Vanessa Fee Saalmann

Vanessa Fee Saalmann

Address:
Permoserstr. 15
04318 Leipzig
Germany

Building: 7.3, Room: 2.034
Phone: +49 341 6025 4951

Vanessa Saalmann



Research Interests

• Environmental chemicals acting as endocrine disruptors of the retinoic acid signaling pathway
• Identification of sensitive endpoints and biomarkers of endocrine disruption of the RA signaling pathway in zebrafish larvae using high-content phenotyping, automated behavior testing, and OMICs methods

Curriculum Vitae

Since 12/2024

Doctoral Researcher, Department Ecotoxicology, Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Leipzig, Germany

01/2024 - 06/2024

Scientific Researcher, Department Ecotoxicology, Fraunhofer Institute for Molecular Biology and Applied Ecology IME, Schmallenberg, Germany

10/2020 - 12/2023

Master Student, M.Sc. Toxicology, Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Toxicology, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany
Master’s thesis: “Comparison of sensitive behavioral endpoints in the reproduction and immobilization assay with Daphnia magna exposed to selected insecticides” at Department Ecotoxicology, Fraunhofer Institute for Molecular Biology and Applied Ecology IME, Schmallenberg, Germany

10/2017 - 09/2020

Bachelor Student, B.Sc. Biology, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Department of Biology, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany
Bachelor’s thesis: „Functional characterization and in-vitro thermal stability analysis of reverse transcriptase mutants” at Department Pyrosequencing, Qiagen, Hilden, Germany

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