PhD

Functional Dissociation of Neural Circuits for Motion Vision in Drosophila

Development and physiology of signal integration in the DNLL

Decision in Space: Reinforcement Learning Models Predict Individual Differences in and Neural Correlates of Strategy Adoption during Spatial Navigation

Bi-directional relationship between attention and long-term context memory

Investigating mechanisms of myelin sheath length regulation and plasticity

Effect of HDAC9 Deficiency on Atherosclerosis and Stroke

The role of direction-selective visual interneurons T4 and T5 in Drosophila orientation behavior

Regulation of cerebral blood flow in health and disease

Role of EphA4 in Spinal Circuits Controlling Locomotion

Role of locomotor corollary discharges in sensory-motor integration in Xenopus laevis and Ambystoma mexicanum

Establishment of Novel Cell Culture Models of Parkinson´s Disease to Study Formation, Modulation, and Toxicity of α-Synuclein Oligomers

Comparative cortical connectomics: three-layered cortex in mouse and turtle

Live microscopy of RNA granule sorting in hippocampal neurons in space and time

Discovery of genetic and epigenetic inducers of stem cell fate

Transcriptome analysis of adult neural stem cells and functional analysis of novel candidate genes TSP-4 and Uhrf1

Imaging markers of cerebral small vessel disease

Glial Cell Reactivity in Mouse Models reflecting Different Aspects of Alzheimer's Desease

Combined TMS-EEG Studies of Visual Attention

Modulation of Chemosensory Coding

Modulation of the central vestibular networks through aging and high-strength magnetic fields: Implications for studies of vestibular function with functional magnetic resonance imaging

Diet-dependent regulation of TGFβ impairs reparative innate immune responses after demyelination Investigating a therapeutic approach to enhance remyelination

Sensory processing in the infrared pathway of the western diamondback rattlesnake, Cortalus atrox

An fMRI-Investigation on the Neural Correlates of Tool Use in Young and Elderly Adults

Niemann-Pick type C disease: Effects of a therapy with acetyl-DL-leucine and vestibular function

Eye velocity gain fields for visuo- motor coordinate transformations: a multi-level analysis of neuronal activity in cortical area MSTd

Discovering Novel Mechanisms of Human Cortical Development and Disease Using in vivo Mouse Model and in vitro Human-Derived Cerebral Organoids

Neuroactive drug discovery in the larval zebrafish

Control of walking behavior by horizontal optic flow detectors in Drosophila

Physiology of rodent olfactory bulb interneurons

Disco Whole Body Clearing and Imaging to Study Systemic Changes in Neuronal Pathologies

Voltage signalling in neurons of the medial superior olive

Novel mechanisms of neurogenesis: the role of the new centrosomal protein Akna

Disinhibition of prefrontal cortex to nucleus accumbens pathway confers protection over stress-induced anhedonia and behavioral despair

Object completion effects in attention and memory

Receptor and Synapses in the MSO

The cortical aftereffects of dynamic handgrip and the role of the electroencephalographic alpha and theta bands before and during visuomotor performance

Intrinsic and Induced Biases in Self-Motion Perception

Cortico-hippocampal activations for high entropy visual stimulus: an fMRI perspective

Investigation of Insight with Magic Tricks: Introducing a Novel Paradigm

Roles of Vestibulo-visual sensory integration in three-dimensional spatial perception in virtual reality

Creating a new tool for Post - Traumatic Stress Disorder treatment : Real-time functional magnetic resonance imaging neurofeedback of rostral anterior cingulate cortex regulation

Unravelling the presynaptic connections of adult-generated neurons: rabies virus-mediated tracing of monosynaptic connections onto newborn neurons

Functional characterization and plasticity of extraocular motor responses in Xenopus laevis

Brain Effects of Mindfulness in Three Modalities: Functional Activation and Connectivity during Task and Rest

Neural circuit mechanisms underlying modulation of food consumption and reward by the central amygdala

