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- August 25th, 2022, Andrej Kral, MD, PhD, "Deciphering the auditory connectome in hearing and congenital deafness"[more]
- October 5th - 7th,OPTOGENETICS CONFERENCE & SUMMERSCHOOL, Presentations by members of the SPP1926 [more]
- October 14th, 2022, Prof. Jan Schnupp, PhD, "Rethinking Binaural Hearing Through Cochlear Implants"[more]
Neurotalks: the upcoming neuroscience talks in Göttingen [more]
- Currently we do not have open positions [more]
- Land Niedersachsen fördert die vorklinische Entwicklung des optischen Cochlea Implantats[more]
- Restoring Hearing With Beams Of Light[more]
- Wissen erkennt – Nacht des Wissens an der UMG[more]
- Europäische Spitzenförderung zur Erforschung des Hörens[more]
- "Tierversuche an Affen: Diskussion zum Tag des Versuchstiers"[more]
- Gutes Hören ist wichtig für die Lebensqualität[more]
- It´s the rhythm that counts [more]
- Mit zunehmendem Alter wird oft das Gehör schlechter [more]
- Göttinger Foscherinnen untersuchen, wie das Gehirn sich anpasst [more]
- DFG extends neurobiological research group at the University of Göttingen [more]
- Göttingen researchers investigate the effect of certain enzymes in the healthy and diseased brain [more]
- GGPS1-associated muscular dystrophy with and without hearing loss. [more]
- Is there an unmet medical need for improved hearing restoration? [more]
- Biallelic variants in WARS1 cause a highly variable neurodevelopmental syndrome and implicate a critical exon for normal auditory function. [more]
- WARS1 and SARS1: two tRNA synthetases implicated in autosomal recessive microcephaly. [more]
- BCImat: a Matlab-based framework for Intracortical Brain-Computer Interfaces and their simulation with an artificial spiking neural network.[more]
- Visualization of learning-induced synaptic plasticity in output neurons of the Drosophila mushroom body γ-lobe. [more]
- Statistical determinants of visuomotor adaptation along different dimensions during naturalistic 3D reaches. [more]
- Retinal Encoding of Natural Scenes. [more]
- Biallelic KITLG variants lead to a distinct spectrum of hypomelanosis and sensorineural hearing loss. [more]
- Genome-wide association meta-analysis identifies 48 risk variants and highlights the role of the stria vascularis in hearing loss. [more]
- Retinal receptive-field substructure: scaffolding for coding and computation. [more]
- Ca 2+-permeable AMPA receptors set the threshold for retrieval of drug memories. [more]
- Autosomal dominant non-syndromic hearing loss maps to DFNA33 (13q34) and co-segregates with splice and frameshift variants in ATP11A, a phospholipid flippase gene. [more]
- Methods for multiscale structural and functional analysis of the mammalian cochlea. [more]
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The interdisciplinary Collaborative Research Center 889 “Cellular Mechanisms of Sensory Processing” was established by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG), took effect beginning January 1st, 2011, and was prolonged for another four years beginning January 1st, 2019.
Summary of SFB 889:
Processing of sensory information is the basis of our interaction with the outside world and sensory deficits remain a major concern and serious burden for public health. This CRC will take a multidisciplinary and integrative approach to elucidate cellular mechanisms of processing sensory information. Sensory cells and neurons feature specialized signaling machinery achieving remarkable performance, which when disturbed result in sensory dysfunction. We will study sensory transduction, synaptic transmission, neuronal plasticity and the function of neuronal networks from the level of protein complexes to behavior. Combining molecular perturbations with analysis of morphology and function of sensory systems and mathematical modeling, we will contribute to a comprehensive understanding of sensory processing and its disorders. Working on flies, rodents and primates and comparing audition, vision, olfaction and somatosensation we will explore common principles and decipher specialized mechanisms of sensory processing. Intensifying pre-existing and initiating collaborations among scientists from various university and non-university institutions is key to accomplishing our ambitious research plan.
Goals of the SFB 889 are:
- Characterization of the specialized supramolecular machinery of sensory transduction and synaptic transmission
- Unravelling of mechanisms of neuronal plasticity in sensory systems
- An improved understanding of integration and representation of sensory information in the CNS
- To contribute to an improved understanding of sensory deficits and the development of therapeutic approaches



