Lab Rotations

Members of the TRR274 can organize lab visits to laboratories within and outside of the consortium to exchange knowledge, teach practical skills and increase collaborative efforts.

All young investigators in the need of learning a new skill, method or technique in the context of advancing their projects or scientific career are eligible to participate in our lab rotations. The lab rotations are organized upon approval of the application. Dates, duration and method of teaching are planned individually.

To facilitate connecting researchers to the appropriate experts within our consortium, we have compiled a list of Competence Centers here:

Lecture Series

The TRR274 offers the lecture series “Checkpoints of Central Nervous System Recovery”, which is integrated into the graduate school curriculum of the universities at each TRR274 – site (i.e. Graduate School of Systemic Neurosciences (GSN), PhD program “Medical life science and technology” of the TUM and the Göttingen Graduate Center for Neurosciences, Biophysics, and Molecular Biosciences (GGNB)).

Each semester our senior TRR274 members will present and teach about the state of the art knowledge and research on the topic of CNS regeneration. The CNS is a terminally differentiated tissue, where any insult carries a heightened risk – yet the tissue response to these insults is variable and can range from irreversible destruction to almost complete recovery. The rules that instruct these divergent outcomes are still unknown. The topic of this lecture series is the biology of the multicellular response that determines recovery after CNS injury. We will focus on the multi-scale, spatio-temporal cell biology in different models of CNS injury. The participants will not only be introduced to principles of CNS recovery, but also the new imaging technology that is necessary to study the biology. Another focus will be put on neuronal, glial and immunological aspects of CNS recovery/damage.

The lecture series consists of 8 lectures during the winter semester, on Tuesdays from 17:00 – 18:30. The lectures are given over zoom in order to include people from all sites.

Anyone who is interested is welcome to join. Participants must register with the coordination office prior to attendance. Login details and course material will be provided upon registration.

WiSe 24/25

TBA.

Past Lectures

WiSe 22/23

DateLecturerTitle of lecture
18.10.2022Veit RothhammerInteraction of glial cells during autoimmune CNS inflammation
25.10.2022Leanne GodinhoExamining brain plasticity following vision loss
08.11.2022Lara MartenDemyelination and repair in pediatric leukodystrophies
22.11.2022Francesca OdoardiCNS entry and exit routes
06.12.2022Hannelore EhrenreichEffects of erythropoietin on neuroplasticity, neuroprotection, anti-inflammation and neuroregeneration
10.01.2023Thomas KornT cells in the initiation and modulation of autoimmune tissue damage in the CNS
24.01.2023Stefan JakobsSuper-resolution light microscopy
07.02.2023Jovica NinkovicEvolution of the CNS Regeneration


WiSe 21/22

DateLecturerTitle of lecture
12.10.2021Thomas MisgeldCheckpoints of axon loss in development and disease
02.11.2021Martin KerschensteinerNeuronal damage and repair in multiple sclerosis
16.11.2021Florence BareyreCheckpoints of axonal repair in spinal cord injury
30.11.2021Arthur LieszChronic neuroinflammation after stroke: too much of a good thing?
14.12.2021Christine StadelmannMyelin regeneration in the context of multiple sclerosis
11.01.2022Alexander FlügelLive analysis of T-cell-mediated acute autoimmune CNS lesions
25.01.2022Mikael SimonsRemyelination in the central nervous system
08.02.2022Martina SchiffererElectron microscopy of the CNS