Alumni (MSc)

This page honors the achievements of the MSc alumni of the Neuroscience Program. The first graduates of the Master's program submitted their Master's thesis by March 2002. Many of them continued with a PhD thesis project in the Neuroscience Program. Other Master's graduates continued their PhD research at another university in Germany or abroad. We would like to congratulate and wish them all the best for their future.

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The following Master's thesis projects have been successfully completed in the Neuroscience Program since 2002 (click on title of project for abstract):

Master's theses 2017

Student	Title of Master's thesis	Supervisor, Co-Referee	Institution, Department
Heba Ali	Effect of Glia-mediated Immune Responses on the Neuronal Transcriptom	André Fischer, Tiago Outeiro	University Medical Center Göttingen, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases
Allison Barry	Modulation of TRPV1 by Interaction Partners	Manuela Schmidt, Martin Göpfert	MPI for Experimental Medicine, Somatosensory Signaling
Tizibt Ashine Bogale	Oligodendrocytes as modifiers of disease progression in a mouse model of inherited Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)	Klaus-Armin Nave, Tiago Outeiro	MPI for Experimental Medicine, Neurogenetics
Tal Dankovich	Super Resolution Imaging of Synaptic Plasticity in Cultured Hippocampal Neurons	Silvio Rizzoli, Oliver Schlüter	University Medical Center Göttingen, STED Microscopy of Synaptic Function
Burak Gür	Molecular mechanisms shaping functional properties of early visual processing	Marion Silies, Ralf Heinrich	European Neuroscience Institute Göttingen, Visual Processing
Alina Sophie Heukamp	Establishing a two-photon microscope setup to study the effects of acetylcholine on response properties of distinct types of retinal ganglion cells	Tim Gollisch, Marion Silies	University Medical Center Göttingen, Sensory Processing in the Retina
Nehal Johri	Effective connectivity of the macaque grasping network: Granger causality analysis of resting-state fMRI	Hansjörg Scherberger, Melanie Wilke	German Primate Center, Neurobiology
Dimokratis Karamanlis	Spatial integration in mouse retinal ganglion cells	Tim Gollisch, Marion Silies	University Medical Center Göttingen, Sensory Processing in the Retina
Ronja Markworth	The Effect of Co-activation on Endosomal Sorting of TrkB and CaSR	Camin Dean, Reinhard Jahn	European Neuroscience Institute Göttingen, Trans-synaptic Signaling
Sebastian Molina Obando	Molecular mechanisms that shape ON responses in the Drosophila visual system	Marion Silies, Tim Gollisch	European Neuroscience Institute Göttingen, Visual Processing
Helena Maria (Linda) Olsthoorn	Reconstitution and Functional Characterization of the Vesicular GABA Transporter	Reinhard Jahn, Nils Brose	MPI for Biophysical Chemistry, Neurobiology
Carolina Piletti Chatain	Region-specific Roles of Nlgn2 and IgSF9b in the Anxiety Circuitry	Nils Brose, Hannelore Ehrenreich	MPI for Experimental Medicine, Molecular Neurobiology
Sonja Pribicevic	The role of HECT-type E3 ligases in developing neurons	Hiroshi Kawabe, Thomas Dresbach	MPI for Experimental Medicine, Molecular Neurobiology
Alejandro Restrepo Arango	Role of pericytes in regulating the blood-brain barrier in homeostasis in adult brain	Alexander Flügel, Wolfgang Brück	University Medical Center Göttingen, Neuroimmunology
Nikoloz Sirmpilatze	The temporal stability of BOLD fMRI measurements in medetomidine-anesthetized rats	Susann Boretius, Peter Dechent	German Primate Center, Functional Imaging Laboratory
Özge Uslu	The Effect of Subliminal Reward Signals on Sensory-Motor Processing	Arezoo Pooresmaeili, Melanie Wilke	European Neuroscience Institute Göttingen, Perception and Cognition
Kwok Yui Reymond (Tony) Yip	Probing the Neural Circuits of Anxiety in Nlgn2 Knockout Mice using Whole-Brain Activity Mapping	Nils Brose, Camin Dean	MPI for Experimental Medicine, Molecular Neurobiology

