Members of the Institute of Neurogenetics take part of a multimodal field study in the Philippines. The aim is to investigate affected and unaffected carriers of the X-linked dystonia-parkinsonism (XDP) mutation to study penetrance and expressivity of XDP as part of a CCXDP Project and DFG FOR2488. Team members of the cross-institutional field study: Cid […]
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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).
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Date: Thursday, 25.04.2019 April 25th: On-site Review of the Institute of Neurogenetics by the Schilling-Stiftung and Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft
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
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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.
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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,
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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.
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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?‘.
