Alumni 2022

Bierbrauer, Anne

(M.Sc in Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience )

Germany

Project: The impact of cognitive, emotional, and clinical factors on neural representations

Gerdey, Jill

(M.Sc. Biology)

Germany

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

Hakobyan, Olya

(M.Sc in Cognitive Science)

Armenia

Project: Modeling recognition memory as a decision process based on generic memory modules

Heinen, Rebekka

(M.Sc in Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience)

Germany

Project: Understanding Memory Representations Through Deep Neural Networks

Kramer, Marco

(cand. med.)

Deutschland

Project: Acute and chronic effects of amyloid beta on neuropathology and neurotransmitter receptor expression in the rodent hippocampus and associated areas

Russo, Gabriele

(B.A. Medical and Pharmaceutical biotechnology)

Italy

Project: Functional Brain Connectome Correlates of Auditory Perception in Awake Rats

Sethumadhavan, Nithya

(M.Sc. Pharmacology)

India

Project: Investigation of the encoding of sensory experience by the hippocampus and parahippocampal areas

Tabrik, Sepideh

(M.Sc. Biomedical engineering)

Iran

Project: Neural Mechanisms Underlying Cross-Modal Object Categorization: Visual and Tactile Senses

Alumni 2021

Hoang, Thu-Huong

(M.Sc. Biochemistry)

Vietnam

Project: Investigation of the effect of novel spatial information processing on hippocampal neuronal networks

Junker, Frederick

(M.Sc. Biology)

Germany

Project: Morse Code – A Window on Language Decoding in the Brain

Lienkämper, Robin

(M.Sc. Biology)

Germany

Project: Assessing current challenges in invasive Brain-Computer Interface research: Quantifying of the effects of end-effector misalignment and incomplete somatosensory feedback and proposing a fully automated spike sorting method

Rayan, Abdelrahman

(M.Sc. in Integrative Neuroscience)

Germany

Project: Neural Mechanisms Underlying Sensory Information Processing in Hippocampus and Thalamus

Südkamp, Nicolina

(cand. med)

Germany

Project: Investigation of the cellular basis of neural information processing in the healthy and diseased brain

Tjaden, Jonas

(cand. med.)

Germany

Project: The impact of VEGF on the synaptic plasticity of Purkinje cells

Alumni 2020

Azimi, Zohre

(M.Sc. in Biomedical engineering)

Iran

Project: The effect of serotonergic modulation on visual processing

Pützer, Anika

(M.Sc. Psychology)

Germany

Project: Olfactory Cues in Associative Learning, Emotional Memory, and Stress

von Preetzmann, Hanna

(M.Sc. Biochemistry)

Germany

Project: Synaptic Plasticity in the Anterior Piriform Cortex in vitro: Examination of Frequency Dependency and Glutamate Receptor Involvement

Alumni 2019

Berg, Laura

(M.Sc. Biology)

Germany

Project: Imbalance of Excitation and Inhibition within the Prefrontal Cortex supports Anxiety Behavior

Brickwedde, Marion

(M.Sc. Psychology)

Germany

Project: Effects of somatosensory alpha neurofeedback training on stimulation-induced tactile learning.

Draht, Fabian

(cand. med.)

Germany

Project: The influence of path integration and spatial visual perception on the activity of location cells

Feldmann, Mirko

(cand. med.)

Germany

Project: Examination of the expression and distribution of cortical and hippocampal neurotransmitter receptors by visual and auditory deprivation

Lor, Stephanie

(M.Sc. Biochemistry)

Germany

Project: Mechanisms of light-induced neuronal asymmetry during embryonic development

Paul, Marcus

(M.Sc. Psychology)

Germany

Project: The influence of stress on behavioral and electrophysiological correlates of feedback-based learning

Alumni 2018

Behroozi, Mehdi

(M.Sc. Biomedical engineering)

Iran

Project: Establishing a novel fMRI approach to investigate visual cognitive properties in pigeons

Hauser, Maximilian

(M.Sc. Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience)

Germany

Project: An investigation of the neural processes underlying passive perception of visuospatial novelty

Pauzin, François

(M.Sc. Biology)

France

Project: A corticothalamic circuit for refining tactile encoding: a switch between feature detection and discrimination

Reiterer, Pia

(M.Sc. Biology)

Germany

Project: Mechanistic Understanding of Eyeblink Conditioning in Mice

Schwitalla, Jan Claudius

(M.Sc. Biology)

Germany

Project: Optogenetic and pharmacologic modulation of the cerebellum as a therapeutic approach against absence epilepsy

Alumni 2017

Dietz, Birte

(Dipl. Biology)

Germany

Project: Sensory integration by hippocampal synaptic plasticity and place cells

Fang, Jing

(M.Sc. Neurobiology)

China

Project: Function and dysfunction of episodic memory: an algorithmic model

Herten, Nadja

(M.Sc. Psychology)

Germany

Project: A multimodal investigation of stress effects on memory processes

Kalweit, Alexander Nikolai

(Dipl. Biology)

Germany

Project: Investigations of the role of the neuronal oscillations in information processing in the hippocampus

Koenen, Charlotte

(M.Sc. Psychology)

Germany

Project: Categories in the pigeon brain: From brain function to behavior

Marzoll, Andreas

(M.Sc. Biology)

Germany

Project: Stimulation-based and crossmodal learning of visual orientation discrimination

Rodrigues, Manuel

(cand. med.)

