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Sybille Wolf-Kümmeth

Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology of Behavior – caesar

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Neuroscience· 3 Animal Behavior & Cognition· 1

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Absence of the Earths magnetic field activates stress-related brain circuits in a mammal

Li Zhang, Billy Yu Ki Lam, Alireza Saeedi, Leoni-Marie Webb, Alessandro Felder, Nikoloz Sirmpilatze, Adam Tyson, Brittany Hamauei, Runita N. Shirdhankar, Sybille Wolf-Kümmeth, Dori M. Grijseels, Nasibeh Amini, Sabine Begall, Erich Pascal Malkemper

The study identifies stress-related brain circuits activated by the absence of Earth's magnetic field in mole-rats using a novel imaging pipeline.

bioRxiv · Oct 11, 2026 · PreprintNeuroscience

Light-independent and pulsing-sensitive magnetic compass responses in planarians

Leif Moritz‍, Evelyn Schmidt, Bénédicte Darbon, Aarya J Pawar, Floriane Bureau, Pia Schürmann, Cigdem Ilayda Kalyon, Sybille Wolf-Kümmeth, Yannick Menger, Aude Chambodut, Hervé Cadiou, Erich Pascal Malkemper

This study shows planarians have a light-independent magnetic compass that can be disrupted by magnetic pulses, suggesting a magnetite-based mechanism.

bioRxiv · Oct 2, 2026 · PreprintAnimal Behavior & Cognition

Multimodal imaging reveals no evidence for magnetite-based magnetoreceptors in the mole-rat eye

Leif Moritz‍, Kamalika Nath, Ella P. Walsh, Anna Sternberg, Elisabeth Becher, Adrian Lange, Gerald Falkenberg, Dennis Brückner, Clemens Diwoky, Kristian Bredies, Malte Brammerloh, Daryl L. Howard, David J. Paterson, Kadda Medjoubi, Stephan H. Irsen, , Erich Pascal Malkemper

The paper uses multimodal imaging to investigate magnetite-based magnetoreceptors in the mole-rat eye and finds no evidence for their presence.

bioRxiv · Apr 6, 2026 · PreprintNeuroscience

Neuronal recordings in head-fixed and freely-moving mole-rats

Runita N. Shirdhankar, Alireza Saeedi, Georgina E. Fenton, Leif Moritz‍, Pierre-Yves Jacob, Leoni M. Webb, Sybille Wolf-Kümmeth, Wolfgang Boenigk, Emilia Heinrichs, Sabine Begall, Erich Pascal Malkemper

This paper develops protocols for neuronal recordings in mole-rats, identifies a low-frequency hippocampal theta rhythm, and creates a stereotaxic brain atlas for implantation and histological alignment.

bioRxiv · Dec 17, 2025 · PreprintNeuroscience