Ph. D. Gürsel Caliskan
Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg
Fakultät für Naturwissenschaften
Leipzigerstr. 44
39120
Magdeburg
Tel.:+49 391 6755108
Profil • Service
Vita
from 01/2020 |
Research Associate and Junior Research Group Leader |
EDUCATION / PREVIOUS POSITIONS
10/2014-12/2019 |
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Genetics & Molecular Neurobiology, Institute of Biology, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany, Advisor: Prof. Dr. Oliver Stork |
04/2009-09/2014 |
PhD Student and Research Associate, Humboldt University and Free University of Berlin, Charité Medical Faculty, Germany |
11/2008-03/2009 |
Guest Student, Department of Psychology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, Prof. Dr. David K. Bilkey; Training on in vivo tetrode recordings and data analysis |
10/2008 |
Guest Student, Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience and Centre for the Biology of Memory, Tröndheim, Norway, Prof. Edvard Moser and Prof. May-Britt Moser; Training on in vivo tetrode recordings and data analysis |
09/2006-06/2008 |
Master Course International Graduate Program-Medical Neurosciences, Humboldt University, Charité Medical Faculty, Berlin-Germany |
09/2002-06/2006 |
Undergraduate studies of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul-Turkey - BSc (21.06.2006) GPA: 3.33 out of 4.00 possible |
RESEARCH FOCUS
I have been studying cellular and circuit-level changes in animal models of fear and anxiety via combining different approaches including electrophysiology, behaviour and pharmacogenetics. My current research focuses on identification of physiological and pathological alterations in hippocampal network oscillations and their relation to hippocampal engrams upon emotional memory formation.
GRANTS
01/2020-12/2022 |
Principal Investigator, NeuroNetwork Project: "Bottom-up modulation of hippocampal engrams via sustained amygdalar activity" (Funded by the federal state of Saxony-Anhalt and the „European Regional Development Fund“ (ERDF 2014-2020); Center for Behavioral Brain Sciences, grant ID: ZS/2016/04/78113) - € 155,710 |
06/2018-01/2020 |
Postdoctoral Fellowship CBBS ScienceCampus -"Elucidating the role of ventral hippocampal network oscillations in fear memory persistence" (Funded by the Leibniz Association, grant ID: SAS-2015-LIN-LWC) - € 80,000 |
AWARDS
04/2017 |
IBRO-PERC, The Brain Prize and FENS Stipend, the Spring Brain Conference 2017, Learning, Memory and Synaptic Plasticity, Rungstedgaard, Denmark |
11/2016 |
Travel Award, German Neuroscience Society-Leopoldina, „Brains in vivo and in silico: from Synapses and Circuits to Brain-Inspired Technologies" in Jerusalem, Israel |
07/2016 |
FENS /IBRO Travel Award, Copenhagen, Denmark |
10/2015 |
Travel Award, FENS Featured Regional Meeting, Thessaloniki, Greece |
04/2009-06/2011 |
Doctoral PhD stipend, Graduate School Learning and Memory (GRK 1123), Humboldt University and Free University of Berlin, Charité Medical Faculty, Germany |
07/2007 |
Travel Award, Onassis Foundation Science Lecture Series, Lectures in Biology devoted to "Channels and Channelopathies", Creta, Greece |
TEACHING AND MENTORING
Graduate Neuroscience Courses:
Two Lectures, two practical courses and a part of seminar series in MSc Integrative Neuroscience Program:
from 11/2018 |
Lecture on "Synaptic plasticity" |
from 10/2016 |
Co-supervision of a practical course on Genetic models |
from 04/2015 |
Lecture on "Cellular mechanisms of network oscillations in the brain" |
from 06/2015 |
Seminar Series |
from 01/2015 |
Lead supervision of a two-day course on recording and analysis of electrophysiological data |
Mentoring:
Currently direct supervision of 1 PhD student and co-supervision of 2 PhD Students.
Supervised several lab rotations (~1 month) and long-term internships (~4 months) of BSc and MSc students (8 in total) and 1 MSc Thesis.
ORGANIZATION OF CONFERENCES/SYMPOSIA
09/2019 |
MCB-Brain Plasticity International Conference (Organization committee- Postdocs in Magdeburg Science Community, funded by CBBS) |
11/2010 |
Berlin Brain Days (Invitation of Nobel Laureate Prof. Edvard Moser) |
04/2009 |
Berlin Brain Days (Invitation of Prof. Gábor Támás) |
INVITED SEMINARS AND TALKS
08/2020 |
Lecture Series - RTG 2413 - SynAGE |
09/2019 |
Session chair and talk, MCB-Brain Plasticity International Conference, Magdeburg, Germany |
03/2019 |
Replacement talk, Proteins and Circuits in Memory, Copenhagen, Denmark |
12/2018 |
Invited Seminar, Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg |
10/2018 |
Invited Seminar, Junior Researcher Journal Club, Magdeburg, Germany |
05/2018 |
Lecture Series – ABINEP Graduate School |
03/2017 |
37th European Winter Conference on Brain Research, Les Arcs 1800, France |
MEMBERSHIPS IN SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES
from 01/2016 |
Federation of European Neurosciences (FENS) |
from 01/2016 |
German Neuroscience Society |
REVIEWING/EDITING ACTIVITIES
from 2020 |
Reviewer, Brain Research Bulletin |
from 2020 |
Reviewer, Psychoneuroendocrinology |
from 2020 |
Guest Editor, Frontiers in Neural Circuits - Research Topic |
from 2020 |
Reviewer, International Journal of Molecular Sciences |
from 2020 |
Reviewer, Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience |
from 2019 |
Reviewer, Cerebral Cortex |
from 2019 |
Reviewer, Neuropharmacology |
from 2018 |
Reviewer, Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience |
from 2018 |
Reviewer, Neurobiology of Learning and Memory |
from 2015 |
Reviewer, Stress- The International Journal on the Biology of Stress |
LANGUAGES
Turkish |
Native proficiency |
English |
Full professional proficiency |
German |
Limited professional proficiency (~B1-B2) |
Expertenprofil
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Forschung • Kooperationen
Projekte
Kooperationsliste
- Dr. med. Dr. rer. nat. Katarzyna Winek
- Dr. rer. nat. Anil Annamneedi
- Dr. rer. nat. Emre Kul
- Dr. rer. nat. Syed Ahsan Raza
- Prof. Dr. Eckart Gundelfinger
- Prof. Dr. med. Dr. rer. nat. Anne Albrecht
- Prof. Dr. Hermona Soreq
- Prof. Dr. Gal Richter-Levin, Universität Haifa
- Prof. Dr. Oliver Stork, Institut für Biologie, OvGU Magdeburg