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Our PhD student, Mirja Thomsen, has been awarded a Visiting Scientist Program Sponsorship from the Global Parkinson’s Genetics Program (GP2). This sponsorship will support her three-month research visit at the National Institute on Aging (NIA), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, USA. During her time at NIA, Mirja will join the […]

From March to June 2024, Alicia Wenghöfer, BSc, Research Technologist, carried out an internship at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Maryland, USA, as part of the Global Parkinson´s Genetics Program GP2. Within her 3-month stay, Alicia learned new methods of processing human DNA samples and generating long-read sequencing data to better understand the

The Institute of Neurogenetics welcomes André Fienemann, a Master’s student from the Molecular Life Science program at the University of Lübeck. André is starting an internship with PD Dr. Joanne Trinh in the group “Integrative Omics Approaches in Parkinson’s Disease”. His previous work includes an internship focused on bulk RNA Sequencing data and tuberculosis susceptibility.André

The Institute of Neurogenetics warmly welcomes Letizia Santinelli. Letizia holds a double Master’s Degree in Medical Biotechnologies from the University of Padua and Molecular Medicine from the University of Ulm. Her research in Ulm focused on the “Investigation of the morphological and molecular effect of the phosphatase PTEN in primary murine Schwann cells”. At the

We welcome Teresa Kleinz to the Institute of Neurogenetics as a clinician scientist. Teresa completed her medical studies at the Ruhr-University Bochum, with further academic stints in Rome and Bologna. Her experience includes working on her doctoral thesis on atypical Parkinsonian syndromes at St. Josef’s Hospital and as a student assistant at the Center for

We are pleased to announce that on February 6, 2024, Dr. Seibler delivered his Inaugural Lecture, entitled “Zellen im Wandel: Personalisierte Zellmodelle für neurologische Erkrankungen durch Reprogrammierung”. The lecture addressed topics of Dr. Seibler’s research approach including the technique of reprogramming patients’ somatic cells into induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) and the subsequent differentiation into

Lübeck is represented on the DFG review boards by these five researchers. Curiosity, innovative spirit and thirst for knowledge: funding decisions according to scientific standards The German Research Foundation’s (DFG) review board selection process for 2023 is over. From October 23 to November 20, around 150,000 eligible researchers could vote online to fill 649 places

Last Tuesday, the Institute of Neurogenetics celebrated the festive season with a Christmas breakfast and “Dirty Santa” game. We were honored to have Prof. Katerina Markopoulou and her family join us for the breakfast after her outstanding talk on deep brain stimulation in PD. We are wishing everyone a joyful holiday season and a prosperous new year

Max Borsche from the Institute of Neurogenetics and Department of Neurology received ~300.000€ from the Else Kröner-Fresenius-Stifung (EKFS) to conduct a longitudinal investigation of inflammatory markers and alpha-synuclein pathology in (monogenic) Parkinson’s disease. 

The Institute of Neurogenetics warmly welcomes Dr. Natlada Limotai, a distinguished neurologist and movement disorder consultant from Bangkok, Thailand, to our team. Dr. Limotai’s educational background began in Thailand, where she completed her medical studies and neurology residency. She expanded her expertise through research and clinical fellowships in movement disorders at the University of Florida,