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Staff member: Dr. Sylvia Kaiser

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Prof. Dr. Sylvia Kaiser
Institut für Neuro- und Verhaltensbiologie
Abteilung für Verhaltensbiologie
Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
Badestraße 13, D-48149 Münster

Tel.: (0049) 251/8324676
Fax.: (0049) 251/8323896
E-mail: kaisesy@uni-muenster.de

 


Sylvia Kaiser (*1967) is an adjunct professor (außerplanmäßige Professorin") of zoology at the Department of Behavioural Biology, University of Münster.

She studied Biology at the University of Bayreuth and wrote her Diploma thesis on effects of prenatal stress during pregnancy on behaviour and physiology of guinea pigs in 1992, supervised by Prof. Dr. N. Sachser and Prof. Dr. D. von Holst. Between 1993 and 1997 she continued working in the field of prenatal stress as a research scientists at the Department of Behavioural Biology, University of Muenster (PhD thesis 1997, supervised by Prof. Dr. N. Sachser). From1998 to 2003 she was an assistant professor ("Wissenschaftliche Assistentin") at the same Department. During this time she got  a research grant from the DFG to extend her studies on neurobiological effects of prenatal stress and stayed for one year in the group of Prof. Dr. D. Swaab at the Netherlands Institute for Brain Research in Amsterdam. 2004 she obtained her habilitation and venia legendi in zoology. Since then, she was an associate professor ("Privatdozentin"), until becoming an adjunct professor at the Department of Behavioural Biology in 2010. 2000-2008 she was spokeswomen of the Division for Behavioural Biology of the German Zoological Society. 2010, she was elected Manager of the "Ethologische Gesellschaft e.V.". Furthermore, she is a member of the Editorial Board of the journal "Behaviour".
Her research interests encompass stress and welfare, the hormonal and molecular basics of cognition, emotion and social behaviour as well as the behavioural development, with particular emphasis on gene x environment interactions.

Publications



  • Stock, C.; Kaiser, S (2012): Humanbiologische Grundlagen der Gesundheitswissenschaften. In: Hurrelmann, K.; Razum, O. (ed.):Handbuch Gesundheitswissenschaften Juventa, Weinheim, München: 5. Auflage: 99-122.

  • Lürzel, S; Kaiser, S; Krüger, C; Sachser, N (2011): Inhibiting influence of testosterone on stress responsiveness during adolescence. Hormones & Behavior 60 (5): 691-698.

  • Lürzel, S; Kaiser, S; Sachser, N (2011): Social interaction decreases stress responsiveness during adolescence. Psychoneuroendocrinology 36 (9): 1370-1377.

  • Sachser, N; Hennessy, MB; Kaiser, S (2011): Adaptive modulation of behavioural profiles by social stress during early phases of life and adolescence. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews 35: 1518-1533.

  • Siegeler, K; Sachser, N; Kaiser, S (2011): The social environment during pregnancy and lactation shapes the behavioural and hormonal profile of male offspring in wild cavies. Developmental Psychobiology 53: 575-584.

  • Kaiser, S; Krüger, C; Sachser, N (2010): The guinea pig. In: Hubrecht, R; Kirkwood, J (eds): The care and management of laboratory and other research animals. 8th edition. Wiley-Blackwell, Chichester, UK.: 380-398.

  • Lürzel, S; Kaiser, S; Sachser, N (2010): Social interaction, testosterone, and stress responsiveness during adolescence. Physiology & Behavior 99: 40-46.

  • Sachser, N; Kaiser, S (2010): Meerschweinchen als Sozialstrategen. Spektrum der Wissenschaft Januar: 56-63.

  • Sachser, N; Kaiser, S (2010): The social modulation of behavioural development. In: Kappeler, P. (Ed.), Animal Behavior: Evolution and Mechanisms. Springer Verlag, Berlin: 505-536.

  • Hennessy, MB; Kaiser, S; Sachser, N (2009): Social buffering of the stress response: diversity, mechanisms, and functions. Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology 30(4): 470-82.

  • Kaiser, S; Sachser, N (2009): Effects of prenatal social stress on offspring development: pathology or adaptation? Current Directions in Psychological Science 18(2): 118-121.

  • Kemme, K; Kaiser, S; von Engelhardt, N; Wewers, D; Groothuis, T; Sachser, N (2009): An unstable social environment affects sex ratio in guinea pigs: an adaptive maternal effect? Behaviour 146: 1513-1529.

  • Trillmich, F; Mueller, B; Kaiser, S; Krause, J (2009): Puberty in female cavies (Cavia aperea) is affected by photoperiod and social conditions. Physiology & Behavior 96: 476-480.

  • Adrian, O; Kaiser, S; Sachser, N; Jandewerth, P; Löttker, P; Epplen, JT; Hennessy, MB (2008): Female influences on pair formation, reproduction and male stress responses in a monogamous cavy (Galea monasteriensis). Hormones & Behavior 53: 403-412.

  • Kaiser, S; Touma, C; Galert, T; Würbel, H (2008): Animal Suffering - Fact or Fiction? In : Müller, K; Sachser, N (ed.): Theology meets biology. Anthropological perspectives on animals and human beings. Pustet-Verlag, Regensburg: 123-136.

  • Kemme, K; Kaiser, S; Sachser, N (2008): Prenatal stress does not impair coping with challenge later in life. Physiology and Behavior 93: 68-75.

  • Kaiser, S; Haderthauer, S; Sachser, N; Hennessy, MB (2007): Social Housing Conditions around Puberty Determine Later Changes in Plasma Cortisol Levels and Behavior. Physiology and Behavior 90: 405-411.

