Arbeitsteilung im Gehirn

In the organizer's words:

The brain consists of a large number of different cell types. What functions do they have and how do they work together?

Melissa Hermann and Seulkee Yang with Jochen Müller

An event in the Berlin Brains on Tour series in English at the Zeiss-Großplanetarium, Prenzlauer Allee 80, 10405 Berlin.

The mammalian brain consists of many different types of cells that fulfill specific tasks. The most important cell type, which controls all communication in the nervous system, is the neuron. Melissa Hermann and Seulkee Yang investigate how the different types of neurons specialize during their development and analyze the differences in their primary functions - for example, in the release of neurotransmitters for communication. In an interview with Jochen Müller, they explain how important the description of these fundamental processes is for understanding how our brains function in health and disease.

Dr. Melissa Hermann heads the Underpinnings of synapse diversity research group at the Institute of Neurophysiology at Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin and is an associate scientist at the Einstein Center for Neuroscience.

Seulkee Yang is a PhD student in the research groups Underpinnings of synapse diversity and Molecular Mechanisms of Synaptic Transmission at the Institute of Neurophysiology at Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin

Berlin Brains is the joint event series of the Urania Berlin and the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, the Cluster of Excellence NeuroCure, the Cluster of Excellence Science of Intelligence, the Einstein Center for Neuroscience, the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association and the Collaborative Research Center 1315.

Price information:

Free admission: tickets can be booked online