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Alumni

2004

  • Anna Abraham
    Master Psychology
    India
    PhD Project: Relating creative cognition to frontal lobe function
  • Mehmet-Ercan Altinsoy
    MSc Electrical Engineering
    Turkey
    PhD Project: Auditory-Tactile Interaction in Virtual Environments
  • Daniel Jokisch
    Diploma Psychology
    Germany
    PhD Project: Neuropsychological basis of perception of biological motion
  • Beatrice Pöschel
    Diploma Biology
    Germany
    PhD Project: Involvement of the Metabotropic Glutamate receptor Subtype 3 in Synaptic Plasticity in the Dentate Gyrus of Freely Moving Rats
  • Patrick Ragert
    Diploma Biology
    Germany
    PhD Project: Plasticity in the adult and aging brain
  • Igor Riecansky
    Medical Doctor
    Slovakia
    PhD Project: implications from elecrophysiological and behavioural experiments
  • Katherina Striedinger
    Medical Doctor
    Colombia
    PhD Project: Role of Gap Junctions in Plasticity after Brain Injury
  • Svenja Weickert
    Diploma Biochemistry
    Germany
    PhD Project: Molecular and cellular characterization of neuronal connexins in the hippocampus

2005

  • Christian Bellebaum
    Diploma Psychology
    Germany
    PhD Project: The role of the thalamus and the posterior parietal cortex in the processing of efference copy signals in humans
  • Evelina Dineva
    Diploma Mathematics
    Bulgaria
    PhD Project: Dynamic field theory of infants reaching and its dependence on behavioural history and context
  • Laura Jimenez-Ortega
    MSc Psychology
    Spain
    PhD Project: intraocular and interocular transfer and headbobbing behaviour in birds
  • Britta Jost
    Diploma Biology
    Germany
    PhD Project: Development, Regulation and Function
  • Jing Li
    Medical Doctor
    China
    PhD Project: Expression and Function of Connexins during Schwann cell development in the mouse
  • Valère Martin
    Engineering
    Switzerland
    PhD Project: A dynamical systems account of the uncontrolled manifold and motor equivalence in human pointing movements
  • Thomas Nathaniel
    MSc Zoology
    Nigeria
    PhD Project: Investigation of optokinetic headbobbing behaviour in pigeons
  • Arundhati Ray
    MSc Biotechnology
    India
    PhD Project: Site-specific and developmental expression of pannexin 1 and pannexin 2 and their activity-dependent response in the mouse central nervous system
  • Arunesh Saras
    MSc Biotechnology
    India
    PhD Project: Functional Expression and chararcterization of histamine-gated chloride channels
  • Mahboob Ul-Hussain
    MSc Biochemistry
    India
    PhD Project: Transcriptional and translational regulation of zebrafish connexion genes, zfCx55.5 and zfCx52.6

2006

  • Ismail Abidin
    MSc Biophysics
    Turkey
    PhD Project: Effects of reduced levels of Brain-derived Neruotrophin Factor on excitatory and inhibitory synaptic transmission in the visual cortex
  • Jonathan Barbour
    MRes in Advanced Instrumentation Systems
    Ireland
    PhD Project: Identification of Novel Neuronal Receptors in Human Sperm by Proteomic Analysis
  • Koushik Chakrabarty
    MSc Microbiology
    India
    PhD Project: Neuronal protection in a transplantation model of Parkinson`s disease using genetically modified neurospheres
  • Nils Damann
    Diploma Biology
    Germany
    PhD Project: Investigation of neuronal activity in the trigeminal system of mice
  • Anastasia Mashukova
    Russia
    PhD Project: Investigations of olfactory receptor desensitization
  • Nora Prochnow
    Diploma Biology
    Germany
    PhD Project: In vitro characterization of mammalian pretectal circuits
  • Andreas Rinne
    Diploma Biology
    Germany
    PhD Project: Gene silencing in adult cardiac myocytes in vitro by short interfering RNA (siRNA)

