Prof. Dr. Axel Nimmerjahn

Profile

Academic position	Full Professor
Research fields	Molecular Biology and Physiology of Neurons and Glial Cells,Biophysics
Keywords	Glia, Brain, Fluorescence microscopy, Rodent, Behavior
Honours and awards	2021: NIH BRAIN Initiative Award (with Guoqiang Yu, Cagla Eroglu, and Lin Tian), NIH/NINDS 2019: NIH BRAIN Initiative Award (with Martyn Goulding, Sam Pfaff, Eiman Azim, Tatyana Sharpee, and David Golomb), NIH/NINDS 2017: NIH BRAIN Initiative Award (with Lin Tian, Mark von Zastrow, and John Williams), NIH/NINDS 2013: NIH Exceptional Unconventional Research Enabling Knowledge Acceleration (EUREKA) Award, NIH/NINDS 2012: NIH Director’s New Innovator Award, NIH/OD 2011: Scholar Award, Rita Allen Foundation 2011: Scholar Award, Whitehall Foundation 2006: Du Bois-Reymond Award, German Physiologic Society 2006: Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation 2006: Long-Term Fellowship, The International Human Frontier Science Program Organization (HFSP) 2006: Otto Hahn Medal and Award, Max Planck Society 2002: Ph.D. Scholarship, Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds (BIF)

Current contact address

Country	United States of America
City	La Jolla
Institution	Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Institute	Waitt Advanced Biophotonics Center
Homepage	http://www.salk.edu/faculty/nimmerjahn.html

Host during sponsorship

Dr. Mark J. Schnitzer	Department of Biological Sciences and Applied Physics, Stanford University, Stanford
Priv. Doz. Dr. Timothy Angelotti	Department of Biological Sciences and Applied Physics, Stanford University, Stanford
Start of initial sponsorship	01/03/2006

Programme(s)

2006	Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship Programme

Publications (partial selection)

2009	Eran A. Mukamel, Axel Nimmerjahn, and Mark J. Schnitzer: Automated analysis of cellular signals from large-scale calcium imaging data. In: Neuron, 2009, 747-760
2009	Axel Nimmerjahn, Eran A. Mukamel, Mark J. Schnitzer: Motor behavior activates Bergmann glial networks. In: Neuron, 2009, 400-412