Sophie Holtz

Doktorandin

Forschungsinteressen: • animal cognition • animal communication • vocal production and vocal learning • neuronal circuits and gene networks involved in bat vocal production and vocal learning • combining molecular methods with behavioral experiments to understand the neural control of bat vocal production and vocal learning • evolution of human speech and language

Akademischer Werdegang

seit 2021 Doktorandin, Max Planck School of Cognition, Leipzig
Promotionsarbeit an der Freien Universität Berlin
Betreuerin: Constance Scharff
Lab-Rotationen in der Orientierungsphase: Constance Scharff, David Poeppel and Simon E. Fisher

2020 Master of Science in Biology, Freie Universität Berlin

2016 Bachelor of Science in Biology, Freie Universität Berlin

Forschungserfahrung

2020–2021 Researcher praedoc, Institute of Biology, Freie Universität Berlin

2020–2021 Teaching assistance for Introduction to Behavioral Biology, Advanced Behavioral Biology, and Animal Physiology: Behavioral Physiology, Freie Universität Berlin

Lehre

2020–2021 Teaching assistance for Introduction to Behavioral Biology, Advanced Behavioral Biology, and Animal Physiology: Behavioral Physiology, Freie Universität Berlin

Stipendien

12/2018–02/2019 Short-term fellowship from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute on Barro Colorado Island, Panama

01/2019–03/2019 PROMOS (DAAD) Stipend on Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Publikationen

Tison, L., Holtz, S., Adeoye, A., Kalkan, Ö., Irmisch, N. S., Lehmann, N., & Menzel, R. (2017). Effects of sublethal doses of thiacloprid and its formulation Calypso® on the learning and memory performance of honey bees. Journal of Experimental Biology, 220(20), 3695–3705. https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.154518

Tison, L., Hahn, M. L., Holtz, S., Rößner, A., Greggers, U., Bischoff, G., & Menzel, R. (2016). Honey bees’ behavior is impaired by chronic exposure to the neonicotinoid thiacloprid in the field. Environmental Science & Technology, 50(13), 7218–7227. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.6b02658

Posterpräsentationen und Vorträge

Holtz, S., Geipel, I., Page, R., & Knörnschild, M. (2022, November/Dezember). Talking Echoes: The communicative potential of functional echolocation calls of the common big-eared bat, Micronycteris microtis [Vortrag]. Virtual Graduate Meeting: Animal Behaviour 2022 of the Animal Behaviour Section of the German Zoological Society (DZG), online.

Holtz, S., Geipel, I., Page, R., & Knörnschild, M. (2022, Oktober). Talking Echoes: The communicative potential of functional echolocation calls of the common big-eared bat, Micronycteris microtis [Talk]. German Bat Research Meeting, Greifswald.

Holtz, S. (2020, Januar). Mapping vocalization-related immediate early gene expression in the brain of Seba’s short-tailed fruit bat, Carollia perspicillata [Poster]. German Bat Research Meeting, Frauenwörth Abbey, Chiemsee.

Holtz, S. (2019, Februar). Vocal communication in the common big-eared bat “Micronycteris microtis” [Poster]. Annual Fellows & Interns Symposium at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama, Republik Panama.