Cooperating Researchers - Dietmar Schmitz

POSITION AT CILS

PI

 

DISCIPLINES / RESEARCH AREAS

Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology: cellular and molecular mechanisms of synaptic plasticity, mechanisms and function of short-term and long-term plasticity at the hippocampal mossy fiber synapse, modulation and development of synaptic transmission, plasticity and neuronal networks, homeostatic plasticity, hyperexcitability, epilepsy
'Synaptopathy' in neurological-psychiatric disorders: epilepsy, Alzheimer's disease, mental retardation, autism

 

OTHER AFFILIATIONS

NeuroCure, Charité

Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

 

FELLOWSHIPS / AWARDS

  • Primo loco position for a Full Professorship in Neuroscience at the International University. Bremen (IUB) (2004)
  • Appointed to the Otto Loewi Center for Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology, Israel (2004)
  • Appointed to the Young Academy (Junge Akademie), Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW) and the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina (2004)
  • Junior Research Group, Emmy Noether Program (2002)
  • Research Fellowship, Emmy Noether Program (1999)

 

  • Teaching Award, Graduate Program Medical Neuroscience, Charité (2008 - 2009)
  • Bernard Katz Award (Eilat, Israel), Bert Sakmann- and Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2005 – 2006)
  • Schilling Award, German Neuroscience Society (2005)
  • Teaching Award, Graduate Program Medical Neuroscience, Charité (2004 – 2005)
  • Teaching Award, Graduate Program Medical Neuroscience, Charité (2003 – 2004)
  • Humboldt Award for Best Thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (1998)

 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

  • Harmeier A et al. (2009). Amyloid-ß Glycine 33 uncouples oligomerization from toxicity and LTP inhibition. Nature Neuroscience (in review)
  • Timbruch T et al. (2009). PRG-1 is a novel player at the synapse, modulating excitatory transmission via lipid phosphate-mediated signaling (senior author together with R. Nitsch) Cell (in revision)
  • Wozny C, Breustedt J, Wolk F, Varoqueaux F, Boretius S, Zivkovic A, Neeb A, Frahm J, Schmitz D, Brose N, Ivanovic A (2009). The function of glutamatergic synapses is not perturbed by severe knock-down of 4.1N and 4.1G expression. J Cell Sci. (in press)
  • Wozny C, Maier N, Fidzinski P, Breustedt J, Behr J, Schmitz D. (2008). Differential cyclic AMP signaling at hippocampal output synapses. J Neurosci. (in press)
  • Wozny C, Maier N, Schmitz D*, Behr J* (2008). Two different forms of long-term potentiation at CA1-subiculum synapses. J Physiol. (in press) *equal contribution
  • Leibold, C, Gundlfinger, A, Schmidt, R, Thurley, K, Schmitz D*, Kempter, R* (2008) Temporal coding via synaptic facilitation. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA (in press) *equal contribution (see also News & Views in BCCN)
  • Brecht M, Schmitz D (2008). Rules of plasticity. Science 319:39-40
  • Gundlfinger A, Leibold C, Gebert K, Moisel M, Schmitz D*, Kempter R* (2007). Differential modulation of shortterm synaptic dynamics by long-term potentiation at mouse hippocampal mossy fibre synapses. J Physiol. 585:853-65. *equal contribution (see also News & Views in J. Physiol.)