We are particularly pleased to congratulate Sevim Isparta on passing her PhD exam on July 7th, 2023 in Ankara, Turkey. The title of her doctoral thesis is “Behavioral and genetic evaluation of effect of prenatal stress on funcional cerebral asymmetries in rats”. All the best from our side for this great achievement.
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Let the corks pop
Malin Hedtstück has passed her master’s degree with the title „Microglial alterations and their impact on neurogenesis in a poly (I:C) mouse model of schizophrenia“. We congratulate her and wish her all the best for her future.
Dream Team
We welcome two new master students to our group.
Kristo`s master’s project aims to examine maternal immune activation in a Poly I:C mouse model of schizophrenia. Precisely, he will investigate how the interaction between the brain and gut microbiome in tandem with the activation of microglia might be responsible for the generation of schizophrenia-like behaviors. For that purpose, he will measure the concentrations of pro- and anti-inflammatory cytokines in the selected bloodserum mice samples and thus evaluate the validity of the aforementioned interaction.
Selin is interested in the effects of early life stress on later brain development, particularly maternal stress. To this end, she will utilize molecular techniques to investigate the impact of maternal stress on the rat hippocampus.
We are looking for you
We are looking for a new PhD student to enrich our group. The focus of the doctoral thesis is on bipolar disorder in animal models and optogenetic methods. If you find yourself here and would like to start your doctoral thesis in autumn 2023, just follow the link below for more information.
It’s time to say goodbye
After a year full of work, Kimberly Bösing submitted her master’s thesis entitled: Role of cellular senesence and activated microglia in the Poly (I:C) mouse model of schizophrenia in February. We congratulate her and wish her all the best for her future.
New Year New Students
We are very happy to welcome Candy as a new master student. Candy is interested in using social behaviors for the investigation of psychiatric disorders.
She will therefore perform a battery of social tests to further describe the mania-like phase of our Dopamine D1-Receptor rat model for bipolar disorder.
Familiar face, new doctoral student
We are very pleased to welcome a familiar face as a new doctoral student in our laboratory. Patrick Reinhardt, who has already successfully completed his bachelor’s and master’s degrees with us, is now starting his doctoral thesis with the title: Prefrontal dopaminergic modvlations:
Disease modeling and treatment evalation in rodents.
Merry Christmas and a Happy new year
The year is coming to an end and we wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Faculty Day
On October 14, the first Faculty Day of the medical faculty of the RUB took place. This was organized by the Commission for Young Scientists. All clinics, institutes and chairs of the Bochum University Medicine were allowed to show their research and doctoral topics by means of a poster presentation. Of course, we were also represented with our working group.
Time for Networking
On October 11th the start symposium for the National Centre of Affective Disorders (NCAD) took place in Frankfurt. Nadja Freund participated and was impressed by the interesting talks, nice atmosphere and fruitful discussions. Plans for collabortaions with animal models for affective disorders were already made. We are looking forward to further meetings and projects with our colleagues!