Methods

Molecular and developmental biology methods [Reverse transcription, various PCR and cloning methods, RACE, in-situ hybridization]
(e.g., Franke & Mayer 2015 Genes Dev. Evol.; Franke et al. 2015 Evol. Dev.)

Phylogenetic analyses using morphological and molecular data sets [including Transcriptomics and Genome analyses]
(e.g., Hering et al. 2012 Mol. Biol. Evol.; Hering & Mayer 2014 Genome Biol. Evol.)

Electrophysiology [in collaboration with Prof. Paul A. Stevenson, Prof. Almut Kelber and Dr. Miriam Henze]
(e.g., Beckmann et al. 2015 J. Exp. Biol.)

Cryotome and Vibratome sectioning and immunolabelling
(e.g., Mayer et al. 2014 Nature; Mayer et al. 2015 J. Comp. Neurol.; Hering et al. 2016 eLife)

Antero- and retrograde fills of selected nerve tracts and microinjections of single neurons
(e.g., Mayer et al. 2010 BMC Evol. Biol.; Martin & Mayer 2015 BMC Neurosci.)

Proteomics: protein detection by native PAGE and SDS-PAGE, identification of proteins by mass spectrometry [MALDI-TOF, MS/MS, in collaboration with Prof. Annette G. Beck-Sickinger]
(e.g.,. Baer et al. 2014 J. Zool. Syst. Evol. Res.)

Cytology: Karyotype analyses using Giemsa and fluorescent DNA markers in conjunction with light and confocal microscopy
(e.g., Jeffery et al. 2012 Genetica; Oliveira et al. 2012 PLOS ONE)

Transmission electron microscopy [TEM]
(e.g., Mayer et al. 2005 J. Morphol.; Mayer 2006 Arthropod Struct. Dev.)

Scanning electron microscopy [SEM]
(e.g., Oliveira et al. 2014 Invertebr. Biol.; Oliveira et al. 2015 Syst. Biodiv.; Oliveira et al. 2016 Curr. Biol.)

X-ray micro-computed tomography techniques [such as SRµCT, µCT and nanoCT; in collaboration with Dr. Jörg U. Hammel, DESY, Hamburg & the Biomedical Physics Department, TU Munich)]
, (e.g., Mayer et al. 2015 Integr. Comp. Biol.; Oliveira et al. 2016 Curr. Biol.)

Histology and light microscopy [LM]
(e.g., Mayer 2006 Arthropod Struct. Dev.; Mayer 2007 Zootaxa; Mayer & Harzsch 2007 BMC Evol. Biol.)

Confocal laser scanning microscopy [CLSM]
(e.g., Mayer & Whitington 2009 Proc. R. Soc. B: Biol. Sci.; Mayer & Whitington 2009 Dev. Biol.)

3D reconstruction of morphological structures
(e.g., Mayer et al. 2015 Integr. Comp. Biol.; Oliveira et al. 2016 Curr. Biol.)

Classic scientific illustration [ink/pencil drawing]
(e.g., Oliveira et al. 2010 Zootaxa; Ou et al. 2012 Nature Commun.)

Rearing and breeding of different tardigrade species
(e.g., Gross & Mayer 2015 EvoDevo; Gross et al. 2015 In: A. Wanninger, „Evolutionary Developmental Biology of Invertebrates“)

Rearing and breeding of representatives of both major onychophoran subgroups [Peripatidae and Peripatopsidae]
(e.g., Oliveira et al. 2012 PLOS ONE)