Arthur Konnerth

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Arthur Konnerth (born September 23, 1953 in Timisoara , Romania ) is a German neurophysiologist.

Live and act

From 1975 onwards, Konnerth studied human medicine at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , in 1981 he completed his studies with the medical state examination and received his license to practice medicine , in 1983 he was awarded a Dr. med. PhD. Since 1982 he has been a research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Psychiatry in Munich, in 1984 he went to the USA as a Feodor Lynen Fellow of the Humboldt Foundation and did research at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole . From 1985 he was a research assistant, initially again at the Max Planck Institute for Psychiatry, then from 1985 to 1988 in the Department of Cell Physiology at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, where he became head of the Cellular Neurophysiology working group in 1989 . Konnerth completed his habilitation in 1987 at the Technical University of Munich. In 1993 he was appointed to the First Physiological Institute at Saarland University , in 1999 he moved to Munich as director of the Physiological Institute at the Technical University, where he has been head of the Cell Physiology Department since 2000.

Konnerth was Vice-President for Research at Saarland University from 1997 to 1999, since 1999 he has been a member of the Senate Committee of the German Research Foundation for Collaborative Research Centers , and since 2000 a permanent member of the Feodor Lynen Selection Committee of the Humboldt Foundation.

He has been a member of the Leopoldina since 2001, and a full member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences since 2011 . In 2004 he was accepted into the Academia Europaea .

Konnerth is married to the economist Roswitha Schäfer-Konnerth, the couple have three grown children.

Research priorities

In his research, Konnerth deals with the mode of action of nerve cells, especially in the human brain. Here he and his co-workers succeeded in identifying changes in calcium concentration as a mechanism for transmitting and storing information. His working group works with high-resolution microscopy methods, some of which are also developed in the research group itself. Another research focus of Konnerth is the effect of neurotrophins , especially in the formation of neural networks.

Prizes and awards (selection)

Fonts (selection)

  • MA Busche, X. Chen, HA Henning, J. Reichwald, M. Staufenbiel, B. Sakmann and A. Konnerth : Critical role of soluble amyloid-β for early hippocampal hyperactivity in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease. 2012, Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 109 (22): 8740-5.
  • C. Grienberger and A. Konnerth : Imaging calcium in neurons. 2012, Neuron 73 (5): 862-85.
  • VD Bonfardin, DT Theodosis, A. Konnerth and SH Oliet : Kainate receptor-induced retrograde inhibition of glutamatergic transmission in vasopressin neurons. 2012, J Neurosci. 32 (4): 1301-10.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b DFG: Prof. Dr. Arthur Konnerth - Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize Winner 2001
  2. ↑ Member entry by Arthur Konnerth (with picture and CV) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on July 17, 2016.
  3. ^ Bavarian Academy of Sciences: Full members
  4. ↑ Directory of members: Arthur Konnerth. Academia Europaea, accessed July 2, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Konnerth, Arthur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German neurophysiologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Timisoara , Romania