Master's theses 2016

Student	Title of Master's thesis	Supervisor, Co-Referee	Institution, Department
Reham Abdelaziz	Functional characterization of TRPV1 modulation by protein-protein interactions in somatosensory neurons	Manuela Schmidt, Luis Pardo	MPI for Experimental Medicine, Somatosensory Signaling
Martina Arends	Comparing two vector-based CRISPR/Cas9-systems for Targeting Myelinating Proteins in Zebrafish	Mikael Simons, Wolfgang Brück	MPI for Experimental Medicine, Cellular Neuroscience
Mar Bosch Queralt	Stimulation of the LXR pathway improves remyelination in aged mice after lysolecithin-induced demyelination	Mikael Simons, Wolfgang Brück	MPI for Experimental Medicine, Cellular Neuroscience
Lucas Caldi Gomes	The effect of increased levels of miR-132 on dopaminergic primary midbrain neurons	Mathias Bähr, Wolfgang Brück	University Medical Center Göttingen, Neurobiological Research Laboratory
Leonard Engels	Evaluation of a Novel Feedback System for Myoelectric Hand Prostheses in a Clinically Relevant Setting	Walter Paulus, Camin Dean	University Medical Center Göttingen, Clinical Neurophysiology
Madhura Ketkar	Combined fMRI- and Eye Movement-based Decoding of Bistable Plaid Motion Perception	Stefan Treue, Melanie Wilke	German Primate Center, Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory
Albert Lehr	Development of no-report readouts for conscious visibility	Melanie Wilke , Mathias Bähr	University Medical Center Göttingen, Cognitive Neurology
Yi-An Liao	Confidence in Visual Decision-Making	Melanie Wilke , Tobias Moser	University Medical Center Göttingen, Cognitive Neurology
Noam Nitzan	Electrophysiological investigation of the calcium-dependent regulation of Munc13-1 by calmodulin and it s involvement in short- and long-term plasticity	Nils Brose, Oliver Schlüter	MPI for Experimental Medicine, Molecular Neurobiology
Myrto Panopoulou	Brain region requirements for long-term drug-associated memory retention and Silent synapses protein markers	Oliver Schlüter , Siegrid Löwel	European Neuroscience Institute Göttingen , Molecular Neurobiology
M. Sadman Sakib	Role of Non-Canonical Histone Variant H2A.Z and Its Modification In Cognitive Function	André Fischer, Camin Dean	University Medical Center Göttingen, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases
Erik Schäffner	The effect of PLP overexpression on murine experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis	Klaus-Armin Nave, Martin Göpfert	MPI for Experimental Medicine, Neurogenetics
Sinem Sertel	The Patterns of Neuronal Activity in Daily Cycle	Silvio Rizzoli, Hannelore Ehrenreich	University Medical Center Göttingen, STED Microscopy of Synaptic Function
Jiyun Shin	The Novel Functions of Synaptotagmin-1 C2 Domains	Jeong Seop Rhee, Camin Dean	MPI for Experimental Medicine, Neurophysiology Group
Lenka Vaculčiaková	The influence of cellular morphology and sub-threshold conductances on the neuronal transfer function	Fred Wolf, Tobias Moser	MPI for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Theoretical Neurophysics
Dennis Vollweiter	Formin-mediated actin assembly regulates endocytosis in hippocampal neurons	Silvio Rizzoli, Ira Milosevic	University Medical Center Göttingen, STED Microscopy of Synaptic Function
Kanishka Waghmare	Effect of PSD-95 KO on the orientation selectivity in the primary visual cortex of mice: an electrophysiological study	Siegrid Löwel, Oliver Schlüter	University of Göttingen , Systems Neuroscience
Rebecca Wallrafen	Studying Dopaminergic Synapses in Brain Tissue and Cell Culture: Molecular Composition of Tyrosine Hydroxylase-Containing Varicosities	Thomas Dresbach, Camin Dean	University Medical Center Göttingen , Anatomy and Embryology
Lukas Weiss	Plasticity of mitral-tufted cell dendrites after olfactory nerve transection in larval Xenopus laevis	Ivan Manzini, Thomas Dresbach	University Medical Center Göttingen, Neurophysiology and Cellular Biophysics
Rashad Yusifov	Morphological characterization of dendritic spines in the visual cortex of PSD-95 knockout mice	Siegrid Löwel , Oliver Schlüter	University of Göttingen , Systems Neuroscience

