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What types of neocortical GABAergic neurons do really exist?

• J.F. Staiger

  Studied Human Medicine at the JLU Gießen and worked with Andreas Oksche on limbic-hypothalamic connectivity for this medical dissertation. After that he had an internship at the Department of Neurology (Prof. H.-J. Freund) and worked as a DFG-stipend holder at the Institute of Experimental Medicine of the Hungarian Academy of Science (Prof. Tamas Freund), before he started as a Postdoc at the C. & O. Vogt-Institute for Brain Research of the HHU Düsseldorf (Prof. K. Zilles). Since this time he is deeply interested in cortical GABAergic interneurons, on which he also performed his habilitation in 2000. In 2006 he was appointed Associate-Professor for Cell Biology at the Anatomical Institute II (Prof. M. Frotscher) of the ALU Freiburg, where he started his second line of research, cortical development, with a special focus on reelin function. Since 2010 he is Director of the Institute for Neuroanatomy at the University Medical Center Göttingen. There he continues his research within the CRC 889 (Cellular mechanisms of sensory processing) and the DFG-Research Center 103 (Nanoscale microscopy and molecular physiology of the brain).

  , Martin Möck

  Studied biology (main subject: animal physiology) at the University Tübingen. After dissertation he worked as postdoc in the Department of Cognitive Neurology at the University Hospital at Tübingen. Thereafter, he was research assistant at the Institute for Anatomy at Tübingen and postdoc at the Institute for Anatomy at Freiburg. Since 2010 he is postdoc at the Institute for Neuroanatomy at Göttingen. His main interests are biophysics and microcircuitry of neurons.

  , Alvar Prönneke

  Was born in 1984 in Engelskirchen. He studied biology at the Free University Berlin, majoring in neurobiology, physiology, and behavior. His master thesis “Physiological and Morphological Characterization of A3 Neurons in Apis mellifera” was supervised by Prof. Dr. Randolf Menzel. Since 2012 he is working on his PhD thesis at the University Medical Center Göttingen of the Georg-August-University, Center of Anatomy, Institute for Neuroanatomy in the Barrel group of Prof. Dr. Jochen Staiger. He is a member of the graduate school “GGNB”. His research focuses on VIP expressing interneurons in the primary somatosensory (barrel) cortex of mice.

  and Mirko Witte

  Was born in 1979 in Leipzig. He studied biology with the major subjects neurobiology, behavioural physiology and special zoology. His doctoral thesis dealt with the “Differenzierung und Reifung GABAerger und glycinerger Neurotransmission im anteroventralen Cochleariskern der Wüstenrennmaus (Meriones unguiculatus) - Differentiation and maturation of GABAergic and glycinergic neurotransmission in the anteroventral cochlear nucleus of the gerbil (Meriones unguiculatus)”. During this time he was a member of the international doctoral program “From signal processing to behaviour - Von der Signalverarbeitung zum Verhalten” and sponsored candidate of the DFG graduate school “InterNeuro”. Since 2010 he is postdoc at the University Medical Center Göttingen of the Georg-August-University, Centre of Anatomy, Institute for Neuroanatomy in the Barrel group of Prof. Dr. J. Staiger. His research focuses on the functional analysis of networks build by GABAergic interneurons in the primary somatosensory (Barrel) Cortex.