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Find out the latest news from our school. Learn more about the new projects, grants, talks, PhD defences, and latest publications.

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Seminar Series

In the lecture hall of the Paul Flechsig Institute - every second Friday at noon

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Brain Dynamics Seminar Series

  • 12.04. 12:00 Prof Dr Robert Kittel

    Department of Animal Physiology, Faculty of Life Sciences, University Leipzig
    "In search of active zone engrams"

  • 26.04. 12:00 Prof Dr Stefan Schmukle
    Wilhelm Wundt Institute for Psychology, Faculty of Life Sciences, University Leipzig
    "Research on Interindividual Differences"

  • 17.05. 12:00 Dr Lars Meyer
    Max Planck Research Group Language Cycles, MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig & Clinic for Phoniatrics and Pedaudiology, University Hospital Münster
    "tba"

  • 31.05. 12:00 PD Dr Markus Schwab
    Paul Flechsig Institute of Neuropathology, University Hospital Leipzig
    "tba"

  • 14.06. 12:00 Prof Dr Dorothee Saur
    Department of Neurology, University Hospital Leipzig
    "tba"

NEWS

 

 

  • 10.04.2024 17:00 Klinisch-neurowissenschaftliches Kolloquium - Dr Stefan Wolf from the Department of Neurosurgery at Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin will give a talk titled “Was wir aus der Early Drain Studie für SAB Patienten lernen können”;
  • 10.04.2024 17:00 Leipzig School of Psychosocial Health - Prof Dr Georg Schomerus from the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the University Hospital Leipzig will give a talk titled “Wie rede ich mit meinen Kollegen über Alkoholprobleme? Hilfen und Barrieren für einen stigmafreien Umgang mit Suchtkrankheiten”;
  • 08.04.2024 10:00 Guest lecture at the PFI - Christian Schnell, PhD, Senior Editor and Team Manager at PLOS Biology will give a talk titled "Publishing in PLOS Biology (and other journals) – A view behind the curtain of an academic journal";
  • 27.03.2024 13:00 Language Circle - Prof John T. Hale, PhD from the Department of Linguistics at the University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA will talk about "Incremental parsing in the brain";
  • 25-27.03.2024 The 12th European Conference on Clinical Neuroimaging (ECCN) in Leipzig will bring together physicians and researchers from all brain imaging modalities (from PET to SPECT to MRI) and will also provide a window into other innovative biomarkers, new technologies and emerging areas of clinical neuroimaging;
  • 21.03.2024 14:00 Guest lecture at the CLI - Prof Daniel Gitler, PhD from the Department of Physiology and Cell Biology at the Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel will give a talk titled "The synapsin E-domain is essential for alpha-synuclein function";
  • 18.03.2024 16:00 MPSCog Cognition Colloquium - Prof Dr Christian F. Doeller from the Department of Psychology at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig will talk about "Structuring experience in cognitive spaces";
  • 18.03.2024 11:00 Guest lecture at the PFI - Prof Dr Livio Pellizzoni from the Department of Pathology & Department of Cell Biology and Neurology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, USA will give a talk titled "Mechanisms of motor neuron disease: from RNA processing to selective neuronal vulnerability";
  • 15.03.2024 12:00 Brain Dynamics Seminar Series - Dr Falk Eippert from the Max Planck Research Group Pain Perception at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig will talk about "Non-invasive approaches to study human spinal cord function";
  • 13.03.2024 13:00 Language Circle - Dr Tineke Snijders from the Cognitive Neuropsychology Department at the Tilburg University in The Netherlands will talk about "Relating infants' neural tracking of (multimodal) speech to language development";
  • 13.03.2024 10:30 Guest lecture organized by the MPI CBS - Dr Christoph Aigner from the Department of Biomedical Magnetic Resonance at the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt in Berlin will give a talk titled "Exploring the Human Heart and Spinal Cord at 7T: Navigating Challenges, Embracing Opportunities".

Latest publications by our doctoral candidates:

  • Simon M, Widdig A, Weiß BM.
    Sniffing behavior of semi free-ranging Barbary macaques (Macaca sylvanus).
    Am J Primatol. 2024 Feb 26: e23611. doi: 10.1002/ajp.23611.

  • Marjieh R, Harrison PMC, Lee H, Deligiannaki F, Jacoby N.
    Timbral effects on consonance disentangle psychoacoustic mechanisms and suggest perceptual origins for musical scales.
    Nat Commun. 2024 Feb 19;15(1):1482. doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-45812-z.

  • Svensson F, Zwick S, Exner C, Doering BK.
    Dyadic coping and illness adjustment after stroke: A longitudinal prospective study.
    Rehabil Psychol. 2024 Feb 15. doi: 10.1037/rep0000548.

  • Vieira Contreras F, Auger GM, Müller L, Richter V, Huetteroth W, Seufert F, Hildebrand PW, Scholz N, Thum AS, Ljaschenko D, Blanco-Redondo B, Langenhan T.
    The adhesion G-protein-coupled receptor mayo/CG11318 controls midgut development in Drosophila.
    Cell Rep. 2024 Jan 4; 43(1): 113640. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2023.113640.

