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Wolfgang Wurst

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Wurst

Regular member MCN, GSN Scientific Board member, GSN core faculty

Responsibilities

Director of the Institute of Developmental Genetics, Helmholz Zentrum München

Contact

Helmholtz Zentrum München
IDG - Institute of Developmental Genetics
Ingolstädter Landstraße 1
D-85764 Munich / Neuherberg

Phone: +49 (0)89 / 3187-4110
Fax: +49 (0)89 / 3187-3099

Website: http://www.helmholtz-muenchen.de/en/idg/

Further Information

Research focus: Molecular neurogenetics, neural development, neural pattern formation, behavior, neurological and psychiatric disease models, gene function analysis in vivo(gene trapping, gene targeting, RNA interference).

Key words: Developmental neurobiology, neurogenetics

Graduated GSN students: Dr. Angelika Hummel

Selected publications:

Glasl L, Kloos K, et al. (2012) Pink1-deficiency in mice impairs gait, olfaction and serotonergic innervation of the olfactory bulb. Experimental neurology 235(1): 214-227.

Meyer M, Ortiz O, et al. (2012) Modeling disease mutations by gene targeting in one-cell mouse embryos. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 109(24): 9354-9359.

Peng C, Aron L, et al. (2011) Pitx3 is a critical mediator of GDNF-induced BDNF expression in nigrostriatal dopaminergic neurons. The Journal of neuroscience: the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 31(36): 12802-12815.

Refojo D, Schweizer M, et al. (2011) Glutamatergic and dopaminergic neurons mediate anxiogenic and anxiolytic effects of CRHR1. Science 333(6051): 1903-1907.

Di Salvio M, Di Giovannantonio LG, et al. (2010) Otx2 controls neuron subtype identity in ventral tegmental area and antagonizes vulnerability to MPTP. Nat Neurosci 13(12): 1481-1488.