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Profile
| Academic position | Full Professor |
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| Research fields | Molecular Biology and Physiology of Neurons and Glial Cells,Molecular and Cellular Neurology and Neuropathology |
| Keywords | hippocampus, neural circuits, plasticity, synaptogenesis, adult neurogenesis |
| Honours and awards | 2019: Member of the Latin American Academy of Sciences (ACAL) 2019: TWAS Prize in Medical Sciences 2013: Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award 2013: President of the Leloir Institute Foundation (active until 31/12/2020) 2011: President of the Argentine Society for Research in Neuroscience (SAN, until 2013) 2010: The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship |
Current contact address
| Country | Argentina |
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| City | Buenos Aires |
| Institution | Fundacion Instituto Leloir |
| Institute | Laboratory of Neuronal Plasticity |
| Homepage | www.leloir.org.ar |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Benedikt Berninger | FTN & Physiologische Chemie, Universitätsmedizin Johannnes Gutenberg, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Mainz |
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| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/03/2014 |
Programme(s)
| 2013 | Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award Programme |
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Nominator's project description
| Dr. Alejandro Fabián Schinder is an internationally acclaimed authority in the field of adult neurogenesis. He has made several ground-breaking discoveries concerning the problem of how adult-born neurons integrate into the hippocampal circuit and thereby contribute to neural plasticity. He set a milestone by demonstrating that adult-born neurons differ from earlier generated neurons in the the way they decode incoming neural activity, thus assigning them a unique contribution to hippocampal information processing. During his stay in Germany, Dr. Schinder will continue his research concerning the question of how the temporal evolution of their connectivity adds to the unique properties of adult-born neurons. |
Publications (partial selection)
| 2015 | Bergami M, Masserdotti G, Temprana SG, Motori E, Eriksson TM, Gӧbel J, Yang SM, Conzelmann KK, Schinder AF, Götz M and Berninger B: A critical period for experience-dependent remodelling of adult-born neuron connectivity. In: Neuron, 2015, 710-717 |
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