Henrik Mouritsen

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Henrik Østergaard Mouritsen (born July 26, 1971 in Aalborg ) is a Danish biologist and professor of neurosensors (animal navigation) at the University of Oldenburg . He researches the navigation of birds and specifically the neurobiological aspects of their magnetic sense .

Life

Henrik Mouritsen grew up on Funen in Denmark and has been an avid ornithologist since childhood . Early on, he was fascinated by the migratory behavior and the navigational performance of birds and he wanted to know exactly how long-distance migrants navigated . At the Syddansk Universitet in Odense he studied the Bachelor in Biology and Chemistry and then a four year combined Master and Ph.D. Program in biology. He worked and lived in Canada ( Queen's University ) for three years and has been a professor at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg since 2006 .

Mouritsen works on the functional and neurobiological aspects of the senses in animals. He is specifically concerned with the magnetic sense that many animals have. To this end, his group mainly works with robins in in-situ experiments (in Emlen funnels ) and under the influence of a variable magnetic field. His working group is a member of the DFG research group Retina FOR 701 and he works as part of a Lichtenberg professorship.

In 2019 Mouritsen received the Lower Saxony Science Prize .

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  • Svenja Engels, Nils-Lasse Schneider, Nele Lefeldt, Christine Maira Hein, Manuela Zapka, Andreas Michalik, Dana Elbers, Achim Kittel, PJ Hore & Henrik Mouritsen (2014): Anthropogenic electromagnetic noise disrupts magnetic compass orientation in a migratory bird .
  • Hein, CM, Engels, S., Kishkinev, D. & Mouritsen, H. (2011): Robins have a magnetic compass in both eyes . Nature 471, E11.
  • Zapka M., Heyers D., Liedvogel M., Jarvis ED., Mouritsen H. (2010): Night-time neuronal activation of Cluster N in a day- and night-migrating songbird . European Journal of Neuroscience. 32, 619-624.
  • Heyers D., Zapka M., Hoffmeister M., Wild JM., Mouritsen H. (2010): Magnetic field changes activate the trigeminal brainstem complex in a migratory bird . Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences USA (PNAS) 107: 9394-9399.
  • Zapka, M., Heyers, D., Hein, CM, Engels, S., Schneider, N.-L., Hans, J., Weiler, S., Dreyer, D., Kishkinev, D., Wild, JM & Mouritsen, H. (2009): Visual but not trigeminal mediation of magnetic compass information in a migratory bird , Nature 461, 1274-1277.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Manuela Zapka, Dominik Heyers, Christine M. Hein, Svenja Engels, Nils-Lasse Schneider, Jörg Hans, Simon Weiler, David Dreyer, Dmitry Kishkinev, J. Martin Wild, Henrik Mouritsen: Visual but not trigeminal mediation of magnetic compass information in a migratory bird. Nature 461, October 2009; Pp. 1274-1277.
  2. ↑ Nature
personal data
SURNAME Mouritsen, Henrik
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mouritsen, Henrik Østergaard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish biologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH July 26, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Aalborg