2007

  • Wanda Blaszczyk
    Dipl. Biology
    Germany
    PhD Project: Molecular changes in the albino visual system
  • Barbara Bliem
    Animal Biology, MA
    Austria
    PhD Project: Attentional modulation of perceptual learning processes and cortical plasticity
  • Daniela Brunert
    Diploma Biology
    Germany
    PhD Project: Molecular mechanisms of signal transduction in mouse chemosensory neurons
  • Agnieszka Grabska-Barwinska
    MSc Physics
    Poland
    PhD Project: Perinatal ontogenesis of orientation columns in primary visual cortex
  • Illah Joshi
    India
    PhD Project: Analysis of glutamate receptor expression in primary neurons, stem cells, and transfected cells
    PhD Project: Analysis of glutamate receptor expression in primary neurons, stem cells, and transfected cells
  • Neal Lemon
    MSc Neuroscience, MBA
    Canada
    PhD Project: Dopaminergic and Noraenergic Effects on Hippocampal Synaptic Plasticity, Learning, and Memory
  • Zhan-Lu Ma
    BSc Biology
    China
    PhD Project: Mechanism of assembly and intracellular trafficking of ionotropic glutamate receptors
  • Jennifer Meyer
    Diploma Mathematics
    Germany
    PhD Project: Modelling voltage sensitive dye data in early visual cortex
  • Vanessa Niederkinkhaus
    Dipl. Biochemistry
    Germany
    PhD Project: The role of glial cells in the regulation of voltage-gated Na+-channels by T3 in hippocampal neurons
  • Jan Peters
    Germany
    PhD Project: Contributions of medial temporal lobe structures to long-term memory in humans
    PhD Project: Contributions of medial temporal lobe structures to long-term memory in humans
  • Nathalie Rochefort
    Diploma Neuroscience
    France
    PhD Project: Functional specificity of interhemispheric connections in the cat visual cortex
  • Tsvetan Serchov
    BSc Molecular Biology
    Bulgaria
    PhD Project: Light dependent regulation of RAS activity in visual cortex plasticity and regulation of circadian rhythms
  • Marian Tsanov
    M.D.
    Bulgaria
    PhD Project: Investigations of the interaction between the visual system and hippocampus in information processing

2008

  • Ruth Adam
    MsC Psychology
    Israel
    PhD Project: Asymmetric Computation of a "Fish" Concept by Pigions
  • Selcen Aydin-Abidin
    MsC Biophysics
    Turkey
    PhD Project: Effects of Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation on Visual Evoked Responses
  • Marek Barwinski
    MsC Physics
    Poland
    PhD Project: A neurocomputational model of memory acquisition for novel faces
  • Susanne Bergert
    Dipl. Psychology
    Germany
    PhD Project: The interhemispheric transfer of visual stimuli and its relation to functional cerebral asymmetries
  • Deepak Dash
    MsC Biotechnology
    India
    PhD Project: Modification of tactile frequency discrimination abilities and investigation of tactile working memory in humans
  • Dmitry Diykov
    BSc Biology
    Russia
    PhD Project: Changes in GABAergic mechanisms and cation chloride co-transporters in the albino visual cortex
  • Ruth Dooley
    BSc Biotechnology
    Ireland
    PhD Project: Multi-PDZ domain protein 1 (MUPP1) as a novel interaction partner of olfactory receptors
  • Stefanie Lehmann
    Dipl. Biology
    Germany
    PhD Project: An Induction Gene Trap Screen for Chonoitin Sulphate Proteoglycan Target Genes in Neural Stem Cells
  • Olivia Masseck
    Staatsexamen Biology
    Germany
    PhD Project: Studies of the evolution of visual and visuo-motor structures in vertebrates
  • Mikhail Mukovsky
    Dipl. Applied Mathematics
    Russia
    PhD Project: Relation between summary brain activity and membrane potential changes in mocartical neurons during slow-wave sleep
  • Ellen Otte
    MsC Psychology
    Germany
    PhD Project: Transfer of adaptation across movement categories in eye-hand coordination
  • Sabine Schmid
    Dipl. Biochemistry
    Germany
    PhD Project: Investigation of the delta subfamily of glutamate receptors by domain transplantation
  • Sonia Siddiqui
    MsC Biochemistry
    Pakistan
    PhD Project: Tenascin-C and chonodroitin sulphate proteioglycans
  • Eleonore Soei
    Dipl. Psychology
    Germany
    PhD Project: Processing mechanisms of relational and non-relational memory
  • Andrej Turchinovich
    Dipl. Biology
    Russia
    PhD Project: Functional studies of gab junction protein commexin43 using RNA interference in vitro and in vivo

