Nicole Hammer

Science | Molecular Biology | Neuroscience | Evolutionary Genetics

Germany

About

With a Bachelor’s degree in Molecular Biology and a Master’s degree in Neuroscience I recently continued my scientific journey starting as a PhD candidate in the lab of Prof. Dr. Martin Beye at HHU Düsseldorf investigating the genetics, neurological basis, and evolution behind cooperative behavior in honeybees. My focus lies on caste differentiation during larval development on the neuronal level, leading to the very different behaviors we see in queen and worker honeybees.

Experience

  • PHD Candidate at Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
    Apr 2025 - Present · 1 yr 3 mos

    AG Beye Evolutionary Genetics - On the cooperative behavior in honeybees

  • Deutsches Zentrum für Neurodegenerative Erkrankungen (DZNE) (1 yr 5 mos)
    • Student Assistant
      May 2023 - Sep 2024 · 1 yr 5 mos

      AG Krabbe Functional Diversity of Neuronal Circuits

    • Master Thesis
      Oct 2023 - Mar 2024 · 6 mos

      AG Krabbe Functional Diversity of Neuronal Circuits - Dopaminergic degeneration in a mouse model of alpha-synuclein overexpression

  • Student Assistent at LIMES-Institut Bonn
    May 2022 - May 2023 · 1 yr 1 mo

    AG Mass Developmental Biology of the Immune System

  • Bachelor Thesis at UKB
    Apr 2021 - Aug 2021 · 5 mos

    AG Baader Neurodevelopment and Synaptogenesis - Influence of TNIP overexpression in hunger-induced autophagy in HEK293 cells

  • Student Assistant at LADR Der Laborverbund Dr. Kramer & Kollegen
    Aug 2019 - Mar 2021 · 1 yr 8 mos