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Neuroethology is the study of the neural mechanisms underlying animal behavior. The main question my group asks is: "How do animals see the world?" My personal interest is the color vision of insects, and I have studied its mechanisms, particularly in Papilio butterflies, using a variety of techniques. We have recently extended our research towards understanding the evolution of color vision by comparing the structural and molecular organization of the visual systems of many insects. Thanks to this background, our laboratory is well equipped for behavioral analysis, neurophysiology, anatomy at both light and electron microscopic levels, molecular biology, optophysiology, computer simulation, and so on. Highly motivated students will have the opportunity to combine several (or indeed all) of these techniques for their own studies.