Work

since 2019: Technical Assistant at the Neurosensorics/Animal Navigation group, Expression and Purification of Avian Cryptochromes

2018-2019: Student assistant at the Neurosensorics/Animal Navigation group

Education

2019: Master of Science, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany

Master’s thesis: Bipolar Cell Markers in the Pigeon (Columba livia) and European Robin (Erithacus rubecula) Retina. (AG Neurosensorik (Animal Navigation); Supervisor: Apl. Prof. Dr. Karin Dedek; Group leader: Prof. Dr. Henrik Mouritsen)

2014:  Bachelor of Science, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany

Bachelor’s thesis: Untersuchungen zum Einfluss der Ähnlichkeit von Vokalen auf die Wahrnehmung der Richtung von Schallquellen durch die Wüstenrennmaus. (AG Animal Physiology & Behaviour; Group leader: Prof. Dr. Georg M. Klump)

2008: Abitur, Gymnasium "Am Lindenberg", Ilmenau

Publications

2023

Golesworthy, M. J., Zollitsch, T., Luo, J., Selby, D., Jarocha, L. E., Henbest, K. B.,…, Schmidt, J., ... & Mackenzie, S. R. (2023). Singlet–triplet dephasing in radical pairs in avian cryptochromes leads to time-dependent magnetic field effects. The Journal of Chemical Physics, 159(10).
doi.org/10.1063/5.0166675

Hanic, M., Antill, L., Gehrckens, A., Schmidt, J., Gortemaker, K., Bartolke, R., ... & Solov'yov, I. (2023). Dimerisation of European robin cryptochrome 4a. Journal of Physical Chemistry B. doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcb.3c01305

Timmer,D.; Frederiksen,A.; Lünemann,D. C.; Thomas,A. R.;Xu, J.; Bartölke,R.; Schmidt,J.; Kubař, T.; De Sio, A.; Solov’yov,I. A.;et al. Trackingthe ElectronTransferCascadein EuropeanRobinCryptochrome4 Mutants.J. Am.Chem.Soc.2023,145(21),11566−11578.ACS
doi.org/10.1021/jacs.3c00442

2022

Balaji, V., Haverkamp, S., Seth, P. K., Günther, A., Mendoza, E., Schmidt, J., Herrmann, M., Pfeiffer, L. L., Němec, P., Scharff, C., Mouritsen, H., & Dedek, K. (2023). Immunohistochemical characterization of bipolar cells in four distantly related avian species. Journal of Comparative Neurology, 531, 561–581.
doi.org/10.1002/cne.25443

Görtemaker K, Yee C, Bartölke R, Behrmann H, Voß J-O, Schmidt J, Xu J, Solovyeva V, Leberecht B, Behrmann E, et al. Direct Interaction of Avian Cryptochrome 4 with a Cone Specific G-Protein. Cells. 2022; 11(13):2043. doi.org/10.3390/cells11132043

2021

Xu, J., Jarocha, L., Zollitsch, T., Konowalczyk, M., Henbest, K., Richert, S., Golesworthy, M., Schmidt, J., Dejean, V., Sowood, D., Bassetto, M., Luo, J., Walton, J., Fleming, J., Wei, Y., Pitcher, T., Moise, G., Hermann, M., Yin, H., … Hore, P. (2021). Magnetic sensitivity of cryptochrome 4 from a migratory songbird. Nature. doi: 10.1038/s41586-021-03618-9