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Harald Hausen

Associate Professor, Researcher
Department of Earth Science
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  • E-mailharald.hausen@uib.no
  • Phone+47 55 58 43 03+47 924 60 414
  • Visitor Address
    Allégaten 41
    Realfagbygget
    5007 Bergen
    Room 
    1G6e - 1046
  • Postal Address
    Postboks 7803
    5020 Bergen
Academic article
  • Show author(s) (2022). Comparative analysis defines a broader FMRFamide-gated sodium channel family and determinants of neuropeptide sensitivity. Journal of Biological Chemistry.
  • Show author(s) (2021). The rhodopsin-retinochrome system for retinal re-isomerization predates the origin of cephalopod eyes. BMC Ecology and Evolution. 1-14.
  • Show author(s) (2020). The visual pigment xenopsin is widespread in protostome eyes and impacts the view on eye evolution. eLIFE. 1-23.
  • Show author(s) (2020). The development of early pioneer neurons in the annelid Malacoceros fuliginosus. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 21 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2018). Evidence for a centrosome-attracting body like structure in germ-soma segregation during early development, in the urochordate Oikopleura dioica. BMC Developmental Biology. 9 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2017). Early evolution of radial glial cells in Bilateria. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences. 1-10.
  • Show author(s) (2017). Co-expression of xenopsin and rhabdomeric opsin in photoreceptors bearing microvilli and cilia. eLIFE. 1-26.
  • Show author(s) (2016). Owenia fusiformis - A basally branching annelid suitable for studying ancestral features of annelid neural development. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 1-19.
  • Show author(s) (2015). Posterior eyespots in larval chitons have a molecular identity similar to anterior cerebral eyes in other bilaterians. EVODEVO.
  • Show author(s) (2015). Functional specialization of chordate cdk1 paralogs during oogenic meiosis. Cell Cycle. 880-893.
  • Show author(s) (2014). Early divergence, broad distribution, and high diversity of animal chitin synthases. Genome Biology and Evolution (GBE). 316-325.
  • Show author(s) (2014). Chaetal arrangement and chaetogenesis of hooded hooks in Lumbrineris (Scoletoma) fragilis and Lumbrineris tetraura (Eunicida, Annelida). Invertebrate biology.. 354-370.
  • Show author(s) (2013). Expression pattern of Piwi-like genes in adult Myzostoma cirriferum (Annelida). Development, Genes and Evolution. 329-334.
  • Show author(s) (2011). Unique system of photoreceptors in sea urchin tube feet. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 8367-8372.
Doctoral dissertation
  • Show author(s) (2019). Evolutionary and developmental perspective on annelid eye and nervous system: Insights from Malacoceros fuliginosus.
  • Show author(s) (2016). The larval photoreceptors of the mollusk Leptochiton asellus.

More information in national current research information system (CRIStin)

Selected Publications

 

  • Kumar S, Tumu SC, Helm C, Hausen H. (2020) The development of early pioneer neurons in the annelid Malacocerosfuliginosus. BMC Evol Biol, 20(1):117. doi:10.1186/s12862-020-01680-x.

  • Döring CC, Kumar S, Tumu SC, Kourtesis I, Hausen H. (2020) The visual pigment xenopsin is widespread in protostome eyes and impacts the view on eye evolution. eLife doi:10.7554/eLife.55193

  • Olsen LC, Kourtesis I, Busengdal H, Jensen MF, Hausen H, Chourrout D. (2018) Evidence for a centrosome-attracting body like structure in germ-soma segregation duringearly development, in the urochordate Oikopleura dioica. BMC Dev Biol. 18(1):4. doi: 10.1186/s12861-018-0165-5.

  • Vöcking O, Kourtesis I, Tumu S C, Hausen H (2017). Co-expression of xenopsin and rhabdomeric opsin in photoreceptors bearing microvilli and cilia. eLife doi: 10.7554/eLife.23435
     
  • Helm C, Karl A, Beckers P, Kaul-Strehlow S, Ulbricht E, Kourtesis I, Kuhrt H,  Hausen H, Bartolomaeus T, Reichenbach A, Bleidorn C. (2017) Early evolution of radialglial cells in Bilateria. Proc Biol Sci. 284(1859). pii: 20170743.doi: 10.1098/rspb.2017.0743. 
     