Portugal/Germany

Project: Modulation of event-related potentials by deviance detection during mismatch negativity-like oddball paradigm in rat barrel cortex

Schenk, Sabrina

(M.Sc. Psychology)

Germany

Project: Neurocognitive mechanisms of categorical learning

Stacho, Martin

(M.Sc. Kognitive Neurowissenschaft)

Germany

Project: The canonical circuit of the avian forebrain

Alumni 2016

Aarse, Janna

(Dipl. Biology)

Germany

Project: Investigations of the functional mechanisms underlying communication between the cerebellum and the hippocampus

Eckhardt, Tobias

(Dipl. Biology)

Germany

Project: Optogenetic Control and characterization of GABABR signaling cascades in cerebellar Purkinje cells

Himmelmann, Marcel

(cand. med.)

Germany

Project: Experiments concerning alterations of neuronal excitability in the hippocampus in an animal model of Alzheimer's disease

Kloosterboer, Ellen

(M.Sc. Biochemistry)

Germany

Project: Generation and characterization of truncated stargazin proteins

Lenz, Melanie

(Dipl. Biology)

Germany

Project: Zentralnervöse und entzündungsbedingte Veränderungen und deren Verlauf bei Patienten mit Komplexem Regionalem Schmerzsyndrom (CRPS)

Schlaffke, Lara

(M.Sc. Biology)

Germany

Project: Kortikale Plastizität beim Erlernen des Morse Codes

Schönfeld, Fabian

(Dipl. Computer Science)

Germany

Project: A computational model of spatial encoding in the hippocampus

Twarkowski, Hannah

(M.Sc. Biology)

Germany

Project: Aminergic modulation of hippocampal synaptic plasticity in health and disease

Alumni 2015

Grüter, Thomas

(cand. med.)

Germany

Project: Structural and functional alterations in the cortex in a rodent model of first-episode psychosis

Hoppenrath, Kathrin

(Dipl. Biology)

Germany

Project: Effect of intermittent theta-burst stimulation on neuronal activity in the rat cortex

Kalbe, Benjamin

(M.Sc. Biology)

Germany

Project: Characterization of olfactory receptors in cells of the human respiratory, renal and endocrine system

Kyereme, Jessica E.

(M.Sc. Biology)

Germany

Project: Molecular basis of the odor detection in the trigeminal system and characterization of newly generated neurons of the trigeminal ganglion of mice

Neher, Torsten

(M.Sc. Mathematics)

Germany

Project: Analysis of the formation of memory and place cells in the Hippocampus: a computational approach

Strauch, Christina

(Dipl. Biology)

Germany

Project: Exploration of olfactory information processing within different components and associated structures of the olfactory system

Alumni 2014

Azizi, Amir

(M.Sc. Physics)

Iran

Project: The generation of sequential activity and spatial responses in the hippocampus: computational studies of network mechanisms and their robustness

Günzel, Friederike

(M.Sc. Biology)

Germany

Project: The impact of stress on stimulus-response learning

Kasties, Nils

(Dipl. Biology)

Germany

Project: Neuronal basis of decision making

Lech, Robert

(Dipl. Psychology)

Germany

Project: The integration of memory and visual perception in the human medial temporal lobe

Rüther, Naima

(M.Sc. Psychology)

Germany

Project: The influence of sensory experience on cortical representation of manipulable objects

Stock, Ann-Kathrin

(M.Sc. Psychology)

Germany

Project: Cognitive control (basics), effects of drugs (alcohol, methamphetamine)

Alumni 2013

Kattenstroth, Jan

(Dipl. Biology)

Germany

Project: Interventionsprogramme zur Leistungssteigerung sensomotorischer und kognitiver Parameter bei Menschen hohen Alters sowie bei Menschen mit erworbenem neurologischem Defizit

Lübbert, Matthias

(M.Sc. Biology)

Germany

Project: Information processing of chemical stimuli in the trigeminal ganglion

Schreiner, Benjamin

(Dipl. Biology)

Germany

Project: The effect of nicotine on trigeminal expressed ion channels

Wiemers, Uta

(M.Sc. Cognitive Neuroscience)

Germany

Project: Memories of a stressful episode. Which aspects do we remember?

Zhang, Sijie

(M.Sc. Neuroscience)

China

Project: Investigation of place cell activity during sensory learning in rats

Alumni 2012

Gatica Tossi, Mario

(Medical Doctor)

Chile

Project: The role of stimulus timing parameters in passively induced plasticity of the human somatosensory system

Goh, Jeremy

(B.Sc. Life Science)

Singapore

Project: Characterization of the effects of novel object-space information on synaptic plasticity in the hippocampal CA1 sub-region of freely behaving mice

Helduser, Sascha

(M.Sc. Biology)

Germany

Project: The neural substrates of sequence execution in the avian brain

Kenney, Jana

(Medical Doctor)

Czechia

Project: Investigation of synaptic plasticity expressed along the dorsoventral axis of the hippocampus in vivo

Kletke, Olaf

(M.Sc. Biology)

Germany

Project: Pharmacological properties of vertebrate GABAA and glycine receptors: Characterization of endogenous and subunit-specific modulators