Brain Dynamics

Brain Dynamics Seminar Series

• 21.03. 12:00 Dr Beatriz Blanco-Redondo
  Rudolf Schönheimer Institute of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Leipzig University
  “Exploring Neurological Diseases and Drug Therapies Through Genetic Manipulation of Drosophila melanogaster”.

NEWS

• 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
• Brain Dynamics member Marius Lamberty successfully defended his thesis
• Five small collaborative proposals receive Brain Dynamics Pilot Project grants
• Doctoral candidates share their impressions on having a Thesis Advisory Committee (TAC)

• 21.03. 12:00 Brain Dynamics Seminar Series - Dr Beatriz Blanco-Redondo from the Rudolf Schönheimer Institute of Biochemistry at the Faculty of Medicine, Leipzig University will talk about “Exploring Neurological Diseases and Drug Therapies Through Genetic Manipulation of Drosophila melanogaster”;
• 07.03. 12:00 Brain Dynamics Seminar Series - Prof Dr Frank Gaunitz from the Department of Neurosurgery at the University Hospital Leipzig will give a talk titled “The naturally occurring dipeptide carnosine – still mysterious after all these years”;
• 12.02. 16:30 Klinisch-Neurowissenschaftlichen Kolloquiums - Prof Dr Jochen Klucken from the Centre for Systems Biomedicine at Université du Luxembourg will talk about “Evidence-based digital medicine for a diseased brain”;
• 12.02. 16:00 Cradle of Cognition Lecture - Prof Dustin Scheinost, PhD from the Department of Radiology & Biomedical Imaging, Yale School of Medicine & Department of Statistics & Data Science, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA will talk about “Functional organization of the brain in fetuses, neonates and infants”;
• 12.02. 10:00 Guest Lecture at the MPI CBS - Prof Kalanit Grill-Spector from the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute at the Stanford University, Stanford, USA will give a talk titled “Understanding neural processing in the human visual system: from spatiotemporal population receptive fields to topographic deep neural networks”;
• 07.02. 12:00 Brain Dynamics Seminar Series - Prof Dr Joseph Claßen from the Department of Neurology at the University Hospital Leipzig will talk about “Pathophysiology of moving slowly in Parkinson’s disease”;
• 07.02. 09:00 Guest Lecture at the CLI - John G. Pagiazitis from the Center for Motor Neuron Biology and Disease & Department of Neurology, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA will give a talk titled “Catecholaminergic dysfunction drives postural and locomotor deficits in a mouse model of spinal muscular atrophy”.

Latest publications by our doctoral candidates:

• Pagiazitis JG, Delestrée N, Sowoidnich L, Sivakumar N, Simon CM, Chatzisotiriou A, Albani M, Mentis GZ.
  Catecholaminergic dysfunction drives postural and locomotor deficits in a mouse model of spinal muscular atrophy.
  Cell Rep. 2025 Jan 2; 44(1): 115147.
• Açıl D, Puhlmann LMC, White LO, Vrticka P.
  Caregiver or Playmate? Fathers' and mothers' brain responses to ball-play with children.
  Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci. 2024 Dec 5.
• 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.