Master's theses 2015

Student	Title of Master's thesis	Supervisor, Co-Referee	Institution, Department
Monika Chanu Chongtham	Stroke induces gene profile changes in adult primate subventricular zone	Gregor Eichele, Anastassia Stoykova	MPI for Biophysical Chemistry, Genes and Behavior
Alexander Dieter	Optogenetic Dissection of Cortical Circuits	Jochen Staiger, Tobias Moser	University Medical Center Göttingen, Neuroanatomy
Carlos Duque Afonso	The role of harmonin for the synaptic heterogeneity of the inner hair cells	Tobias Moser, Silvio Rizzoli	University of Göttingen, InnerEarLab
Rajaram Ezhilarasan	Dissociation of neural circuitry in PSD-95-dependent cocaine-associated memories	Oliver Schlüter, Siegrid Löwel	European Neuroscience Institute Göttingen, Molecular Neurobiology
Michael Feyerabend	Characterizing Cell Type Specific Inhibitory Inputs onto Martinotti Cells in Mouse Vibrissal Somatosensory Cortex	Jochen Staiger, Oliver Schlüter	University Medical Center Göttingen, Neuroanatomy
Oli Abate Fulas	Characterization of protein-protein interactions relevant for TRPA1 mediated nociception	Manuela Schmidt, Luis Pardo	MPI for Experimental Medicine, Somatosensory Signaling
Georg Hafner	The layer- and column-specific afferent connectome of VIP expressing GABAergic interneurons in the mouse barrel cortex: a brain-wide atlas using retrograde rabies virus tracing	Jochen Staiger, Silvio Rizzoli	University Medical Center Göttingen, Neuroanatomy
Md. Rezaul Islam	Small noncoding RNAs as marker for age-associated memory decline	André Fischer, Till Marquardt	European Neuroscience Institute Göttingen, Laboratory for Aging and Cognitive Diseases
Sebastian Jähne	The Anatomy of the Average Hippocampal Neuron	Silvio Rizzoli, Manfred Lindau	University Medical Center Göttingen, STED Microscopy of Synaptic Function
Lina Maria Jaime Tobón	Role of endophilin in exocytosis and endocytosis at cochlear inner hair cells	Tobias Moser, Ira Milosevic	University of Göttingen, InnerEarLab
Thomas Offner	Calcium response profiles of glomerular regions innervated by a bifurcating olfactory receptor neuron in Xenopus laevis tadpoles	Detlev Schild, Thomas Dresbach	University Medical Center Göttingen, Molecular Neurophysiology
Özge Özcete	The non-canonical Notch ligands Dlk1 and Dlk2 in motor neurogenesis	Till Marquardt, André Fischer	European Neuroscience Institute Göttingen , Developmental Neurobiology
Foteini Paraskevopoulou	The Developmental Regulation and Localization of Frizzled Family Receptors in the Hippocampus: Screening for Roles in Axon Guidance	Erwin Neher, Manfred Lindau	MPI for Biophysical Chemistry, Membrane Biophysics
Luis Giordano Ramos Traslosheros López	Stochastic search for closed-loop measurements of spatial integration in mouse retinal ganglion cells	Tim Gollisch, Theo Geisel	University Medical Center Göttingen, Ophthalmology
Rafael Rinaldi Ferreira	Lentiviral re-targeting for in vivo neuro-optogenetics applications	Stefan Treue, Camin Dean	German Primate Center, Cognitive Neurosciences
Sura Saleh	RhoA and Cdc42 activity at the Axonal Growth Cone	Erwin Neher, Manfred Lindau	MPI for Biophysical Chemistry, Membrane Biophysics
Francesca Schönsberg	Information routing by rate fluctuations in structured neural circuits	Theo Geisel, Tim Gollisch	MPI for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Nonlinear Dynamics
Paromita Sen	The role LXR alpha in myelin debris clearance during demyelinating conditions	Mikael Simons, Hannelore Ehrenreich	MPI for Experimental Medicine, Cellular Neuroscience
Michael Siebrecht	Effects of Light Adaptation on Stimulus Encoding in Mouse Retinal Ganglion Cells	Tim Gollisch, Stefan Treue	University Medical Center Göttingen, Ophthalmology
Sebastian Sydlik	Analysis of Potential Effects of pH on Vesicle Release in Neuromuscular Junctions of Drosophila Third Instar Larvae	André Fiala, Thomas Dresbach	University of Göttingen, Molecular Neurobiology of Behavior

Master's theses 2014

Student	Title of Master's thesis	Supervisor, Co-Referee	Institution, Department
Tamer Abdelaal	The Impact of PMP22 Over-expression on Peripheral Nervous System (PNS) Myelination in vitro	Michael Sereda, Alexander Flügel	MPI for Experimental Medicine , Molecular and Translational Neurology
Andrea Adden	Characterisation of the thermoreceptive organ in the antenna of Drosophila melanogaster	Martin Göpfert, Ralf Heinrich	University of Göttingen, Cellular Neurobiology
Erika Avendano Guzmán	Studies on the role of N-truncated Aβ4-x and Aβ5-x in Alzheimer's Disease	Thomas Bayer, Silvio Rizzoli	University Medical Center Göttingen, Molecular Psychiatry
Chi Chen	Behavioral categorization of sound frequency and its neural correlates in auditory cortex of freely behaving mice	Klaus-Armin Nave, Tobias Moser	MPI for Experimental Medicine , Neurogenetics
Mariana de Souza Leao Cerdeira	Mechanisms of axonal degeneration induced by alpha-synuclein	Mathias Bähr, Alexander Flügel	University Medical Center Göttingen , Neurology
Alina Gellerer	Role of the F-box protein FBX041 in cortical development	Judith Stegmüller, Till Marquardt	MPI for Experimental Medicine, Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology
Laura Geurts	The role of the superior temporal Gyrus and the intraparietal sulcus in auditory figure-ground segregation - Evidence from transcranial magnetic stimulation	Mathias Bähr, Walter Paulus	University Medical Center Göttingen , Neurology
Diego Giraldo Sánchez	The role of rhodopsin in thermoreception and proprioception: A neuroethological approach	Martin Göpfert, Ralf Heinrich	University of Göttingen, Cellular Neurobiology
Sindhuja Gowrisankaran	Development of molecular tools to study the role of rabconnectin-3 in synaptic vesicle recycling and membrane trafficking	Ira Milosevic, Camin Dean	European Neuroscience Institute Göttingen, Synaptic Vesicle Dynamics
Sarah Lam	Deciphering the Role of Alpha-Synuclein Sub-cellular Dynamics: nuclear transport and oxidative stress	Wolfgang Brück, Mathias Bähr	University Medical Center Göttingen, Neuropathology
Florentin Masurat	The Role of Late Signaling Events in Cellular Responses of TLR4-challenged Microglial Cells	Uwe-Karsten Hanisch, Wolfgang Brück	University Medical Center Göttingen, Neuropathology
Sharlen Moore Corona	The role of myelin in sensory processing and interhemispheric information transfer	Klaus-Armin Nave, Mikael Simons	MPI for Experimental Medicine , Neurogenetics
Pratibha Narayanan	The cellular basis of epilepsy in mice with partial endophilin function	Ira Milosevic, Silvio Rizzoli	European Neuroscience Institute Göttingen, Synaptic Vesicle Dynamics
Sneha Shashidhara	Feature based attention to motion directions in the somatosensory system: A human reaction-time study	Stefan Treue, Jens Frahm	German Primate Center, Cognitive Neurosciences
Aarti Swaminathan	Role of long non-coding RNAs in the brain	André Fischer, Judith Stegmüller	European Neuroscience Institute Göttingen, Laboratory for Aging and Cognitive Diseases

