Forschungsschwerpunkte
- Reproduzierbarkeit und Aussagekraft von Tierversuchen
- Refinement in der Tierexperimentellen Forschung
Vita
Akademische Ausbildung
- Promotionsstudium am Institut für Neuro- und Verhaltensbiologie, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
- Masterstudium (M.Sc.) der Biowissenschaften, Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster
- Bachelorstudium (B.Sc.) der Biowissenschaften, Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster
Beruflicher Werdegang
- Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin (Postdoc) in der Abteilung für Verhaltensbiologie an der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster
- Doktorandin und wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin in der Abteilung für Verhaltensbiologie, Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster
Publikationen
- . . ‘Systematic heterogenization revisited: Increasing variation in animal experiments to improve reproducibility?’ Journal of Neuroscience Methods 401: 109992. doi: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2023.109992.
- . . ‘Increasing information gain in animal research by improving statistical model accuracy.’ Contributed to the International Workshop on Mathematical Modeling and Scientific Computing 2022, München. doi: 10.1088/1742-6596/2514/1/012021.
- . . ‘Structural enrichment for laboratory mice: exploring the effects of novelty and complexity.’ Frontiers in Veterinary Science 10: 1207332. doi: 10.3389/fvets.2023.1207332.
- . . ‘Do multiple experimenters improve the reproducibility of animal studies?’ PLoS Biology 20(3), Nr. e3001564. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3001564.
- . . ‘Once an Optimist, Always an Optimist? Studying Cognitive Judgment Bias in Mice.’ Behavioral Ecology 33: 775–788.
- . . ‘The rearing environment persistently modulates mouse phenotypes from the molecular to the behavioural level.’ PLoS Biology 20, Nr. 10: e3001837. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3001837.
- . . ‘Individuality, as well as genetic background, affects syntactical features of courtship songs in male mice.’ Animal Behaviour 180: 179–196.
- . . ‘It is time for an empirically informed paradigm shift in animal research.’ Nature Reviews Neuroscience 21: 660. doi: 10.1038/s41583-020-0370-7.
- . . ‘Improving reproducibility in animal research by splitting the study population into several 'mini-experiments'.’ Scientific Reports 10:16579. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-73503-4.
- . . ‘Heterogenising study samples across testing time improves reproducibility of behavioural data.’ Scientific Reports 9: 8247.
- . . ‘Have I been here before? Effects of repeated testing and age on the results of behavioural tests.’ Behavioural Brain Research 367: 143–148.
- . . ‘Differential effects of serotonin transporter genotype on anxiety-like behavior and cognitive judgment bias in mice.’ Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience 13: 263.