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A PhD position in the area of in vivo imaging of the rodent nervous system is available in the Misgeld lab at TUM’s Institute of Neuronal Cell Biology. The position is available starting earliest 1.9.2022.

The Misgeld lab at the Institute of Neuronal Cell Biology of Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the German Center for Neurodegenerative Disease (DZNE) develops and uses cutting-edge in vivo imaging and omics tools to study axon homeostasis and degeneration with a focus on neuronal cell biology and axon-glial interactions. We are interested in the mechanisms that establish and maintain axonal health, as well as in the processes that cause axon pathology during neurodegeneration and -inflammation (in diseases such as Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or spinal cord injury).

As part of our Advanced and Early Clinician Scientist Programmes, we are happy to welcome and support Dr. Mihai Ancau and Dr. Kolja Meier as successful applicants to our TRR274 for the funding year 2022. 

Dr. Kolja Meier, our newest Early Clinician Scientist applicant, is a resident clinician in the Klinik für Kinder- und Jugendmedizin at the University Medical Center Göttingen and will work under supervision of Prof. Jutta Gärtner, while Dr. Mihai Ancau, part of the Advanced Clinician Scientist Programme, works as a resident at the Department of Neurology at Klinikum rechts der Isar in Munich and will work under supervision of Prof. Thomas Misgeld.

 

As part of our Advanced and Early Clinician Scientist Programmes, we are happy to welcome and support Dr. Lara Marten Knöferle and Dr. Katharina Eisenhut as successful applicants to our TRR274 in 2021. 

Dr. Lara Marten, who succesfully applied to the Advanced Clinician Scientist Programme, is a resident clinician in the Klinik für Kinder- und Jugendmedizin at the University Medical Center Göttingen and will work under supervision of Prof. Jutta Gärtner, while Dr. Katharina Eisenhut works as a resident at the Klinikum der Universität München and will be mentored and supervised by Prof. Kerschensteiner as part of the Early Clinician Scientist Programme.

As part of our Advanced and Early Clinician Scientist Programmes, we are proud to welcome and support Dr. Johanna Knöferle and Dr. Jonas Franz as our first successful applicants to our TRR274. The Clinician Scientist Programme of the TRR274 is set to sponsor and encourage young medical professionals, who foster a deep interest and drive to participate in the scientific field and do science, to do so in parallel to their medical training.

We are happy to welcome Dr. Li Gan as our first in person visitor and speaker on site in Munich! Dr. Gan is a Burton P. and Judith B. Resnick Distinguished Professor in Neurodegenerative Diseases, as well as Director at the Helen and Robert Appel Alzheimer’s Disease Research Institute at Weill Cornell Medicine. She will give a talk titled "Proteostasis, Innate Immunity and Cognitive Resilience in Tauopathy" 
You can join the seminar both over Zoom or in person in the big seminar room (U1 155) at the Institut für Schlaganfall- und Demenzforschung (ISD)

We are happy to welcome Ari Waisman, Director of the Institute for Molecular Medicine, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, as our next guest speaker! He will be giving a talk titled "Where and how IL-17 regulates CNS autoimmunity".
The seminar will be hosted by our TRR 274 PI Thomas Korn.