2009

  • Denis Amer Akkad
    Diploma Biology
    Italy
    PhD Project: Susceptibility genes for Multiple Sclerosis
  • Nora Cavara
    MA Biochemistry
    Germany
    PhD Project: The role of the NR3 subunits in NMDA receptors
  • Tim Czopka
    Diploma Biology
    Germany
    PhD Project: Cellular and molecular analysis of extracellular matrix induced signalling cues on the differentiation of oligodendrocytes
  • Lars Dittrich
    Diploma Biology
    Germany
    PhD Project: behavioural and neurobiological investigations
  • Hardy Hagena
    Diploma Biology
    Germany
    PhD Project: Examination of the role of long-term synaptic plasticity at hippocampal CA3 synapses in spatial memory
  • Anne Kemp
    MSc Biochemistry
    Denmark
    PhD Project: Functional role of synaptic plasticity in hippocampus-dependent learning and memory
  • Bettina Linnartz
    Diploma Biology
    Germany
    PhD Project: Mitochondria in Parkinson's Disease Pathogenesis
  • Elke Muth-Köhne
    Diploma Biology
    Germany
    PhD Project: Investigations on the expression and influence of ionotropic neurotransmitter receptors during stem cell development and differentiation
  • Benedict Ng Shien Wei
    BSc Life Science
    Singapore
    PhD Project: combined voltage-sensitive dye imaging and electrophysiology in pigeon (c.livia)
  • Ganna Palagina
    MSc Biology
    Ukraine
    PhD Project: Mechanisms of visual cortical plasticity induced by focal retinal lesions

2010

  • Ayla Aksoy Aksel
    MA Biomedical Engineering
    Turkey/Bulgaria
    PhD Project: Comparison of evoked synaptic responses and synaptic plasticity at Schaffer collateral-CA1 and perforant path-CA1 synapses in freely behaving adult rats
  • Sebastian Gottfried
    MSc Biochemistry
    Germany
    PhD Project: Recovery of adult hippocampal neurogenesis and short-term memory in synras mice by knock-out of the transcriptional co-regulator TIS21
  • Sven Hippe
    MSc Biochemistry
    Germany
    PhD Project: Consequences to morphology of primary neurons as an effect of Nictric Oxide on plasma membrane fluidity
  • Barbara Imbrosci
    Italy
    MSc Medical Biotechnology
    PhD Project: Functional alterations of glutamatergic and gabaergic neurotransmission in the cortical networks surrounding a focal laser lesion in rat visual cortex
  • Valentin Markounikau
    MSc Physics
    Belarus
    PhD Project: A dynamic field model of mesoscopic cortical activity captured by voltage-sensitive dye imaging
  • Areh Mikulić
    MSc Neuroscience, MSc Electrical Engineering
    Serbia
    PhD Project: Primate superior colliculus neurons active in a goal-directed arm movement task involving hand-target contact and external task perturbation
  • Stephan Olk
    MA Biochemistry
    Germany
    PhD Project: The influence of connexin43 on the proteome of cultured mouse astrocytes
  • Vicente Reyes-Puerta
    Dipl Computer Science
    Spain
    PhD Project: Responses of collicular fixation neurons in double-step saccade experiments
  • Saskia Schmidt
    MSc Biochemistry
    Germany
    PhD Project: Glial cell contribution to Parkinson's disease
  • Olga Sumara
    MSc Biology
    Poland
    PhD Project: an immunohistochemical study
  • Elaheh Taherzadeh-Fard
    MSc Human Genetics
    Iran
    PhD Project: Modifier Genes in Huntington Disease
  • Mathias Timpert
    MSc Biochemistry
    Germany
    PhD Project: A fret-based approach for studying desensitization of G protein-activated K^+ (GIRK) channels
  • Josine Verhaal
    MSc Biology
    The Netherlands
    PhD Project: the influence of top-down modulation
  • Ling Wang
    MSc Psychology
    China
    PhD Project: The effects of noradrenergic stimulation on the motor system in healthy subjects and stroke patients with motor deficits
  • Julia Weiler
    Dipl. Biology
    Germany
    PhD Project: Mental time travel – differences between episodic memory and episodic future thinking

