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Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics

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

Read more about the research at DANDRITE.

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

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Associate Professors

Tenure Track Assistant Professor

Gilles Claude Vanwalleghem

Professor

Associate Professors

Tenure Track Assistant Professor

Peer-reviewed publications

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Bøttger, P., Tracz, Z., Heuck, A., Nissen, P., Romero-Ramos, M. & Lykke-Hartmann, K. (2011). Distribution of Na/K-ATPase alpha 3 isoform, a sodium-potassium P-type pump associated with rapid-onset of dystonia parkinsonism (RDP) in the adult mouse brain. Journal of Comparative Neurology, 519(2), 376-404. https://doi.org/10.1002/cne.22524

Bøttger, P., Pedersen, S. G., Gesslein, B., Illarionova, N., Isaksen, T. J., Heuck, A., Clausen, B. H., Füchtbauer, E.-M., Gramsbergen, J. B., Gunnarson, E., Aperia, A., Lauritzen, M., Lambertsen, K. L., Nissen, P. & Lykke-Hartmann, K. (2016). Glutamate-system defects behind psychiatric manifestations in a familial hemiplegic migraine type 2 disease-mutation mouse model. Scientific Reports, 6(22047), Article 22047. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep22047

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

Boesen, T., Mohammad, S. S., Pavitt, G. D. & Andersen, G. R. (2004). Structure of the catalytic fragment of translation initiation factor 2B and identification of a critically important catalytic residue. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 279, 10584-10592.

Boesen, T., Fedosova, N. U., Kjeldgaard, M., Birkelund, S. & Christiansen, G. (2001). Molecular design of Mycoplasma hominis Vaa adhesin. Protein Sci., 10, 2577-2586.

Boesen, T. & Nielsen, L. P. (2013). Molecular dissection of bacterial nanowires. mBio (Online), 4(3), e00270-13. https://doi.org/10.1128/mBio.00270-13

Boesen, T., Nielsen, L. P. & Schramm, A. (2021). Pili for nanowires. Nature Microbiology, 6(11), 1347-1348. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-021-00990-0

Boesecke, P., Bois, J. M., Crëpin, T., Hunte, C., Kahn, R., Kao, W.-C., Nauton, L., Winther, A.-M. L., Møller, J. V., Nissen, P., Nury, H., Olesen, C. E., Pebay-Peyroula, E., Vicat, J. & Stuhrmann, H. (2009). A first low-resolution difference Fourier map of phosphorus in a membrane protein from near-edge anomalous diffraction. Journal of Synchrotron Radiation, 16(5), 658-665.

iNEXT Consortium (2018). iNEXT: a European facility network to stimulate translational structural biology. FEBS Letters, 592(12), 1909-1917. https://doi.org/10.1002/1873-3468.13062

Bocchio, M., Nabavi, S. & Capogna, M. (2017). Synaptic Plasticity, Engrams, and Network Oscillations in Amygdala Circuits for Storage and Retrieval of Emotional Memories. Neuron, 94(4), 731-743. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2017.03.022

Bianchini, E., Testoni, S., Gentile, A., Calì, T., Ottolini, D., Villa, A., Brini, M., Betto, R., Mascarello, F., Sandonà, D., Sacchetto, R. & Nissen, P. (2014). Inhibition of Ubiquitin Proteasome System Rescues the Defective Sarco(endo)plasmic Reticulum Ca2+-ATPase (SERCA1) Protein Causing Chianina Cattle Pseudomyotonia. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 289(48), 33073-33082. https://doi.org/10.1074/jbc.M114.576157

Bay, Y., Venskutonytė, R., Frantsen, S. M., Thorsen, T. S., Musgaard, M., Frydenvang, K., Francotte, P., Pirotte, B., Biggin, P. C., Kristensen, A. S., Boesen, T., Pickering, D. S., Gajhede, M. & Kastrup, J. S. (2024). Small-molecule positive allosteric modulation of homomeric kainate receptors GluK1-3: development of screening assays and insight into GluK3 structure. FEBS journal, 291(7), 1506-1529. https://doi.org/10.1111/febs.17046

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