Perceptual Decision Making in Larval Zebrafish Revealed by Whole-Brain Imaging

Linear and Non-Linear Receptive Fields in Drosophila Motion Vision

The role of ependymoglia cells in the regeneration of zebrafish telencephalon

Identification of nuclear export pathways of TDP-43 and FUS

Early development of a sensory system: pioneer neurons in the antenna of the grasshopper Schistocerca gregaria

Spine dynamics and circuit connectivity of transcallosal neuron in the intact contralesional cortex after traumatic brain injury

Physical Activity Heterogenously modulates NG2-Glia Population Behaviour, and is necessary for Cognitive Enhancement

Cognitive Mechanisms and Neuronal Dynamics of Mental Images

Mitochondrial diversity probed in mouse cerebellum elucidates cell type-specific fine-tuning of mitochondrial biology

The role of context homogeneity in deployment of visual attention

Diffusion imaging markers of cerebral small vessel disease: validation and application

Sensor fusion in distributed cortical circuits

Biophysical foundation and function of depolarizing afterpotentials in principal cells of the medial entorhinal cortex

Structure-function relations in mammalian sound localization circuits

The effects of spatially relevant and irrelevant optic flow: An investigation with fMRI

Exploring visual verbal working memory: neural correlates & the effect of an adaptive online training on brain activity and cognitive performance

Developmental Refinements in Temporally Precise Auditory Brainstem Circuits

Neural Mechanisms of Cognitive Reserve in Alzheimer´s Disease

Subjective orientation perception in hemispatial neglect: Effects of internal and external mediators of subjective space perception and of feedback-based training

Effects of Sensory Feedback on Duration Reproduction - A Bayesian Approach to Characterize Sensorimotor Temporal Estimation

Perceiving a stable world during self-motion: measurement and modeling of visual-vestibular integration and segregation

Spatial and temporal resolution of bat sonar

Using Genetics to Explore Novel Risk Factors and Drug Targets for Cerebrovascular Disesase

The TET3 Interactome - Novel Insights into Epigenetic Mechanisms in Development and Disease

Structure-Function Relationships in the Auditory Brainstem

Decoding the Functional Relevance of Intrinsic Brain Activity with (TMS-)EEG

Establishing a novel diagnostic method to localize the epileptogenic zone in cryptogenic focal epilepsy

Channelrhodopsin Assisted Synapse Identity Mapping Reveals Clustering of Layer 5 Intralaminar Inputs

Top-down shielding from distraction in visual attention: Factors of influence

Electrophysiological characterisation and expression pattern of ion channels in astrocytes before and after traumatic brain injury

Neuroimaging and Behavioral Investigations of Memory Consolidation during Sleep on Time Scales from Hours to Months

I can see it in your eyes: What the Xenopus laevis eye can teach us about motion perception

Learning, conditionals, causation

Neuroanatomy and Rehabilitation of the Directional Motor Deficits associated with Unilateral Neglect

Visual attention and working memory in action: How eye and hand movements shape what we perceive and remember

Behaviour and ist consequences: Xenopus laevis wall following, swimming and corollary discharge

Activity-Dependent Changes in a Neuronal Circuit Important for Sound Localization

Phasic alertness and intrinsic functional connectivity in healthy and pathological aging

The Challenges of Investigating the Sense of Agency by Explicit and Implicit Methods

Mechanisms of visual salience and memory on reaching and grasping behavior

Aspects of spatiotemporal integration in bat sonar

Neural oscillations underlying gait and decision making

Computation in the High-Conductance State

Functional anatomy of a visuomotor transformation in the optic tectum of zebrafish

Using Bayesian Modelling to uncover the behavioural and neural mechanisms of social learning and decision-making in healthy controls & psychiatric disorders

Processing of prospective and retrospective duration estimates in medial prefrontal cortex

Pathomechanisms driving Phase Separation and Aggregation of the Fused in Sarcoma Protein in Neurodegenerative Diseases

Discovery and characterization of novel drugs for treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease from a high-throughput compound screen

