Professional experience

since March 2023 Scientific coordinator of „NaviSense”, Neurosensorics/Animal Navigation group

January-July 2022 Assistant scientific coordinator of the Research Training Group "Molecular Basis of Sensory Biology", Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg

since December 2019 Doctoral researcher at Neurosensorics/Animal Navigation group (supervisor: Dr. Dominik Heyers)

Project: Magnetic map processing in the brain of migratory birds (funded by the DFG-funded SFB 1372: Magnetoreception and Navigation in Vertebrates)

2019 Student assistant at AG Molecular and Translational Neurology, Max-Planck-Institute for Experimental Medicine, Göttingen: Genotyping (PCR)

2016-2017 Student assistant at AG Neurosensorics/Animal Navigation: Behavioural experiments

Education

2017-2019: M.Sc. Developmental, Neural and Behavioral Biology, Georg-August-University Göttingen

Thesis at Max-Planck-Institute for Experimental Medicine, Göttingen, AG Molecular and Translational Neurology, Group leader: Prof. Dr. med. M. W. Sereda

Title: The glial metabolic support in peripheral nerves in Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) disease type 1A

2014-2017: B.Sc. Biology at Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg

Thesis at Department of Biology, University of Oldenburg, AG Animal Navigation/“Neurosensorik”, Group leader: Prof. Dr. H. Mouritsen

Title: Magnetic field-induced neuronal activation in the hippocampal formation of Zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata)

2005-2013: Abitur at Gymnasium am Wall in Verden (Aller)

Publications

Leberecht B*, Wong SY*, Satish B, Döge S, Hindman J, Venkatraman L, Apte S, Haase K, Musielak I, Dautaj G, Solov’yov IA, Winklhofer M, Mouritsen H, Hore PJ (2023) Upper bound for broadband radiofrequency field disruption of magnetic compass orientation in night-migratory songbirds. PNAS 120(28):e2301153120. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2301153120 *Authors contributed equally to this work.

Katrin Haase, Isabelle Musielak, Leonie Warmuth-Moles, Bo Leberecht, Anna Zolotareva, Henrik Mouritsen, Dominik Heyers (2022) In search for the avian trigeminal magnetic sensor: Distribution of peripheral and central terminals of ophthalmic sensory neurons in the night-migratory Eurasian blackcap (Sylvia atricapilla). Frontiers in Neuroanatomy 16:853401. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnana.2022.853401

Franziska Curdt, Katrin Haase, Laura Ziegenbalg, Helena Greb, Dominik Heyers, Michael Winklhofer (2022) Prussian blue technique is prone to yield false negative results in magnetoreception research. Scientific Reports 12:8803. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-12398-9

Dmitry Kobylkov*, Isabelle Musielak*, Katrin Haase*, Noemi Rook, Kaya von Eugen, Karin Dedek, Onur Güntürkün, Henrik Mouritsen, Dominik Heyers (2022) Morphology of the “prefrontal” nidopallium caudolaterale in the long-distance night-migratory Eurasian blackcap (Sylvia atricapilla). Neuroscience Letters 789:136869. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neulet.2022.136869 *Authors contributed equally to this work.

Dominik Heyers, Isabelle Musielak, Katrin Haase, Christina Herold, Petra Bolte, Onur Güntürkün, Henrik Mouritsen (2022) Morphology, biochemistry and connectivity of Cluster N and the hippocampal formation in a migratory bird. Brain Structure and Function 227:2731-2749 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00429-022-02566-y

Bo Leberecht, Dmitry Kobylkov, Thiemo Karwinkel, Sara Döge, Lars Burnus, Siu Ying Wong, Shambhavi Apte, Katrin Haase, Isabelle Musielak, Raisa Chetverikova, Glen Dautaj, Marco Bassetto, Michael Winklhofer, P. J. Hore, Henrik Mouritsen (2022) Broadband 75-85 MHz radiofrequency fields disrupt magnetic compass orientation in night-migratory songbirds consistent with a flavin-based radical pair magnetoreceptor. Journal of Comparative Physiology A 208:97-106. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00359-021-01537-8 

Katrin Haase*, Isabelle Musielak*, Dominik Heyers (2021) The neuronal correlates of the avian magnetic senses. Neuroforum 27(3):167-174. https://doi.org/10.1515/nf-2021-0008 *Authors contributed equally to this work.

Conference contributions

Katrin Haase, Isabelle Musielak. „Neural basis of magnetoreception: from sensor to decision” 11th RIN Conference on Animal Navigation, Egham, UK, 12-14 April 2023, oral presentation

Katrin Haase, Dmitry Kobylkov, Isabelle Musielak, Henrik Mouritsen, Dominik Heyers. “Magnetic map processing in the brain of night-migratory birds” 28th International Ornithological Congress 2022, virtual, 15-19 August 2022, oral presentation

Katrin Haase, Isabelle Musielak, Leonie Warmuth-Moles, Bo Leberecht, Anna Zolotareva, Henrik Mouritsen, Dominik Heyers. “In search for the avian trigeminal magnetic sensor: organization of the ophthalmic sensory complex in the night-migratory Eurasian blackcap (Sylvia atricapilla)” FENS Forum 2022, Paris, France, 9-13 July 2022, poster presentation

Skills

Immunohistochemistry (DAB & Fluorescence), Tissue dissection, PCR, Western Blot, Fluorescence microscopy, Confocal microscopy, Behavioral experiments, Laboratory Animal Science of Birds and Mice, Software: ImageJ, GraphPad Prism, Illustrator, Photoshop