Inga Peters
Inga Peters
Research activities
Since 2026: Doctoral Researcher, SFB1372, affiliated with the NaviSense Cluster of Excellence.
Research Focus: Avian navigation mechanisms and the underlying biochemical environment
Supervisors: Dr Alina Sigaeva, Prof. Dr Henrik Mouritsen.
2024 – 2025. Student Assistant, Neurosensorics/Animal Navigation Research Group.
Immunohistochemical staining, cryosectioning, cell culture, microscopy, Western blotting.
2022 – 2023. Student Assistant, Department of Psychology
Assistance with participant recruitment and coordination for an fMRI hearing study.
Degree course
2022–2026. MSc in Neuroscience, Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg
Thesis: Cryptochrome 4 in a quail retina cell line: knockdown by RNA interference and antibody validation by immunohistochemistry and Western blots
Department of Biology, Neurosensorics/Animal Navigation Research Group
Supervisor: Prof. Dr Karin Dedek
2019 – 2022. BSc in Biology, Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg
Thesis: Cochlear efferent innervation in young-adult and old gerbils
Department of Neuroscience, AG Cochlea and Auditory Brainstem Physiology
Supervisor: Prof. Dr Christine Köppl
Conference papers
Poster Presentations
FEBS Advanced Lecture Course “Retina in a dish”, Kuopio (Finland) 2026
Exploring the role of retinal cryptochromes in avian navigation
SFRR-E Annual Meeting, Mainz 2026
Exploring the role of retinal cryptochromes and the radical pair mechanism in avian navigation
SFB Symposium 2025
Did the blackcap reinvent the magnetoreception pathway?
(joint presentation with Timo Bunger)