Awarded Grants, Fellowships and Prizes

Grants

CAMOUFLAGE - Mechanisms of Camouflage in Cuttlefish
Principal Investigator: Gilles Laurent

Duration: 01.08.2024-31.07.2029
CoreInstincts - Brainstem circuits supporting adaptive instinctive behaviours
Principal Investigator: Vanessa Stempel
Duration: 01.01.2025 - 31.12.2029
DiverseSynapse
Revealing the Landscape of Synaptic Diversity by Cell type- and Synapse-specific Proteomics and Transcriptomics
Principal Investigator: Erin Schuman
Duration: 1.8.2022 – 31.7.2027
SoftChirp
Neural circuits for social communication

Principal Investigator: Alison Barker
Duration: 01.07.2022 - 30.06.2027
DFG EXC 3094 SCALE

DFG EXC 3094 SCALE

Subzelluläre Architektur des Lebens
Sub-Project: Mapping the bioenergetic landscape of a single hippocampal neuron at molecular resolution

Principal Investigator: Erin Schuman
Duration: 1.7.2026 – 28.02.2028
DFG FOR 2848 

DFG FOR 2848 

Nanoscale Architecture and Heterogeneity of the Mitochondrial Inner Membrane
Principal Investigator: Lea Dietrich
Duration: 01.11.2024 - 31.07.2027
 
DFG FOR 5768

DFG FOR 5768

Neural basis of vocal communication
Project P5: Neural circuits for antiphonal calling in the naked mole-rat
Principal Investigator: Alison Barker
Duration: 1.1.2026 - 31.12.2027
Functional Architecture of CNS-Endothelial Interfaces
Principal Investigator: Amparo Acker-Palmer
Duration: 2026-2031

Max Planck Förderstiftung - Dollwet

Untersuchung neuroprotektiver Mechanismen im dopaminergen System der Nacktmullratte
Principal Investigator: Alison Barker
Duration: 2026 – 2027

Max Planck Förderstiftung

Max Planck Förderstiftung

Molekulare Regeln der Hemmung im periaquäduktalen Grau: Ein Schlüsselsubstrat für die Kontrolle von Instinktverhalten
Principal Investigator: Vanessa Stempel
Duration: 01.01.2025 - 31.12.2029

Behrens-Weise Stiftung

From Single-Cells to Behavior: Characterizing Circuits for Social Communication
Principal Investigator: Alison Barker
Duration: 01.07.2026 - 30.06.2029

Fellowships

EMBO Postdoctoral Fellowship

EMBO Postdoctoral Fellowship

Investigating neural circuits control of reptilian sleep with optical methods
Principal Investigator: Yujie Zhang
Duration: 01.07.2026 - 30.06.2028
 
Peter & Traudl Engelhorn Stiftung Postdoctoral Fellowship

Peter & Traudl Engelhorn Stiftung Postdoctoral Fellowship

RNA and RNA-Binding Proteins: Local Control in Neurons
Principal Investigator: Mykola Roiuk
Duration: 01.01.2026 - 31.12.2027
 
Peter & Traudl Engelhorn Stiftung Postdoctoral Fellowship

Peter & Traudl Engelhorn Stiftung Postdoctoral Fellowship

Neural mechanisms of communication signaling in cephalopods
Principal Investigator: Margot Elmaleh
01.01.2025 - 31.12.2026

Prizes and Awards

The American Philosophical Society honors Gilles Laurent in recognition of his “pioneering studies of information encoding and computation in populations of neurons in the central nervous system.”

2026 Nakasone-Award

July 09, 2025
The neuroscientist is honoured for her discovery on neural synapse function and change during formation of memories
Awardee: Gilles Laurent
Awardee: Erin Schuman
Awardee: Moritz Helmstaedter
Awardee: Erin Schuman
Awardee: Erin Schuman
Awardee: Erin Schuman
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