Katharina Hohlbaum
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Katharina Hohlbaum is a veterinarian specializing in animal welfare, animal behavior, and laboratory animal science.
She joined SCIoI in June 2019 to work as a postdoctoral researcher.
Katharina studied Veterinary Medicine at the University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover and received her PhD in Biomedical Sciences from Freie Universität Berlin in 2018. During her doctoral research, she developed a protocol for systematically assessing the well-being of mice, including the evaluation of procedures involving general anesthesia.
At SCIoI, Katharina worked on the projects “Mouse Lock Box” and “Understanding Learning of Mice in Social Interaction,” investigating individual and social intelligence in mice, particularly learning within groups and from tutors.
Her research also focused on problem-solving strategies in mice, the interaction between emotions and cognition, and the identification of indicators of positive emotional states. She investigated whether mice can distinguish between different emotional states and whether the emotional states of other individuals influence their own emotional states or induce empathy.
Projects
Katharina Hohlbaum is member of:
• Project 03: Mouse lock box
• Project 25: Mice learning in social interaction
• Project 40: Big mouse data
• Project 46: Mouse lock box 2
• Project 25: Mice learning in social interaction
• Project 40: Big mouse data
• Project 46: Mouse lock box 2
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Kahnau, P., Mieske, P., Wilzopolski, J., Kalliokoski, O., Mandillo, S., Hölter, S. M., Voikar, V., Amfim, A., Badurek, S., Bartelik, A., Caruso, A., Čater, M., Ey, E., Golini, E., Jaap, A., Hrncic, D., Kiryk, A., Lang, B., Loncarevic-Vasiljkovic, N., … Hohlbaum, K. (2023). A systematic review of the development and application of home cage monitoring in laboratory mice and rats. BMC Biology, 21(1), 256. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-023-01751-7
Lang, B., Kahnau, P., Hohlbaum, K., Mieske, P., Andresen, N. P., Boon, M. N., Thöne-Reineke, C., Lewejohann, L., & Diederich, K. (2023). Challenges and advanced concepts for the assessment of learning and memory function in mice. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 17, 1230082. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2023.1230082
Boon, M. N., Andresen, N., Meier, S., Hellwich, O., Lewejohann, L., Thöne-Reineke, C., Sprekeler, H., & Hohlbaum, K. (2023, September). Mouse lock box: a sequential mechanical decision-making task to investigate complex mouse behavior [Poster]. Bernstein Conference. https://doi.org/10.12751/NNCN.BC2023.056
Dolokov, A., Andresen, N., Hohlbaum, K., Thöne-Reineke, C., Lewejohann, L., & Hellwich, O. (2023). Upper Bound Tracker: A Multi-Animal Tracking Solution for Closed Laboratory Settings: Proceedings of the 18th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications, 945–952. https://doi.org/10.5220/0011609500003417
Andresen, N., Wöllhaf, M., Hohlbaum, K., Lewejohann, L., Hellwich, O., Thöne-Reineke, C., & Belik, V. (2020). Towards a fully automated surveillance of well-being status in laboratory mice using deep learning: Starting with facial expression analysis. PLOS ONE, 15(4), e0228059. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0228059
Best Poster Award (VISAPP 2023), Niek Andresen, Katharina Hohlbaum, Christa Thöne-Reineke, Lars Lewejohann, Olaf Hellwich (2023) More information
Animals – Young Investigator Award, Katharina Hohlbaum (2021) More information
Animal Welfare Award (Dr Wilma von Düring Research Prize), Katharina Hohlbaum (2019) More information
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Science of Intelligence Fair 2023
SSBCracK Defence, Science & Technology News – August 2025 - New Dataset Captures Mice Solving Lockbox Puzzles in Complex Behavioral Study
Phys.org – August 2025 - Mice lockbox puzzle-solving captured in multi-camera video datasets
