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About me

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My Research

Calibration of the magnetic compass by polarized light

Orientation and navigation strategies at high northern latitudes

Mechanisms of light-dependent magnetic compass orientation

Magnetic compass orientation in C57BL/6J mice


Publications

Scientific Publications


Links

Lund Vision Group
CAnMove
Phillips Lab


Contact

Rachel Muheim
Lund Vision Group
Department of Biology
Lund University
Biology Building B
SE-223 62 Lund
Sweden
Phone:
+46 46 222 31 93 (Office)

Fax:
+46 46 222 44 25

e-mail: Rachel.Muheim (at) zooekol.lu.se


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My publications

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Since April 2008


Nov 2004-March 2008

March-June 2005

Jun-Aug 2004


2004


1999


1997


1990-1995

Assistant Professor at the Department of Biology, Lund University, Sweden, funded by the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet).
Recently moved to Lund Vision Group (Nov. 2010).

Postdoc in John B. Phillips' lab at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, USA, supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation.

Visiting researcher at the Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia (Dr. U. Munro), supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation.

Visiting researcher at Biology Department (Prof. J. B. Phillips), Virginia Tech, USA, with travelling fellowships from the Journal of Experimental Biology and the Royal Physiographical Society in Lund.


Ph.D. in Animal Ecology at the Department of Animal Ecology, Lund University, Sweden
Thesis: Magnetic orientation in migratory birds (Advisors: Dr. S. Åkesson and Prof. T. Alerstam).

B.S. at the Department of Animal Ecology, Lund University, Sweden
Thesis: Effect of magnetic pulses on the orientation behaviour of nocturnal passerine migrants (Advisor: Dr. S. Åkesson, Lund University).


M.S. in Zoology at the Zoological Institute, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Thesis: Orientation of night- and day-migrating passerines at the Alpine Pass Col de Bretolet (Advisors: PD Dr. L. Jenni, Swiss Ornithological Institute and Prof. H.-U. Reyer, Department of Ecology, Zoological Institute, University of Zurich).

Biology studies at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, with specialisation in zoology, minor in anthropology and geography.

Last updated: 12/15/2010