Mittmann Lab

Beate Mittmann, PhD (Assistant Professor)

Evolutionary Biology & Ecology, University of Freiburg,

Hauptstr. 1
D-79104 Freiburg

Phone: ++49 (0)761 203 2567
Fax: ++49 (0)761 203 2544

E-Mail: beate.mittmann@biologie.uni-freiburg.de

 

Educational background

• July 1999-March 2004: PhD thesis at the Humboldt-University (Berlin, Germany): „Die Entwicklung des Pfeilschwanzkrebses Limulus polyphemus und anderer Arthropoden unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Neurogenese“ (The embryology of the horseshoe crab Limulus polyphemus and other arthropods with main focus on neurogenesis)
• October 1997-October 1998: Diploma thesis with Prof. Dr. Gerhard Scholtz at the Humboldt-University (Berlin, Germany): „Die Keimstreifbildung und das Expressionsmuster des Homoeobox-Gens Distal-less bei primär flügellosen Insekten (Collembola, Zygentoma) (The embryology and the expression pattern of the Homeobox gene Distal-less in apterygote insects (Collembola, Zygentoma)).
• June 1997: Diploma in Biology (major subjects: Zoology, Morphology, Evolutionary Biology, Molecular Biology & Genetics, Ecology, Soil Science)
• November 1991-June 1997: Course of studies in Biology at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität (Würzburg) and the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität (Freiburg)
• October 1987 to October 1990: Course of studies in Informatics (Computer Science) at the University of Karlsruhe
   
   

Positions

• As of October 2018
  Assistant professor (Chair Evolutionary Biology & Ecology, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg)
• January 2016–April 2017
  Assistant professor (Chair Evolutionary Biology & Ecology, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg)
• WS 2012/2013
  Assistant professor (Chair Evolutionary Biology & Ecology, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg)
• July 2008-July 2012
  Research grant (DFG, German Science Foundation) at Queen Mary College, University of London, School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Lab PD Dr. Angelika Stollewerk and Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Lab Prof. Dr. Karl-Friedrich Fischbach.
• September 2007-June 2008
  Scientist (Senior Researcher III) at the Danube Delta National Institute for Research & Development (Tulcea, Romania) for biodiversity assessment (arthropods) in the Danube Delta
• January 2003 to May 2007
  Working as Study Data Manager and Project Data Manager being responsible for global clinical trials and global clinical projects in oncology and renal anemia for F. Hoffmann-La Roche, Basel, Switzerland
• 1998/1999
  Translation from English to German and editorial supervision of the book „Humans before Humanity – Menschen vor Homo sapiens“, written by the paleoanthropologist Prof. Dr. Robert A. Foley (Cambridge, UK) for the Jan Thorbecke Publishing House (2000)

Awards

• 2009-2012 Research grant of the DFG (German Science Foundation): Morphological and molecular-genetic analysis of the development of sensory organs in arthropods (Chelicerata, Myriapoda, Crustacea, Hexapoda) - a first step in understanding the generation of the diversity in the peripheral nervous system during arthropod evolution.
• May–September 2002 Scholarship holder of the „Grass Foundation for Neuroscience“ at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole (Massachusetts, USA)
• 2002 Marine Biological Laboratory (Massachusetts, USA) First award of the MBL/Zeiss Photo contest 2002 „Scientific Imaging“
• 2002 Marine Biological Laboratory (Massachusetts, USA) First award at the MBL “General Scientific Meeting 2002” for graduate student’s talks. 
• 1999: Katharina-Heinroth-Award 1999 of the Gesellschaft der Naturforschenden Freunde zu Berlin for Extraordinary Diploma Thesis.