The impact of Vestibular Modulations on Wholebrain structure and Function in Humans

Human self-motion perception – Sensory processing, adaption and training

Analysis of a murine Pink1 deficiency in serotonergic and dopaminergic neurons in respect of Parkinson's disease

Gaze behaviour and brain activation during real-space navigation in clinical navigation disorders

Proliferating NG2-glia and their functional importance in the healthy and injured brain

Disease-associated modulation of adult hippocampal neurogenesis

Faster than the Blink of an Eye - New insights into neuromuscular activations of arboreal snakes

Attentional Dynamics Before Coordinated Eye and Hand Movements

Social cognition and robotics

Memory Capacity in the Hippocampus: Influence of Inhibition and Remapping

Pathway and biomarker discovery in a posttraumatic stress disorder mouse model

Wayfinding: An Interdisciplinary Journey into the Domain of Spatial Representation in Philosophy and Psychology

How can we know what is "moral"? - Philosophical commitments in empirical research on moral judgment

Coding mechanisms & contextual interactions in color vision

The link between covert attention and saccade programming: Evidence from competitive tasks

Neural mechanisms of pathogen-modulated feeding behaviour in Drosophila

A probalistic theory of salience: Attentional selection and capture

The role of Neural Stem/Progenitor Cells in Mediating the Functional Recovery of Adult Zebrafish Brain After Traumatic Injury

Molecular Dissection of the Retinal Projectome

Humanoid-based protocols to study social cognition: on the role of eye contact in joint attention

Molecular mechanisms of EphB-ephrinB endocytosis in neural cells

Two-photon in vivo calcium imaging of neuronal activity in murine model of Alzheimer's diseases

Human brain-to-brain synchrony in a naturalistic setting: an fMRI study on observational learning

Learned Control Over Spinal Nociception In Healthy Subjects And Patients With Chronic Back Pain

Motor variability as a characteristic of the control of reaching movements: Influence of sensory input and task constraints

Functional Mapping of Central Amygdala Feeding and Reward Circuits

Of men, monkeys, and machines. Behavioral and neural correlatives of goal understanding in humans and non-human primates

Regenerative Capacity of Reactive Astrocytes in vitro and in vivo

γ-secretase directly sheds the surviral receptor BCMA from plasma cells

From phenotype to function via mass spec-based proteomics: an LC-MS/MS DNA-protein pulldown approach applied to functional stroke genetics

Hedonic interruption of the physiological controls of eating: sites and mechanisms

Circuits and Algorithms underlying Drosophila Motion Vision in Natural Environments

The Role of Chromatin Associated Protein HMGB2 in Setting up Permissive Chromatin States for Direct Glia to Neuron Conversion

Tracking fear learning with pupillometry: Psychophysiological and neuroimaging investigations

A Neural Circuit For Resolving Sensory Conflict In Drosophila

Input-Dependent Neuronal Representations of Virtual Environments in the Hippocampus

Intrinsic Structure of the Inferior Colliculus

Structural and functional alterations of cortical neurons in Alzheimer’s disease transgenic mice assessed by two-photon in vivo imaging

Intentionality and Neuroscience – Toward a Translation Between Mind and Brain State Descriptions

Emergent Coordination between Humans and Robots - Utilizing Movement Synchronization to Improve Human Robot Interaction

Remodelling of Spinal and Supraspinal Axonal Tracts following Spinal Cord Injury: Effects of Rehabilitation and Molecular Factors

Correlations in Populations of Sensory Neurons

A telemetric approach for characterizing behavioral dynamics and neurophysiology of vocal interactions in Zebra Finches

An Imaging (Behaviour-) Genetics Perspective on Schizotypy and Antisaccades

Functional imaging of the neural components of Drosphila motion detection

Perceptual Consequences of Reflexive Eye Movements: Effects of Exogenous Attention and Frontal Stimulation

The representation of space in mammals: Resolution of stochastic place and grid codes

