Dr. Volker Scheil - Dipl.-Biol.

The impact of potential environmental stressors on early development and cellular and biochemical biomarkers in fish

Main research: Fish embryotoxicity, histopathology and stress protein (hsp 70) responses.

• Scientific assistant
• Staff member of the Steinbeis-Transfer Center for Ecotoxicology and Ecophysiology

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Publications

1. Scheil H-G, Huckenbeck W, Scheil V, Kuntze K (1997) Morphological identity tests in Chimpanzees. Med. Leg. Baltica 8, 92-96
   
   
2. Triebskorn R, Jungmann D, Köhler H-R, Ladewig V, Ludwichowski K-U, Mösenfechtel A, Scheil V, Schirling M, Nagel R (2002): Das Projekt "XehoGamm" - Endokrine Effekte bei Flohkrebsen auf unterschiedlichen biologischen Ebenen. In: Pharmaka und Hormone in der aquatischen Umwelt - eine Bedrohung? Stuttgarter Berichte zur Siedlungswasserwirtschaft 168, 103-125
   
   
3. Köhler H-R, Sandu C, Scheil V, Nagy-Petrica EM, Segner H, Telcean I, Stan G, Triebskorn R (2007): Monitoring Pollution in River Mures, Romania, Part III: Biochemical Effect Markers in Fish and Integrative Reflection. Environ. Monit. Ass. 127, 47-54
   online available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10661-006-9257-y
   
   
4. Triebskorn R, Casper H, Scheil V, Schwaiger, J (2007): Ultrastructural effects of pharmaceuticals (carbamazepine, clofibric acid, metoprolol, diclofenac) in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) and common carp (Cyprinus carpio). Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry 387,1405-1416
   online available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00216-006-1033-x
   
   
5. Scheil, V, Triebskorn, R, Köhler, H-R (2008): Cellular and stress protein responses to the UV-filter 3-benzylidene camphor in the amphipod crustacean Gammarus fossarum (Koch 1835). Arch. Environ. Contam. Toxicol. 54, 684-689
   online available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00244-007-9072-7
   
   
6. Scheil V, Kienle C, Osterauer R, Gerhardt A, Köhler H-R (2009): Effects of 3,4-dichloroaniline and diazinon on different biological organisation levels of zebrafish (Danio rerio) embryos and larvae. Ecotoxicology 18, 355-363.
   online available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10646-008-0291-0
   
   
7. Scheil V, Köhler H-R (2009): Influence of nickel chloride, chlorpyrifos and imidacloprid in combination with different temperatures on the embryogenesis of the zebrafish, Danio rerio. Arch. Environ. Contam. Toxicol. 56, 238-243.
   online available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00244-008-9192-8
   
   
8. Scheil V, Zürn A, Triebskorn R, Köhler H-R (2010): Embryo development, stress protein (Hsp70) responses and histopathology in zebrafish (Danio rerio) following exposure to nickel chloride, chlorpyrifos and binary mixtures of them. Environ. Toxicol. 25, 83-93
   online available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/tox.20477
   
   
9. Holmstrup M, Bindesbøl A-M, Oostingh GJ, Duschl A, Scheil V, Köhler H-R, Loureiro S, Soares AMVM, Ferreira ALG, Kienle C, Gerhardt A, Laskowski R, Kramarz P, Bayley M, Svendsen C, Spurgeon DJ (2010): Interactions between effects of environmental chemicals and natural stressors: a review. Sci. Tot. Environ. 408, 3746–3762
   online available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2009.10.067
   
   
10. Laskowski R, Bednarska AJ, Kramarz PE, Loureiro S, Scheil V, Kudłek J, Holmstrup M (2010): Interactions between toxic chemicals and natural environmental factors – a meta-analysis and case studies. Sci. Tot. Environ. 408, 3763–3774
    online available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2010.01.043

Partially Supervised Theses

• Grünewald, Silke (2010): Etablierung eines Rhodamin-Assays für die Apfelschnecke Marisa cornuarietis. Bachelorarbeit, Universität Tübingen
  
  
• Wolf, Sebastian (2012): Biochemische und zelluläre Biomarker bei Gammarus fossarum: Werkzeuge zur Diagnostik von Schadwirkungen durch Umweltchemikalien. Diplomarbeit, Universität Tübingen.
  
  
• Graf, Katharina (2012): Untersuchung des toxischen Potentials des Neckars mithilfe eines Embryotests und Stressproteinanalysen beim Zebrabärbling. Bachelorarbeit, Universität Tübingen

Referee for journals and authorities

• African Journal of Biotechnology
• Aquatic Living Resources
• Biologia
• Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters
• Chemico-Biological Interactions
• Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology
• Diseases of Aquatic Organisms
• Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
• Ecotoxicology 
• Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety
• Histology and Histopathology
• International Journal of Environmental Analytical Chemistry
• Journal of Agricultural Science and Technology
• Journal of Thermal Biology
• OECD
• Pesticide Biochemistry and Physiology