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September 13-15, 2012

From Adhesion to Regeneration and Learning - ZMNH-Symposium in Honor of Melitta Schachner (Program, pdf) (Poster, pdf)

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Michael Frotscher, Institute for Structural Neurobiology, ZMNH

Erika-Haus, Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), Martinistr. 52/ W29, 20246 Hamburg (map, pdf)

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Thursday, April 19, 2012 at 5 pm

Prof. Riccardo Brambilla, Institute San Raffaele Milan, Italy

Mechanisms of mental retardation associated to abnormal Ras-ERK signalling

Prof. Dietmar Kuhl

Center for Molecular Neurobiology Hamburg (ZMNH), Falkenried 94, 20251 Hamburg, lecture room (ground floor)

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Thursday, March 29, 2012 at 5 pm

Prof. David A. Brown, Dept. of Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology, University College London

M-currents

Prof. Jürgen R. Schwarz

Center for Molecular Neurobiology Hamburg (ZMNH), Falkenried 94, 20251 Hamburg, lecture room (ground floor)

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Thursday, March 15, 2012 at 5 pm

Prof. Dr. Peter Hegemann, Humboldt University Berlin

Advanced optogenetics with engineered channelrhodopsins (Abstract, pdf)

Prof. Ileana Hanganu-Opatz

Center for Molecular Neurobiology Hamburg (ZMNH), Falkenried 94, 20251 Hamburg, lecture room (ground floor)

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Thursday, February 23, 2012 at 5 pm

Dr. Olav M. Andersen, Dept. of Medical Biochemistry, Aarhus University

Identification of amino acids in SorLA that influence APP processing and protect against Alzheimer's disease

PD Dr. Guido Hermey

Center for Molecular Neurobiology Hamburg (ZMNH), Falkenried 94, 20251 Hamburg, lecture room (ground floor)

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Thursday, February 2, 2012 at 5 pm

Prof. Dr. Blanche Schwappach, Dept. of Biochemistry I, Universitätsmedizin Göttingen

Tuning the electrical properties of cardiac chambers by differential trafficking of KATP channels

Dr. Peter Soba

Center for Molecular Neurobiology Hamburg (ZMNH), Falkenried 94, 20251 Hamburg, lecture room (ground floor)

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Thursday, January 26, 2011 at 5 pm

Prof. Mart Saarma & Prof. Jukka Kallijärvi, Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki

Novel family of neurotrophic factors: mode of action and therapeutic potential & Studies of the Drosophila GDNF receptor like gene

PD Dr. Edgar Kramer & Dr. Peter Soba

Center for Molecular Neurobiology Hamburg (ZMNH), Falkenried 94, 20251 Hamburg, lecture room (ground floor)

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Thursday, December 15, 2011 at 5 pm

Prof. Dr. Stefan Kins, AG Humanbiologie und Humangenetik, TU Kaiserslautern

Intraneuronal transport and physiological function of the Amyloid Precursor Protein

Prof. Dr. Matthias Kneussel, Dr. Peter Soba

Center for Molecular Neurobiology Hamburg (ZMNH), Falkenried 94, 20251 Hamburg, lecture room (ground floor)

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Thursday, December 1, 2011

Didier Pinault, PhD; Inserm, Université de Strasbourg, France

The psychotomimetic drug ketamine disrupts thalamocortical sensory information processing (Abstract, pdf)

Prof. Dr. Ileana Hanganu-Opatz

Center for Molecular Neurobiology Hamburg (ZMNH), Falkenried 94, 20251 Hamburg, lecture room (ground floor)

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Monday, November 7, 2011

Franz E. Leichtfried, PhD; Epitomics Inc. and Biovest GmbH

Monospecific high-affinity antibodies for biomarker research, (bio)pharmaceutical development and diagnostics

PD Dr. Edgar Kramer

Center for Molecular Neurobiology Hamburg (ZMNH), Falkenried 94, 20251 Hamburg, lecture room (ground floor)

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Friday, September 23, 2011 at 12 noon

Dr. Isabelle Aubert, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Toronto, Canada

Treatments for Alzheimer’s disease: halting toxicity, enhancing neurotransmission and promoting regeneration

Prof. Dr. Melitta Schachner

Center for Molecular Neurobiology Hamburg (ZMNH), Falkenried 94, 20251 Hamburg, lecture room (ground floor)

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Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Fourth-Semester Students of the Graduate Study Program in Molecular Biology

Final Presentations

Center for Molecular Neurobiology Hamburg (ZMNH), Falkenried 94, 20251 Hamburg, lecture room (ground floor)

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Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Fourth-Semester Students of the Graduate Study Program in Molecular Biology

Final Presentations

Center for Molecular Neurobiology Hamburg (ZMNH), Falkenried 94, 20251 Hamburg, lecture room (ground floor)

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Thursday, September 1, 2011 at 12:00 p.m.

