Inga Neumann

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Inga Neumann (born April 26, 1962 in Jena , Gera district , GDR ) is a German neurobiologist and professor at the University of Regensburg . She is considered a pioneer in German neuroendocrinology and behavioral biology.

Life

Inga Neumann graduated from the Extended Oberschule (EOS) Johannes-R.-Becher in Jena in 1980 and after a year studied biology at the then Karl Marx University in Leipzig as an intern at the Central Institute for Microbiology and Experimental Therapy (ZIMET).

After the birth of her first son, she began her doctoral thesis in 1987 as a research assistant in the Department of Cell Biology and Neurobiology of the Faculty of Biosciences, which she completed in 1991 with summa cum laude . After the political opening of the GDR, she continued her work on the role of the neuropeptides vasopressin and oxytocin at the Medical School of the University of Calgary , Canada, supported by a grant from the Human Frontiers Science Program . After her return to Germany in 1994 she worked as a Senior Scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Psychiatry in Munich, where she qualified as a professor in 1996 at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich in the field of zoology. Supported by a Heisenberg grant from the German Research Foundation from 1997 to 2001, she continued her scientific work in Munich after the birth of her second son in 1997. In 2001 she accepted the chair for animal physiology and neurobiology at the University of Regensburg .

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In 2006 Inga Neumann initiated the first international elite with financial support from the Bavarian Elite Network and together with colleagues from the then Faculty of Psychology, Education and Sports Science, the Clinic and Polyclinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, the Clinic and Polyclinic for Neurology and the Medical Faculty of the University of Regensburg -Master's course at the University of Regensburg "Experimental and Clinical Neuroscience", of which she was director until 2016. In 2015 she acted as the founding director of the Regensburg Center of Neuroscience. Since 2017 she has been the spokesperson for the graduate college " Neurobiology of Emotion Dysfunctions " supported by the German Research Foundation . From 2017 to 2019 she was Dean of the Faculty of Biology and Preclinical Medicine at the University of Regensburg.

Inga Neumann is a member of numerous professional associations, scientific program committees and editorial boards of international journals. In 2019 she was awarded the ECNP Neuropsychopharmacology Award in Copenhagen. The Neumann team organized several international congresses in Regensburg, such as the World Congress of Neurohypophyseal Hormones in 2007, the Parental Brain Conference in 2011, the First German Neuropeptide Conference in 2015, and a German-Israeli MINERVA symposium in 2019 on the subject of “From Genes to Behavior: Neuropeptides regulate social and emotional behavior ”and a symposium“ Optogenetics in Biology ”.

Focus of research interests

Inga Neumann's scientific focus is on basic neurobiological research. The focus is on deciphering the mechanisms underlying emotions (fear, depression behavior) and social behavior (aggression, maternal behavior, social phobia). She is particularly interested in the role of the neuropeptides oxytocin, vasopressin, CRF and neuropeptide S, which regulate behavior and physiology as neuromodulators of the brain. She herself names four areas of focus:

  1. How do neuropeptides work at the cell level?
  2. What role does oxytocin of the brain play in regulating fear and fear reactions and social interactions in the mentally healthy organism?
  3. Can neuropeptides be used therapeutically to treat psychopathologies that are particularly associated with increased anxiety, extreme aggression or social phobia?
  4. What are the psychological, physiological and immunological consequences of chronic psychosocial stress, and can the neuropeptide oxytocin be used in a stress-protective manner?

To date, more than 200 publications have been published internationally under her name and have been cited more than 18,000 times. She is also very interested in ecological debates.

Selected research papers

  • B. Jurek, ID Neumann: The oxytocin receptor: From intracellular signaling to behavior. In: Physiol Reviews. 2018.
  • R. Menon, T. Grund, I. Zoicas, F. Althammer, D. Fiedler, V. Biermeier, OJ Bosch, Y. Hiraoka, K. Nishimori, M. Eliava, V. Grinevich, ID Neumann: Oxytocin signaling in the lateral septum prevents social fear during lactation. In: Current Biol. Volume 28, 2018, pp. 1066-1078.
  • ID Neumann, DA Slattery: Oxytocin in General Anxiety and Social Fear: A Translational Approach. In: Biol Psychiatry. Volume 79, 2016, pp. 213-221.
  • B. Jurek, DA Slattery, Y. Hiraoka, Y. Liu, K. Nishimori, G. Aguilera, EH van den Burg, ID Neumann: Oxytocin regulates stress-induced CRF gene transcription through CREB-regulated transcription coactivator 3 (CRTC3). In: J Neurosci. Volume 35, 2015, pp. 12248-12260.
  • DA Slattery, RR Naik, T. Grund, YC Yen, SB Sartori, A. Fuechsl, BC Finger, B. Elfving, U. Nordemann, R. Guerrini, G. Calo, G. Wegener, AA Math, N. Singewald, L. Czibere, L. Landgraf, ID Neumann: Selective breeding for high anxiety introduces a synonymous SNP that increases neuropeptide S receptor activity. In: J Neurosci. Volume 35, 2015, pp. 4599-4613.
  • MT Bowen, ST Peters, N. Absalom, M. Chebib, ID Neumann, IS McGregor: Oxytocin prevents ethanol actions at δ subunit-containing GABAA receptors and attenuates ethanol-induced motor impairment in rats. In: Proc Natl Acad Sci US A. Volume 112, 2015, pp. 3104-3109.
  • EH van den Burg, J. Stindl, T. Grund, ID Neumann, O. Strauss: Oxytocin Stimulates Extracellular Ca2 + Influx Through TRPV2 Channels in Hypothalamic Neurons to Exert its Anxiolytic Effects. In: Neuropsychopharmacology. Volume 40, 2015, pp. 2938-2947.
  • I. Zoicas, DA Slattery, ID Neumann: Brain oxytocin in social fear conditioning and its extinction: Involvement of the lateral septum. In: Neuropsychopharmacology. Volume 39, No. 13, 2014, pp. 3027-3035.
  • OJ Bosch, ID Neumann: Brain vasopressin is an important regulator of maternal behavior independent of dams' trait anxiety. In: Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. Volume 105, 2008, pp. 17139-17144.
  • DA Slattery, ID Neumann: No stress please! Mechanisms of stress hyporesponsiveness of the maternal brain. In: J Physiol. Volume 586, 2008, pp. 377-385.
  • M. Waldherr, ID Neumann: Centrally released oxytocin mediates mating-induced anxiolysis in male rats. In: Proc Natl Acad Sci US A. Vol. 104, 2007, pp. 16681-1684.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ archiv.uni-leipzig.de
  2. ↑ uni-regensburg.de
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  6. ↑ ecnp.eu
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  11. ↑ researchgate.net
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personal data
SURNAME Neumann, Inga
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German biologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH April 26, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Jena , Gera district , GDR