  • Kaiser, S; Sachser, N (2007): Sex-specific effects of early social stress in mammals: A study in guinea pigs. In: Encyclopedia of stress, 2nd ed.; editor in chief: George Fink. Academic Press, Oxford; Vol.3: 479-484.

  • Kemme, K; Kaiser, S; Sachser, N (2007): Prenatal maternal programming determines testosterone response during social challenge. Hormones and Behavior 51: 387-394.

  • Hennessy, MB; Neisen, G; Bullinger, KL; Kaiser, S; Sachser, N (2006): Social organization predicts nature of infant-adult interactions in two species of wild guinea pigs (Cavia aperea and Galea monasteriensis). Journal of Comparative Psychology 120: 12-18.

  • Kaiser, S; Sachser, N (2005): The effects of prenatal social stress on behaviour: Mechanisms and function. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews 29: 283-294.

  • Wewers, D; Kaiser, S; Sachser, N (2005): Application of an antiandrogen during pregnancy infantilizes the male offsprings' behaviour. Behavioural Brain Research 158: 89-95.

  • Sachser, N; Künzl, C; Kaiser, S (2004): The welfare of laboratory guinea pigs. In: Kalista, E (ed.): The welfare of laboratory animals. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands: 181-209.

  • Kaiser, S; Heemann, K; Straub, RH; Sachser, N (2003): The social environment affects behaviour and androgens, but not cortisol in pregnant female guinea pigs. Psychoneuroendocrinology 28: 67-83.

  • Kaiser, S; Kirtzeck, M; Hornschuh, G; Sachser, N (2003): Sex specific difference in social support - a study in female guinea pigs. Physiology & Behavior 79 (2): 297-303.

  • Kaiser, S; Kruijver, FPM; Straub, RH; Sachser, N; Swaab, DF (2003): Early social stress in male guinea pigs changes social behaviour, and autonomic and neuroendocrine functions. The Journal of Neuroendocrinology 15: 761-769.

  • Kaiser, S; Kruijver, FPM; Swaab, DF; Sachser, N (2003): Early social stress in female guinea pigs induces a masculinization of adult behavior and corresponding changes in brain and neuroendocrine function. Behavioural Brain Research 144: 199-210.

  • Kaiser, S; Nübold, T; Rohlmann, I; Sachser, N (2003): Pregnant female guinea pigs adapt easily to a new social environment irrespective of their rearing conditions. Physiology and Behavior 80: 147-153.

  • Künzl, C; Kaiser, S; Meier, E; Sachser, N (2003): Is a wild mammal kept and reared in captivity still a wild animal? Hormones and Behavior 43: 187-196.

  • Wewers, D; Kaiser, S; Sachser, N (2003): Maternal seperation in guinea pigs: a study in behavioural endocrinology. Ethology 109: 443-453.

  • Forkmann, B; Blokhuis, HJ; Broom, DM; Kaiser, S; Koolhaas, JM; Levine, S; Mendl, M; Plotsky, PM; Schedlowski, M (2001): Key sources of variability in coping. In: Broom, DM (ed.): Coping with challenge: welfare in animals including humans. Dahlem Workshop Report 87. Dahlem University Press, Berlin: 249-270.

  • Kaiser, S; Sachser, N (2001): Stress und Wohlergehen. In: Praxis der Naturwissenschaften: Biologie in der Schule. Aulis Verlag Deubner, Köln: 15-20.

  • Kaiser, S; Sachser, N (2001): Social stress during pregnancy and lactation affects in guinea pigs the male offsprings' endocrine status and infantilizes their behaviour. Psychoneuroendocrinology 26: 503-519.

  • Kaiser, S; Brendel, H; Sachser, N (2000): Effects of ACTH applications during pregnancy on the female offsprings' endocrine status and behavior in guinea pigs. Physiology & Behaviour 70: 157-162.

  • Kaiser, S; Classen, D; Sachser, N (1999): Auswirkungen unterschiedlicher struktureller Anreicherungen auf das Spontanverhalten weiblicher Labormäuse (Stamm NMRI). In: Aktuelle Arbeiten zur artgemäßen Tierhaltung 1998. KTBL-Schrift 382. Darmstadt: 56-62.

  • Kaiser, S; Maicher, P; Classen, D; Sachser, N (1998): Auswirkungen von Umweltanreicherungen auf das Verhalten von Labormäusen. In: Juhr, NC et al. (ed.): Schriftenreihe Tierlaboratorium Vol. 21. Berlin: 63-69.

  • Kaiser, S; Sachser, N (1998): The social environment during pregnancy and lactation affects the female offsprings' endocrine status and behaviour in guinea pigs. Physiology & Behavior 63: 361-366.

  • Kaiser, S; Sachser, N (1998): Die pränatale Beeinflussung von Verhalten und Physiologie bei Hausmeerschweinchen. In: Aktuelle Arbeiten zur artgemäßen Tierhaltung 1997. KTBL Schrift 380. Darmstadt: 164-172.

  • Sachser, N; Kaiser, S (1997): The social environment, behaviour and stress - a case study in guinea pigs. Acta Physiologica Scandinavica 161, Supplement 640: 83-87.

  • Sachser, N; Kaiser, S (1996): Prenatal social stress masculinizes the females' behaviour in guinea pigs. Physiology & Behavior 60: 589-594.

  • Beer, R; Kaiser, S; Sachser, N; Stanzel, K (1994): Merkblatt zur tierschutzgerechten Haltung von Versuchstieren: Meerschweinchen. Tierärztliche Vereinigung für Tierschutz.

  • Kaiser, S; Sachser, N (1993): Effects of the social environment during pregnancy of guinea pigs on the behaviour of their female offspring. In: Nichelmann M et al. (ed.): Proceedings of the International Congress of Applied Ethology. Berlin: 396-398.
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