Brain Dynamics

Brain Dynamics Seminar Series

• 24.01. 12:00 Dr Sofie Louise Valk
  Lise Meitner Research Group Neurobiosocial, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig & Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine, Brain & Behavior (INM-7), Research Centre Jülich & Institute of Systems Neuroscience, Medical Faculty, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
  “Tba”.
• 07.02. 12:00 Prof Dr Joseph Claßen
  Department of Neurology, University Hospital Leipzig
  “Pathophysiology of moving slowly in Parkinson’s disease”.
• 07.03. 12:00 Prof Dr Frank Gaunitz
  Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital Leipzig
  “Tba”.
• 21.03. 12:00 Dr Beatriz Blanco-Redondo
  Rudolf Schönheimer Institute of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Leipzig University 
  “Tba”.

NEWS

• Open call for Brain Dynamics Pilot Projects
• Professor Robert Fledrich has been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant by the European Research Council (ERC)
• New DFG-funded research training group “NeuroTune” will soon be starting at Leipzig University to investigate the transmission of signals between nerve cells
• The third Brain Dynamics Scientific Day held on 24th September
• Day tickets available for the Neurobiology Doctoral Students Workshop (NeuroDoWo) 2024
• Brain Dynamics member Marius Lamberty successfully defended his thesis
• Five small collaborative proposals receive Brain Dynamics Pilot Project grants
• Brain dissection demonstration for doctoral and postdoctoral researchers on 20th July 2023
• The first Brain Dynamics Science Speed Dating Meetup held on 26th April 2023
• Microscopy course for doctoral and postdoctoral researchers on 24th and 25th May 2023
• Doctoral candidates share their impressions on having a Thesis Advisory Committee (TAC)

• 11.12. 16:30 Klinisch-Neurowissenschaftlichen Kolloquiums - PD Dr Sae-Yeon Won, FEBNS from the Department of Neurosurgery at the University of Rostock will talk about „Surgical management and future perspective of cerebellar stroke“;
• 11.12. 15:00 Language Circle - Prof Elana Zion Golumbic, PhD from the Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center at the Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel, will talk about “The neural underpinnings of attention and distraction in (virtual) realistic environments”;
• 09.12. 15:00 Guest lecture at the MPI CBS - Prof em Dr Risto Ilmoniemi from the Department of Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering, Aalto University School of Science, Espoo, Finland, will talk about “Multi-locus TMS: network stimulation, automation, and versatility”;
• 06.12. 12:00 Brain Dynamics Seminar Series - Prof Dr Erich Schröger from the Wilhelm Wundt Institute for Psychology at the Faculty of Life Sciences will give a talk titled "From Fechner to Friston: attempts to study human cognition in the „Cognitive and Biological Psychology“ research group";
• 27.11. 16:30 Klinisch-Neurowissenschaftlichen Kolloquiums - Prof Dr Felix von Podewils from the Department of Neurology, Epilepsy Center, University Medicine Greifswald, will give a talk titled „Anfallssuppressiva, wo stehen wir mit neuen Wirkstoffen?“;
• 27.11. 16:00 Scientific Neuroscience Seminar - Dr Charlotte Auth and Dr Maximilian Pitsch, both from the F.M. Kirby Neurobiology Center, Boston Children´s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, MA, USA, will give talks titled "Neurohormonal control of female reproductive physiology in Drosophila" and “The neural and genetic basis of (un)divided attention in Drosophila”.
• 27.11. 15:00 CoCoNUT meeting - Dr. Sebastian Lapuschkin from the Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute in Berlin will give a talk titled “XAI as a Tool Beyond Model Understanding: From Heatmaps to Concepts and XAI Automation”;
• 26.11. 13:00 Brain Dynamics Open Lab day - Research group “Cognition and Plasticity” from the Wilhelm Wundt Institute for Psychology and the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences will introduce "Non-invasive brain stimulation";
• 22.11. 12:00 Brain Dynamics Seminar Series - Prof Patrick Ragert, PhD from the Department of Movement Neuroscience, Faculty of Sport Science, Leipzig University & Department of Neurology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig will give a talk titled "Non-invasive brain stimulation to optimize (motor) performance in humans";
• 21.11 17:00 Guest lecture at the CLI - Prof Dr Alexander Walter from the Department of Neuroscience, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark & Molecular and Theoretical Neuroscience, Leibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP) in Charité CrossOver, Berlin will talk about “Molecular mechanisms of fast and sustained presynaptic potentiation”.

