Simon Ehricke successfully defended his dissertation titled “Development of New Mouse Models for the Functional Analysis of Bcl11a in Brain Development" on 23 July 2026. Full of enthusiasm for his research, the medical student presented his project and his data. ...

"The spectrum of immunoglobulin heavy chain enhancer hijacking in chronic lymphocytic leukemia." In collaboration with the group of Prof. Reiner Siebert (Institute of Human Genetics, Ulm University) we contributed to their recent findings expanding the spectrum of

Our medical doctoral student, Sophia Lisovaya, was selected by Anatomische Gesellschaft to participate in the IV European Student Symposium on Anatomical Research in Salamanca, Spain. Sophia held a talk on her research results and was awarded first prize in her ...

Despite heavy rain at the start of the day, our team of lecturers and tutors enjoyed a wonderful afternoon in the beer garden. Small groups reflected on their experiences and what they had learned, compiling and discussing their findings. We hope to carry this ...

Arisen from our successfull cooperation of Professor Stefan Britsch, Dr. Christoph Wiegreffe and Dr. Artemis Koumoundourou with the lab of MD Phd Ichiro Taniuchi, we are happy to inform about this new publication. For more information,  please follow the link. ...

Our medical doctoral student, Sophia Lisovaya, presented her poster titled “Analysis of a Human Mutation in the Transcription Factor Bcl11a Using a Mouse Model” at the 118th Annual Meeting of the Anatomische Gesellschaft, which was part of a tripartite meeting of ...

This year's annual meeting of the Anatomische Gesellschaft was part of the Tripartite Anatomy Meeting of the three Anatomical Societies of Austria, Switzerland and Germany in Graz. The three-day programme comprised a series of presentations and workshops on a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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!

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 ...