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Brain Dynamics Seminar Series
The Seminar Series takes place every second Friday at 12:00, initially via Zoom and as in-person talks as soon as the pandemic restrictions are lifted. It is envisaged to bring doctoral students, postdocs and PIs together and to facilitate the exchange of ideas within the scientific community.
Upcoming Seminars
Prof. Dr. Tamara Tal
Department of Bioanalytical Ecotoxicology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Leipzig
"Using zebrafish larvae to understand chemical phenotypes, mechanisms, and the microbiome"
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Past seminars
Prof. Dr. Christian Doeller
Department of Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig
"Structuring Experience in Cognitive Spaces"
Prof. Dr. Andreas S. Thum
Department of Genetics, Faculty of Life Sciences, University Leipzig
"From structure to function: what we can learn from the connectome of the Drosophila larva"
Prof. Dr. D. Phil. (Oxon) Tobias Langenhan
Rudolf Schönheimer Institute of Biochemistry, Medical Faculty, University Leipzig
"Molecular signalling at and across the synapse"
Prof. Dr. Martin Bogdan
Department of Neuromorphic Information Processing, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, University Leipzig
"From artificial neural networks and machine learning to neuromorphic information processing: The next generation of AI?"
PD Dr. Philipp Gunz
Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig
"What Neanderthals have to say about your brain"
Prof. Dr. Ingo Bechmann
Institute of Anatomy, Medical Faculty, University Leipzig
"Microglia: Population control and aging"
Prof. Dr. Ruth Stassart
Remyelination and Nerve Repair, Paul Flechsig Institute of Neuropathology, University Hospital Leipzig
"Repair strategies in diseases of the peripheral nervous system"
Prof. Dr. Katja Liebal
Human Biology & Primate Cognition, Faculty of Life Sciences, University Leipzig
"The value of a comparative approach to understand human cognition and behavior"
Latest News
Upcoming and past events
- 21.07.2022 15:30 Faculty of Medicine
- Yvonne Hoffmann
Behandlungsinduzierte diabetische Neuropathie - eine prospektive Studie zum Einfluss der Therapie auf die Entwicklung einer Diabetischen Neuropathie; - Leona Amelie Sureth
Der Einfluss von visuellen sensorischen Kortexarealen auf auditive Worterkennung nach sensomotorischen angereichertem Vokabeltraining; - Marie-Christin Beer
Regulation der Expression des Kaliumkanals Kir4.2 unter hyperosmolaren und hypoxischen Bedingungen in retinalen Pigmentepithelzellen; - Annette Marie Zwanzig
Glioneuronale Interaktion in der Netzhaut unter dem Einfluss sezernierter Mediatoren. - For more information click here.
- 16.06.2022 15:15 Faculty of Life Sciences
- Sarah Marie Leisterer-Peoples
"An Examination of the Cooperativeness of Games in the Context of Culture"
For more information click here.
Scientific publications
Key publications by each research group and latest publications by the members of Brain Dynamics
Key publications by each research group
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Menzel F, Kaiser N, Haehnel S, Rapp F, Patties I, Schöneberg N, Haimon Z, Immig K, Bechmann I.
Impact of X-irradiation on microglia.
Glia 2018 Jan; 66 (1): 15-33.
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Feigl J, Bogdan M.
Neural networks for personalized item rankings.
Neurocomputing 2019 May; 342: 60-65.
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Wawrzyniak M, Klingbeil J, Zeller D, Saur D, Classen J.
Neuroimage 2018 Feb; 166: 317-324.
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Ishiyama S, Schmidt H, Cooper BH, Brose N, Eilers J.
J Neurosci 2014 Oct; 34 (44): 14687-14696.
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Armbruster A, Neumann E, Kötter V, Hermanns H, Werdehausen R, Eulenburg V.
Front Mol Neurosci 2018 Jan; 10: 438.
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Fink J, Hendrikx F, Stierle C, Stengler K, Jahn I, Exner C.
J Anxiety Disord 2017 Aug; 50: 60-68.
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Grosse Wiesmann C, Schreiber J, Singer T, Steinbeis N, Friederici AD.
