Bjorn Brembs

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Björn Brembs (born February 23, 1971 in Würzburg ) is a German neurobiologist who is currently a professor of neurogenetics at the University of Regensburg .

Life

Brembs, the son of a Swedish mother and a German father, grew up bilingual . He attended Wirsberg-Gymnasium in his hometown, where he graduated from high school in 1990 . During his school days he was an exchange student in Spring Church ( Pennsylvania , USA ) and Montpellier ( France ). He also wrote a technical work on the salmon - hike .

After completing his military service , Brembs studied biology at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg from 1991 . He completed part of his studies at the University of Umeå (Sweden), plus a short stay abroad at the University of Glasgow (Scotland). Brembs successfully completed his training in 1996 with a thesis on Classical and Operant Conditioning in Drosophila at the Flight Simulator .

In the coming years he devoted himself to researching the learning and memory abilities of the fruit fly genus Drosophila , was involved as a participant and organizer in various conferences and promoted his doctorate . Brembs completed this in spring 2000 with a dissertation entitled An Analysis of Associative Learning in Drosophila at the Flight Simulator .

Brembs then spent three years as a postdoc at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (part of the University of Texas System ) in the laboratory of John Byrne. During this time he dealt with the learning behavior of Aplysia ("sea hare"), published a number of articles in specialist journals and also worked as a reviewer . In 2001 he received an Emmy Noether Fellowship from the German Research Foundation (DFG).

At the end of 2003, Brembs moved to the Institute for Neurobiology at the Free University of Berlin , where at the beginning of 2004 he received a laboratory funded by the DFG over three years for further research into Drosophila . In December 2005 he also received a two-year DFG grant to deepen his work with Aplysia . During this time, Brembs also worked as an editor and reviewer for various specialist journals.

In 2009 Brembs received a Heisenberg Fellowship from the DFG and continued his work at the Free University of Berlin, where in 2010 he co-founded the DFG research area "Biogenic amines in insects: coordination of physiological processes and behavior". Since this year Brembs is also a member of the Faculty of 1000 .

Brembs took up his first professorship at the University of Regensburg in October 2012 .

Publications (selection)

  • Björn Brembs, FD Lorenzetti, FD Reyes, DA Baxter, JH Byrne: Operant Reward Learning in Aplysia: Neuronal Correlates and Mechanisms. In: Science . Volume 296, 2002, pp. 1706-1709.

Web links

  • Björn Brembs on the website of the Free University of Berlin
  • CV (English)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.uni-regensburg.de/biologie-vorklinische-medizin/neurogenetik/
  2. ↑ Björn Brembs' personal résumé. Retrieved April 12, 2013 .
personal data
SURNAME Brembs, Bjorn
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German neurobiologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Wurzburg