Neurobiology

The Section for Neurobiology is part of the Danish Research Institute of Translational Neuroscience – DANDRITE

- the Danish node of the Nordic EMBL Partnership for Molecular Medicine, which performs basic and translational research in brain and the nervous system.

Groups at DANDRITE encompass ambitious research programs that include:

Molecular and cellular mechanisms of memory
Effort-based decision making
Neuronal development and stem cells
Motor control
Brain processing of vision
Neurological and neurodegenerative diseases
Psychiatric disorders
Neurotrophic receptors, sorting
Structural biology of membrane transporters and receptors

Below you see the list of researchers at DANDRITE affiliated with the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics.

List of staff and students in the research group

Group leaders

Professors

Associate Professors

Tenure Track Assistant Professor

Gilles Claude Vanwalleghem

Professor

Poul Nissen

Vice-Dean, Research Dean's Office, Natural Sciences

M pn@au.dk
H 1535, 225
P +4587155508
P +4528992295

Daan van Aalten

Professor Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics - Neurobiology

M daan@mbg.au.dk
H 1873, 613

Associate Professors

Thomas Boesen

Senior Researcher Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center - INANO-MBG, iNANO-huset

M thb@inano.au.dk
H 1590, 146
P +4587155435
P +4528997699

Taro Kitazawa

Group Leader DANDRITE - Kitazawa Group

M taro.kitazawa@dandrite.au.dk
H 1874, 112
P +4587159645
P +4587159645

Magnus Kjærgaard

Associate Professor Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics - Neurobiology

M magnus@mbg.au.dk
H 1872, 452
P +4587150456
P +4560541949

Sadegh Nabavi

Associate Professor Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics - Neurobiology

M snabavi@mbg.au.dk
H 1182, 205
P +4593508246

Chao Sun

Associate Professor Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics - Neurobiology

M chaosun@dandrite.au.dk
H 1874, 111
P +4593508985

Tenure Track Assistant Professor

Gilles Claude Vanwalleghem

Tenure Track Assistant Professor Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics - Neurobiology

M gilles.vanwalleghem@mbg.au.dk
H 1874, 661

Peer-reviewed publications

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Mohammad-Beigi, H., Scavenius, C., Jensen, P. B., Kjaer-Sorensen, K., Oxvig, C., Boesen, T., Enghild, J. J., Sutherland, D. S. & Hayashi, Y. (2020). Tracing the In Vivo Fate of Nanoparticles with a "Non-Self" Biological Identity. ACS Nano, 14(8), 10666-10679. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.03.27.012146, https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.0c05178

Ravishankar, H., Pedersen, M. N., Eklund, M., Sitsel, A., Li, C., Duelli, A., Levantino, M., Wulff, M., Barth, A., Olesen, C., Nissen, P. & Andersson, M. (2020). Tracking Ca²⁺ ATPase intermediates in real time by x-ray solution scattering. Science Advances, 6(12), Article eaaz0981. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aaz0981

Gotfryd, K., Boesen, T., Mortensen, J. S., Khelashvili, G., Quick, M., Terry, D. S., Missel, J. W., LeVine, M. V., Gourdon, P., Blanchard, S. C., Javitch, J. A., Weinstein, H., Loland, C. J., Nissen, P. & Gether, U. (2020). X-ray structure of LeuT in an inward-facing occluded conformation reveals mechanism of substrate release. Nature Communications, 11(1), Article 1005. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14735-w

Saleh, N., Wang, Y., Nissen, P. & Lindorff-Larsen, K. (2019). Allosteric modulation of the sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca2+ ATPase by thapsigargin via decoupling of functional motions. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 21(39), 21991-21995. https://doi.org/10.1039/c9cp04736k

Strauss, M. J., Asheghali, D., Evans, A. M., Li, R. L., Chavez, A. D., Sun, C., Becker, M. L. & Dichtel, W. R. (2019). Cooperative Self-Assembly of Pyridine-2,6-Diimine-Linked Macrocycles into Mechanically Robust Nanotubes. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 58(41), 14708-14714. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201907668

Bonaventura, J., Eldridge, M. A. G., Hu, F., Gomez, J. L., Sanchez-Soto, M., Abramyan, A. M., Lam, S., Boehm, M. A., Ruiz, C., Farrell, M. R., Moreno, A., Galal Faress, I. M., Andersen, N., Lin, J. Y., Moaddel, R., Morris, P. J., Shi, L., Sibley, D. R., Mahler, S. V. ... Michaelides, M. (2019). High-potency ligands for DREADD imaging and activation in rodents and monkeys. Nature Communications, 10(1), Article 4627. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12236-z

Zhang, Y., Gal, N., Itel, F., Westensee, I. N., Brodszkij, E., Mayer, D., Stenger, S., Castellote-Borrell, M., Boesen, T., Tabaei, S. R., Hook, F. & Stadler, B. (2019). Hybrid vesicles as intracellular reactive oxygen species and nitric oxide generators. Nanoscale, 11(24), 11530-11541. https://doi.org/10.1039/c9nr02584g

Dorosz, J., Kristensen, L. H., Aduri, N. G., Mirza, O., Lousen, R., Bucciarelli, S., Mehta, V., Sellés-Baiget, S., Solbak, S. M. Ø., Bach, A., Mesa, P., Hernandez, P. A., Montoya, G., Nguyen, T. T. T. N., Rand, K. D., Boesen, T. & Gajhede, M. (2019). Molecular architecture of the Jumonji C family histone demethylase KDM5B. Scientific Reports, 9(1), Article 4019. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-40573-y

Kidmose, R. T., Juhl, J., Nissen, P., Boesen, T., Karlsen, J. L. & Pedersen, B. P. (2019). Namdinator - Automatic molecular dynamics flexible fitting of structural models into cryo-EM and crystallography experimental maps. IUCrJ, 6(4), 526-531. https://doi.org/10.1107/S2052252519007619

Kjeldsen, K. U., Schreiber, L., Thorup, C. A., Boesen, T., Bjerg, J. T., Yang, T., Dueholm, M. S., Larsen, S., Risgaard-Petersen, N., Nierychlo, M., Schmid, M., Bøggild, A., van de Vossenberg, J., Geelhoed, J. S., Meysman, F. J. R., Wagner, M., Nielsen, P. H., Nielsen, L. P. & Schramm, A. (2019). On the evolution and physiology of cable bacteria. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 116(38), 19116-19125. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1903514116

Elfarrash, S., Jensen, N. M., Ferreira, N., Betzer, C., Thevathasan, J. V., Diekmann, R., Adel, M., Omar, N. M., Boraie, M. Z., Gad, S., Ries, J., Kirik, D., Nabavi, S. & Jensen, P. H. (2019). Organotypic slice culture model demonstrates inter-neuronal spreading of alpha-synuclein aggregates. Acta Neuropathologica Communications, 7(1), Article 213. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40478-019-0865-5

Wang, S., Chavez, A. D., Thomas, S., Li, H., Flanders, N. C., Sun, C., Strauss, M. J., Chen, L. X., Markvoort, A. J., Bredas, J. L. & Dichtel, W. R. (2019). Pathway Complexity in the Stacking of Imine-Linked Macrocycles Related to Two-Dimensional Covalent Organic Frameworks. Chemistry of Materials, 31(17), 7104-7111. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.9b03088

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