Master's theses 2013

Student	Title of Master's thesis	Supervisor, Co-Referee	Institution, Department
Mohammed Adel Gomaa Sayed	NMDA-Dependent Glut1 Translocation in Oligodendrocytes	Klaus-Armin Nave, Nils Brose	MPI for Experimental Medicine , Neurogenetics
Olga Babaev	Anxiety-like behavior in NL-2 knockouts: a study of the physiological mechanism and modulation by ISMO	Nils Brose, Camin Dean	MPI for Experimental Medicine, Molecular Neurobiology
Tanvi Butola	Electrophysiological characterization of Piccolo deficient synapses in the cochlear nucleus	Tobias Moser, Stefan Hallermann	University of Göttingen, InnerEarLab
Kirsten Emmert	Influence of body posture on spatial cognition	Mathias Bähr, Walter Paulus	University Medical Center Göttingen , Neurology
Myroslav Gebura	Investigation of the biological role of miR-252	Halyna Shcherbata, André Fiala	MPI for Biophysical Chemistry, Gene expression and signaling
Annika Graß	Effects of Emotional Meaning in Written and Spoken Word Processing - An Event-Related Potential Study	Hannelore Ehrenreich, Walter Paulus	MPI for Experimental Medicine , Clinical Neurosciences
Leandra Hahn	Characterization of Novel Components at the Active Zone	André Fiala, Tobias Moser	University of Göttingen, Molecular Neurobiology of Behavior
Mohammad Hossein Khani	Spatial Characteristics of Contrast Adaptation in Mouse Retina	Tim Gollisch, Tobias Moser	University Medical Center Göttingen, Ophthalmology
Ramanathan Narayanan	Development of a novel biosensor to detect glucocorticoid signaling and stress response in vivo in zebrafish larvae	Gabriele Flügge, Anastassia Stoykova	German Primate Center, Clinical Neurobiology Laboratory
Dennis Nestvogel	Dissecting CAPS-mediated secretory vesicle priming	Nils Brose, Erwin Neher	MPI for Experimental Medicine, Molecular Neurobiology
Achintya Prahlad	Behaviour of the Protein TDP-43 in Solution	Mikael Simons, Judith Stegmüller	MPI for Experimental Medicine, Cellular Neuroscience
Samyutha Rajendran	Impact of Prenatal Stress on Pattern Separation: Role of Adult Hippocampal Neurogenesis	Gabriele Flügge, Andreas Wodarz	German Primate Center, Clinical Neurobiology Laboratory
Julio Santos Viotti	Calmodulin/Munc13-1 Dependency in Vesicle Reloading at the Cerebellar Mossy Fiber Synapse	Stefan Hallermann, Nils Brose	European Neuroscience Institute Göttingen, High-frequency Signaling
Simon Weiler	Pharmacological modulation of inner hair cell synaptic transmission	Tobias Moser, Erwin Neher	University of Göttingen, InnerEarLab
Man Ho Wong	Electrophysiological characterization of endocannabinoid receptor 1 positive interneurons in visual cortex of PSD-95 deficient mice	Oliver Schlüter, Walter Stühmer	European Neuroscience Institute Göttingen, Molecular Neurobiology

