Carina Bodden Institute of Neuro- and Behavioural Biology Department of Behavioural Biology Badestraße 13 D-48149 Münster Phone: +49 (0) 251/83 23842 Fax.: +49 (0) 251/83 23896 E-mail: carina.bodden@uni-muenster.de → Website

PhD in 2017

Research Project

Traditionally, the accumulation of adversity over the lifetime is seen as a major risk factor for psychiatric disease. However, more recently, an alternative view has been proposed, which suggests individuals to be at highest risk for developing pathologies in case that the early programming environment differs from the later environment (“mismatch hypothesis”).
This project aims to elucidate the effects of life history on emotional behavior, hormone levels, and epigenetic modifications in adulthood and how this process is modulated by the activity of the serotonergic system. For this purpose, mice lacking the serotonin transporter (5-HTT) totally or in part - an established mouse model of increased anxiety-like behavior - will be compared with wildtype controls. (SFB/TRR 58 “Fear, Anxiety, Anxiety Disorders”).

PhD Committee

Prof. Dr. Norbert Sachser (Department of Behavioural Biology, University of Münster)
Prof. Dr. Klaus-Peter Lesch (Department of Psychiatry, Psychosomatics, and Psychotherapy, University of Würzburg)
Prof. Dr. Hans-Christian Pape (Institute of Physiology I, University of Münster)

Publications

Kästner, N, Richter, SH, Bodden, C, Palme, R, Kaiser, S, Sachser, N (2018). Varying social experiences in adulthood do not differentially affect anxiety-like behavior but stress hormone levels. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 12, 72. doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2018.00072

Bodden, C, Siestrup, S, Palme, R, Kaiser, S, Sachser, N, Richter, SH (2018). Evidence-based severity assessment: impact of repeated versus single open-field testing on welfare in C57BL/6J mice. Behavioural Brain Research, 336, 261-268. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2017.08.029Bo

Bodden, C., van den Hove, D, Lesch, K-P, Sachser, N (2017). Impact of varying social experiences during life history on behaviour, gene expression, and vasopressin receptor gene methylation in mice. Scientific Reports 7, 8719. doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-09292-0.

Remmes, J; Bodden, C; Richter, SH; Lesting, J; Sachser, N; Pape, HC, Seidenbecher, T (2016): Impact of Life History on Fear Memory and Extinction. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience 10: 185. doi:10.3389/fnbeh.2016.00185

Bodden, C; Richter, SH; Schreiber, RS; Kloke, V; Gerss, J; Palme, R; Lesch, KP; Lewejohann, L; Kaiser, S; Sacher, N (2015): Benefits of adversity?! How life history affects the behavioral profile of mice varying in serotonin transporter genotype. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience 9: 47. doi:10.3389/fnbeh.2015.00047

Kloke, V.; Schreiber, R.S.; Bodden, C.; Moellers, J.; Ruhmann, H.; Kaiser, S.; Lesch, K.-P.; Sacher, N.; Lewejohann, L. (2014). Hope for the best or prepare for the worst? Towards a spatial cognitive bias test for mice. PLoS ONE 9(8): e105431. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0105431

Heiming, R.S.; Bodden, C.; Jansen, F.; Lewejohann, L.; Kaiser, S.; Lesch, K.-P.; Palme, R.; Sachser, N. (2011). Living in a dangerous world decreases maternal care: a study in serotonin transporter knockout mice. Hormones and Behavior: 397-407. doi:10.1016/j.yhbeh.2011.07.006

Conference Contributions

Bodden, C.; Richter, S.H.; Schreiber, R.; Kloke, V.; Gerß, J.; Palme, R.; Lesch, K.-P.; Lewejohann, L.; Kaiser, S.; Sachser, N. (2016). Benefits of adversity?! How life history affects the behavioral profile of mice. Poster presentation at the 8th European Conference on Behavioural Biology, Vienna, Austria.

Bodden, C.; Richter, S.H.; Schreiber, R.; Kloke, V.; Gerß, J.; Palme, R.; Lesch, K.-P.; Lewejohann, L.; Kaiser, S.; Sachser, N. (2016). Benefits of adversity?! How life history affects the behavioral profile of mice varying in serotonin transporter genotype. Poster presentation at the 10th FENS Forum of Neuroscience, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Bodden, C. (2015). Benefits of adversity?! How life history affects the behavioral profile of mice varying in serotonin transporter genotype. Oral presentation at the 4th International Symposium of the SFB / TRR 58 Fear, Anxiety, Anxiety Disorders, Münster, Germany.

Bodden, C.; Richter, S.H.; Schreiber, R.; Kloke, V.; Gerß, J.; Palme, R.; Lesch, K.-P.; Lewejohann, L.; Kaiser, S.; Sachser, N. (2015). Benefits of Adversity?! The Impact of Life History and Serotonin Transporter Genotype on the Behavioral Profile of Mice. Poster presentation at the 10th Topical meeting of the Ethological Society, Hamburg, Germany.

Bodden, C.; Heiming, R.S.; Kloke, V.; Richter, S.H.; Palme, R.; Lesch, K.-P.; Lewejohann, L.; Kaiser, S.; Sachser, N. (2014). Benefits of Adversity? The Impact of Life History and Serotonin Transporter Genotype on the Behavioral Profile of Mice. Poster presentation at the 7th European Conference on Behavioral Biology, Prague, Czech Republic.

Bodden, C.; Kaiser, S.; Sachser, N. (2014). Consequences of life history and serotonin transporter genotype on behavioral profiles of mice. Oral presentation at the 9th Topical meeting of the Ethological Society, Tutzing, Germany.

Heiming, R.S.; Bodden, C.; Jansen, F.; Lewejohann, L.; Kaiser, S.; Lesch, K.-P.; Palme, R.; Sachser, N. (2013). Living in a dangerous world decreases maternal care: A study in serotonin transporter knockout mice. Poster presentation at the 11th Graduate Student Meeting of the Graduate Student Meeting of the German Zoological Society and the Ethological Society, Münster, Germany

Heiming, R.S.; Bodden, C.; Jansen, F.; Lewejohann, L.; Kaiser, S.; Lesch, K.-P.; Palme, R.; Sachser, N. (2012). Living in a dangerous world decreases maternal care: A study in serotonin transporter knockout mice. Poster presentation at the 6th European Conference on Behavioural Biology, Essen, Germany.

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