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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

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Tenure Track Assistant Professor

Gilles Claude Vanwalleghem

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Tenure Track Assistant Professor

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Morth, J. P., Poulsen, H., Toustrup-Jensen, M. S., Schack, V. R., Egebjerg, J., Andersen, J. P., Vilsen, B. & Nissen, P. (2009). The structure of the Na⁺,K⁺-ATPase and mapping of isoform differences and disease-related mutations. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 364(1514), 217-27. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2008.0201

Nissen, P., Jensen, A. M. L., Marchand, A., Olesen, C., Holm, P., Picard, M., Vilsen, B., Jaxel, C., Champeil, P., Andersen, J. P., LE MAIRE, M. & Møller, J. V. (2006). The structure and function of the sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca ²⁺-ATPase. Acta Biomedica de l'Ateneo Parmense, 77(SUPPL. 3), 25-26.

Olesen, C., Picard, M., Winther, A.-M. L., Nielsen, C. G., Morth, J. P., Oxvig, C., Møller, J. V. & Nissen, P. (2007). The structural basis of calcium transport by the calcium pump. Nature, 450(7172), 1036-1042. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature06418

Nissen, P., Hansen, J., Ban, J., Moore, P. B. & Steitz, T. A. (2000). The structural basis for ribosome function in peptide bond synthesis. Science, 289, 920-930.

Møller, J. V., Olesen, C., Jensen, A.-M. L. & Nissen, P. (2005). The structural basis for coupling of Ca²⁺transport to ATP hydrolysis by the sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca²⁺-ATPase. J. Bioenerg. Biomembr., 37(6), 359-364.

Brodersen, D. E. & Nissen, P. (2005). The social life of ribosomal proteins. FEBS journal, 272(9), 2098-2108.

Geurts, M. M. G., Clausen, J. D., Arnou, B., Montigny, C., Lenoir, G., Corey, R. A., Jaxel, C., Møller, J. V., Nissen, P., Andersen, J. P., Le Maire, M. & Bublitz, M. (2020). The SERCA residue Glu340 mediates interdomain communication that guides Ca²⁺transport. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 117(49), 31114-31122. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2014896117

Møller, J. V., Olesen, C. E., Winther, A.-M. L. & Nissen, P. (2010). The sarcoplasmic Ca2+-ATPase: design of a perfect chemi-osmotic pump. Quarterly Reviews of Biophysics, 43(4), 501-566.

Winther, A.-M. L., Bublitz, M., Karlsen, J. L., Møller, J. V., Hansen, J. B., Nissen, P. & Buch-Pedersen, M. J. (2013). The sarcolipin-bound calcium pump stabilizes calcium sites exposed to the cytoplasm. Nature, 495(7440), 265-269. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature11900

Stolzenberg, S., Li, Z., Quick, M., Malinauskaite, L., Nissen, P., Weinstein, H., Javitch, J. A. & Shi, L. (2017). The Role of TM5 in Na2 Release and the Conformational Transition of Neurotransmitter:Sodium Symporters toward the Inward-Open State. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 292. https://doi.org/10.1074/jbc.M116.757153

Kanaparthi, D., Lampe, M., Krohn, J. H., Zhu, B., Hildebrand, F., Boesen, T., Klingl, A., Phapale, P. & Lueders, T. (2024). The reproduction process of Gram-positive protocells. Scientific Reports, 14(1), Article 7075. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-57369-4

Clausen, M. J., Nissen, P. & Poulsen, H. (2011). The pumps that fuel a sperm's journey. Biochemical Society. Transactions, 39(3), 741-5. https://doi.org/10.1042/BST0390741

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