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Final Meeting with our 2024-Tutors

After a work-intensive summer we met for a final meeting with our tutors in order to review our summer semester 2024. They reflected on the impact of tutoring on themselves, discussed as a group what they wanted to take home and "packed" a first aid kit for the ...

Scholarship in Experimental Medicine for Sophia Lisovaya

Sophia Lisovaya started her medical doctorate at our institute in March 2024 and applied with her project to join the Doctoral Program in Experimental Medicine at Ulm University. She convinced the selection committee and received a scholarship starting in July ...

New Paper out: Molecular Genetics of Epilepsy

Anne-Marie Neumann and Professor Stefan Britsch published a new MOCA review on 07 June 2024. The publication about how molecular genetic mechanisms are involved in epileptogenic cellular events can be found here: https://doi.org/10.3390/biom14060669

MOCA's Recent Research Wins Quarterly Publication Award from Anatomische Gesellschaft

We are thrilled to announce that our recent paper has been awarded the "Quarterly Publication Award" by the Anatomische Gesellschaft. This recognition shows our research on the Bcl11b/C1ql2/Nrxn3(25b+)-dependent pathway and its crucial role in hippocampal mossy ...

Congrats to Damaris Brandt

Damaris Brandt successfully defended her thesis! Thanks for the delicious get-together afterwards and for your great talk! Damaris was one of our first e-tutors in histology and had a great impact in developing our e-tutoring as well as contributing with her work ...

Bridging Neuroscience and Endocrinology

Our own Dr. Anne-Marie Neumann (left) and Dr. Lisa Ruck from the Charité Berlin (right) were invited to host a session at this year's Annual Meeting of the German Society of Endocrinology (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Endokrinologie, DGE) in Rostock from 6th to 8th ...

New Paper out:

Franziska Seigfried and Prof. Stefan Britsch published this paper on 17.02.2024. You can find the review about our favorite transcription factors (Bcl11a and Bcl11b) here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10886639/

New Paper out: Making connections

The interactions between critical proteins reveal how disorders in neuronal communication can develop. Koumoundourou A, Rannap M, De Bruyckere E, Nestel S, Reissner C, Egorov AV, Liu P, Missler M, Heimrich B, Draguhn A, Britsch S. Regulation of hippocampal mossy ...

Congrats to Artemis Koumoundourou!

Artemis Koumoundourou successfully defended her PhD-thesis „The transcription factor Bcl11 b regulates the function of adult hippocampal mossy fiber synapses through a C1 ql2/Nrxn3 pathway" on 23. December 2023 We are all very proud of her and wish her all the ...

Tobias Wahl successfully defended his thesis!

Tobias Wahl successfully defended his MD thesis „Analysis of downstream molecular targets of Bcl11a in postmigratory upper-layer projection neuron development“ on 23. November 2023. We are all very proud of him and wish him all the best for his future career as ...

Riccardo Brode receives Poster Prize!

Our doctoral student Riccardo Brode received the poster prize at the 117th Annual Meeting of the Anatomische Gesellschaft. The medical student presented the results of his research on the topic "Characterization of Isoform-specific Expression and Function of ...

Genetic analysis of Bcl11a in murine cerebellar development

In addition, the poster by our doctoral student Tabea-Marie Hohmann led to lively discussions and a great exchange about the development of the cerebellum. Thank you Tabea very much and keep up the good work!

117th Annual Meeting of the Anatomische Gesellschaft

On September 28th 2023, Dr. Christoph Wiegreffe gave a talk at the 117th Annual Meeting of the Anatomische Gesellschaft in Würzburg. His talk entitled „Postmitotic diversification of glutamatergic projection neurons depends on BCL11A and BCL11B“ appealed to the ...

DAAD Prize for Artemis Koumoundourou - Commitment to science in Africa

PhD-Student Artemis Koumoundourou receives the 2022 DAAD Prize of Ulm University. The Greek student, who is doing her doctorate at the Institute of Molecular and Cellular Anatomy, is a volunteer for the promotion and development of science on the African ...