Publications

• Peschke, K., Fuldner, D., Mittmann, B. (1996): A. clavicornis, a stepping stone in the evolution of parasitoid behaviour in the rove beetles genus Aleochara (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae). Abstr. XX. Intern. Congr. Entomol., Firenze.
• Mittmann, B. (1997): Rezension über: Bense, U. (1995): Longhorn Beetles, Illustrated Key to the Cerambycidae and Vesperidae of Europe (Markgraf Verlag). Mitteilungen des badischen Landesverbandes für Naturkunde und Naturschutz, 3/4, 653f.
• Mittmann, B., Scholtz, G. (1998): The expression pattern of the homeobox gene Distal-less in apterygote insects. Zoology, 101 (Suppl.I), 22.
• Scholtz, G., Mittmann, B., Gerberding, M. (1998): The pattern of Distal-less expression in the mouthparts of crustaceans, myriapods and insects: new evidence for a gnathobasic mandible and the common origin of Mandibulata. International Journal of Developmental Biology 42: 801-810.
• Maus, C., Mittmann, B., Peschke, K. (1998): Host record of parasitoid Aleochara Gravenhorst species (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) attacking puparia of cyclorrhapheous Diptera. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 45 (2): 231 – 254.
• Mittmann, B. (2000): Die Keimstreifbildung und das Expressionsmuster des Homoeobox Gens Distal-less bei primär flügellosen Insekten (Collembola, Zygentoma). Sitzungsberichte der Naturforschenden Freunde Berlin (N.F.) 38: 93-103.
• Mittmann, B., Scholtz, G. (2000): The expression pattern of the homeobox gene Distal-less in the horseshoe crab Limulus polyphemus (Chelicerate, Xiphosura) and the silverfish Lepisma saccharina (Insecta, Zygentoma): Is Distal-less directly correlated with the differentiation of sensory bristles? Zoology 193 (Suppl. III): 11.
• Mittmann, B., Scholtz, G. (2001): Distal-less expression in embryos of Limulus polyphemus (Chelicerata, Xiphosura) and Lepisma saccharina (Insecta, Zygentoma) suggests a role in the development of mechanoreceptors, chemoreceptors, and the CNS. Development Genes and Evolution 211(5): 232-243.
• Errigo, M., Mc Guinnes, C., Meadors, S., Mittmann, B., Dodge, F., Barlow, R. (2001): Visually guided behaviour of juvenile horseshoe crabs. Biol. Bull. 201: 271- 71.
• Mittmann, B. (2002): Early Neurogenesis in the Horseshoe Crab Limulus polyphemus (Chelicerata, Xiphosura) and its Implication for Arthropod Relationships. Biol. Bull. 203: 221-222.
• Scholtz, G., Braband, A., Tolley, L., Reimann, A., Mittmann, B., Lukhaup, C., Steuerwald, F., Vogt, G. (2003): Parthenogenesis in an outsider crayfish. Nature: 421: 806.
• Mittmann, B. (2010): Bleiben wir auf dem Boden der Wissenschaft. Kritik am Artikel „Evolutionäre Ethik (Hans Mohr). Erwägen, Wissen, Ethik (Hsg. Benseler, F., Blanck, R., Loh, W.), Jg. 21/2010, Lucius et Lucius Verlagsgesellschaft Stuttgart.
• Kauz, R., Mittmann, B. (2010): Der Pfeilschwanzkrebs (Tachypleus tridentatus) in der chinesischen Literatur, Medizin und Küche. In Ptak, R. (Ed. with technical support of Nürnberger, M.), Marine Animals in Traditional China: Studies in Cultural History/Meerestiere im alten China: Studien zur Kulturgeschichte, ser. Maritime Asia 21 (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz), p. 3-20.
• Mittmann, B., Wolff, C. (2012): Embryonic development and staging of the cobweb spider Parasteatoda tepidariorum C. L. KOCH, 1841 (syn.: Achaearanea tepidariorum; Araneomorphae; Theridiidae). Dev Genes Evol: 222: 189-216. DOI 10.1007/s00427-012-0401-0.
• Mittmann, B., Ungerer, P., Klann, M., Stollewerk, A., Wolff, C. (2014): Development and staging of the water flea Daphnia magna (Straus, 1820; Cladocera, Daphniidae) based on morphological landmarks. EvoDevo: 5:12. http://www.evodevojournal.com/content/5/1/12
• Mittmann, B. (in preparation): Make more of your spider: Number of cocoons and eggs during the laboratory life span of the cobweb spider Parasteatoda tepidariorum C. L. KOCH, 1841 (syn.: Achaearanea tepidariorum; Araneomorphae; Theridiidae).

Further scientific activities

• May to September 2002: Visiting scientist at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole (Massachusetts, USA) as scholarship holder of the „Grass Foundation for Neuroscience“
• May/June 2001: Visiting scientist at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole (Massachusetts, USA; invitation of Prof. Dr. Robert B. Barlow
• Participation in a television report (broadcaster arte) about horseshoe crabs: “Fossil mit blauem Blut” (“Blue-blooded fossil” broadcasted in June 2001 and December 2001)
• May/June 2000: Visiting scientist at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole (Massachusetts, USA; invitation of Prof. Dr. Robert B. Barlow) and at the institute for Neuroscience at the Wellesley-College (Boston, USA; invitation of Prof. Dr. Barbara Beltz)
• Numerous scientific lectures on behalf of different scientific organizations. For example

-  “The horseshoe crab Limulus polyphemus – a living fossil in today’s science): September 2001, Zoo Leipzig; April 2002, Jura-Museum, Eichstätt, March 2006, Danube Delta National Institute for Research & Development, Tulcea, Romania, November 2006, Museum of Natural History, Karlsruhe, March 2011, Gondwna-Prähistorium, Schiffweiler)
-    „Whip spiders and scorpions – Exciting mating behaviors in Arachnids” (October 2002, Zoo Leipzig)
-    „The fascinating world of insects“ (October 2003, Zoo Leipzig)
-    „The colorful world of butterflies“ (October 2004, Zoo Leipzig)
-    „Methods of Evolutionary Biology” (May 2005, University of Oradea, Romania)
-    „Octopus and squid – intelligent denizens of the Ocean” (June 2005, Zoo Leipzig)
-    „The fascinating life of Crustaceans” (October 2006, Zoo Leipzig)

• June 2005 to June 2006: Teaching Natural Sciences for children between 6 and 9 years, organized by the Primary Schools Council in Heilbronn (Germany)

Technican

Carola Sigle

Phone: ++49 (0)761 203 2561
E-Mai: carola.sigle@biologie.uni-freiburg.de