White matter maturation is associated with the emergence of Theory of Mind in early childhood
Nat Commun. 2017 Mar; 8:14692.
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Delvendahl I, Vyleta NP, von Gersdorff H, Hallermann S.
Fast, Temperature-Sensitive and Clathrin-Independent Endocytosis at Central Synapses.
Neuron 2016 May; 90(3): 492-498.
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Trevisiol A, Saab AS, Winkler U, Marx G, Imamura H, Möbius W, Kusch K, Nave KA, Hirrlinger J.
Monitoring ATP dynamics in electrically active white matter tracts.
eLife 2017 Apr; 6: e24241.
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Friedrich B, Gawlitza M, Schob S, Hobohm C, Raviolo M, Hoffmann KT, Lobsien D.
Stroke 2015 Mar; 46(3): 692-6.
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Aceituno PV, Ehsani M, Jost J.
Spiking time-dependent plasticity leads to efficient coding of predictions.
Biol Cybern 2020 Feb; 114(1): 43-61.
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Betz T, Koch D, Lu YB, Franze K, Käs JA.
Growth cones as soft and weak force generators
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2011 Aug; 108(33): 13420-5.
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Scholz N, Gehring J, Guan C, Ljaschenko D, Fischer R, Lakshmanan V, Kittel RJ, Langenhan T.
The adhesion GPCR latrophilin/CIRL shapes mechanosensation
Cell Rep 2015 May; 11(6): 866-874.
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Ehmann N, van de Linde S, Alon A, Ljaschenko D, Keung XZ, Holm T, Rings A, DiAntonio A, Hallermann S, Ashery U, Heckmann M, Sauer M, Kittel RJ.
Quantitative super-resolution imaging of Bruchpilot distinguishes active zone states.
Nat Commun 2014 Aug; 5: 4650–4661.
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Wagner W*, Lippmann K*, Hornig S, Lombino F, Roesler M, Schweizer M, Polo S, Schwarz JR, Eilers J, Kneussel M.
Cell Rep 2019 Jul; 28(1):11-20.
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Suttkus A, Rohn S, Weigel S, Glöckner P, Arendt T, Morawski M.
Aggrecan, link protein and tenascin-R are essential components of the perineuronal net to protect neurons against iron-induced oxidative stressCell Death Dis 2014 Mar; 5(3): e1119.
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Lyutova R, Selcho M, Pfeuffer M, Segebarth D, Rabenstein J, Rohwedder A, Frantzmann F, Wegener C, Thum AS, Pauls D.
Reward signaling in a recurrent circuit of dopaminergic neurons and peptidergic Kenyon cells.Nat Commun 2019 Jul;10(1): 3097.
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Richter F, Bauer A, Perl S, Schulz A, Richter A.
Optogenetic augmentation of the hypercholinergic endophenotype in DYT1 knock-in mice induced erratic hyperactive movements but not dystonia.EBioMedicine 2019 Mar; 41:649-658.
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Bornschein G, Eilers J, Schmidt H.
Neocortical High Probability Release Sites are Formed by Distinct Ca2+ Channel to Release Sensor Topographies During Development.Cell Rep 2019 Aug; 28(6): 1410.
- Trapeau R, Schönwiesner M.
The Encoding of Sound Source Elevation in the Human Auditory Cortex.
J Neurosci 2018 Mar; 38 (13): 3252-3264.
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Pauls D, Blechschmidt C, Frantzmann F, El Jundi B, Selcho M.
Sci Rep 2018 Oct; 8(1): 15314.
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Simon CM, Van Alstyne M, Lotti F, Bianchetti E, Tisdale S, Watterson DM, Mentis GZ, Pellizzoni L.
Cell Rep 2019 Dec; 29(12): 3885-3901.
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Fledrich R, Akkermann D, Schütza V, Abdelaal TA, Hermes D, Schäffner E, Soto-Bernardini MC, Götze T, Klink A, Kusch K, Krueger M, Kungl T, Frydrychowicz C, Möbius W, Brück W, Mueller WC, Bechmann I, Sereda MW, Schwab MH, Nave KA, Stassart RM.