Dr. Micheal Denker, Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH

The beat of cortical assemblies (Abstract, pdf)

Prof. Ileana Hanganu-Opatz

Center for Molecular Neurobiology Hamburg (ZMNH), Falkenried 94, 20251 Hamburg, lecture room (ground floor)

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Monday, July 11, 2011 at 12:00 p.m.

Prof. Hiromi Hirata, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Japan

Genetic analysis of glycinergic synapse in zebrafish

Prof. Dr. Matthias Kneussel

Center for Molecular Neurobiology Hamburg (ZMNH), Falkenried 94, 20251 Hamburg, lecture room (ground floor)

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Monday, June 27, 2011 at 5:00 p.m.

Prof. Dr. Andreas Ludwig, Institut für Experimentelle und Klinische Pharmakologie und Toxikologie, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

Function of cardiac HCN channels

Prof. Dr. Dirk Isbrandt

Center for Molecular Neurobiology Hamburg (ZMNH), Falkenried 94, 20251 Hamburg, lecture room (ground floor)

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Monday, June 27, 2011 at 12:00 a.m.

Prof. Dr. Uwe Heinemann, Charite Universitätsmedizin Berlin

Switching between different types of network activity in rat hippocampal slices

Prof. Dr. Ileana Hanganu-Opatz

Center for Molecular Neurobiology Hamburg (ZMNH), Falkenried 94, 20251 Hamburg, lecture room (ground floor)

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Thursday, June 23, 2011 at 05:00 p.m.

Prof. Dr. Christine Klein, Klinik für Neurologie, Universitaetsklinikum Luebeck

Genetic parkinsonism: from bedside to bench and back

Prof. Dr. Matthias Kneussel

Center for Molecular Neurobiology Hamburg (ZMNH), Falkenried 94, 20251 Hamburg, lecture room (ground floor)

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Thursday, June 16, 2011 at 05: p.m.

Dr. Stefan Remy, Deutsches Zentrum für Neurodegenerative Erkrankungen (DZNE), Bonn

Dendritic integration of synaptic signals during hippocampal rhythmic activity

Prof. Dr. Dirk Isbrandt

Center for Molecular Neurobiology Hamburg (ZMNH), Falkenried 94, 20251 Hamburg, lecture room (ground floor)

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Thursday, May 19, 2011 at 2:15 p.m.

Prof. Thomas Misgeld, TU Munich

In vivo imaging of axon degeneration (abstract, pdf)

Prof. Dr. Dietmar Kuhl

Center for Molecular Neurobiology Hamburg (ZMNH), Falkenried 94, 20251 Hamburg, lecture room (ground floor)

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Friday, May 13, 2011 at 11:00 a.m.

Prof. Catherine Collins, Dept. of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, USA

Using Drosophila to study regenerative and degenerative responses to axonal injury

Dr. Kent Duncan

Center for Molecular Neurobiology Hamburg (ZMNH), Falkenried 94, 20251 Hamburg, lecture room (ground floor)

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Thursday, May 12, 2011 at 05:00 p.m.

Gavin Rumbaugh, PhD; The Scripps Research Institute Florida, USA

The contribution of F-actin dynamics to synaptic plasticity and memory: myosin motor control over F-actin dynamics in dendritic spines

Prof. Dr. Dietmar Richter

Center for Molecular Neurobiology Hamburg (ZMNH), Falkenried 94, 20251 Hamburg, lecture room (ground floor)

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Thursday, May 5, 2011 at 02:15 p.m.

Prof. Dr. Alexander Flügel, Institut for Multiple Sclerosis Research, University of Göttingen

Life imaging of autoimmune CNS lesions: how T cells invade and attack the nervous system

Prof. Dr. Dietmar Kuhl

Center for Molecular Neurobiology Hamburg (ZMNH), Falkenried 94, 20251 Hamburg, lecture room (ground floor)

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Tuesday, May 3, 2011 at 11:30 a.m.

Prof. Dr. Thomas Korn, Klinikum rechts der Isar, TU Munich

Cytokine networks and T cellular players in autoimmune neuroinflammation (Abstract, pdf)

Prof. Dr. Dietmar Kuhl

Center for Molecular Neurobiology Hamburg (ZMNH), Falkenried 94, 20251 Hamburg, lecture room (ground floor)

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April 28 - May 1, 2011

Symposium "New Frontiers in Ion Channel Physiology" (program, pdf)

Jürgen R. Schwarz and Jens Rettig

Elsa-Brändström-Haus Hamburg-Blankenese, Kösterbergstraße 62, 22587 Hamburg

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Thursday, April 14, 2011 at 11:30 a.m.

