Diversity of synaptic astrocyte–neuron signaling

Christian Henneberger; Gabor C. Petzold

doi:10.1515/s13295-015-0011-1

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Diversity of synaptic astrocyte–neuron signaling

Christian Henneberger
Studied medicine at the Humboldt and Free University Berlin (Germany) where he obtained his degree and defended his thesis in neurophysiology both in 2003. He continued his work on the properties of synaptic transmission in the developing visual system as a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Neurophysiology at the Charité (Berlin, AiP research fellowship). After moving to the UCL Institute of Neurology (London, UK), he focused on hippocampal synaptic transmission and plasticity and its dependence on components of the extracellular matrix and astrocyte Ca2+ signaling. Obtaining a UCL Excellence Fellowship allowed him to continue this line of work as a principal investigator at UCL before establishing his own lab in Bonn in 2011. Funded by the NRW-Rückkehrerprogramm, DFG and HFSP his lab (www.henneberger-lab.com, Institute of Cellular Neuroscience) investigates how dynamic changes of astrocyte morphology affect astrocyte–neuron interactions at the cellular and synaptic level in healthy brain tissue and in disease.
and Gabor C. Petzold
Studied medicine in Düsseldorf, Budapest, New York and London. He worked as a postdoc and resident in clinical neurology at the Departments of Neurology and Experimental Neurology, Charité Berlin. He continued to work as a postdoc, funded by an EU Marie Curie fellowship and the DFG, at the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University. He returned to Berlin to work as a principal investigator on the role of astrocytes in neurovascular coupling and neurodegenerative diseases, and as a senior clinical fellow in clinical neurology. In 2011, he joined the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) in Bonn as a group leader, and the University Hospital Bonn as a consultant. In 2013, he was jointly appointed full tenured professor for vascular neurology by the DZNE and Bonn University. His lab investigates the contribution of astrocytes, neuron–astrocyte communication and blood flow changes to neurodegenerative diseases and stroke.

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From the journal e-Neuroforum Volume 21 Issue 3

Published Online: 2017-2-25

Published in Print: 2015-9-1

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