Team
Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology
About us
At the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology at the University Medical Center Göttingen, people with very different professional backgrounds work together towards one goal: to understand, teach and further develop human anatomy.
Our interdisciplinary team consists of physicians, scientists and specialists from various other fields - we currently come from seven different countries. This diversity not only enriches our day-to-day work, but also reflects the openness and internationality of our institute.
Following the appointment (Sept. 1, 2024) of the new Institute Director, we are in an exciting phase of change: existing strengths and many years of experience are being combined with new impulses, flexible structures and dynamic further development of our research, teaching and organization.
What unites us is our passion for science, our appreciation for each other - and our joint work on a lively, future-oriented institute.
These quotes are a good reflection of our attitude and way of thinking:
“The tendency of people to consider small things important has brought forth many great things.”
— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Göttingen experimental physicist
“There is nothing more practical than a good theory.”
— Friedrich Hund, Göttingen theoretical physicist
„If you can’t do the function, do the structure.“
Bert Sakmann, Göttinger Neurophysiologe, Nobelpreis Medizin 1991
„Progress in science depends on new techniques, new discoveries and new ideas,probably in that order.“
Sidney Brenner, Nobelpreis Medizin 2002
Management & Administration
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- telephone: +49 551 3967001
- telephone: +49 551 3967000
- e-mail address: valentin.nagerl(at)med.uni-goettingen.de
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- telephone: +49 551 3967000
- e-mail address: anatomie.zellbiologie(at)med.uni-goettingen.de
Professors
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- telephone: +49 551 3967004
- e-mail address: thomas.dresbach(at)med.uni-goettingen.de
Our group studies synapse formation with particular focus on the biogenesis of presynaptic nerve terminals and its trans-synaptic coordination. We use super-resolution microscopy to visualize synaptic architecture and dynamics at the molecular and sub-molecular level, combined with electrophysiological analysis of synaptic function.
Our goal is to understand the mechanisms of synaptogenesis in enough detail to pinpoint molecular causes of synaptopathies. We study neuronal cultures to unravel fundamental mechanisms operating at the heart of synaptogenesis, and we study specialized synapses such as the giant synapses of the auditory system and mossy fiber terminals of the hippocampus to determine how these mechanisms act together to generate the remarkable specification and heterogeneity of synapses in the brain.
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- telephone: +49 551 3967050
- e-mail address: joerg.wilting(at)med.uni-goettingen.de
- ORCiD: 0000-0001-8337-2296
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- telephone: +49 551 3967028
- telephone: +49 551 3965195
- e-mail address: mschult1(at)gwdg.de
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- telephone: +49 551 3967000
- e-mail address: anatomie.zellbiologie(at)med.uni-goettingen.de
Research assistants and Postdocs
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- telephone: +49 551 3967024
- e-mail address: juergen.becker(at)med.uni-goettingen.de
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- telephone: +49 551 3967032
- e-mail address: joerg.maenner(at)med.uni-goettingen.de
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- telephone: +49 551 3967029
- e-mail address: bernd.pueschel(at)med.uni-goettingen.de
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- telephone: +49 551 3967037
- e-mail address: nikoloz.tsikolia(at)med.uni-goettingen.de
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- telephone: +49 551 3967026
- e-mail address: katharina.stoetzel(at)med.uni-goettingen.de
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- telephone: +49 551 3968982
- e-mail address: iuliia.dembitskaia(at)med.uni-goettingen.de
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- telephone: +49 551 3967054
- e-mail address: kosuke.okuda(at)med.uni-goettingen.de
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- telephone: +49 551 3968982
- e-mail address: mansi.rajput(at)med.uni-goettingen.de
Doctoral students, Master and Bachelor students
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- e-mail address: pranay.gaikwad(at)med.uni-goettingen.de
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- e-mail address: anatomie.zellbiologie(at)med.uni-goettingen.de
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- telephone: +49 551 3967000
- e-mail address: anatomie.zellbiologie(at)med.uni-goettingen.de
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- telephone: +49 551 3967000
- e-mail address: anatomie.zellbiologie(at)med.uni-goettingen.de
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- telephone: +49 551 3967000
- e-mail address: anatomie.zellbiologie(at)med.uni-goettingen.de
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- telephone: +49 551 3967000
- e-mail address: anatomie.zellbiologie(at)med.uni-goettingen.de
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- telephone: +49 551 3967000
- e-mail address: anatomie.zellbiologie(at)med.uni-goettingen.de
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- telephone: +49 551 3967000
- e-mail address: anatomie.zellbiologie(at)med.uni-goettingen.de
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- telephone: +49 551 3967000
- e-mail address: anatomie.zellbiologie(at)med.uni-goettingen.de
Technical staff
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- telephone: +49 551 3967000
- e-mail address: anatomie.zellbiologie(at)med.uni-goettingen.de
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- telephone: +49 551 3967007
- e-mail address: nina.dankenbrink-werder(at)med.uni-goettingen.de
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- telephone: +49 551 3967023
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- e-mail address: kirsten.falk(at)med.uni-goettingen.de
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- telephone: +49 551 3967013
- e-mail address: heike.faust(at)med.uni-goettingen.de
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- telephone: +49 551 3969874
- e-mail address: lisa-marie.hartmund(at)med.uni-goettingen.de
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- telephone: +49 551 3967033
- e-mail address: berti.manshausen(at)med.uni-goettingen.de
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- telephone: +49 551 3967027
- e-mail address: hans.sydow(at)med.uni-goettingen.de
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- telephone: +49 551 3967033
- e-mail address: christina.zelent(at)med.uni-goettingen.de