2011

  • Constanze Hahn
    Diploma Psychology
    Germany
    PhD Project: Differential role of smoking on language lateralization and attention processes in schizophrenia patients and control participants
  • Stefanie Heba
    Dipl. Biology
    Germany
    PhD Project: Contribution of the Superior Colliculus to error correction in the skeletomotor system
  • Christine Heinisch
    Diploma Biology
    Germany
    PhD Project: The cortical network of self recognition
  • Eva Hennen
    Diploma Biology
    Germany
    PhD Project: Diversity and function of LEWISX Glycans in central nervous system development
  • Sven Hippe
    BSc Biochemistry
    Germany
    PhD Project: Consequences to morphology of primary neurons as an effect of Nitric Oxide on plasma membrane fluidity
  • Sarah Hoffmann
    MSc Biochemistry
    Germany
    PhD Project: Functional characterization of two novel Pannexin1 proteins expressed in the Zebrafish central nervous system
  • Michael Karus
    Diploma Biology
    Germany
    PhD Project: Regulatory function of the neural extracellular matrix for the maturation of the spinal cord radial glia and its progeny
  • Giulio Pergola
    MSc Biology
    Italy
    PhD Project: Involvement of the human thalamus and its cortical network in recognition memory and recall
  • Dorian Pustina
    MSc Psychology
    Albania
    PhD Project: Disentangling factors contributing to human memory for spatial and non-spatial materials
  • Nicole Schöbel
    Diploma Biology
    Germany
    PhD Project: Functional characterization of molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying trigeminal chemoperception

2012

  • Serra Akintürk
    BSc Biology
    Turkey
    PhD Project: Interaction of the neuronal gap junction protein connexin 36 with alpha calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II
  • Arne Buschler
    Diploma Biology
    Germany
    PhD Project: Characterization of hippocampal synaptic plasticity in freely behaving mice and its modulation by environmental enrichment
  • Alev Cantas
    Diploma Biochemistry
    Germany
    PhD Project: Identification of novel interaction partners of the neuronal gap junction protein connexin 36
  • Mario Gatica
    Medical Doctor
    Chile
    PhD Project: The role of stimulus timing parameters in passively induced plasticity of the human somatosensory system
  • Jeremy Goh
    BSc Life Science
    Singapore
    PhD Project: Characterization of the effects of novel object-space information on synaptic plasticity in the hippocampal CA1 sub-region of freely behaving mice
  • Silvia Hartwig (née Aust)
    MSc Biochemistry
    Germany
    PhD Project: Ebony and Tan contribute with specific enzyme kinetics to histamine recycling in the Drosophila eye
  • Sascha Helduser
    MSc Biology
    Germany
    PhD Project: The neural substrates of sequence execution in the avian brain
  • Jana Kenney
    Medical Doctor
    Czechia
    PhD Project: Investigation of synaptic plasticity expressed along the dorsoventral axis of the hippocampus in vivo
  • Andrea Quesada
    MSc Psychology
    Brazil
    PhD Project: Negative effects of stress in children
  • Sonja Wichert
    MSc Neuro- and Rehabilitation Psychology
    Germany
    PhD Project: Boundary conditions on memory reconsolidation in human episodic memory
  • Valentina Wiescholleck
    MSc Neuroscience
    Germany
    PhD Project: Long-term consequences of a single MD801-induced psychotic event
  • Honghong Yang
    MSc Marine Biology
    China
    PhD Project: Investigation of acute and chronic effects of amyloid beta on the rodent hippocampus