Latest publications by our doctoral candidates:

• Schrempel S, Kottwitz AK, Piechotta A, Gnoth K, Büschgens L, Hartlage-Rübsamen M, Morawski M, Schenk M, Kleinschmidt M, Serrano GE, Beach TG, Rostagno A, Ghiso J, Heneka MT, Walter J, Wirths O, Schilling S, Roßner S.
  Identification of isoAsp7-Aβ as a major Aβ variant in Alzheimer's disease, dementia with Lewy bodies and vascular dementia.
  Acta Neuropathol. 2024 Dec 3;148(1):78.
• Wan B, Saberi A, Paquola C, Schaare HL, Hettwer MD, Royer J, John A, Dorfschmidt L, Bayrak Ş, Bethlehem RAI, Eickhoff SB, Bernhardt BC, Valk SL.
  Microstructural asymmetry in the human cortex.
  Nat Commun. 2024 Nov 22;15(1):10124.
• Nierula B, Stephani T, Bailey E, Kaptan M, Pohle LG, Horn U, Mouraux A, Maess B, Villringer A, Curio G, Nikulin VV, Eippert F.
  A multichannel electrophysiological approach to noninvasively and precisely record human spinal cord activity.
  PLoS Biol. 2024 Oct 31; 22(10): e3002828.
• Huff L, Déniz T, Gronem L, Grueneisen S.
  Children recognize and reject favoritism in norm enforcement.
  Cognition. 2024 Oct 15; 254: 105981.
• Ritzau-Jost A, Gsell F, Sell J, Sachs S, Montanaro J, Kirmann T, Maaß S, Irani SR, Werner C, Geis C, Sauer M, Shigemoto R, Hallermann S.
  LGI1 Autoantibodies Enhance Synaptic Transmission by Presynaptic Kv1 Loss and Increased Action Potential Broadening.
  Neurol Neuroimmunol Neuroinflamm. 2024 Sep; 11(5): e200284.
• Wolff C, John D, Winkler U, Hochmuth L, Hirrlinger J, Köhler S.
  Insulin and leptin acutely modulate the energy metabolism of primary hypothalamic and cortical astrocytes.
  J Neurochem. 2024 Aug 22. doi: 10.1111/jnc.16211.
• Klingbeil J, Mühlig M, Bahr E, Welle F, Ritter T, Stockert A, Wawrzyniak M, Saur D.
  Undoubtedly unaware of homonymous hemianopia: The contribution of overconfidence to anosognosia of hemianopia.
  Cortex. 2024 Aug; 177: 224-234.
• Gutsfeld S, Wehmas L, Omoyeni I, Schweiger N, Leuthold D, Michaelis P, Howey XM, Gaballah S, Herold N, Vogs C, Wood C, Bertotto L, Wu GM, Klüver N, Busch W, Scholz S, Schor J, Tal T.
  Investigation of Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor Genes as Requirements for Visual Startle Response Hyperactivity in Larval Zebrafish Exposed to Structurally Similar Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS).
  Environ Health Perspect. 2024 Jul; 132(7): 77007.
• Tast V, Schröger E, Widmann A.
  Suppression and omission effects in auditory predictive processing-Two of the same?
  Eur J Neurosci. 2024 May 19. doi: 10.1111/ejn.16393.
• Burkart ME, Kurzke J, Jacobi R, Vera J, Ashcroft FM, Eilers J, Lippmann K.
  K_ATP channel mutation disrupts hippocampal network activity and nocturnal gamma shifts.
  Brain. 2024 May 15; awae157.
• Bullmann T, Kaas T, Ritzau-Jost A, Wöhner A, Kirmann T, Rizalar FS, Holzer M, Nerlich J, Puchkov D, Geis C, Eilers J, Kittel RJ, Arendt T, Haucke V, Hallermann S.
  Human iPSC-derived neurons with reliable synapses and large presynaptic action potentials.
  J Neurosci. 2024 May 9: e0971232024.
• Upadhya M, Kirmann T, Wilson MA, Simon CM, Dhangar D, Geis C, Williams R, Woodhall G, Hallermann S, Irani SR, Wright SK.
  Peripherally-derived LGI1-reactive monoclonal antibodies cause epileptic seizures in vivo.
  Brain. 2024 Apr 25: awae129.
• Richter V, Rist A, Kislinger G, Laumann M, Schoofs A, Miroschnikow A, Pankratz M, Cardona A, Thum AS.
  Morphology and ultrastructure of external sense organs of Drosophila larvae.
  eLife 12: RP91155.
• 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.