Candy Theis successfully completed her master’s degree and we can now proudly announce that she will remain with us in our laboratory for her doctoral thesis. She will conduct her PhD project as part of the DFG funded research training group MonnDi.
Congratulations on your master’s degree
We are very pleased to announce that Candy Theis has successfully completed her master’s degree. The title of her master’s thesis is “Dopamine D1 receptor manipulation in a rat model- Implications for social behavior”. Congratulations from all of us.
Full Professorship
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On January 10th Nadja Freund received her certificate for full professorship. We are very proud and congratulate her very much.
Congratulations
Katharina Janneck successfully completed her bachelor’s degree in our laboratory. She submitted her work in October with the topic: The influence of early life stress on the heart – investigation on the rat model. We wish her all the best for her future.
Welcome Julia
We welcome Julia, who recently joined us for her medical doctoral thesis. Julia’s research focus will be on bipolar disorder. Specifically, she will investigate the connections between different brain regions and their alterations in hedonic behavior in our rat model for bipolar disorder.
Congratulations
Kristo finished his master’s thesis in September entitled: 
“Poly (I:C) mouse model of schizophrenia: The role of peripheral inflammation”. We congratulate him warmly and wish him all the best for his future.
Successful DGBS 2023
This year’s annual meeting of the German Society for Bipolar Disorders took place from September 14th to 16th in Bielefeld.
Members of our working group were also actively participated and e.g. presented posters. We are very proud that Sarah Starosta, Kirsten Schmerder and Patrick Reinhardt won three of the six poster prizes. A nice end to the year for our laboratory. We hope that next year will be as successful as well.
New Paper out
We congratulate Patrick Reinhardt, Candy Theis and Nadja Freund who have published a new paper entitled “Rodent models for mood disorders – understanding molecular changes by investigating social behavior”. Check it out: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/hsz-2023-0190/html
Two Bachelors in one month
In August we can congratulate twice. Maike Kneist and Monique Jäger successfully completed their bachelor’s degree. Maike’s bachelor’s thesis is entitled “Poly (I:C) animal model of schizophrenia – involvement of the gut-brain axis”. Monique submitted her thesis entitled “Molecular Correlates of Altered Mating Behavior in an Animal Model of Bipolar Disorder”. We wish both of them all the best for their future.
Welcome dear Sarah
We are very pleased to welcome Dr. Sarah Starosta to our working group. She has been researching and living in America for the last 7 years after doing her PhD at Ruhr- University. More precisely 4 years in New York at the Cold Spring Harbor laboratory and another 3 years at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Her research focus was the effects of cancer on brain function and mental illness. With the help of the DFG returnee grant, Sarah can get a fresh start for her professional future here in Germany. We are happy to give her the opportunity to do this in our laboratory, as we share the interface lies in the interest in the interaction between the immune system and mental illnesses. We look forward to a great cooperation. See more