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Jan Deussing

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Jan M. Deussing, Dr. rer. nat.

Research group leader
Text Link Intern RG Deussing: Molecular Neurogenetics
Phone: 089/30622-639
Fax: 089/30622-610
Email: deussing[a]mpipsykl.mpg.de
Interests: Depression, anxiety, stress, neurodegeneration, epigenetics, corticotropin-releasing hormone, genetic mouse models, transcriptomics
   
CV:
Born in Flensburg. Study of biology at the Georg-August University of Göttingen. PhD at the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg (1999).Visiting researcher at the Center of Cancer Research, Massachusettes Institute of Technology, Boston (1996/1997). Postdoc position at the Institute of Molecular Medicine and Cell Research, Freiburg (1999-2000). Since 2000 at the Max-Planck-Institute of Psychiatry, Munich. Group leader of the research group "Molecular Neurogenetics" since 2004. Text Link Intern CV (pdf)
Selected publications:
Refojo D., Schweizer M., Kuehne C., Ehrenberg S., Thoeringer C., Vogl A.M., Dedic N., Schumacher M., von Wolff G., Avrabos C., Touma C., Engblom D., Schütz G., Nave K.-A., Eder M., Wotjak C.T., Sillaber I., Holsboer F., Wurst W., Deussing J.M. (2011). Glutamatergic and Dopaminergic Neurons Mediate Anxiogenic and Anxiolytic Effects of CRHR1. Science in press *highlighted in Nat Rev Neurosci. October 2011 Vol 12 No 10

Deussing J.M., Breu J., Kühne C., Kallnik M., Bunck M., Glasl L., Yen Y.C., Schmidt M.V., Zurmühlen R., Vogl A.M., Gailus-Durner V., Fuchs H., Hölter S.M., Wotjak C.T., Landgraf R., de Angelis M.H., Holsboer F., Wurst W. (2010). Urocortin 3 modulates social discrimination abilities via corticotropin-releasing hormone receptor type 2. J Neurosci. 30, 9103-9116.

Kimura M., Müller-Preuss P., Lu A., Wiesner E., Flachskamm C., Wurst W., Holsboer F. and Deussing J.M. (2010). Conditional corticotropin-releasing hormone overexpression in the mouse forebrain enhances rapid eye movement sleep Mol. Psychiatry 15, 154-156.

Lu A., Steiner M.A., Whittle N., Vogl A.M., Walser S.M., Ableitner M., Refojo D., Ekker M., Rubenstein J.L., Stalla G.K., Singewald N., Holsboer F., Wotjak C.T., Wurst W. and Deussing J.M. (2008). Conditional mouse mutants highlight mechanisms of corticotropin-releasing hormone effects on stress-coping behavior. Mol. Psychiatry 13, 1028-1042.

Deussing J M (2006) Animal models of Depression. Drug Discovery Today: Dis. Models 3, 375-383