Heidi Land

Technical Assistant

Zoological Institute and Museum
General and Systematic Zoology

Loitzer Str. 26
Building 3.3
17489 Greifswald

Tel.: +49 (0)3834 420-4244
heidi.land(at)uni-greifswald(dot)de

Responsibilities

Project and laboratory management 
Occupational safety and monitoring of hazardous substances
Animal care
Administration

Lab expertise

  • Paraffin histology
  • Histological staining techniques
  • Light-microscopic analyses
  • Electron-microscopic basics

since 08/2015

Zoological Institute and Museum, Dept. General and Systematic Zoology

05/2015 – 07/2015

Friedrich-Löffler-Institute Insel Riems, Institute of Molecular Virology and Cell Biology (IMVZ), Laboratory for Herpesvirus-Host Cell Interactions

09/2014 – 04/2015

Laboratory of Environmental Hygiene (LUH) Hanshagen

09/2011 – 08/2014

Training as Medical laboratory technician
2024
Land, H., Christenson, T. E., Uhl, G. 2024: Sperm storage organs change with female age and mating history in Golden Silk spider Trichonephila clavipes. Journal of Zoology Vol. 323 (1): 19-28. zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jzo.13155
2022
Mammola, S., Malumbres-Olarte, J., Land, H., et al. 2022. An expert-curated global database of online newspaper articles on spiders and spider bites. Scientific Data 9 (109). PDF
Mammola, S., Malumbres-Olarte, J., Land, H., et al. 2022. The global spread of misinformation on spiders. Current Biology 32(16): 871-873. PDF
Talukder, M. B., Müller, C.H.G., Uhl, G., et al. 2025: Olfaction with legs - Spiders use wall-pore sensilla for pheromone detection. PNAS Vol. 122 (3). www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2415468121
Michael Schmitt: Insektenwunderwelt - Einstieg in die Entomologie, Springer-Verlag, 2022 Hardcover ISBN 978-3-662-64076-0, eBook ISBN 978-3-662-64077-7