Neuroscience / Neural Biology
| Groups | Institution | Topic | Organisms | Techniques |
| Faculty of Biology and Psychology | ||||
| Prof. André Fiala | Molecular Neurobiology of Behavior | Neuronal mechanisms of learning and memory, olfactory processing, neuronal circuit dissection | Drosophila melanogaster | Behavioral analysis, neurogenetics, functional optical imaging, immunhistochemistry, neuroanatomy, optogenetics, molecular biology |
| Dr. Bart Geurten | Cellular Neurobiology | sensory strategies in vision, thermoreception, audition and mechanosensation | Drosophila melanogaster, Calliphora vicina, Eristalis tenax | neuroethology: video analysis, learning tests, complex task scenarios neurophysiology: intra- / extracellular recordings, modelling: Python or Matlab |
| Prof. Dr. Martin Göpfert | Cellular Neurobiology | Cellular signal transduction | Drosophila | Transgenic models, electrophysiology, laser vibrometry, immunohistochemistry, fluorescence microscopy, transmission electron microscopy, behaviour |
| Prof. Dr. Ralf Heinrich | Cellular Neurobiology | Insect behavior; Action selection; Acoustic communication; Erythropoietin in neuroprotection and regeneration | Locusts, Grasshoppers, Drosophila | Cell culture, Neuropharmacology, Immunocytochemistry, Behaviour |
| Prof. Dr. S. Löwel | Systems Neuroscience | Neuronal plasticity during learning, aging and after lesions | mouse, zebra finch, dunnart, agouti | in vivo optical imaging of intrinsic signals, mouse behaviour, learning tests, electrophysiology, neuronal tracing, immunohistochemistry, fluorescence microscopy, in vivo 2-photon Calcium imaging |
| Prof. Burkhard Morgenstern | Bioinformatics | Algorithms and software for sequence, network and phylogeny, analysis, machine learning | N.A. | Programming under UNIX/LINUX |
| Prof. Dr. Andreas Stumpner | Cellular Neurobiology | Insect acoustic communication, auditory processing | Bushcrickets, crickets, grasshoppers | Extracellular and intracellular recording, neuroanatomy, confocal microscopy, behaviour |
| Medical Faculty | ||||
| PD Dr. Peter Dechent | Dept of Cognitive Neurology | Combination of neuroimaging with non-invasive brain stimulation techniques to modulate functional brain networks in healthy and pathologic conditions. Characterization of hemodynamic processes, the basis of standard fMRI investigations. Application of modern MR techniques to investigate the human brain in healthy and pathologic conditions. | Human | Magnetic Resonance (MR) techniques - structural MR Imaging (MRI) - functional MR Imaging (fMRI) - Diffusion-weighted and -tensor MR Imaging (DWI/ DTI) - MR Spectroscopy (MRS) Non-invasive transcranial stimulation - transcranial Direct/ Alternating Current Stimulation (tDCS/ tACS) - transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) |
| Prof. Dr. Ralf Dressel | Dept of Cellular and Molecular Immunolgy | Immunogenetics, Cellular Cytotoxicity, Transplantation, Tumor Immunology, Autoimmunity, Stem Cells | Human, Mouse, Rat | Molecular Biology, Cellular Immunology, Animal Models |
| Prof. Dr. Andre Fischer | Medical faculty and ENI, Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases | Epigenetic mechansims in learning and memory processes, neuropsychiatric and neurodegenerative diseases | mouse, human | Histone-modifications, non-coding RNA, DNA-methylation, gene-expression networks, mosue behavior, next generation sequencing |
| Prof. Dieter Kube | Medical Faculty | Experimental Oncology and Lymphocyte Biology | Human cell culture | lymphatic cells, signaling pathways, profiling, immunogenetics, cell migration and invasion, angiogenesis |
| Dr. Sebastian Kügler | Medical faculty, Dept. of Neurology | Neurodegenerative diseases | Mice, rats | Viral vectors, Intravital microscopy |
