July 11, 2011
Recently, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Council) approved a proposal for a new SFB (Collaborative Research Center) entitled "Multi-site brain communication" (see also press release by the UKE). This multidisciplinary approach to the study of functional brain connectivity, which was initiated by the coordinators Prof. Dr. Andreas Engel and Prof. Dr. Christian Gerloff (University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf), includes research teams of the Universities of Hamburg, Lübeck, and Oldenburg.
The aim of our project within this SFB initiative (SFB 936) is to investigate the molecular, cellular, and network mechanisms underlying information transfer in the entorhinal cortex-hippocampus circuitry during memory consolidation and retrieval. The focus of this project, which is headed by Fabio Morellini and Dirk Isbrandt, will be to find out how neuronal and network activities within and between the EC and hippocampus regulate memory consolidation and retrieval, and whether these functions are determined by the intrinsic resonance properties of specific neuronal populations.
The aim of our project within this SFB initiative (SFB 936) is to investigate the molecular, cellular, and network mechanisms underlying information transfer in the entorhinal cortex-hippocampus circuitry during memory consolidation and retrieval. The focus of this project, which is headed by Fabio Morellini and Dirk Isbrandt, will be to find out how neuronal and network activities within and between the EC and hippocampus regulate memory consolidation and retrieval, and whether these functions are determined by the intrinsic resonance properties of specific neuronal populations.
June 1, 2010
In cooperation with the University of Münster, we succeeded in identifying a homozygous SCN5A mutation in a severe, recessive type of cardiac conduction disease. The authors of the study, Axel Neu et al., report on four children who are carriers of a novel SCN5A mutation that causes a new type of complex cardiac arrhythmia. The paper appeared online in Human Mutation (read on).