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by Linda Faye Tidwell
Call for Applications - ECN PhD program
As of today the ECN application portal is open for applications! The program (PhD program/Fast-track PhD program) is starting in fall 2021. Application closing date is: January 11, 2021.
Have a look at how to apply and join Berlins neuroscience community!!
by Linda Faye Tidwell
How SARS-CoV-2 reaches the brain
Using post-mortem tissue samples, a team of researchers from Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin have studied the mechanisms by which the novel coronavirus can reach the brains of patients with COVID-19, and how the immune system responds to the virus once it does. The results, which show that SARS-CoV-2 enters the brain via nerve cells in the olfactory mucosa, have been published in Nature Neuroscience*. For the first time, researchers have been able to produce electron microscope images of intact coronavirus particles inside the olfactory mucosa.
by Linda Faye Tidwell
A new generation of optogenetic tools for research and medicine
The European Research Council (ERC) is providing 10 million euros in funding for an interdisciplinary, collaborative project to structurally and biophysically analyze selected photo-receptors and develop them into “OptoGPCRs”, light-controlled molecular switches with a wide range of applications in biology and medicine.
Read more … A new generation of optogenetic tools for research and medicine
by Linda Faye Tidwell
Surprising insights into the role of autophagy in neurons
It appears that autophagy protects our neurons in the brain, but evidently for entirely different reasons than previously assumed, as researchers from the Leibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP) and Charité in Berlin have now shown. These fundamentally new findings have now been published in the prestigious journal “Neuron”.
Read more … Surprising insights into the role of autophagy in neurons