Master's theses 2012

Student	Title of Master's thesis	Supervisor, Co-Referee	Institution, Department
Bekir Altas	The Nedd4 Family Ubiquitin Ligases in Neurotransmitter Release and Dendrite Development	Nils Brose, Judith Stegmüller	MPI for Experimental Medicine, Molecular Neurobiology
Vinita Bharat	Characterization of reporters to compare synaptic and dense core vesicle exocytosis in neurons	Camin Dean, Nils Brose	European Neuroscience Institute Göttingen, Trans-synaptic Signaling
Han-Yun Chen	Characterization of ligand-induced endocytosis in the olfactory system of larvae Xenopus laevis	Detlev Schild, André Fiala	University Medical Center Göttingen, Molecular Neurophysiology
Yen-Ying Chen	Role of MiR-7 in Pax6 Regulation and Cortical Neurogenesis	Anastassia Stoykova, Till Marquardt	MPI for Biophysical Chemistry, Molecular Developmental Neurobiology
Ananya Chowdhury	Behavioural Characterization of Tcf4 Transgenic mice Subjected to Mild Chronic stress	Moritz Rossner, Thomas Bayer	MPI for Experimental Medicine , Molecular Neurobiology
Zohreh Farsi	Presynaptic Waveform Change in Eag1 Knockout Mice	Luis Pardo , Tobias Moser	MPI for Experimental Medicine, Molecular Biology of Neuronal Signals
Lauren Haag	Nerve Excitability Studies of Peripheral Neuropathies: Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease 1A	Walter Paulus, Klaus-Armin Nave	University Medical Center Göttingen , Clinical Neurophysiology
Ulrike Leipscher	Adeno-associated virus vector mediated overexpression of Methionine sulfoxide reductase A in rodent hippocampal and cortical neurons in vitro	Mathias Bähr , Mikael Simons	University Medical Center Göttingen , Neurology
Lawrence McKechnie	Identification of Transcription factor binding sites (TFBSs) in enhancers and promoters responsible for activity-regulated gene expression in cortical neurons	Moritz Rossner , Till Marquardt	MPI for Experimental Medicine , Molecular Neurobiology
Kareem Soliman	STED Nanoscopy of presynaptic cytomatrix molecules in fixed and live cultures	Camin Dean, Nils Brose	European Neuroscience Institute Göttingen, Trans-synaptic Signaling
Markus Stahlberg	Optical stimulation and imaging of sub-cellular activity using channelrhodopsins and calcium dyes	Camin Dean, Stefan Hell	European Neuroscience Institute Göttingen, Trans-synaptic Signaling
Oana Toader	Mossy cell excitability is reduced in a pre-symptomatic genetic mouse model of epilepsy	Nils Brose , Tobias Moser	MPI for Experimental Medicine, Molecular Neurobiology
Siv Vingill	Biochemical and functional analysis of F-box only protein 7 (FBXO7) in neurons	Judith Stegmüller , Thomas Bayer	MPI for Experimental Medicine, Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology

Master's theses 2011

Student	Title of Master's thesis	Supervisor, Co-Referee	Institution, Department
Sarah-Anna Hescham	Assessing psychoactivity of the MDMA analogue 6-F-MDMA as potential medicinal agent	Thomas Bayer, André Fischer	University of Göttingen, Molecular Psychiatry
Hung-En Hsia	The Nedd4 Ubiquitin Ligase Subfamily in Rodent Brain Development	Nils Brose , André Fischer	MPI for Experimental Medicine, Molecular Neurobiology
Ziqiang Huang	Study on the Recovery Effect of adult neurogenesis in DG after Suppression by Temozolomide	Thomas Bayer, Anastassia Stoykova	University of Göttingen, Molecular Psychiatr y
Oleksandr Korolov	Study of novel glia specific function using Drosophila as a model system	Mikael Simons, Halyna Shcherbata	MPI for Experimental Medicine , Cellular Neuroscience
Este Leidmaa	Lsamp-/-mice display lower dopamine transporter gene expression and altered behaviour in response to amphetamine and cocaine	André Fischer, Gabriele Flügge	European Neuroscience Institute Göttingen, Laboratory for Aging and Cognitive Diseases
Chaitali Mukherjee	Biochemical and Epigenetic analysis of the F-box protein FBX041	Judith Stegmüller , Mikael Simons	MPI for Experimental Medicine, Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology
Christina Reetz	Investigation of myelin basic protein dependent phosphatidylinositol(4,5)bisphosphate distribution in primary oligodendrocytes and solid-supported lipid bilayers	Mikael Simons, Andreas Wodarz	MPI for Experimental Medicine, Cellular Neuroscience

