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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.
Brain Dynamics Seminar Series
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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
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31.05. 12:00 PD Dr Markus Schwab
Paul Flechsig Institute of Neuropathology, University Hospital Leipzig
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14.06. 12:00 Prof Dr Dorothee Saur
Department of Neurology, University Hospital Leipzig
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NEWS
- Registration open for the Neurobiology Doctoral Students Workshop (NeuroDoWo) 2024
- Brain Dynamics member Alessandro Braga successfully defended his thesis
- Five small collaborative proposals receive Brain Dynamics Pilot Project grants
- 2nd Brain Dynamics Scientific Day held on 28th September 2023
- 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
- Inaugural Brain Dynamics Scientific Day held on October 7th 2022
- Doctoral candidates share their impressions on having a Thesis Advisory Committee (TAC)
- 26.04.2024 12:00 Brain Dynamics Seminar Series - Prof Dr Stefan Schmukle from the Wilhelm Wundt Institute for Psychology at the Faculty of Life Sciences, University Leipzig will talk about "Research on Interindividual Differences";
- 19.04.2024 13:00 Cognitive Neurology Lecture - Adj. Prof Pantelis Lioumis, PhD from the Department of Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering, Aalto University School of Science, Espoo, Finland; BioMag Laboratory, HUS Medical Imaging Center, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland & Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Department of Psychology and Logopedics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland will give a talk titled "Functional, structural and causal cortical mapping by means of navigated TMS: State-of-the-art and beyond";
- 12.04.2024 12:00 Brain Dynamics Seminar Series - Prof Dr Robert Kittel from the Department of Animal Physiology at the Faculty of Life Sciences, University Leipzig will give a talk titled "In search of active zone engrams";
- 12.04.2024 10:00 CBS CoCoNUT Seminar - Dr Adrien Doerig from the Institute of Cognitive Science at the University of Osnabrück will give a talk titled "Visual representations in the human brain align with large language models";
- 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 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".
Latest publications by our doctoral candidates:
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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.