Project Details
Projekt
GRK 1097: Interdisciplinary Approaches in Cellular Neurosciences (InterNeuro)
Subject Area
Neurosciences
Term
from 2005 to 2014
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 452039
In the Research Training Group, research teams at institutes and clinics of the Medical Faculty, of the Faculty for Biosciences, Pharmacy, and Psychology, and of the Faculty for Physics and Geosciences, as well as at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences offer the fellows an internationally appreciated training in method-oriented neuroscientific research. Moreover, the fellows will be enabled to perform an efficient interdisciplinary communication and cooperation, as a crucial precondition for their future research activities.
This will be guaranteed by establishing cooperative research projects which are devoted to elucidate problems such as the developmental biomechanics of the fovea centralis of the retina, light-guidance properties of retinal cells, active biomechanics of neuronal growth cones, the role of neuronal calcium signalling, etc. In these projects, each fellow will be jointly supervised by two principal investigators. As a rule, this tandem supervision will involve one life and one natural scientist, and will guarantee the appropriate use of the specialised methods necessary to solve a given scientific problem: Among these are laser technologies such as the Optical Stretcher and confocal and multiphoton laser microscopy, biophysical methods such as fluorescence life time (FLIM) and fluorescence recovery measurements (FRAP), ion nanoprobe, bioreactors, and atomic force microscopy (AFM), biochemical methods such as microarray analysis and AlphaScreen technology, as well as high-tech medical methods such as retina microsurgery and optical coherence tomography (OCT) and mathematical methods for modelling and analysis of complex phenomena in biology.
The specialised combination of methods and models will be supplemented by a systematic course of study, which consists of lectures, seminars, colloquia, and technical courses, and will involve internationally leading guest scientists. In particular, the lecture series - representing the entire field of neurosciences on selected topics - is aimed at a comprehensive systematic training of the fellows. Special emphasis will be put on the training of scientific communication (winter school, instructions, exercises).
This will be guaranteed by establishing cooperative research projects which are devoted to elucidate problems such as the developmental biomechanics of the fovea centralis of the retina, light-guidance properties of retinal cells, active biomechanics of neuronal growth cones, the role of neuronal calcium signalling, etc. In these projects, each fellow will be jointly supervised by two principal investigators. As a rule, this tandem supervision will involve one life and one natural scientist, and will guarantee the appropriate use of the specialised methods necessary to solve a given scientific problem: Among these are laser technologies such as the Optical Stretcher and confocal and multiphoton laser microscopy, biophysical methods such as fluorescence life time (FLIM) and fluorescence recovery measurements (FRAP), ion nanoprobe, bioreactors, and atomic force microscopy (AFM), biochemical methods such as microarray analysis and AlphaScreen technology, as well as high-tech medical methods such as retina microsurgery and optical coherence tomography (OCT) and mathematical methods for modelling and analysis of complex phenomena in biology.
The specialised combination of methods and models will be supplemented by a systematic course of study, which consists of lectures, seminars, colloquia, and technical courses, and will involve internationally leading guest scientists. In particular, the lecture series - representing the entire field of neurosciences on selected topics - is aimed at a comprehensive systematic training of the fellows. Special emphasis will be put on the training of scientific communication (winter school, instructions, exercises).
DFG Programme
Research Training Groups
Applicant Institution
Universität Leipzig
Participating Institution
Max-Planck-Institut für Kognitions- und Neurowissenschaften; Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik in den Naturwissenschaften (MIS)
Spokesperson
Professor Dr. Andreas Reichenbach
Participating Researchers
Professor Dr. Thomas Arendt; Professor Dr. Andreas Bringmann; Professor Dr. Tilman Butz; Professor Dr. Jens-Karl Eilers; Professor Dr. Manfred Heckmann; Professor Dr. Jürgen Jost; Professor Dr. Josef Alfons Käs; Professorin Dr. Andrea A. Robitzki; Professor Dr. Rudolf Rübsamen; Professor Dr. Michael Schaefer; Professor Dr. Torsten Schöneberg; Professor Dr. Peter Wiedemann