ZMNH-Symposium "Advances in Neural Plasticity"

Prof. Dr. Dietmar Kuhl

Center for Molecular Neurobiology Hamburg (ZMNH), Falkenried 94, 20251 Hamburg, lecture room (ground floor)

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Thursday, April 7, 2011 at 5:00 p.m.

Prof. Yukiko Goda, MRC University College London, UK

Synaptic strength regulation across the cleft by N-cadherins

Prof. Dr. Matthias Kneussel

Center for Molecular Neurobiology Hamburg (ZMNH), Falkenried 94, 20251 Hamburg, lecture room (ground floor)

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Tuesday, March 29, 2011 at 5:00 p.m.

Prof. Ken Harris, Imperial College London

The neural marketplace

Prof. Dr. Dirk Isbrandt

Center for Molecular Neurobiology Hamburg (ZMNH), Falkenried 94, 20251 Hamburg, lecture room (ground floor)

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Thursday, March 24, 2011 at 02:15 p.m.

Prof. Dr. Martin Kerschensteiner, Klinikum der Universität München

In vivo pathogenesis of neuroinflammatory axon damage

Prof. Dr. Dietmar Kuhl

Center for Molecular Neurobiology Hamburg (ZMNH), Falkenried 94, 20251 Hamburg, lecture room (ground floor)

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Thursday, March 10, 2011 at 5:00 p.m.

Prof. Victor Tarabykin, Charite Universitätsmedizin Berlin

Cell fate and connectivity in the neocortex: extrinsic and intrinsic factors

Prof. Dr. Matthias Kneussel

Center for Molecular Neurobiology Hamburg (ZMNH), Falkenried 94, 20251 Hamburg, lecture room (ground floor)

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Thursday, December 16, 2010 at 5:00 p.m.

Dr. Stephan Pless, University of British Columbia Vancouver, Canada

All organic but not natural: Using unnatural amino acids and fluorescence microscopy to investigate voltage- and ligand-gated ion channels

Prof. Dr. Dietmar Kuhl

Center for Molecular Neurobiology Hamburg (ZMNH), Falkenried 94, 20251 Hamburg, lecture room (ground floor)

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Tuesday, November 30, 2010 at 11:30 a.m.

Michaël Zugaro, PhD, CNRS – Collège de France, Paris

Theta phase precession and hippocampal ripples in memory processing in rodents

Prof. Dirk Isbrandt

Center for Molecular Neurobiology Hamburg (ZMNH), Falkenried 94, 20251 Hamburg, lecture room (ground floor)

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Friday, November 19, 2010 at 1 p.m.

Prof. Klaus Benndorf, Dept. of Physiology, Jena University Hospital

Interdependence of activation gating and ligand binding in HCN and CNG channels

Prof. Olaf Pongs

Center for Molecular Neurobiology Hamburg (ZMNH), Falkenried 94, 20251 Hamburg, lecture room (ground floor)

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Thursday, November 18, 2010 at 5:30 p.m.

PD Dr. Werner Kilb, Institute for Physiology and Pathophysiology, University of Mainz

Depolarizing GABA responses during early development: excitatory or inhibitory?

Prof. Dr. Ileana Hanganu-Opatz

Center for Molecular Neurobiology Hamburg (ZMNH), Falkenried 94, 20251 Hamburg, lecture room (ground floor)

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Friday, October 22, 2010 at 12:15 p.m.

Dr. Derek Toomre, Yale University, New Haven, CT

Dual-Mode of Insulin Action Controls GLUT4 Vesicle Exocytosis

Prof. Dr. Thomas Braulke, UKE; Prof. Dr. Paul Saftig, CAU Kiel on behalf of the Research Training Group 1459

Center for Molecular Neurobiology Hamburg (ZMNH), Falkenried 94, 20251 Hamburg, lecture room (ground floor)

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Thursday, October 21, 2010 at 1:00 p.m.

Hugues Nury, PhD; Institut Pasteur in Paris, France

Structure of a bacterial pentameric ligand-gated ion channel

Prof. Olaf Pongs

Center for Molecular Neurobiology Hamburg (ZMNH), Falkenried 94, 20251 Hamburg, lecture room (ground floor

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Thursday, September 23, 2010 at 5 p.m.

Dr. Andrey Irintchev, Dept. of Otorhinolaryngology, Jena University Hospital

Central nervous system plasticity after peripheral nerve injury and regeneration

Prof. Melitta Schachner Camartin

Center for Molecular Neurobiology Hamburg (ZMNH), Falkenried 94, 20251 Hamburg, lecture room (ground floor)

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Thursday, August 19, 2010 at 5:15 p.m.

