Ongoing Doctoral Theses
Nils Otten
Rebecca Bake
since December 2018
Amina Bećić
Investigations on the assembly, function and modulation of plant glutamate receptor homologues
since September 2018
Javeria Shaukat
since May 2018
Jennifer Leifeld
since December 2017
Finished Doctoral Theses
My Tien Luu
Optimising the detection of autoantibodies against glutamate receptors in human blood sera
November 2019 to August 2023
Sebastian Obst
January 2016 to December 2021
Tobias Strasdeit
Modulation of ionotropic glutamate receptors by interacting proteins
October 2014 to February 2019
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Steffen Pahl
Investigations on accessory proteins modulating glutamate receptor function
October 2010 to December 2018
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Peer Henning Höcker
Identification of domains relevant for AMPA receptor modulation by stargazin
March 2012 to April 2017
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Sandra Lemos
Modulation of AMPA receptors by type-II TARPs
April 2011 to March 2017
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Madeline Ferreira Beltrán
Functional characterisation of splice variants of the GluN3B subunit
September 2012 to March 2017
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Thi Hong Thanh Lu
Investigations on agonist specificity and heteromeric assembly of Arabidopsis thaliana glutamate-like receptor (AtGLR) subunits
September 2012 to December 2016
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Kevin Gottschling
Modulation of GluN3B-containing excitatory glycine receptors by zinc
October 2011 to November 2016
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Ina Rothenberg
Molecular, pharmacological and evolutionary aspects in KV channel-mediated arrhythmias
February 2012 to July 2016,
from July 2012 at the University Hospital Münster
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Jan Terhag
Auxiliary subunits of voltage-gated calcium channels as modulators of ionotropic glutamate receptors
November 2008 to June 2016
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Simon Haering
Identification and functional characterization of claudin subunits as new transmembrane AMPA receptor regulatory proteins
November 2010 to September 2015
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Veronika Matschke
Regulation of the kainate receptor GluK2 by NDRG and SGK1
April 2011 to November 2014
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Karina Eckey
Ligand-dependent regulation of voltage-gated potassium channels Kv7
October 2010 to June 2014
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Svenja Pachernegg
Investigations on ionotropic glutamate receptors during neurodevelopment - An insight from an in vitro cell system
October 2008 to June 2014
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Eva Wrobel
Investigation of the mechanism and the molecular binding site of the Kv7.1/KCNE1 inhibitor JNJ303
October 2009 to March 2013
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Katja Steinke
Modulation of cardiac ion channels by coxsackievirus B3
October 2008 to March 2012
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Angela Orth
The delta subfamily of glutamate receptors: Identification of interacting proteins and characterisation of receptor chimaeras and mutants
October 2007 to November 2011
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Charlotte Sager
Investigations on the interaction of AMPA receptors with TARPs
October 2006 to July 2010
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Ulrike Henrion
Molecular mechanisms of LQT1-associated mutations
October 2006 to January 2010
Nora Čavara
The role of the NR3 subunits in NMDA receptors
October 2006 to December 2009
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Elke Muth-Köhne
Investigations on the expression and influence of ionotropic neurotransmitter receptors during stem cell development and differentiation
October 2005 to October 2009
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Sebastian Eilebrecht
Identification of a new function of 7SK RNA as a regulator of gene expression
December 2005 to December 2008
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Carsten Schmidt
Investigations on Xenopus laevis glutamate receptors
August 2004 to September 2008
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Daniel Tapken
Molecular and functional characterisation of plant glutamate receptors
September 2002 to August 2008
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Thomas Hülsken
Phylogenetic relationship and species identification within the Naticidae Guilding, 1834 (Gastropoda: Caenogastropoda)
September 2002 to August 2008
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Sabine Kott
Characterisation of the functional modulation of AMPA receptors by TARPs
March 2003 to July 2008
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Sabine Schmid
Investigation of the delta subfamily of glutamate receptors by domain transplantation
October 2003 to April 2008
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Zhan-Lu Ma
Assembly and intracellular trafficking of glutamate receptors
October 2002 to October 2007
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Illah Joshi
Ionotropic glutamate receptor expression during embryonic stem cell differentiation
May 2002 to October 2007
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Elena Guschina
Cloning, expression and functional analysis of RNA-uridylating enzymes
to June 2007
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Monika Jeromin
Functional studies of NMDA receptor concatemers in Xenopus laevis oocytes
February 2004 to January 2007
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Jutta Hoffmann
Structural and functional relationships between glutamate receptors and potassium channels
July 2001 to December 2005
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Thomas Wegert
Investigation of the transient interaction of RNA and protein complexes
April 1999 to May 2005
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Dorota Koper-Emde
Phylogenetic heterogeneity of 7S-RNAs from eukaryotes
April 1999 to January 2004
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Hendrik Mittendorf
Identification and characterisation of 7S K RNA-binding proteins
1999 to February 2002
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Edda Dümpelmann
The efficient transcription of the viral EBER 2 RNA gene depends on the structural integrity of the RNA
1999 to November 2001
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Agnes Thalhammer
Investigation of desensitisation mechanisms of non-NMDA receptor subunits
May 1998 to October 2001
Nathalie Strutz
Structure and interaction of functional domains of ionotropic glutamate receptors
March 1998 to December 2000
André Frontzek
Binding studies with cellular proteins and RNA molecules of the Alu family
to February 2000
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Ingo Paarmann
Cell-specific expression of glutamate receptors in identified neurons, and experiments towards pharmacological receptor differentiation
September 1995 to November 1999
Inga Everts
N-glycosylation of ionotropic glutamate receptors: Implications for receptor function and functional modulation by lectins
February 1995 to April 1998
Carmen Villmann
Investigation of structure-function relationships of ion pore domains of ionotropic glutamate receptors
April 1995 to March 1998