Nat Commun 2019 Apr; 10(1): 1467.
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Phelps D, Brinkman NE, Keely SP, Anneken EM, Catron TR, Betancourt D, Wood CE, Espenschied ST, Rawls JF, Tal T.
Microbial colonization is required for normal neurobehavioral development in zebrafish
Sci Rep. 2017 Sep; 7(1): 11244.
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Rohwedder A, Wenz NL, Stehle B, Huser A, Yamagata N, Zlatic M, Truman JW, Tanimoto H, Saumweber T, Gerber B, Thum AS.
Four Individually identified Paired Dopamine Neurons Signal Reward in Larval Drosophila.
Curr Biol. 2016 Mar; 26(5): 661-9.
Latest publications by the members of Brain Dynamics
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Klein D, Groh J, Yuan X, Berve K, Stassart R, Fledrich R, Martini R.
Glia. 2022 Jun; 70(6): 1100-1116.
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Mädebach A, Widmann A, Posch M, Schröger E, Jescheniak JD.
J Cogn Neurosci. 2022 Apr: 1-19.
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Liu C, Cai X, Ritzau-Jost A, Kramer PF, Li Y, Khaliq ZM, Hallermann S, Kaeser PS.
An action potential initiation mechanism in distal axons for the control of dopamine release
Science. 2022 Mar; 375(6587): 1378-1385.
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Hirrlinger J, Nimmerjahn A.
A perspective on astrocyte regulation of neural circuit function and animal behavior
Glia. 2022 Mar; Online ahead of print.
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Schmidt S, Holzer M, Arendt T, Sonntag M, Morawski M.
Tau Protein Modulates Perineuronal Extracellular Matrix Expression in the TauP301L- acan Mouse Model
Biomolecules. 2022 Mar; 12(4): 505.
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Buettner JM, Kirmann T, Mentis GZ, Hallermann S, Simon CM.
Laser microscopy acquisition and analysis of premotor synapses in the murine spinal cord
STAR Protoc. 2022 Mar; 3(1): 101236.
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Ruthig P, Schönwiesner M.
Eur J Neurosci. 2022 Feb; 55(3): 827-845.
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Streit WJ, Rotter J, Winter K, Müller W, Khoshbouei H, Bechmann I.
J Alzheimers Dis. 2022 Feb; 85(4): 1701-1720.
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Schulz CC, von Klitzing K, Deserno L, Sheridan MA, Crowley MJ, Schoett MJS, Hoffmann F, Villringer A, Vrtička P, White LO.
Dev Psychopathol. 2022 Feb: 1-13.
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Maul A, Huebner AK, Strenzke N, Moser T, Rübsamen R, Jovanovic S, Hübner CA.
Elife. 2022 Feb; 11:e72251.
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Spiliotis K, Starke J, Franz D, Richter A, Köhling R.
Biol Cybern. 2022 Feb; 116(1):93-116.
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Braga A, Schönwiesner M.
Neural Substrates and Models of Omission Responses and Predictive Processes
Front Neural Circuits. 2022 Feb; 16: 799581.
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Grosse Wiesmann C, Kampis D, Poulsen E, Schüler C, Lukowski Duplessy H, Southgate V.
Cognition. 2022 Feb; 223: 105039.
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Hertzsch R, Richter A.
Front Vet Sci. 2022 Jan; 8: 769588.
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Paul MM, Dannhäuser S, Morris L, Mrestani A, Hübsch M, Gehring J, Hatzopoulos GN, Pauli M, Auger GM, Bornschein G, Scholz N, Ljaschenko D, Müller M, Sauer M, Schmidt H, Kittel RJ, DiAntonio A, Vakonakis I, Heckmann M, Langenhan T.
The human cognition-enhancing CORD7 mutation increases active zone number and synaptic release
Brain. 2022 Jan; awac011.
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Müller-Axt C, Eichner C, Rusch H, Kauffmann L, Bazin PL, Anwander A, Morawski M, von Kriegstein K.
Neuroimage. 2021 Dec; 244: 118559.
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Weise D, Menze I, Metelmann MCF, Woost TB, Classen J, Pelz JO.