2013

  • Bettina Bertram
    Diploma Biology
    Germany
    PhD Project: Functional anaylysis of the signal transduction and activation of RNA metabolism (STAR) proteins Sam68, Slm-1 and Slm-2 in the mouse developing forebrain
  • Elliot Brown
    MSc Clinical & Cognitive Neuroscience
    United Kingdom
    PhD Project: Observing others' actions, rewards and errors
  • Daniela Damen
    MSc Biochemistry
    Germany
    PhD Project: The Rett-associated methyl-CpG-binding protein 2 interacts with the dual-specificity kinase Dyrk1A
  • Arthur Jochems
    MSc Computational Neuroscience
    The Netherlands
    PhD Project: Cellular mechanisms for short-term information retention in the hippocampus and entorhinal cortex
  • Eugen Kloster
    MSc Cell Biology
    Germany
    PhD Project: Effects of the Neuropeptide Υ-ergic System on Huntington Disease Phenotypes
  • Veronika Luft
    Dipl. Biology
    Germany
    PhD Project: Functional role of VAV3 for the regulation of neural stem/progenitor cells
  • Arndt Manzel
    MSc Biochemistry
    Germany
    PhD Project: Main and alternative pathways of the Renin-Angiotensin system in autoimmune inflammation of the central nervous system
  • Christiane Reik
    Dipl. Biology
    Germany
    PhD Project: neuroprotective effects in chronic inflammatory and degenerative diseases of the central nervous system
  • Cumhur Tas
    Medical Doctor
    Turkey
    PhD Project: Understanding social functioning in Schizophrenia
  • Uta Wiemers
    MSc Cognitive Neuroscience
    Germany
    PhD Project: Memories of a stressful episode. Which aspects do we remember?
  • Sijie Zhang
    MSc Neuroscience
    China
    PhD Project: Investigation of place cell activity during sensory learning in rats

2014

  • Amir Azizi
    MSc Physics
    Iran
    PhD Project: computational studies of network mechanisms and their robustness
  • Zachery Beer
    BSc Psychology
    USA
    PhD Project: a study of the medial temporal lobe
  • Karina Eckey
    MSc Biochemistry
    Germany
    PhD Project: Lipid-dependent regulation of voltage-gated potassium channels Kv7
  • Cristina Gonzalez
    BSc Neuroscience and Behaviour
    USA/Spain
    PhD Project: Factors modulating empathy for pain in mice and humans
  • Friederike Günzel
    MSc Biology
    Germany
    PhD Project: The impact of stress on stimulus-response learning
  • Tanja Hamacher-Dang
    MSc Psychology
    Germany
    PhD Project: Effects of stress on human extinction memory
  • Nils Kasties
    Diploma Biology
    Germany
    PhD Project: Neuronal basis of decision making
  • Robert Lech
    Diploma Psychology
    Germany
    PhD Project: The integration of memory and visual perception in the human medial temporal lobe
  • Daniel Lengersdorf
    MSc Biology
    Germany
    PhD Project: Function of the pigeon nidopallium caudolaterale and the hippocampus in context-dependent extinction learning under appetitive conditions
  • Sivaraj Mohana Sundaram
    MSc Biomedical Sciences
    India
    PhD Project: Contribution of NA+ current regulation to the regulation of NA+/K+ATPase isoforms by thyroid hormone in rat neocortical neurons
  • Tanja Novkovic
    MSc Molecular Biology
    Serbia
    PhD Project: Exploration of the molecular mechanism underlying changes in hippocampal synaptic plasticity in health and disease
  • Svenja Pachernegg
    Diploma Biology
    Germany
    PhD Project: Investigations on ionotropicglutamate receptors during neuro-development - an insight from an in vitro cell system
  • Kai Ritschel
    Applied Computerscience
    Germany
    PhD Project: Automated quantitive analysis of contrast enhanced ultrasound imaging of perfusion in brain tumor tissue
  • Naima Rüther
    MSc Psychology
    Germany
    PhD Project: The influence of sensory experience on cortical representation of manipulable objects
  • Nan Wang
    BSc Automation
    China
    PhD Project: Learning natural image statistics with variants of restricted Boltzmann machines