Dr. Hiroshi Kawabe, Max Planck Institute Goettingen, Germany

Regulation of Rap2A by the ubiquitin ligase Nedd4-1 controls neurite development

Prof. Dietmar Kuhl

Center for Molecular Neurobiology Hamburg (ZMNH), Falkenried 94, 20251 Hamburg, lecture room (ground floor)

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Thursday, July 8, 2010 at 5 p.m.

Configuring neuronal responses to synaptic input: from molecular mechanisms to behavioral roles

Prof. Olaf Pongs

Center for Molecular Neurobiology Hamburg (ZMNH), Falkenried 94, 20251 Hamburg, lecture room (ground floor)

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Thursday, June 17, 2010 at 2 p.m.

Dr. Benjamin K. Yee, Laboratory of Behavioural Neurobiology, ETH Zurich

Modulation of behaviour and cognition via glycine transporter-1 knockout

Prof. Matthias Kneussel

Center for Molecular Neurobiology Hamburg (ZMNH), Falkenried 94, 20251 Hamburg, lecture room (ground floor)

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Thursday, May 27, 2010 at 5 p.m.

Dr. Andreas Androutsellis-Theotokis, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, National Cancer Institute, NIH Bethesda, USA

A transplantation-free stem cell therapy strategy

Prof. Dietmar Kuhl

Center for Molecular Neurobiology Hamburg (ZMNH), Falkenried 94, 20251 Hamburg, lecture room (ground floor)

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Thursday, May 27, 2010 at 11.30 a.m.

Dr. Alexander Dityatev, Dept. of Neuroscience and Brain Technologies, The Italian Institute of Technology, Genova, Italy

The role of the extracellular matrix in synaptic plasticity: modulation of perisomatic inhibition and L-type calcium channels

Prof. Melitta Schachner Camartin

Center for Molecular Neurobiology Hamburg (ZMNH), Falkenried 94, 20251 Hamburg, lecture room (ground floor)

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Tuesday, May 25, 2010 at 4 p.m.

Prof. Dr. Volker Haucke, Laboratory of Membrane Biochemistry & Molecular Cell Biology, FU Berlin

Mechanics and regulation of clathrin-mediated membrane traffic at synapses and beyond

Prof. Dietmar Kuhl on behalf of the DFG Research Unit 885

Center for Molecular Neurobiology Hamburg (ZMNH), Falkenried 94, 20251 Hamburg, lecture room (ground floor)

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Thursday, May 6, 2010 at 5 p.m.

Prof. Dr. Gaby Schneider, FB Informatics and Mathematics, University of Frankfurt am Main

Tracing cellular and coding mechanisms with a simple stochastic oscillator

Prof. Ieana Hanganu-Opatz

Center for Molecular Neurobiology Hamburg (ZMNH), Falkenried 94, 20251 Hamburg, lecture room (ground floor)

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Thursday, April 29, 2010 at 5 p.m.

Prof. Dr. Lisa Marshall, Dept. of Neuroendocrinology, University of Lübeck

Slow wave sleep, slow oscillations and memory formation

Prof. Dirk Isbrandt

Center for Molecular Neurobiology Hamburg (ZMNH), Falkenried 94, 20251 Hamburg, lecture room (ground floor)

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Thursday, April 29, 2010 at 11.30 a.m.

Dr. Dirk J. Lefeber, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, The Netherlands

Disorders of the secretory pathway: lessons from genetic glycosylation defects

Prof. Melitta Schachner Camartin

Center for Molecular Neurobiology Hamburg (ZMNH), Falkenried 94, 20251 Hamburg, lecture room (ground floor)

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Thursday, April 22, 2010 at 5 p.m.

Prof. Dr. M. Aepfelbacher, Dept. of Medical Microbiology, Virology and Hygiene, UKE Hamburg

Bacterial regulation of Rho GTPases: the Yersinia system

Prof. Matthias Kneussel

Center for Molecular Neurobiology Hamburg (ZMNH), Falkenried 94, 20251 Hamburg, lecture room (ground floor)

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Thursday, April 16, 2010 at 2 p.m.

Prof. Dr. Gerd Multhaup, FU Berlin

Toxic and non-toxic forms of Aß: evidence for a novel role of Aß in the nucleus

Prof. Dietmar Kuhl

Center for Molecular Neurobiology Hamburg (ZMNH), Falkenried 94, 20251 Hamburg, lecture room (ground floor)

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Thursday, December 10, 2009

Dr. Bettina Spitzweck, Barry Dickson's lab, IMP, Vienna

Functional specialization of Robo receptors in Drosophila axon guidance

Dr. Edgar Kramer, ZMNH

Center for Molecular Neurobiology Hamburg (ZMNH), Falkenried 94, 20251 Hamburg, lecture room (ground floor)