Multimodal assessment of autonomic dysfunction in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
Eur J Neurol 2021 Nov; doi: 10.1111/ene.15177.
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Berger P, Grosse Wiesmann C.
Positive emotion enhances conflict processing in preschoolers.
Dev Sci. 2021 Nov; e13199.
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Schubert C, Dabbagh A, Classen J, Krämer UM, Tzvi E.
Neuroimage 2021 Nov; 241: 118410.
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Mrestani A, Pauli M, Kollmannsberger P, Repp F, Kittel RJ, Eilers J, Doose S, Sauer M, Sirén AL, Heckmann M, Paul MM.
Active zone compaction correlates with presynaptic homeostatic potentiation
Cell Rep. 2021 Oct; 37(1):109770.
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Ludwig AA, Meuret S, Battmer RD, Schönwiesner M, Fuchs M, Ernst A.
Sound Localization in Single-Sided Deaf Participants Provided With a Cochlear Implant.
Front Psychol 2021 Oct;12: 753339.
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Eshra A, Schmidt H, Eilers J, Hallermann S.
Calcium dependence of neurotransmitter release at a high fidelity synapse.
Elife. 2021 Oct; 10:e70408.
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Alizadeh J, Bogdan M, Classen J, Fricke C.
Sensors (Basel). 2021 Oct; 21(21): 7166.
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Fink-Lamotte J, Svensson F, Schmitz J, Exner C.
Emotion. 2021 Sep; doi: 10.1037/emo0000993
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Plocksties F, Kober M, Niemann C, Heller J, Fauser M, Nüssel M, Uster F, Franz D, Zwar M, Lüttig A, Kröger J, Harloff J, Schulz A, Richter A, Köhling R, Timmermann D, Storch A.
J Neural Eng 2021 Sep; 18(5): 056032.
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Pauls D, Selcho M, Räderscheidt J, Amatobi KM, Fekete A, Krischke M, Hermann-Luibl C, Ozbek-Unal AG, Ehmann N, Itskov PM, Kittel RJ, Helfrich-Förster C, Kühnlein RP, Mueller MJ, Wegener C.
Endocrine signals fine-tune daily activity patterns in Drosophila
Curr Biol. 2021 Sep; 31(18):4076-4087.e5.
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Hansmeier J, Haberkamp A, Glombiewski JA, Exner C.
Metacognitive Change During Exposure and Metacognitive Therapy in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.
Front Psychiatry 2021 Sep; 12: 722782.
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Hernandez-Nunez L, Chen A, Budelli G, Berck ME, Richter V, Rist A, Thum AS, Cardona A, Klein M, Garrity P,
Samuel ADT.Sci Adv 2021 Aug; 7(35): eabg6707.
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Heerdegen M, Zwar M, Franz D, Hörnschemeyer J, Neubert V, Plocksties F, Niemann C, Timmermann D, Bahls C, van Rienen U, Paap M, Perl S, Lüttig A, Richter A, Köhling R.
Neurobiol Dis 2021 Jul; 154:105341.
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Schmidt S, Stapf C, Schmutzler S, Lachmann I, Arendt T, Holzer M, Sonntag M, Morawski M.
Eur J Neurosci 2021 Jun; 53(12): 3889-3904.
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Fink-Lamotte J, Widmann A, Sering K, Schröger E, Exner C.
Front Psychiatry 2021 Jun; 12: 596557.
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Leyh J, Paeschke S, Mages B, Michalski D, Nowicki M, Bechmann I, Winter K.
Classification of Microglial Morphological Phenotypes Using Machine Learning.
Front Cell Neurosci 2021 Jun; 15: 701673.
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Vera J, Lippmann K.
Neurobiol Dis 2021 Jun; 156: 105425.
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Kalusa M, Heinrich MD, Sauerland C, Morawski M, Fietz SA.
Front Neuroanat 2021 May; 15: 678385.
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Fricke C, Alizadeh J, Zakhary N, Woost TB, Bogdan M, Classen J.
Front Neurol 2021 May; 12: 666458.
