Email: victoria.becker@medisin.uio.no
Phone: +47 973 32 799
Education
BSc in Biology, University of Copenhagen
MSc in Marine Biology, University of Copenhagen
Academic interests
• Fish eco-physiology
• Cardiovascular and respiratory system in fish
• Cardiac disease mechanisms in fish
• Environmental biology
Research skills
• Respirometry and metabolic measurements of fish
• Thermal preference measurements of fish
• Cannulation, tagging and anesthesia in fish
• Histochemistry techniques
• Behavioral kinematics analysis (Escape response, latency and fin movement)
• Underwater transects
• Field sampling and fish collection
Publications
Schakmann, M., Becker, V., Søgaard, M., Johansen, J. L., Steffensen, J. F., & Domenici, P. Latencies of mechanically-stimulated escape responses in the Pacific spiny dogfish, Squalus suckleyi. Journal of Experimental Biology.
Jessen, S., Becker, V., Rzeppa, S., Backer, V., Bengtsen, K. H., Hullstein, I., … & Hostrup, M. (2020). Pharmacokinetics of salmeterol and its main metabolite α‐hydroxysalmeterol after acute and chronic dry powder inhalation in exercising endurance‐trained men: Implications for doping control. Drug Testing and Analysis.
Kreiberg, M., Becker, V., Jessen, S., Rzeppa, S., Hemmersbach, P., Backer, V., & Hostrup, M. (2017). Influence of exercise in normal and hot ambient conditions on the pharmacokinetics of inhaled terbutaline in trained men. Scandinavian journal of medicine & science in sports, 27(7), 692-703.
Kreiberg, M., Backer, V., Becker, V., Rzeppa, S., Hemmersbach, P., & Hostrup, M. (2015). Pharmacokinetics of inhaled terbutaline in relation to doping analysis: Impact of exercise and heat
Research area
- Cardiomyopathies
- Heart failure