2015

  • Marion André
    MSc Neuroscience
    France
    PhD Project: Sensory information processing in hippocampal synaptic plasticity, spatial and extinction learning
  • Selver Demic
    MD
    Montenegro
    PhD Project: Modeling the dynamics of disease states and memory function in depression
  • Anja Ehrkamp
    MSc Biology
    Germany
    PhD Project: Towards the regulation of ASK-1 by ras activity in the mouse brain
  • Anika Hunfeld
    MSc Biology
    Germany
    PhD Project: Hypoxia-induced changes of 5-HT2B receptor function with relevance to a migraine mouse model
  • Beate Knauer
    MSc Psychology
    Germany
    PhD Project: Persistent firing and depolarization block in rat CA1 pyramidal neurons
  • Daniel Lengersdorf
    MSc Biology
    Germany
    PhD Project: Neural representation of acquisition, extinction and renewal in the pigeon's forebrain and hippocampus
  • Vanessa Lux
    MSc Psychology and Neural Systems
    Germany
    PhD Project: The fate of the episodic memory trace — a key role for CA1
  • Torsten Neher
    MSc Mathematics
    Germany
    PhD Project: a computational approach.
  • Viviane Reijak
    MSc Biology
    Germany
    PhD Project: Investigation of strategies to ameliorate beta-amyloid mediated deficits in hippocampus-dependent synaptic plasticity and learning
  • Dina Safina
    MSc Biology
    Russia
    PhD Project: Investigating the functions of low-density lipoprotein receptor-related protein 1 in neural system/progenitor cells and developing mouse brain
  • Sabrina Schreiber
    Diploma Biology
    Germany
    PhD Project: On the role of CCDC66 gene products in retina and extra-retinal tissues of the CCDC66-deficient mouse model for retinal degeneration
  • Sarah Starosta
    MSc Psychology
    Germany
    PhD Project: Neuronal and behavioral mechanisms of extinction learning and renewal
  • Christina Strauch
    Dipl Biology
    Germany
    PhD Project: Exploration of olfactory information processing within different components and associated structures of the olfactory system

2016

  • Janna Aarse
    Diploma Biology
    Germany
    PhD Project: Investigations of the functional mechanisms underlying communication between the cerebellum and the hippocampus
  • Guillermo Sebastián Donatti
    MSc Computer Science
    Argentina
    PhD Project: Memory organization for invariant object recognition and categorization
  • Shira Meir Drexler
    MSc Psychology
    Israel
    PhD Project: Cortisol and stress modulation of fear memory reconsolidation
  • Valentyna Dubovyk
    MSc Biophysics
    Ukraine
    PhD Project: Investigation of the expression and function of plasticity-related neurotransmitter receptors along the longitudinal hippocampal axis and their putative role in psychosis
  • Egor Dzyubenko
    Diploma Biophysics
    Russia
    PhD Project: insights from the antipsychotic treatments and extracellular matrix depletion
  • Tobias Eckhardt
    Diploma Biology
    Germany
    PhD Project: Optogenetic control and characterizations of GABABR signaling cascades in cerebellar Purkinje cells
  • Kevin Gottschling
    MSc Biochemistry
    Germany
    PhD Project: Modulation fo GluN3B-containing excitatory glycine receptors by Zinc
  • Lauren Haag
    MSc Neuroscience
    USA
    PhD Project: Predicting and modulating pain
  • Pauline Latzer
    MSc Medical Biology
    France
    PhD Project: Influence of bevacizumab on the morphology, the function and the molecular signalling of neurons and glial cells in the central nervous system
  • Zahra Moinfar
    MD
    Iran
    PhD Project: Connexin 43 and aquaporin 4 modulations in astrocytes, microglia, and glioma cells under therapeutic interference in vitro
  • Clara Quetscher
    MSc Psychology
    Germany
    PhD Project: Basal ganglia function in welders occupationally exposed in manganese
  • Fabian Schönfeld
    Diploma Informatics
    Germany
    PhD Project: A computational model of spatial encoding in the hippocampus
  • Hannah Twarkowski
    MSc Biology
    Germany
    PhD Project: Aminergic modulation of hippocampal synaptic plasticity in health and disease

2017

  • Caroline Chwiesko
    MSc Psychology
    Germany
    PhD Project: in search of hippocampal fMRI bold responses to familiarity and novelty in awake rats
  • Birte Dietz
    Diploma Biology
    Germany
    PhD Project: Sensory integration by hippocampal synaptic plasticity and place cells
  • Oluwaseun Fatoba
    MSc Human Anatomy
    Nigeria
    PhD Project: The neuroprotective role of Neuropeptide-Y in the R6/2 mouse and PC12 cell models of Huntington's Disease via Y2 receptor activation
  • David Gnutt
    MSc Biochemistry
    Germany
    PhD Project: The macromolecular crowding effect in the living cell and its implications for superoxide dismutase 1 folding
  • Nadja Herten
    MSc Psychology
    Germany
    PhD Project: A multimodal investigation of stress effects on memory processes
  • Nikolai Alexander Kalweit
    Diploma Biology
    Germany
    PhD Project: Investigations of the role of neuronal oscillations in information processing in the hippocampus
  • Charlotte Koenen
    MSc Psychology
    Germany
    PhD Project: from brain function to behavior
  • Andreas Marzoll
    MSc Biology
    Germany
    PhD Project: Stimulation-based and crossmodal learning of visual orientation discrimination
  • Lars Roll
    Diploma Biology
    Germany
    PhD Project: Repair of visual system lesions by neural stem cell populations

