Zentrum für Molekulare Neurobiologie
Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf
Falkenried 94
20251 Hamburg
Tel: +49-40-7410-58966
Fax: +49-40-7410-58925
Email: ileana.hanganu-opatz@zmnh.uni-hamburg.de
 

June 20, 1975
 

1994-1998    

1999-2002

2002

2002-2005

2005-2006

 
2006-2008

2008

Since 2008

 
 
Since 2009

Studies of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bucharest, Romania

Doctoral Student, University of Düsseldorf, Dept. of Neurophysiology

Doctorate (Dr. rer. nat.), University of Düsseldorf

Post-doctoral Fellow, University of Mainz

Post-doctoral Fellow, Institut de Neurobiologie de la Méditerranée (INMED, INSERM) Marseille, France

Lecturer, Inst. of Physiology, University of Mainz

Habilitation for Physiology, University of Mainz

Head of a research group funded by the BMBF and by Emmy Noether-Program of DFG at the Center for Molecular Neurobiology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf

W2-Professor, Center for Molecular Neurobiology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf

Since 2007 3 PhD-students and 2 MD students
 

Member of the Society for Neuroscience

Member of the German Society of Neuroscience

Member of the German Physiological Society
 

Development of cognitive abilities in relation to the maturation of frontal-subcortical networks

Establishment of sensory perception and its underlying cellular and network
mechanisms

Disease-related impairment of frontal-subcortical circuitry
 

(* equal contribution)

• Hanganu IL, Kilb W, Luhmann HJ (2001) Spontaneous synaptic activity of subplate neurons in neonatal rat somatosensory cortex. Cerebral Cortex 11: 400-410

• Hanganu IL, Kilb W, Luhmann HJ (2002) Functional synaptic projections onto subplate neurons in neonatal rat somatosensory cortex. J Neurosci 22(16): 7165-7176

• Luhmann HL, Hanganu IL, Kilb W (2003) Cellular physiology of the neonatal rat cerebral cortex. Brain Res Bull 60: 345-353

• Hanganu IL, Luhmann HJ (2004) Functional nicotinic acetylcholine receptors on subplate neurons in neonatal rat somatosensory cortex. J Neurophysiol 92: 189-198

• Albrecht* J, Hanganu* IL, Heck N, Luhmann HJ (2005) Oxygen and glucose deprivation induces major dysfunction in the somatosensory cortex of the newborn rat. Eur J Neurosci 22: 2295-305

• Dupont* E, Hanganu* IL, Kilb W, Hirsch S, Luhmann HJ (2006) Rapid developmental switch in the mechanisms driving early cortical columnar networks. Nature 439: 79-83

• Hanganu IL, Ben-Ari Y, Khazipov R (2006) Retinal waves trigger spindle bursts in the neonatal visual cortex. J Neurosci 26: 6728-6736

• Hanganu IL, Staiger J, Ben-Ari Y, Khazipov R (2007) Cholinergic modulation of spindle bursts in the neonatal rat visual cortex in vivo. J Neurosci 27(21): 5694-5705

• Kilb* W, Hanganu* IL, Okabe A, Shimizu-Okabe C, Fukuda A, Luhmann HJ (2008) Glycine receptors mediate excitation of subplate neurons in neonatal rat cerebral cortex. J Neurophysiol, 100: 698-707

• Hanganu IL, Okabe A, Lessmann V, Luhmann HJ (2009) Cellular mechanisms of subplate-driven and cholinergic-input dependent network activity in the neonatal rat somatosensory cortex. Cerebral Cortex 19: 89-105