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Gautier B, Hajjar H, Soares S, Berthelot J, Deck M, Abbou S, Campbell G, Ceprian M, Gonzalez S, Fovet CM, Schütza V, Jouvenel A, Rivat C, Zerah M, François V, Le Guiner C, Aubourg P, Fledrich R, Tricaud N.
Nat Commun 2021 Apr; 12(1): 2356.
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Sala F, Ficorella C, Martínez Vázquez R, Eichholz HM, Käs JA, Osellame R.
Rapid Prototyping of 3D Biochips for Cell Motility Studies Using Two-Photon Polymerization.
Front Bioeng Biotechnol 2021 Apr; 9: 664094.
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Gong R, Wegscheider M, Mühlberg C, Gast R, Fricke C, Rumpf JJ, Nikulin VV, Knösche TR, Classen J.
Brain 2021 Mar; 144(2): 487-503.
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Barsch L, Werdehausen R, Leffler A, Eulenburg V.
Modulation of Glycinergic Neurotransmission may Contribute to the Analgesic Effects of Propacetamol.
Biomolecules. 2021 Mar; 11(4): 493.
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Beliu G, Altrichter S, Guixà-González R, Hemberger M, Brauer I, Dahse AK, Scholz N, Wieduwild R, Kuhlemann A, Batebi H, Seufert F, Pérez-Hernández G, Hildebrand PW, Sauer M, Langenhan T.
Mol Cell 2021 Mar; 81(5): 905-921.
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Friedrich I, Reimann K, Jankuhn S, Kirilina E, Stieler J, Sonntag M, Meijer J, Weiskopf N, Reinert T, Arendt T, Morawski M.
Acta Neuropathol Commun 2021 Mar; 9(1): 47.
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Pirlich M, Höfer C, Weise CM, Stockert A, Thöne-Otto A, Garthe A, Schob S, Classen J, Hoffmann KT, Saur D.
Hippocampal gray matter volume in the long-term course after transient global amnesia.
Neuroimage Clin 2021 Feb; 30: 102586.
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Hülsmann S, Hagos L, Eulenburg V, Hirrlinger J.
Int J Mol Sci 2021 Feb; 22(4): 2019.
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Ritzau-Jost A, Tsintsadze T, Krueger M, Ader J, Bechmann I, Eilers J, Barbour B, Smith SM, Hallermann S.
Cell Rep 2021 Jan; 34(2): 108612.
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Kong L, Valdivia DO, Simon CM, Hassinan C, Delestree N, Ramos D, Park JH, Celeste P, Xu X, Crowder M, Gyrzb C, King Z, Petrillo M, Swoboda K, Davis C, Lutz C, Weetall M, Naryshkin N, Crawford TO, Mentis GZ, Sumner CJ.
Impaired prenatal motor axon development necessitates early therapeutic intervention in severe SMA.
Sci Transl Med 2021 Jan; 13(578):eabb6871.
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Paap M, Perl S, Lüttig A, Plocksties F, Niemann C, Timmermann D, Bahls C, van Rienen U, Franz D, Zwar M, Rohde M, Köhling R, Richter A.
Neurobiol Dis 2021 Jan; 147: 105163.
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Simon CM, Blanco-Redondo B, Buettner JM, Pagiazitis JG, Fletcher EV, Sime Longang JK, Mentis GZ.
J Neurosci 2021 Jan; 41(2): 376-389.
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Liebrand M, Karabanov A, Antonenko D, Flöel A, Siebner HR, Classen J, Krämer UM, Tzvi E.
Neuroimage 2020 Dec; 223: 117363.
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Mathiasen S, Palmisano T, Perry NA, Stoveken HM, Vizurraga A, McEwen DP, Okashah N, Langenhan T, Inoue A, Lambert NA, Tall GG, Javitch JA.
G12/13 is activated by acute tethered agonist exposure in the adhesion GPCR ADGRL3.
Nat Chem Biol 2020 Dec; 16(12): 1343-1350.
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Kaiser N, Pätz C, Brachtendorf S, Eilers J, Bechmann I.
Undisturbed climbing fiber pruning in the cerebellar cortex of CX3CR1-deficient mice.