  • Sundaram VK, Schütza V, Schröter NH, Backhaus A, Bilsing A, Joneck L, Seelbach A, Mutschler C, Gomez-Sanchez JA, Schäffner E, Sánchez EE, Akkermann D, Paul C, Schwagarus N, Müller S, Odle A, Childs G, Ewers D, Kungl T, Sitte M, Salinas G, Sereda MW, Nave KA, Schwab MH, Ost M, Arthur-Farraj P, Stassart RM, Fledrich R.
    Adipo-glial signaling mediates metabolic adaptation in peripheral nerve regeneration.
    Cell Metab. 2023 Dec 5; 35(12): 2136-2152.e9. doi: 10.1016/j.cmet.2023.10.017.

  • Moceri S, Bäuerle N, Habermeyer J, Ratz-Wirsching V, Harrer J, Distler J, Schulze-Krebs A, Timotius IK, Bluhm A, Hartlage-Rübsamen M, Roßner S, Winkler J, Xiang W, Hörsten SV.
    Young human alpha synuclein transgenic (BAC-SNCA) mice display sex- and gene-dose-dependent phenotypic disturbances.
    Behav Brain Res. 2023 Dec 1: 114781. doi: 10.1016/j.bbr.2023.114781.

  • Mustapha O, Grochow T, Olopade J, Fietz SA.
    Neocortex neurogenesis and maturation in the African greater cane rat.
    Neural Dev. 2023 Oct 13; 18(1): 7. doi: 10.1186/s13064-023-00175-x.

  • Gundlach C, Wehle S, Müller MM.
    Early sensory gain control is dominated by obligatory and global feature-based attention in top-down shifts of combined spatial and feature-based attention.
    Cereb Cortex. 2023 Sep; 33(19): 10286-10302.

  • Seufert F, Chung YK, Hildebrand PW, Langenhan T.
    7TM domain structures of adhesion GPCRs: what's new and what's missing?
    Trends Biochem Sci. 2023 Aug; 48(8): 726-739.

  • Schäffner E, Bosch-Queralt M, Edgar JM, Lehning M, Strauß J, Fleischer N, Kungl T, Wieghofer P, Berghoff SA, Reinert T, Krueger M, Morawski M, Möbius W, Barrantes-Freer A, Stieler J, Sun T, Saher G, Schwab MH, Wrede C, Frosch M, Prinz M, Reich DS, Flügel A, Stadelmann C, Fledrich R, Nave KA, Stassart RM.
    Myelin insulation as a risk factor for axonal degeneration in autoimmune demyelinating disease.
    Nat Neurosci. 2023 Jul; 26(7): 1218-1228.

  • Wender M, Bornschein G, Brachtendorf S, Hallermann S, Eilers J, Schmidt H.
    Cav2.2 channels sustain vesicle recruitment at a mature glutamatergic synapse.
    J Neurosci. 2023 Apr; JN-RM-1279-22.

  • Kong L, Hassinan CW, Gerstner F, Buettner JM, Petigrow JB, Valdivia DO, Chan-Cortés MH, Mistri A, Cao A, McGaugh SA, Denton M, Brown S, Ross J, Schwab MH, Simon CM, Sumner CJ.
    Boosting neuregulin 1 type-III expression hastens SMA motor axon maturation.
    Acta Neuropathol Commun. 2023 Mar; 11(1): 53.

  • Anglada-Tort M, Harrison PMC, Lee H, Jacoby N.
    Large-scale iterated singing experiments reveal oral transmission mechanisms underlying music evolution.
    Curr Biol. 2023 Mar; S0960-9822(23)00243-9.

  • Scholz N, Dahse AK, Kemkemer M, Bormann A, Auger GM, Vieira Contreras F, Ernst LF, Staake H, Körner MB, Buhlan M, Meyer-Mölck A, Chung YK, Blanco-Redondo B, Klose F, Jarboui MA, Ljaschenko D, Bigl M, Langenhan T.
    Molecular sensing of mechano- and ligand-dependent adhesion GPCR dissociation.
    Nature. 2023 Mar.

  • Streit M, Hemberger M, Häfner S, Knote F, Langenhan T, Beliu G.
    Optimized genetic code expansion technology for time-dependent induction of adhesion GPCR-ligand engagement.
    Protein Sci. 2023 Mar; e4614.

  • Steinke S, Kirmann T, Loi EA, Nerlich J, Weichard I, Kuhn P, Bullmann T, Ritzau-Jost A,
    Rizalar FS, Prüss H, Haucke V, Geis C, Hust M, Hallermann S.
    NMDA-receptor-Fc-fusion constructs neutralize anti-NMDA receptor antibodies.
    Brain. 2023 Mar; awac497.

  • Schulz A, Richter F, Richter A.
    In vivo optogenetic inhibition of striatal parvalbumin-reactive interneurons induced genotype-specific changes in neuronal activity without dystonic signs in male DYT1 knock-in mice.
    J Neurosci Res. 2023 Apr; 101(4): 448-463.

  • Hennlein L, Ghanawi H, Gerstner F, Palominos García E, Yildirim E, Saal-Bauernschubert L, Moradi M, Deng C, Klein T, Appenzeller S, Sauer M, Briese M, Simon C, Sendtner M, Jablonka S.
    Plastin 3 rescues cell surface translocation and activation of TrkB in spinal muscular atrophy.
    J Cell Biol. 2023 Mar; 222(3): e202204113.

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We bring together more than 50 principal investigators and doctoral students from six faculties of the University Leipzig and three Max Planck Institutes in Leipzig.

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The Brain Dynamics Graduate School

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Dr. Saša Jovanovic

Scientific Coordinator

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