Goals
The primary goal of this initiative is to tighten already existing links between molecular-cellular neuroscience and cognitive-behavioral neuroscience groups and thereby to further strengthen neuroscience in Hamburg as the basis for a successful application in the German excellence initiative within 15 months of this project.
Large cooperative grants already document the level of interaction in the consortium. M. Glatzel is the speaker of a research unit on Neuronal Protein Turnover (DFG FOR 885). The overall aim of this research unit is to define how protein turnover regulates neuronal excitability, signal transduction or synaptic plasticity, and several members of this unit are co-applicants in this proposal (K. Kutsche, M. Kneussel). The groups of C. Büchel, A.K. Engel and B. Röder have successfully recruited several large collaborative grants, including a joint BMBF project on crossmodal processing, a transregional SFB (SFB TRR 58) and an International Research Training Group (GRK 1247 CINACS). The latter grant is also the basis for an existing interdisciplinary supervision of PhD students. The recently renewed SFB 654 (speaker: Jan Born) focuses on sleep and plasticity and integrates human projects on classical conditioning (Büchel) and attempts to investigate the neurochemistry of learning processes through pharmacological challenges (Born).
