Venue: Centre Broca
Pr. Joechen Roeper
Institute of Neurophysiology
Goethe University, Frankfurt
Germany
Invited by Jakob Scharnholz (IMN)
Scientific Focus
The group focusses on the physiology and pathophysiology of the dopaminergic midbrain system, which is involved in key brain functions like voluntary movement, motivation and cogition. The dopaminergic system is involved in major brain disorders like Parkinson diseases, Schizophrenia or ADHD.
We study the mechanisms and chronic plasticity of ion channels and electrical activity generated by different subtypes of dopaminergic midbrain neurons and their role of function and dysfunction in the brain.
Methods
We mainly use in vitro and in vivo patch-clamp and microelectrode recordings in mouse brain combined with neuroanatomical tracing, stereology, immunohistochemistry and transgenic as well as neurotoxicological models.
Meet the speaker!
You are a research staff ? Write to Julia Goncalves and Jakob Scharnholz who will organize the schedule.
You are a PhD student? You can register to share some pizza after the talk. Registration opens 3 weeks before.
PhD seminars are organized by the NBA, Bordeaux Neurocampus, and the Bordeaux Neurocampus Graduate Program.
