypercolumns tesselate the monkey visual cortex? Biol. Cybern. 56 107-109.
•	Götz KG (1987) Relapse to 'preprogrammed' visual flight-control in a muscular subsystem of the Drosophila mutant 'small optic lobes'. J.Neurogenetics 4 133-135.
•	Götz KG and Biesinger R (1985) Centrophobism in Drosophila melanogaster. I. Behavioral modification induced by ether. J.Comp.Physiol.A 156 319-327.
•	Götz KG and Biesinger R (1985) Centrophobism in Drosophila melanogaster. II. Physiological approach to search and search control. J.Comp.Physiol.A 156 329-337.
•	Götz KG (1985) Loss of flexibility in an optomotor flight control system of the Drosophila mutant 'small optic lobes'. Biol.Chem.Hoppe-Seyler 366 116-117.
•	Götz KG and Wehrhahn C (1984) Optomotor control of the force of flight in Drosophila and Musca. I. Homology of wingbeat-inhibiting movement detectors. Biol.Cybern. 51 129-134.
•	Götz KG and Wandel U (1984) Optomotor control of the force of flight in Drosophila and Musca. II. Covariance of lift and thrust in still air. Biol.Cybern. 51 135-139.
•	Bülthoff HH , Götz KG and Herre M (December-1982) Recurrent Inversion of Visual Orientation in the Walking Fly, Drosophila melanogaster Journal of Comparative Physiology 148(4) 471-481.
•	Bülthoff HH and Götz KG (April-1979) Analogous motion illusion in man and fly Nature 278(5705) 636-638.
•	Buchner E , Götz KG and Straub C (1978) Elementary detectors for vertical movement in the visual system of Drosophila. Biol.Cybern. 31 235-242.
•	Götz KG and Buchner E (1978) Evidence for one-way movement detection in the visual system of Drosophila. Biol.Cybern. 31 243-248.
•	Götz KG (1978) The effect of VLF-magnetic fields on progeny yield and sex ratio in Drosophila melanogaster. Drosophila Information Serv. 53 167-167.
•	Götz KG (1977) Normale Entwicklung der Fliege Drosophila in niederfrequenten Magnetfeldern. Zeitschrift für Naturforschung C 32 125-132.
•	Götz KG (1975) Hirnforschung am Navigationssystem der Fliegen. Naturwiss. 62 468-475.
•	Götz KG (1975) The optomotor equilibrium of the Drosophila navigation system. J.Comp.Physiol. 99 187-210.
•	Heisenberg M and Götz KG (1975) The use of mutations for the partial degradation of vision in Drosophila melanogaster. J.Comp.Physiol. 98 217-241.
•	Götz KG and Wenking H (1973) Visual control of locomotion in the walking fruitfly Drosophila. J.Comp.Physiol. 85 235-266.
•	Götz KG (1970) Fractionation of Drosophila populations according to optomotor traits. J.exp.Biol. 52 419-436.
•	Götz KG (1968) Flight control in Drosophila by visual perception of motion. Kybernetik 4 199-208.
•	Götz KG and Gambke C (1968) Zum Bewegungssehen des Mehlkäfers Tenebrio molitor. Kybernetik 4 225-228.
•	Hengstenberg R and Götz KG (1967) Der Einfluß des Schirmpigmentgehalts auf die Helligkeits- und Kontrastwahrnehmung bei Drosophila Augenmutanten Kybernetik 3 276-285.
•	Götz KG (1965) Die optischen Übertragungseigenschaften der Komplexaugen von Drosophila. Kybernetik 2 215-221.
•	Götz KG (1965) The determination of shape, size, and size distribution of charged particles in solution by evaluation of the electrical anisotropy effect. J.Colloid Sci. 20 289-314.
•	Götz KG (1964) Optomotorische Untersuchungen des visuellen Systems einiger Augenmutanten der Fruchtfliege Drosophila. Kybernetik 2 77-92.
•	Götz KG and Heckmann K (1959) Mizellform und Struktur mizellarer Phasen. Leitfähigkeitsanisotropie strömender Seifenlösungen II. Z.physikal.Chem.N.F. 20 42-52.
•	Heckmann K and Götz KG (1958) Die Bestimmung der Form gelöster Polyionen aus dem Leitfähigkeitsanisotropie-Effekt. Z.Elektrochem. 62 281-288.
•	Götz KG and Heckmann K (1958) The shape of soap micelles and other polyions as obtained from anisotropy of electrical conductivity. J.Colloid Sci. 13 266-272.
Conference papers (3):
•	Strauss R , Renner M and Götz KG (1998) The color-coding system of the photopic receptors R 7+8 in Drosophila supports object fixation. New Neuroethology on the Move. Proceedings of the 26th Goettingen Neurobiology Conference, 26.
•	Götz KG (1973) Visual control of locomotion in the fruitfly Drosophila. IUPAB Symposial Papers 3, edited by Frank, G.M. & Kayushin, L.P., 491-507.
•	Götz KG (1965) Behavioral analysis of the visual system of the fruitfly Drosophila. Proc.of the Symp.on Information Processing in Sight Sensory Systems, 85-100.
Contributions to books (19):
•	Götz KG : Processing of visual information in the fruitfly Drosophila. I. Sensory maps for the control of course and altitude., 431-446. (Ed) C. Taddei-Ferretti & C.Musio, World Scientific Publishing, 5 Tuh Tuck Link, 596224 Singapore, (1998).
•	Götz KG : Processing of visual information in the fruitfly Drosophila. II. Adaptation and experience improve the efficiency of search., 447-456. (Ed) C.Musio C. Taddei-Ferretti &, World Scientific Publishing, Singapore 1998, 5 Toh Tuck Link, 596224 Singapore, (1998).
•	Götz KG : Exploratory strategies in Drosophila., 47-59. , edited by Schildberger, K. & Elsner, N. Progress in Zoology 39. G. Fischer, Stuttgart, (1994).