  • Helm C, Vöcking O, Kourtesis I and Hausen H (2016). Owenia fusiformis – a basally branching annelid suitable for studying ancestral features of annelid neural development. BMC Evol Biol, 16(1), 129. http://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-016-0690-4
     
  • Vöcking O, Kourtesis I and Hausen H (2015).  Posterior eyespots in larval chitons have a molecular identity similar to anterior cerebral eyes in other bilaterians. EvoDevo 6:40 DOI 10.1186/s13227-015-0036-0.
     
  • Zakrzewski A-C, Weigert A, Helm C, Adamski M, Adamska M, Bleidorn C, Raible F and Hausen H (2014). Early divergence, broad distribution and high diversity of animal chitin synthases. Genome Biol Evol 6(2):316-325.
     
  • Weigert A, Helm C, Hausen H, Zakrzewski A-C, Bleidorn C (2013). Expression pattern of Piwi-like genes in adult Myzostoma cirriferum (Annelida). Dev Genes Evol (doi:10.1007/s00427-013-0444-x).
     
  • Zakrzewski A-C, Suh A, Lüter C. (2012).  New insights into the larval development of Macandrevia cranium (Müller, 1776) (Brachiopoda: Rhynchonelliformea).  Zoologischer Anzeiger - A Journal of Comparative Zoology. (251): 263-269.
     
  • Ullrich-Lüter EM, Dupont S, Arbodela E, Hausen H, Arnone MI (2011). Unique system of photoreceptors in sea urchin tube feet. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 108(20): 8367-8372.

Prior to arrival at the Sars Centre

  • Arendt, D., Hausen & Purschke, G. (2009). The 'division of labour' model of eye evolution. Philosophical Transactions of The Royal Society B 364 (1531): 2809-2817.
  • Jékely G., Colombelli, J., Hausen, H., Guy, K., Stelzer, E., Nédélec, F.& Arendt, D (2008). Mechanism of phototaxis in marine zooplankton. Nature 456(20): 396-400.
  • Kieselbach, D. & Hausen, H. (2008). Chaetal Arrangement Provides No Support for a Close Relationship of Sabellidae and Sabellariidae (Annelida). Journal of Morphology 269(1): 104-117.
  • Meyer, A., Bleidorn, C., Rouse, G.W., Hausen, H. (2008). Morphological and molecular data suggests a cosmopolitan distribution of the polychaete Proscoloplos cygnochaetus Day, 1954 (Annelida, Orbiniidae). Marine Biology 153(5): 879-889.
  • Tessmar-Raible, K., Raible, F., Christodoulou, F., Guy, K., Rembold, M., Hausen, H. & Arendt, D. (2007). Conserved sensory-neurosecretory cell types in annelid and fish forebrain: insights into hypothalamus evolution.Cell 129(7): 1389-1400.
  • Hausen, H (2007). Ultrastructure of presumptive light sensitive ciliary organs in larvae of Poecilochaetidae, Trochochaetidae, Spionidae, Magelonidae (Annelida) and its phylogenetic significance. Zoomorphology 126 (3): 185-201.
  • Hoffmann, S. & Hausen, H. (2007). Chaetal arrangement in Orbiniidae (Annelida, Polychaeta) and its significance for systematics. Zoomorphology 126(4): 215-227.
  • Purschke, G. & Hausen, H (2007). Lateral organs in sedentary polychaetes (Annelida) – Ultrastructure and phylogenetic significance of an insufficiently known sense organ. Acta Zoologica 88: 23-39.
  • Hausen, H. & Bleidorn, C. (2006). Significance of chaetal arrangement for maldanid systematics (Annelida, Maldanidae). Scientia Marina 70S3: 75-79.
  • Purschke, G., Arendt, D., Hausen, H. Müller, M.C.M. (2006). Photoreceptor cells and eyes in Annelida. Arthropod Structure and Development 35: 211-230.
  • Hausen, H. (2005). Comparative structure of the epidermis in polychaetes (Annelida). In: T. Bartolomaeus & G. Purschke (eds.) Morphology, Molecules, Evolution and Phylogeny in Polychaeta and related Taxa. Hydrobiologia535/536: 25-35.
  • Hausen, H. (2005). Chaetae and chaetogenesis in polychaetes (Annelida). In: T. Bartolomaeus & G. Purschke (eds.) Morphology, Molecules, Evolution and Phylogeny in Polychaeta and related Taxa. Hydrobiologia 535/536: 37-52.
Fields of competence 
Cell biology
Development
Electron Microscopy
Evolution
Sensory neuroscience

Research groups

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To better understand animal evolution we compare development, molecular and structural features of cell types and organ systems in several invertebrates.