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Do you want to learn more about how to develop a project?
Do you want to know what young postdocs in Neuroscience are doing?
Or would you like to get new input for your own research?
Then join our Pubnight with the following Postdocs:
Janelle Pakan (Group leader, CBBS Research Group “Neural Circuits & Network Dynamics”):
Janelle started a CBBS research group in 2017. Together with her team, she aims to understand how neural circuits function during the transformation of information from sensory perception to behavioural output in both health and neurodegenerative disease states. Her group utilizes advanced in vivo two-photon microscopy in behaving animals navigating in sensory-rich virtual reality environments in combination with neuroanatomical techniques to investigate the cell-type specific neurocircuitry of the cerebral cortex and subcortical projecting pathways.
Matthias Prigge (Group leader of the LIN junior group “Plasticity of neuromodulatory networks”):
Matthias just started his own research group at the LIN, where he and his team deciphers the role of noradrenergic circuits in adapting to various environmental challenges on the molecular, circuit and behavioral level. To be able to control neuronal activity on these wide ranges of neural levels, they develop and engineer new optical tools.
Anke Müller (PostDoc at Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology):
Anke’s research focuses on understanding how neurons communicate with other neuron as well as glia on the molecular level and how these interactions adapt to challenges such as stress and aging by changing their protein dynamics. On of the potential processes regulating such dynamics is autophagy, which Anke investigates in a joint project with Anne Albrecht in a CBBS neuronetwork project (http://www.cbbs.eu/en/research-funding/neuronetworks/nn12).
Anne Albrecht (PostDoc at the Institute for Biology, Department of Genetics & Molecular Neurobiology):
Anne investigates neuronal circuits and molecules of stress and emotional memory encoding. By that, she searchs for mechanisms that promote resilience and adaptation to stressful events across the lifespan. One of the molecular mechanism currently investigated is autophagy, together with Anke Müller in a CBBS neuronetwork project (http://www.cbbs.eu/en/research-funding/neuronetworks/nn12).
Matthew Betts (PostDoc at the Institute of Cognitive Neurology and Dementia research and the DZNE):
Matthew works on understanding how structural changes to the dopaminergic and noradrenergic system in ageing and neurodegenerative disease may impact cognitive processes such as reward-based learning and long-term memory. Using state-of the art imaging techniques, his work aims to identify how structural changes to these neuromodulatory systems may identify at-risk populations and may be used to predict treatment success of novel therapeutic interventions.
Dorothea Hämmerer (PostDoc at the Institute of Cognitive Neurology and Dementia research and the DZNE):
Dorothea’s research explores how age differences in the brain, and in particular in neuromodulatory systems, inform age differences in cognitive functions, in particular in attentional control, decision making, and memory across the lifespan. In her current research, she is focusing on developing novel imaging tools to assess the noradrenergic system in healthy ageing and early dementia, as well as on developing pathways to improving cognitive functions in healthy and pathological ageing.
Guilherme Monteiro Gomes (PostDoc at Research group Neuroplasticity at the LIN):
Guilherme’s research focuses on how the brain forms independent memories, and what are the underlying mechanisms for cognitive dysfunction in neurodegenerative and neuropsychiatric disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease and Schizophrenia, employing genetic mouse models and advanced molecular tools.
Camilla Fusi (PostDoc at Research group Neuroplasticity at the LIN):
Camilla investigates the molecular mechanisms of neuronal plasticity, focusing on the role of proteins transport from synapse to nucleus in gene expression regulation and its effect on synaptic function.