Michael Brecht (neurobiologist)

Michael Brecht (* 1967 in Bad Urach ) is a German neurobiologist .

Brecht developed techniques in vivo whole cell and their application, which enable the identification and analysis of nerve cells (neurons) and their activity in free-running animals.

Life

Brecht is a son of the Protestant theologian and church historian Martin Brecht . In 1986 he graduated from the Schillergymnasium in Münster . In 1988, Brecht studied biochemistry and biology in Tübingen . In 1991/92 a study visit to San Diego followed . In 1994 he did a research stay at the Keck Center for Integrative Neuroscience at the University of California, San Francisco , USA. In 1994 he wrote a diploma thesis at the University of Tübingen.

In 1998 he received his doctorate at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt . In 2004 he completed his habilitation at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg . In 2004 he received a position as “Assistant Professor” in the Neuroscience Department of the Medical Center, Erasmus University Rotterdam , Netherlands. Since 2006 he has been working at the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience in Berlin and as a professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin .

Honors

• 2008 ERC Advanced Investigators Grant - European Research Council
• 2012 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize from the German Research Foundation
• 2014 election as a member of EMBO

Publications

• Temporal coding in the superior colliculus of the cat . Dissertation, University of Tübingen. 1998

Individual evidence

1. ↑ In 2006 Michael Brecht took up the professorship "Animal Physiology / Systems Neurobiology and Neural Computation", which is based at the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Berlin  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . (accessed on February 28, 2012).  
2. ↑ Extensive research funding to Michael Brecht  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on February 28, 2012).  
3. ↑ Michael Brecht wins Leibniz Prize 2012! ( Memento of the original from January 28, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on February 28, 2012). 
4. ↑ EMBO enlarges its membership for 50th anniversary. Press release from May 8, 2014 at the Science Information Service (idw-online.de)

Web links

• Literature by and about Michael Brecht in the catalog of the German National Library