Ilona Grunwald Kadow
Ilona Carmen Grunwald Kadow (* 1974 ) is a German biologist and professor at the Technical University of Munich .
Career
Grunwald Kadow studied biology at the University of Göttingen and the University of California in the USA . She did her PhD at EMBL and Heidelberg University . She then did research as a postdoc at the University of California and the Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology . From 2008 to 2016 she headed a research group at the Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology.
Grunwald Kadow has been Professor for Neural Control of Metabolism at the Technical University of Munich since 2017 .
research
Grunwald Kadow researches chemical sensors, i.e. the perception of smells and flavors , their influence on behavior and their processing in neuronal excitation circuits . She examines how chemosensory stimuli influence decisions and behavior, how these stimuli are processed depending on internal states and how memories are created for them.
Stinging insects, such as the malaria- transmitting Anopheles gambiae , use odor sensors to identify their hosts. Grunwald Kadow was able to trace the genetic basis back to the co-expression of two olefactory receptors , which allows the development of new strategies against malaria. She was able to show that in fruit flies ( Drosophila ) dopamine neurons (see also dopamine receptors ) convey the value or attractiveness of smells and tastes.
Awards
- 2014 ERC Starting Grant from the European Research Council
- 2012 EMBO Young Investigator
- 2008 Human Frontiers Science Organization Career Development Award
- 2008 acceptance into the Emmy-Noether-Program of the German Research Society
- 2002 Otto Hahn Medal from the Max Planck Society
Web links
- Ilona Grunwald Kadow on Google Scholar
- Ilona Grunwald Kadow on the website of the Technical University of Munich
- Biography at the MPI
Individual evidence
- ↑ Walton D. Jones, Pelin Cayirlioglu, Ilona Grunwald Kadow, Leslie B. Vosshall: Two chemosensory receptors together mediate carbon dioxide detection in Drosophila. In: Nature. 445, 2007, p. 86, doi : 10.1038 / nature05466 .
- ↑ KP Siju, Vilim Štih, Sophie Aimon, Julijana Gjorgjieva, Ruben Portugues, Ilona C. Grunwald Kadow: Valence and State-Dependent Population Coding in Dopaminergic Neurons in the Fly Mushroom Body. In: Current Biology. 2020, doi : 10.1016 / j.cub.2020.04.037 .
- ↑ Millions in funding for excellent neurobiologist. Retrieved May 25, 2020 .
- ↑ Ilona Grunwald-Kadow is an EMBO Young Investigator. Retrieved May 25, 2020 (English).
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Grunwald Kadow, Ilona |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Grunwald Kadow, Ilona Carmen |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German neurobiologist and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1974 |