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Sokhna Haissatou Diaw from the University of Trieste (Italy) has joined the Institute of Neurogenetics for a seven-month internship, starting from April 2019. She was awarded with the Erasmus fellowship and joined the research team “Genetics of Rare Diseases” (Group leader Prof. Dr. Katja Lohmann).

Jana Quismundo is a recent graduate of BS Molecular Biology and Biotechnology from the University of the Philippines. Back home, she has spent nearly three years studying a Filipino-specific neurodegenerative disease called X-linked dystonia-parkinsonism (XDP).She will be joining the institute under the group of PD Dr. Ana Westenberger for 4 months to continue studying the

In March, we welcomed Giuliana Cesare in the Drosophila laboratory. Giuliana is a master student from the University of Palma (Italy) and she was awarded with the Erasmus fellowship. She will stay for 6 months with us and will join our team to study the mechanisms of reduced penetrance in Parkinson’s disease.​

Add Your Heading Text Here für 40-45 Std./Monat. Studierende, die Freude an einem vielseitigen Arbeitsplatz haben und ihr sorfältiges Organisationstalent im klinisch-genetischen Kontext anwenden wollen, sind in unserem Team herzlich willkommen. Aufgaben:Administrative Unterstützung der Projektkoordinatorin, das beinhaltet u.a.: -Beteiligung an der Illustration und Ablage von Daten, sowie Datenpflege, -Vorarbeiten zur Organisation interner und externer Arbeitsabläufe,

As of January 2019, Prof. Klein succeeds Prof. Gereon R. Fink as the first female President of the German Neurological Society. Source: https://www.uni-luebeck.de/aktuelles/pressemitteilung/artikel/prof-christine-klein-neue-praesidentin-der-deutschen-gesellschaft-fuer-neurologie.html

During the two-day conference (10-11 December) nearly 120 participants came together to share and discuss data and research ideas and to set up new collaborative efforts related to reduced penetrance.

Jannik Prasuhn has been awarded the ‚DGN Video Prize‘ for movement disorders of the German Neurological Society (DGN) for his case report ‚Whole Exome Sequencing – Gold Standard for Diagnosing Dystonia-Parkinsonism?‘.

Charles Jourdan Reyes has been awarded the ‚Movement Disorder Poster Prize‘ by the German Neurological Society (DGN) for his work entitled “The role of hexanucleotide repeat expansions in mutated TAF1 in modifying disease expressivity of X-linked dystonia-parkinsonism”.