• Research Foci

    • Reproducibility of Animal Experiments
    • Refinement of Animal Experiments

  • CV

    Academic Education

    PhD-studies at the Institue for Neuro- and Behavioural Biology, University of Münster
    Master of Science in Bioscience, University of Münster
    Bachelor of Science in Bioscience, University of Münster

    Positions

    Postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Behavioural Biology, University of Münster
    PhD student at the Department of Behavioural Biology, University of Münster

  • Publications

    • von Kortzfleisch VT, Richter SH. . ‘Systematic heterogenization revisited: Increasing variation in animal experiments to improve reproducibility?’ Journal of Neuroscience Methods 401: 109992. doi: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2023.109992.

    • Waterkamp C, von Kortzfleisch VT, Neu C, Kitanovski S, Richter SH, Hoffmann D. . ‘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.
    • Bohn L, Bierbaum L, Kästner N, von Kortzfleisch VT, Kaiser S, Sachser N, Richter SH. . ‘Structural enrichment for laboratory mice: exploring the effects of novelty and complexity.’ Frontiers in Veterinary Science 10: 1207332. doi: 10.3389/fvets.2023.1207332.

    • Von Kortzfleisch VT, Ambrée O, Karp NA, Meyer N, Novak J, Palme R, Rosso M, Touma C, Würbel H, Kaiser S, Sachser N, Richter SH. . ‘Do multiple experimenters improve the reproducibility of animal studies?’ PLoS Biology 20(3), № e3001564. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3001564.
    • Bračić M, Bohn L, Siewert V, von Kortzfleisch V, Schielzeth H, Kaiser S, Sachser N, Richter SH. . ‘Once an Optimist, Always an Optimist? Studying Cognitive Judgment Bias in Mice.’ Behavioral Ecology 33: 775–788.
    • Jaric I, Voelkl B, Clerc M, Schmid MW, Novak J, Rosso M, Rufener R, von Kortzfleisch VT, Richter SH, Buettner M, Bleich A, Amrein I, Wolfer DP, Touma C, Sunagawa S, Würbel H. . ‘The rearing environment persistently modulates mouse phenotypes from the molecular to the behavioural level.’ PLoS Biology 20, № 10: e3001837. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3001837.

    • Melotti L, Siestrup S, Peng M, Vitali V, Dowling D, von Kortzfleisch VT, Bracic M, Sachser N, Kaiser S, Richter SH. . ‘Individuality, as well as genetic background, affects syntactical features of courtship songs in male mice.’ Animal Behaviour 180: 179–196.

    • Richter SH, von Kortzfleisch V. . ‘It is time for an empirically informed paradigm shift in animal research.’ Nature Reviews Neuroscience 21: 660. doi: 10.1038/s41583-020-0370-7.
    • von Kortzfleisch, VT; Karp, NA; Palme, R; Kaiser, S; Sachser, N; Richter, SH. . ‘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.

    • Bodden C, von Kortzfleisch V, Karwinkel F, Kaiser S, Sachser N, Richter SH. . ‘Heterogenising study samples across testing time improves reproducibility of behavioural data.’ Scientific Reports 9: 8247.
    • Von Kortzfleisch V, Kästner N, Prange L, Kaiser S, Sachser N, Richter SH. . ‘Have I been here before? Effects of repeated testing and age on the results of behavioural tests.’ Behavioural Brain Research 367: 143–148.
    • Krakenberg, V; von Kortzfleisch, V; Kaiser, S; Sachser, N; Richter, SH. . ‘Differential effects of serotonin transporter genotype on anxiety-like behavior and cognitive judgment bias in mice.’ Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience 13: 263.