2018

  • Ewa Bres
    Diploma Biology
    Poland/Australia
    PhD Project: Unravelling the role of low-density lipoprotein receptor-related protein-1 in radial glia and neuronal and glial progeny in the developing mouse brain
  • Maximilian Hauser
    MSc Clinical and Cognitive Neuroscience
    Germany
    PhD Project: An investigation of the neural processes underlying passive perception of visuospatial novelty
  • Erlen Lugo
    MSc Biomedical Sciences
    Venezuela
    PhD Project: Role of the extracellular matrix glycoprotein Tenascin-C in brain ischemia and its regulations by Erythropoietin
  • Steffen Pahl
    Diploma Biology
    Germany
    PhD Project: Investigations of accessory proteins modulating glutamate receptor function
  • François Pauzin
    MSc Neuroscience
    France
    PhD Project: a switch between feature detection and discrimination
  • Pia Reiterer
    MSc Biology
    Germany
    PhD Project: Mechanistic understanding of eyeblink conditioning in mice
  • Daniel Terheyden-Keighley
    MSc Stem Cell Biology
    Great Britain
    PhD Project: CXCR4 & SDF1 in the developing peripheral nervous system
  • Denis Thatenhorst
    MSc Biochemistry
    Germany
    PhD Project: Local water fluxes across the cell membrane of migrating oligodendrocyte progenitor cells

2019

  • Laura Berg
    MSc Biology
    Germany
    PhD Project: Control and understanding of 5-HT1A/B signaling pathways and their involvement in anxiety behavior
  • Marion Brickwedde
    MSc Psychology
    Germany
    PhD Project: Effects of somatosensory Alpha neurofeedback training on stimulation-induced tactile learning
  • Stephanie Lor
    MSc Biochemistry
    Germany
    PhD Project: Mechanisms of light-induced neuronal asymmetry during embryonic development
  • Marcus Paul
    MSc Psychology
    Germany
    PhD Project: The influence of stress on behavioural and electrophysiological correlates of feedback-based learning

2020

  • Desmond Agboada
    MSc Neuroscience
    Ghana
    PhD Project: A systematic evaluation of stimulation specific parameters of anodal transcranial direct current stimulation for inducing LTP-like plasticity in the primary motor cortex
  • Zohre Azimi
    MSc Biomedical Engineering
    Iran
    PhD Project: The effect of serotonergic modulation on visual processing
  • Kaya von Eugen
    MSc Behavioural Ecology
    The Netherlands
    PhD Project: the executive caudal nidopallium and the neuronal energy budget
  • Laura Klatt
    MSc Psychology
    Germany
    PhD Project: investigating electrophysiological correlates of selective auditory attention
  • Daniel Manrique
    BSc Psychology
    Colombia
    PhD Project: Influence of the extracellular matrix protein Tenascin-C in the immune response, glial scarformation and ECM reorganization following cerebral ischemia in mice
  • Hanna von Preetzmann
    MSc Biochemistry
    Germany
    PhD Project: examination of frequency dependency and glutamate receptor involvement
  • Anika Pützer
    MSc Psychology
    Germany
    PhD Project: Olfactory cues in associative learning, emotional memory, and stress
  • Noemi Rook
    MSc Cognitive Science
    Germany
    PhD Project: Neural circuits of multi-component behavior in the avian brain
  • Mohammad Ali Salehinejad
    MSc Cognitive Psychology
    Iran
    PhD Project: The impact of circadian factors on cortical excitability, neuroplasticity, and cognition