Astrocyte Heterogeneity: from Brain Injury to Repair

Dynamics of Amyloid Plaque Formation in Alzheimer´s Disease - A study in transgenic mice

Genetic risk factors and early-life stress interact to shape endophenotypes of affective disorders: behavioral, neuroendocrine, and molecular consequences of a gene × environment interaction

Functional characterization of the neural components in Drosophila motion detection

Structural connectivity underlying visual attention in normal and pathological aging

Brain Connectome in Major Depression and Preterm Born Individuals at Risk for Depression

In vivo Analysis of demyelination and remyelination in an animal model of multiple sclerosis

Space in the Brain - of Learning and Representations

Extending the Concept of Emotion Regulation with Model-Based fMRI

Role of metabolism and epigenetics in forced and endogenous neurogenesis in vivo

Analysis of adhesive and repulsive functions of FLRT proteins in central nervous system development

Variability of Grid-Cell Activity

Neural markers of attentional parameters in the ageing brain

Olfactory Learning in Drosophila – Learning from Models

The role of pericytes in microcirculatory dysfunction after subarachnoid hemorrhage

Using neuro-cognitive modelling to link attention deficits to structural and functional brain changes

Anti-Neurofascin Autoantibodies: Assay Development and Analysis of Inflammatory Diseases of the Peripheral and Central Nervous System

Temporal integration in cochlear implants and the effect of high pulse rates

Development of whole-body tissue clearing methods facilitates the cellular mapping of organisms

Neurotransmitters in the neuronal circuit for motion vision in Drosphila melanogaster

Investigating prenatal stress in a stem cell model of human neuronal development

The Architecture and Limbic Activity Characteristics of Rapid Eye Movement Sleep as Symptomatic and Prognostic Factors in an Animal Model of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Age-related changes in visual attention capacity and the impact of cognitive training

Visual attention in social contexts

Transcription factor Pax6 regulates cell cycle progression and cell fate determination: the modular logic of complex transcriptional control

Magnitude estimation in humans: a bayesian approach to characteristic behavior in path integration

Information integration and neural plasticity in sensory processing investigated at the levels of single neurons, networks, and perception

Function and Diagnostic Potential of the SEZ6 Protein Family - Novel Substrates of the Alzheimer Protease BACE1

Out of Balance! Out of Order?: a multimodal approach on the consequences of chronic structural and functional vestibular syndromes on cognitive function, neural processing, and brain structure

Are trolley dilemma judgement mechanisms evolutionary adaptations?

Spatial representation in the mammalian brain: field-to-field variability of grid cells

An investigation into the human vestibular system with magnetic resonance imaging

Cellular and molecular function of Uhrf1 in neural stem cells

Sequence Effects in Simple Cognitive Tasks: The Multiple-Weighting-Systems Hypothesis

Content, granularity, and type 2 sensitivity of subjective measures of visual consciousness

Developmental Alterations and Electrophysiological Properties: a Morphological Analysis of Coincidense Detector Neurons in the Medial Duperior Olive

Connectomics-Based Network Analyses and Structure-Symptom Relationships in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Context effects in interval Timing

Neurophilosophy and Ethics of False Memories and False Beliefs

Intrinsic Functional Brain Networks in Health and Disease

Identification of a Unique Splice Acceptor Site Enables Novel Biotechnological Application

The epistemic value of emotions: inquiries in politics, narrative and ethics

Maps and memories of space in the human brain

Inhibitory and modulatory neurotransmitter in the brain of socially communicating fishes

Reverse Engineeering the Verstibular System: Intrinsic and Synaptic Contribution to Signal Processing in Frog Central Verstibular Neurons

On Domain Unifying Categorical Kinds - The Formation of a Psychophysical Algebra

Visual Processing Speed in the Aging Brain

THE OBSESSED BRAIN: Functional and structural neural correlates in obsessive-compulsive disorder

Unraveling and overcoming hurdles in direct neuronal reprogramming

The Gut Microbiotiota Modulates Post Stroke Outcome

Information efficacy of a dynamic synapse

Tracing the attentional template: Investigating the representation of perceptual relevance

