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Wed, 22/11/2023
Hybrid seminar on ‘The origins and consequences of multiple slerosis’
Munich. Prof. Lars Fugger from the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences at the University of Oxford will give a hybrid seminar on ‘The origins and consequences of multiple slerosis’ in the large auditorium at the TranslaTUM in MUNICH. The talk is organized by the TRR 355 and will be streamed via the TRR 355 seminar […]...more
Wed, 23/08/2023
Neurology Webinar on human brain T cells in health and multiple sclerosis
Muenster. The SFB 128 is happy welcome Joost J.F.M. Smolders, MD, PhD , head of MS Center ErasMS and Neuroimmunology Brain (NIB) Research Group at the Department of Immunology of the Erasmus University Medical Center (Erasmus MC), as lecturer at the Muenster Neurology Webinar. His talk is entitled “Unique features of human brain T cells […]...more
Thu, 03/08/2023
New Date: Neurology Webinar – How much gut needs the brain
Muenster. In January 2024, Prof. Anne-Katrin Pröbstel, Head of the Interdisciplinary Autoimmune Clinic at the University Hospital of Basel, will visit Muenster to give insights into the microbiota-immune crosstalk in neuroonflammation. Her presentation – which ois part of the Muenster Neurology Webinar – will be live-streamed. Time: Wednesday, January 24, 2024 Place: Online at zoom. […]...more


Thu, 16/03/2017 | SFB Scientists reprogram skin cells to brain cells to facilitate neurological research

SFB scientists Prof. Tanja Kuhlmann und Dr. Marc Ehrlich generate oligodendrocytes from skin cells (photo: FZ/E. Deiters-Keul)

Münster. (mfm/jr) Whether it be math, writing, reading or learning a new language: brain cells give us astonishing brainpower every day. When these cells are damaged by neurological diseases, cells cannot be simply sampled and analyzed in a petri dish. Scientists from the University of Münster and the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine developed a new protocol to generate their brain cells of interest, oligodendrocytes, from skin. The team in Münster belongs to the few labs worldwide that have established this technique successfully in their lab; however the team in Münster can do this now much faster and more efficiently – with significant benefit for research. More .  . .