2021

  • Alina Blusch
    MSc Biology
    Germany
    PhD Project: Neuroprotective potential of fumarate treatment and its impact on Nrf2 signalling in dorsal root ganglia
  • Thu-Huong Hoang
    MSc Biochemistry
    Germany
    PhD Project: Investigation of the effect of novel spatial information processing on hippocampal neuronal network
  • Frederick Junker
    MSc Biology
    Germany
    PhD Project: A window on language decoding in the brain
  • Robin Lienkämper
    MSc Biology
    Germany
    PhD Project: quantifying of the effects of end-effector misalignment and incomplete somatosensory feedback and proposing a fully automated spike sorting method
  • Abdelrahman Rayan
    MSc Integrative Neuroscience
    Germany
    PhD Project: Neural mechanisms underlying sensory information processing in Hippocampus and Thalamus

2022

  • Tobias Breuer
    MSc Biology
    Germany
    PhD Project: Anatomical and functional properties of genetically identified somatosensory cell populations
  • Jill Gerdey
    MSc Biology
    Germany
    PhD Project: Optogenetic modulation of serotonin release in the dorsal hippocampus: an in vivo examination of 5-HT1A and 5-HT1B receptor function in learning and memory
  • Marlene Rösner
    MSc Psychology
    Germany
    PhD Project: Interference processing within visual working memory: electrophysiological correlates of prioritization processes
  • Gabriele Russo
    BSc Medical Biotechnology
    Italy
    PhD Project: Functional brain connection correlates of auditory perception in awake rats
  • Nithya Sethumadhavan
    MSc Pharmacology
    India
    PhD Project: Investigation of the encoding of sensory experience by the Hippocampus and parahippocampal area

2023

  • Natalia Babushkina
    MSc Neuroscience
    Russia
    PhD Project: Investigation the catecholaminergic control of hippocampal function
  • Ruxandra Barzan
    MSc Cellular & Molecular Neuroscience
    Romania
    PhD Project: Modulation of visual processing and cortical state by the serotonergic system and its control through in vivo optogenetics
  • Violeta Caragea
    MSc Neurobiology
    Romania
    PhD Project: Project: Dopaminergic modulation of learning and memory in the hippocampus and cerebellum
  • Ensiyeh Ghasemian Shirvan
    MSc Cognitive Psychology
    Iran
    PhD Project: Exploring and optimizing neuroplasticity by non-invasive brain stimulation in the elderly: effects and mechanisms
  • Marie Krüger
    MSc Biology
    Germany
    PhD Project: Influence of action video games on stimulation-based perceptual learning
  • Lorena de Melo
    MSc Physical Therapy
    Brasil
    PhD Project: Exploring the mechanisms of serotonergic modulation on transcranial direct current stimulation-induced neuroplasticity in humans
  • Eloy Parra Barrero
    MSc Neural Systems and Computation
    Spain
    PhD Project: Spatial navigation and the hippocampal theta phase code

2024

  • Hilal Cihankaya
    MSc Molecular Biology
    Turkey
    PhD Project: Investigation of cellular pathways underlying motor neuron degeneration in the pathobiology of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
  • Nicolas Diekmann
    MSc Applied Computer Science
    Germany
    PhD Project: Modelling mechanisms and functions of neuronal replay in a reinforcement learning framework
  • Laura Dolón Vera
    MSc Neuroscience
    Spain
    PhD Project: Investigation of the role of hippocampal place cells in sensory information processing
  • Lucia Gallego Villarejo
    MSc Biomedicine, Molecular Biology & Biochemistry
    Spain
    PhD Project: Analysis of Amyloid beta toxicity, aggregation, and spreading dynamics in a PSEN 1 E280A Alzheimer’ disease-mutated model using gene-edited cerebral organoids
  • Vuk Marković
    MSc Psychology
    Serbia
    PhD Project: Investigating effects of transcranial direct current stimulation on fear extinction: role of serotonin and sleep
  • Lena Pfeifer
    MSc Psychology
    Germany
    PhD Project: Acute stress and hemispheric asymmetries
  • Tobias Rüttgens
    MSc Psychology
    Germany
    PhD Project: Effects of acute stress on selective attention, working memory, and long-term memory formation
  • Melissa Sgodzai
    MSc Biology
    Germany
    PhD Project: New approach for transgenic T-cell receptor experimental autoimmune neuritis in mice

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