Glia 2020 Nov; 68(11): 2316-2329.
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Trevisiol A, Kusch K, Steyer AM, Gregor I, Nardis C, Winkler U, Möbius W, Werner HB, Nave KA, Hirrlinger J.
PLoS Biol 2020 Nov; 18: e3000943.
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Kusick GF, Chin M, Raychaudhuri S, Lippmann K, Adula KP, Hujber E, Vu T, Davis MW, Jorgensen EM, Watanabe S.
Synaptic vesicles transiently dock to refill release sites.
Nat Neurosci 2020 Nov; 23(11):1329-1338.
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Helmschrodt C, Becker S, Perl S, Schulz A, Richter A.
Anal Bioanal Chem 2020 Nov; 412(28): 7777.
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Hauf K, Barsch L, Bauer D, Buchert R, Armbruster A, Frauenfeld L, Grasshoff U, Eulenburg V.
GlyT1 encephalopathy: Characterization of presumably disease causing GlyT1 mutations.
Neurochem Int 2020 Oct; 139: 104813.
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Köhler S, Schmidt H, Fulle P, Hirrlinger J, Winkler U.
A Dual Nanosensor Approach to Determine the Cytosolic Concentration of ATP in Astrocytes.
Front Cell Neurosci 2020 Sep; 14: 565921.
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Dannhäuser S, Lux TJ, Hu C, Selcho M, Chen JT-C, Ehmann N, Sachidanandan D, Stopp S, Pauls D, Pawlak M, Langenhan T, Soba P, Rittner HL, Kittel RJ.
Antinociceptive modulation by the adhesion GPCR CIRL promotes mechanosensory signal discrimination.
eLife 2020 Sep; 9:e56738.
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Müller A, von Hofen-Hohloch J, Mende M, Saur D, Fricke C, Bercker S, Petros S, Classen J.
Sci Rep 2020 Sep; 10(1): 15518.
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Perl S, Richter F, Richter A.
Pharmacol Biochem Behav 2020 Sep; 196: 172977.
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Zarubin G, Gundlach C, Nikulin V, Villringer A, Bogdan M.
Front Hum Neurosci 2020 Sep;14: 366.
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Schmidt S, Arendt T, Morawski M, Sonntag M.
Neurocan Contributes to Perineuronal Net Development.
Neuroscience 2020 Aug 21;442:69-86.
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Kallweit C, Paucke M, Strauß M, Exner C.
J Clin Exp Neuropsychol 2020 Aug; 42(6): 569-583.
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Gruenenfelder FI, McLaughlin M, Griffiths IR, Garbern J, Thomson G, Kuzman P, Barrie JA, McCulloch ML, Penderis J, Stassart R, Nave KA, Edgar JM.
Neural stem cells restore myelin in a demyelinating model of Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease.
Brain 2020 May; 143(5): 1383-1399.
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Fink-Lamotte J, Widmann A, Fader J, Exner C.
PLoS One. 2020 Apr; 15(4): e0232362.
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Wolbert J, Li X, Heming M, Mausberg AK, Akkermann D, Frydrychowicz C, Fledrich R, Groeneweg L, Schulz C, Stettner M, Alonso Gonzalez N, Wiendl H, Stassart R, Meyer Zu Hörste G.
Redefining the heterogeneity of peripheral nerve cells in health and autoimmunity.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2020 Apr; 117(17): 9466-9476.
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Vilimelis Aceituno P, Ehsani M, Jost J.
Spiking time-dependent plasticity leads to efficient coding of predictions.
Biol Cybern. 2020 Feb; 114(1): 43-61.
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Straub I, Witter L, Eshra A, Hoidis M, Byczkowicz N, Maas S, Delvendahl I, Dorgan K, Savier E, Bechmann I, Krueger M, Isope P, Hallermann S.
eLife 2020 Feb; 9: e51771.
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Streitberger KJ, Lilaj L, Schrank F, Braun J, Hoffmann KT, Reiss-Zimmermann M, Käs JA, Sack I.
How tissue fluidity influences brain tumor progression.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2020 Jan; 117(1): 128-134.