Master's theses 2010

Student	Title of Master's thesis	Supervisor, Co-Referee	Institution, Department
Malte Frederick Alf	Accelerated Mapping of the Neurometabolic Profile of Ischemia in Mice at 14.1 Tesla	Hannelore Ehrenreich, Jens Frahm	MPI for Experimental Medicine , Clinical Neurosciences
I-Wen Chen	Modeling of Calcium Channel Inactiviation in the Calyx of Held	Erwin Neher , Fred Wolf	MPI for Biophysical Chemistry, Membrane Biophysics
Carolina Medeiros Cunha	Identification of Neuroligin-2 and -3 Protein Interactors	Nils Brose , Hannelore Ehrenreich	MPI for Experimental Medicine, Molecular Neurobiology
Srinivas Gorur Shandilya	Relating Topology and Dynamics in Neuronal Networks	Fred Wolf, André Fiala	MPI for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Theoretical Neurophysics
Xiaojie Huang	Electrophysiological characterization of homeostatic synapse-driven membrane plasticity in hippocampus CA1 pyramidal cells	Oliver Schlüter , Erwin Neher	European Neuroscience Institute Göttingen, Molecular Neurobiology
Cordelia Imig	Synaptic connectivity of horizontal cells in the mouse retina	Nils Brose , Judith Stegmüller	MPI for Experimental Medicine, Molecular Neurobiology
Zhizi Jing	Auditory Nerve Fiber Rate Adaptation and Inner Hair Cell Synapse Vesicle Pool Dynamics	Tobias Moser, Martin Göpfert	University of Göttingen, InnerEarLab
Maria Eleni Kastriti	Study of the transcription factor Lilliputian during the development of Drosophila melanogaster	Andreas Wodarz , Silvio Rizzoli	University of Göttingen, Stem Cell Biology
Jatin Nagpal	Characterization of Channelrhodopsin responses to fluctuating and constant light stimuli	Fred Wolf, Walter Stühmer	MPI for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Theoretical Neurophysics
Srinivas Parthasarathy	Role of Sip-1 and Layer VI, Subplate in Cortical Connectivity	Victor Tarabykin , Till Marquardt	MPI for Experimental Medicine , Molecular Biology of Neuronal Signals
Nicolas Snaidero	Exploring techniques for 3D electron microscopy studies on myelination and features of axonal morphology	Klaus-Armin Nave , Mikael Simons	MPI for Experimental Medicine , Neurogenetics
Swathi Srivatsa	Expression and function of Olig3 in the hindbrain	Till Marquardt , Victor Tarabykin	European Neuroscience Institute Göttingen , Developmental Neurobiology
Benjamin G. Wilhelm	Repeated recycling of single synaptic vesicles	Silvio Rizzoli, Michael Hörner	European Neuroscience Institute Göttingen , STED Microscopy of Synaptic Function

Master's theses 2009

Student	Title of Master's thesis	Supervisor, Co-Referee	Institution, Department
Hope Yao Agbemenyah	Characterization of Genetically Modified MeCP2 Neurons	Wolfgang Engel, Swen Hülsmann	University of Göttingen , Human Genetics
Derya Akad	Phosphorylation of PSD-95 as a Mechanism to Regulate Signaling Scaffolds	Oliver Schlüter, Walter Stühmer	European Neuroscience Institute Göttingen, Molecular Neurobiology
Irina Ionescu	Inducing the early-onset, inflammatory phenotype of demyelinating cerebral childhood adrenoleukodystrophy (CCALD) in the Abcd1null-mouse model of X-ALD	Klaus-Armin Nave, Victor Tarabykin	MPI for Experimental Medicine , Neurogenetics
Sadim Jawhar	Studies on Pyroglutamate-Modified Abeta and Glutaminyl Cyclase in Mouse Models of Alzheimer’s Disease	André Fischer, Hannelore Ehrenreich	European Neuroscience Institute Göttingen , Laboratory for Aging and Cognitive Diseases
Natalia Manrique Hoyos	Proteomic analysis of myelin in aging and demyelinating disease	Mikael Simons, Wolfgang Brück	MPI for Experimental Medicine , Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology - Membrane Biology
Chor Hoon Poh	Postnatal development of perisomatic inhibition to pyramidal neurons in prefrontal cortex of mouse	Weiqi Zhang, Michael Hörner	University of Göttingen , Neuro- and Sensory Physiology
Andreas Schindler	Monocular Signals and Utrocular Discrimination in the Human Visual System	Stefan Treue, Jens Frahm	German Primate Center, Cognitive Neuroscience

Master's theses 2008

Student	Title of Master's thesis	Supervisor, Co-Referee	Institution, Department
Christoph Anacker	Prostaglandin E2 EP1 and EP4 receptors: Opposing cellular actions in neonatal Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy and involvement of a PKA/ β-Catenin signalling mechanism in EP4 mediated neuroprotection	Jörg B. Schulz, Stefan Eimer	University of Göttingen , Neurodegeneration
Dario Arcos-Díaz	The role of DNA methylation in the extinction of learned fear	André Fischer, Oliver Schlüter	European Neuroscience Institute Göttingen, Laboratory for Aging and Cognitive Diseases
David Hermann	Glutamateric synaptic transmission and short-term plasticity but not sharp wave-ripple complexes are impaired in APPswe overexpressing mice	Oliver Schlüter, Jörg B. Schulz	European Neuroscience Institute Göttingen, Molecular Neurobiology
Johann Sebastian Richter	Activity-dependent secretion of amyloid precursor protein and stimulated exocytosis of multivesicular bodies in rat hippocampal neurons	Jürgen Klingauf, Erwin Neher	MPI for Biophysical Chemistry, Membrane Biophysics
Jessica Wittnam	The Role of HDAC 1 in the Extinction of Conditioned Fear	André Fischer, Oliver Schlüter	European Neuroscience Institute Göttingen, Laboratory for Aging and Cognitive Diseases

