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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