Prof. Dr. Nina Patzke

We had the great pleasure to welcome Prof. Dr. Nina Patzke from the Hokkaido University Japan at our lab. She is investigating the evolution of the brain across many different mammalian species. Here in Bochum, she was giving an interesting talk about new insight on cetacean (whales, dolphins, and porpoises) brain neuroanatomy, that may help to clarify our understanding of the evolution of large brains. Besides the size and shape of the brain, she is very interested in structural analysis revealing e.g. neuron densities of specific areas or the general representation of areas in the brain.  Thanks a lot, Nina for all the interesting discussions and the insightful talk! More info about her research can be found here.

As chair of the Symposium Translational Approaches to Study Early Adversity on Monday morning (8th April) at the 27th European Congress of Psychiatry in Warsaw Nadja will give a talk about Epigenetic Mechanisms in a Rodent Model of Early Life Stress.
Always on tour to talk about our research. We wish you a great symposium and lots of interesting discussions about new scientific findings at the conference!

Yesterday we had our symposium about Animal Models of Affective Disorders here at RUB. We are still amazed by the excellent speakers, the fruitful discussions and the huge interest in this topic! Thanks to Jenn, Colleen, Luisa, and Sophie for talking about their research and animal models, and for answering all our questions. Also, thanks to all the participants for joining the discussion, presenting their research and making this symposium so special! Congrats to the poster prize winners David and Bettina! We were pleased to host this great event funded by the RUB Research School PLUS. Hopefully, see you all soon!

Speakers and Organizers of the Symposium Animal Models of Affective Disorders 2019

We are looking forward to two days of interesting talks and discussions about different Animal Models of Affective Disorders here in Bochum! Happy to welcome famous speakers from around the world to participate in our symposium! Dr. Jennifer Honeycutt from the Northeastern University, Prof. Colleen McClung from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, USA, Dr. Luisa Pinto from the Life and Health Science Research Institute (ICVS) in Portugal, and Prof. Sophie Erhardt from the Karolinska Institutet, Schweden will talk about their models and newest research this Friday. Everyone interested is welcome to join the discussion! More info here.

Ibrahim and Prof. Kessler at the DKPM 2019

In his medical thesis, Ibrahim is investigating the effects of maternal separation on dams and consequences of separation on the dam-pup interaction. On the German Congress of psychosomatic medicine and psychotherapy 2019 in Berlin, he will be presenting this interesting approach and first results of his analysis. It’s definitely worth visiting his poster Maternal separation in Rat Mothers – what can the Maternal Side teach us? (LBP09) tomorrow afternoon!

Annika finished her bachelor thesis last week. She analysed interleukin 6 in the brain of rats’ that were  overexpressing the dopamine D1 receptor and got some very interesting results.  Very well done, Annika!

Anna is presenting a poster at the SfN meeting in San Diego. Join her at poster TT21 on Sunday afternoon to learn about our newest findings on early life stress and Otx2.

Our article on MORC1 methylation in healthy adults and  symptoms of depression got featured in science trends. Check it out here:  https://sciencetrends.com/is-methylation-of-morc1-a-depression-biomarker/