Master's theses 2007

Student	Title of Master's thesis	Supervisor, Co-Referee	Institution, Department
Jin Bao	Information content of synapses with realistic short-term dynamics	Erwin Neher, Fred Wolf	MPI for Biophysical Chemistry, Membrane Biophysics
Agnieszka Burzynska	White matter microstructure in CNS of mouse models of neurodegeneration - a correlation of MRI and histopathology	Jens Frahm, Klaus-Armin Nave	MPI for Biophysical Chemistry, Biomedical Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Ltd.
Minou Susan Djannatian	Monitoring the activation of G protein-coupled receptors using Split-TEV	Klaus-Armin Nave, Nils Brose	MPI for Experimental Medicine, Neurogenetics
Kalina Draganova	Discrimination of Prion Strains Using Luminescent Conjugated Polyelectrolytes	Kerstin Krieglstein, Fred Wouters	University of Göttingen, Neuroanatomy
Thomas Frank	Confocal Microscopy of the Calcium Influx at the Hair Cell's Afferent Synapse	Tobias Moser, Detlev Schild	University of Göttingen, InnerEarLab
Sebastian Gliem	Optical characterization of amine olfactory receptors in larval Xenopus laevis	Detlev Schild, Ralf Heinrich	University of Göttingen, Neurophysiology and Cellular Biophysics
Christian Henrich	Inferring Neural Network Connectivity from Dynamical Response Measurements	Theo Geisel, Fred Wolf	MPI for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Nonlinear Dynamics
Burcu Kasapoglu	Molecular characterization of a novel myelin protein, the NAD⁺-dependent deacetylase SIRT2	Klaus-Armin Nave, Nils Brose	MPI for Experimental Medicine, Neurogenetics
Manuel Koch	Physiology of the organotypic culture of the organ of Corti	Tobias Moser, Jakob Soerensen	University of Göttingen, InnerEarLab
Ewa Ratajczak	Imaging studies on transmembrane topology of CLN3	Fred Wouters, Evgeni Ponimaskin	European Neuroscience Institute Göttingen, Cell Biophysics
Florian Rüßmann	Tau at the plasma membrane	Fred Wouters, Mathias Bähr	European Neuroscience Institute Göttingen, Cell Biophysics
Andrea Wirmer	Involvement of nitric oxide in the reproductive behavior of female Chorthippus biguttulus	Ralf Heinrich, Andreas Stumpner	University of Göttingen, Neurobiology

Master's theses 2006

Student	Title of Master's thesis	Supervisor, Co-Referee	Institution, Department
Ioanna Bethani	Characterization of SNARE interactions from the early endosomal compartment	Reinhard Jahn, Nils Brose	MPI for Biophysical Chemistry, Neurobiology
Thorsten Döppner	Effects on TAT-Bcl_xl-mediated neuroprotection on endogenous neurogenesis after focal cerebral ischemia in mice	Mathias Bähr, Kerstin Krieglstein	University of Göttingen, Neurology
Eva Eismann	Generation and in vitro Characterization of EGFP-tagged Neurexophilin 3 and Neurexophilin 4	Markus Missler, Kerstin Krieglstein	University of Göttingen, Neuro- and Sensory Physiology
Yunyun Han	Towards an Understanding of Functional, Morphological and Molecular Properties of Bushy Cells of the Rat Ventral Cochlear Neurons	Ralf Schneggenburger, Erwin Neher	École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland, Brain Mind Institute
Annette Heinrich	Effect of the Mood Stabilizer Lithium on the Interaction between the Transcription Factor CREB and its Coactivator TORC as Revealed by a Cell-Free Assay System	Willhart Knepel, Gabriele Flügge	University of Göttingen, Molecular Pharmacology
Aycan Sentürk	Reelin and ephrin signalling during cortical development	Klaus-Armin Nave, Stephan Sigrist	MPI for Experimental Medicine, Neurogenetics
Alexander Walter	Characterization of the Spinal Locomotor Network in the Adult Zebrafish	Diethelm Richter, Tobias Moser	University of Göttingen, Neuro- and Sensory Physiology

Master's theses 2005

Student	Title of Master's thesis	Supervisor, Co-Referee	Institution, Department
Amit Agarwal	Role of Neuregulin1 in oligodendroglial survival and axonal maintenance	Klaus-Armin Nave, Mathias Bähr	MPI for Experimental Medicine, Neurogenetics
Tsai-Wen Chen	In-situ background intensity estimation in quantitative fluorescence imaging	Detlev Schild, Edgar Brunner	University of Göttingen, Molecular Neurophysiology
Jasmin Roya Djannatian	Time frame of pneumolysin-induced mitochondrial dysfunction and mitochondrial protection by lithium chloride in neuronal cells	Fred Wouters, Mathias Bähr	European Neuroscience Institute Göttingen, Cell Biophysics
Stephan Junek	Using glass fibres for measuring fast dynamics of fluorescent dyes	Detlev Schild, Walter Stühmer	University of Göttingen, Molecular Neurophysiology
Michael Kunst	The NO/cGMP signalling pathway in the central body complex of insects	Ralf Heinrich, Gabriele Flügge	University of Göttingen, Neurobiology
Schanila Nawaz	New approaches to in vitro myelination	Klaus-Armin Nave, Reinhard Jahn	MPI for Experimental Medicine, Neurogenetics
Francisca v. Saint Paul	Circuit analysis of experience-dependent plasticity in the neocortex using laser scanning photostimulation in acute brain slices	Karel Svoboda, Erwin Neher	Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA, Svoboda Group
Arwed Weigel	Resolution in the ApoTome and the CLSM: a comparison	Detlev Schild, Walter Stühmer	University of Göttingen, Neuro- and Sensory Physiology
Klaus Wunderlich	Neural correlates of binocular rivalry in the human lateral geniculate nucleus	Stefan Treue, Gerd Lüer	German Primate Center, Cognitive Neuroscience
Le Xiao	Role of cholesterol in neurite outgrowth of cerebellar granule cells in vitro	Klaus-Armin Nave, Reinhard Jahn	MPI for Experimental Medicine, Neurogenetics

