Seminars
Special Seminar
From genetics to systems, and back: A systematic exploration of neuronal remodeling
- Date: Jul 4, 2018
- Time: 11:00 - 12:00
- Speaker: Oren Schuldiner
- Dept of Molecular Cell Biology | Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
- Location: Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry
- Room: Lecture Hall
- Host: Alon Chen
- Contact: imprs-tp@psych.mpg.de
In our laboratory, we study the molecular mechanisms that regulate, control and execute developmental neuronal remodeling in Drosophila melanogaster. Remodeling refines neural circuits by a combination of degenerative processes, such as axon and synapse pruning, as well as regenerative processes, such as regrowth to form adult specific connections. Neuronal remodeling is essential for sculpting the mature nervous systems of both vertebrates and invertebrates during development. Despite its fundamental role in neurodevelopment and proposed contribution to various neuropsychiatric disorders, the mechanisms instructing remodeling are only partially known. [more]
Special Seminar
Transduction of a sense from gut to brain
- Date: Jul 5, 2018
- Time: 12:30 - 13:30
- Speaker: Diego V. Bohórquez
- Gastroenterology and Neurobiology | Duke University | NC, USA
- Location: Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry
- Room: Conference Room next to the library
- Host: Alon Chen
The brain perceives the environment through specialized sensory neuroepithelial circuits. In the tongue, for instance, taste receptor cells transduce chemical signals by synapsing with the glossopharyngeal nerve. In the gut, however, the putative sensory epithelial cell known as the enteroendocrine cell is thought to convey signals to the nerves only through endocrine mechanisms-hence its name. [more]
Munich Psychiatry Lecture Series | MPLS
Towards neural repair: turning scar forming glia into neurons
- Date: Jul 24, 2018
- Time: 15:00 - 16:00
- Speaker: Magdalena Götz
- Helmholtz Zentrum München | Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Gesundheit und Umwelt (GmbH)
- Location: Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry
- Room: Lecture Hall
- Host: Elisabeth Binder
- Contact: imprs-tp@psych.mpg.de
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