| Dr. Muriel Lizé | Medical faculty , Molecular Oncology | Lung biology, molecular mechanism of lung diseases | mouse and human | cell culture (human and mouse; stem cells versus differentiated cells), mouse work, molecular biology, genetics and biochemistry |
| PD Dr. Fred Lühder | Department of Neuroimmunology, Institute for Multiple sclerosis Research | autoimmunity, T cell biology | mice | transgenic and knock-out mice, FACS, EAE, RT-PCR |
| Prof. Dr. Silvio Rizzoli | ENI, Neuro- and Sensory Physiology | Synaptic neuroscience, super-resolution fluorescence microscopy, probe development | Mouse, frog, fish, Drosophila, C. elegans, chicken, rat, cricket, locust, cell cultures, and much more | fluorescence microscopy, STED, quantitative protein biochemistry, advanced probe development |
| Prof. Dr. Detlev Schild | Inst.. for Neurophysiology and Cellular Biophysics | Olfaction, synaptic transmission, microscopy | Xenopus laevis | patch clamp, advanced microscopy |
| Prof. Dr. Jens Schmidt | Clinic for Neurology | Muscle Immunobiology | Muscle cells; mice. | qPCR, immunocytochemistry, western blot, fluorescent microscopy, flow cytometry, ELISA, muscle cell culture. |
| Dr. Carolin Wichmann | Dept. of Otolaryngology/ InnerEarLab/ Molecular architecture of synapses | Sensory Neuroscience, molecular Anatomy | Mouse, Drosophila | structure and function analysis of synapses, transmission electron microscopy, high-pressure-freezing, electron-tomography, labeling techniques |
| German Primate Center (DPZ) | ||||
| Prof. Dr. Alexander Gail | Sensorimotor Group, Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory | Frontoparietal Cortex, Sensorimotor, Brain-Machine Interfaces | Rhesus monkey, Human | single cell neurophysiology, psychophysics, multi-channel recordings |
| Prof. Hans Scherberger | Primate Neurobiology | Neurophysiology of hand grasping movements | Non-human Primates | electrophysiology, single neuron and population activity recording, modelling |
| Prof. Stefan Treue | Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory | Sensory information processing in cortex; physiological and perceptual mechanisms | Rhesus Monkeys; Humans | cortical neurophysiology, psychophysics, computational neuroscience, functional brain imaging, optogenetics |
| Max Planck Institutes | ||||
| Prof. Dr. Nils Brose | MPI of Experimental Medicine, Department of Molecular Neurobiology | Molecular and cellular neurobiology, synaptogenesis, synapse function, neuropsychiatric diseases | Mus musculus | Biochemistry, molecular biology, light and electron microscopy, electrophysiology, mouse genetics |
| Prof. Dr. Dr. Hannelore Ehrenreich | MPI of Experimental, Medicine, Clinical Neuroscience | Research, Translational Neuroscience from mouse to man, neuroprotection, neuroregeneration, brain erythropoietin system, mouse, behavior, in particular higher cognition and social behavior | Mouse, human | Mouse behavior battery, cell culture, Western blot, PCR, molecular biological techniques, imaging, microscopic techniques etc. |
| Prof. Dr. Reinhard Jahn | MPI for Biophysical Chemistry | Molecular mechanisms of neuronal exocytosis and membrane fusion, structure and function of synaptic membrane protein complexes | rat, mouse | protein chemistry, structural characterization of proteins, subcellular fractionation, immunochemistry, fluorescence-based techniques |
| Dr. Markus Schwab | MPI of Experimental Medicine, Neurogenetics | cortical network development, schizophrenia | Mouse | Molecular Biology, development of transgenic mouse models |
| Dr. Hauke Werner | MPI of Experimental Medicine, Neurogenetics | Myelin | Mouse | Transgenic models, electron microscopy, confocal microscopy, neurochemistry |
Contact
Prof. Dr. Andreas Stumpner
astump@gwdg.de
Dept. Cellular Neurobiology