Master's theses 2004

Student	Title of Master's thesis	Supervisor, Co-Referee	Institution / Department
Katharina Anton-Erxleben	Psychophysics and functional brain imaging of attentional modulation	Stefan Treue, Jens Frahm	German Primate Center, Cognitive Neuroscience
Jayeeta Basu	Energetics and kinetics of neurotransmitter release in hippocampal neuronal autapses	Christian Rosenmund, Erwin Neher	Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA, Molecular and Human Genetics
Irina Dudanova	Discrete structural abnormalities in the brains of adult α-neurexin double knockout mice may reflect long-term consequences of impaired synaptic transmission	Markus Missler, Kerstin Krieglstein	University of Göttingen, Neuro- and Sensory Physiology
Bao-Guo Hsieh	Construction and expression of EGFP-neurexin fusion proteins	Markus Missler, Stephan Sigrist	University of Göttingen, Neuro- and Sensory Physiology
Dragana Jancic	Functional characterisation of the role of Smad5 in the development of mammalian forebrain	Walter Stühmer, Kerstin Krieglstein	MPI for Experimental Medicine, Molecular Biology of Neuronal Signals
Zaved Ahmed Khan	Regulation of the CDK inhibitor p21 by tyrosine kinases	Ludger Hengst, Walter Stühmer	MPI of Biochemistry, Munich, Regulation of Cell Profileration
Bibhash Mukhopadhyay	Computational prediction and experimental validation of modular transcriptional enhancer elements regulating gene expression during eye development in Drosophila melanogaster	Ulrike Gaul, Anastassia Stoykova	The Rockefeller University, New York, USA, Developmental Neurogenetics
Primoz Pirih	Optimisation of analysis of non-stationary fluctuations of exocytotic capacitance changes in mouse inner heir cells	Tobias Moser, Jürgen Klingauf	University of Göttingen, InnerEarLab

Master's theses 2003

Student	Title of Master's thesis	Supervisor, Co-Referee	Institution / Department
Pinar Boyraz	Visual perception and illusions of speed of motion in human subjects	Stefan Treue, Uwe Jürgens	German Primate Center, Cognitive Neuroscience
Ajit Singh Dhaunchak	Intracellular trafficking of PLP and ist mutated isoforms	Klaus-Armin Nave, Harald Neumann	MPI for Experimental Medicine, Neurogenetics
José Tiago Goncalves	Use of FRET for detection of interactions between subunits of hEAG1 and hEAG2 voltage-gated potassium channels	Walter Stühmer, Fred Wouters	MPI for Experimental Medicine, Molecular Biology of Neuronal Signals
Garrit Jentsch	A minimal model of chemical signal transduction	Reiner Kree, Erwin Neher	University of Göttingen, Theoretical Physics
Ira Milosevic	Plasma membrane microdomains of proteins and lipids involved in exocytosis	Erwin Neher, Reinhard Jahn	MPI for Biophysical Chemistry, Membrane Biophysics
Vardanush Sargsyan	α-Neurexins as key modulators of synaptic Ca²⁺-channel function	Weiqi Zhang, Reinhard Jahn	University of Göttingen, Neuro- and Sensory Physiology

Master's theses 2002

Student	Title of Master's thesis	Supervisor, Co-Referee	Institution / Department
Yaisa Andrews	Interaction between the active zone components Munc13-1 and RIM1: Definition of binding sites using a random mutagenesis approach	Nils Brose, Reinhard Jahn	MPI for Experimental Medicine, Molecular Neurobiology
Beatriz Campo Fernandez	Experience-dependent plasticity of drosophila neuromuscular junctions	Herbert Jäckle, Marjan Rupnik	MPI for Biophysical Chemistry, Molecular Developmental Biology
Urs Heilbronner	α2B-Adrenoceptor expression in cells of the tree shrew (Tupaia belangeri) thalamus: Co-Localization with GABA- and glutamate-like immunoreactivity	Friedrich-Wilhelm Schürmann, Eberhard Fuchs	German Primate Center, Neurobiology
Martin Wienisch	A slow endocytosis pathway in hippocampal synapses	Erwin Neher, Detlev Schild	MPI for Biophysical Chemistry, Membrane Biophysics