Andreas Husch Email & Phone Number

Bonn Area, Germany

Research Area: Impact of spinal cord injury and regenerative measures on spinal neuronal networksGroup leader: Prof. Dr. Frank Bradke

Bonn Area, Germany

• Research Area: Neural plasticity with spinal cord injury and disease Group leader; PI: Prof. W.Witke, University of BonnExperimental Work
• Establishing electrophysiology in the molecularbiological environment
• Investigation of the effect of spinal cord injury on dorsal root ganglia neurons
• Performing patch clamp electrophysiology in dopaminergic neurons to reveal the role of profilinProject Management
• Directing and organizing a new research group with a technician and master students
• Establishing collaborations on the impact of post spinal cord injury regeneration on spinal neurons

Cologne Area, Germany

- Re-integration into the German neuroscientific community- Organizing seminar: Cellular Neuroscience

Ithaca, New York Area

• Project title: Effects of spinal cord injury (SCI) on locomotion controlling spinal interneurons PI: Prof. R. Harris-Warrick, Cornell UniversityExperimental Work
• Perforated patch recordings in spinal interneurons from adult mice
• Performed SCI surgical techniques and intensive care medicine on miceProject Management
• Directed and organized mouse SCI project
• Coordinated transgenic mouse breeding and colony maintenance
• Supervised undergraduate students in immunocytochemistry analysis

Cologne Area, Germany

• Project: Influence of high fat diet on properties and neuromodulatory effects in hypothalamic interneurons controlling energy homoeostasisPIs: Prof. Dr. P. Kloppenburg and Prof. Dr. J. C. Brüning, University of.
• Applied perforated patch techniques in mouse hypothalamus slices
• Confocal and Multi-Photon calcium imagingProject Management
• Initiated and established collaboration with geneticists department on obesity
• Coordinated collaborative breeding program with several mouse lines (POMC-GFP, AgRP-GFP and DSred, SF-1, SIM1) and different feeding paradigms involved
• Involved in buying and assembly of several patch-clamp setups

Cologne Area, Germany

• Calcium dynamics in olfactory interneurons Supervisor: Prof. Dr. P. Kloppenburg, Insitute of Animal Physiology, University of CologneExperimental Work
• Established experimental routines for in vitro and in situ patch clamp experiments as first PhD student in the newly established lab
• Combined electrophysiological patch clamp analysis with detailed neuroanatomical confocal microscopyProject Management
• Trained several graduate students in cell culture &patch-clamp techniques
• Coordinated collaborative research resulting in several peer-reviewed publications

In Vivo Intracellular Recordings And Optogenetics

Neural Systems And Behavior Summer Course, Neuroscience

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Neuroscience, Magna Cum Laude

Biology Diploma, Neurobiology And Behavior, Excellent (Sehr Gut)