Spatial Coding and Multisensory Integration in the Superior Colliculus

Dynamics of Perceptual Learning in Visual Search

The role of the medial entorhinal cortex in hippocampal spatial and temporal coding

Simultaneous Pupillometry and Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) for the Detection of Stress-Related Endophenotypes

Sleep-dependent Consolidation in Multiple Memory Systems

Functional Organization and Ontogeny of the Optokinetic Reflex in Xenopus Laevis

Structural dynamics of GABAergic axons in the face of changing neuronal activity: a study in hippocampal slice cultures

Investigation of the Drosophila Motion Vision Circuit Using Remote-Focusing Two-Photon Microscopy

Proteomic characterization of microglial dysfunction and repair mechanisms in Alzheimer’s disease

Planning for the Future. Do Animals Have a Time-Relative Interest in Continuing to Live?

Analysis of the Neural Circuit Underlying the Detection of Visual Motion in Drosophila melanogaster

Association between resting-state functional connectivity, glucose metabolism and task-related activity of neural networks

Human basal ganglia recordings from implanted deep brain stimulation electrodes and the microlesion effect

Conflict-specific mechanisma of cognitive control and their neural implemantation

Genome Editing and Transcriptional Activation Using CRISPR-Cas9 Technology

Age-related changes of the cortical visual-vestibular interaction in healthy subjects

Amusement and Beyond – Challenges and New Directions for the Philosophy of Humor

Significance of neural noise

Structure and Dynamics of the Corticothalamic Driver Pathway in the Mouse Whisker System

Of Memories and Ripples - Functional and Mechanistic Aspects of Memory Sequences During Hippocampal Ripples

Behavioral phenotypes of mice lacking cannabinoid CB1 receptors in different neuronal subpopulations - Focus on sex-related social interest

The role of blood-based biomarkers in ischemic stroke

Systematic Analysis of Whole Mouse Brain Vasculature and Intact Human Organs Using Machine Learning

Endocannabinoid modulation and metabolic maturation in the superior olivary complex

Mammalian inner ear homeostasis: out of balance?

A Neuromodulatory Mechanism for State-Dependent Nutrient Detection in Drosophila

Local and remote effects of pathological conditions on pyramidal neurites – a longitudinal study using in vivo two-photon microscopy

Processing of time and space in visuo-spatial neglect and the influence of galvanic vestibular stimulation

Pharmacological and genetic modulation of the endocannabinoid system: Evaluation of preventive strategies in the amygdala kindling model of temporal lobe epilepsy

Human spatial orientation in virtual echo-acoustic environments – A new acoustic simulation approach to echolocation and echo suppression

System Identification of Optic-Flow Processing Neurons in the Fly: Single Cell and Small Circuit Models

Antidepressant activated biochemical pathways and biomarker candidates

Integrated Circuit Analysis of the Mouse Visual System

In vivo analysis of calcium initiated axon degeneration in an animal model of MS

The effects of stress on in vivo hippocampal CA1 synaptic dynamics and hippocampal learning and memory

Components of aging: neurophysiological markers of age-related changes in visual attention

Making eyes with others: how context information modulates attentional orienting to gaze direction

Investigating the Interplay of the Human Attentional and Vestibular Systems Using Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation

Visual attention and visually guided actions: Psychophysical investigations on the role of visual attention for visuomotor control

Neural basis of motion perception: what can illusions tell us?

The Role of TDP-43 and FUS in Dendritic mRNA Transport and Translation

Understanding space by move through it: Neural networks of motion- and space processing in humans

The role of TREM2 in pathogenesis and treatment of Alzheimer's disease

Learning in a Small Vertebrate: a Novel Paradigm for Juvenile Zebrafish to Study Conditioned Place Avoidance

Reading Through Mirror Neurons? MindReading Reconsidered

The Structural Plasticity of Dendritic Spines in Amyloid Precursor Protein Transgenic and Knockout Mouse Models