Objective
The brain exhibits remarkable capacities to initiate self-repair mechanisms after brain injury as a prerequisite for the recovery of lost functions. ARISE will unveil fundamental, yet not understood principles how brain repair mechanisms are orchestrated and how they can be further enhanced. Due to technical constraints, it was previously impossible to uncover 1) how individual neurons rewire and reconnect after CNS injury, 2) why some surviving neurons participate in repair processes and others do not, and 3) how neuronal rewiring could be further stimulated to promote the restoration of impaired functions. But now, with technological advances at hand, I am in a unique position to tackle these major questions by examining causal relationships between neuronal rewiring and behavioral outcome. I have recently developed a mouse model for vascular dementia that enables the monitoring of the same neurons in the hippocampus over several weeks under healthy conditions and after induction of multiple microstrokes in relation to the spatial memory of the animal. Using sophisticated closed-loop experiments, combining chronic 2photon imaging in-vivo with optogenetics and machine learning, I will characterize neuronal recoding in relation to the behavioural performance of the animal. I hypothesize that principles of learning are key to understand how surviving cells are recruited to participate in new neuronal ensembles to restore lost memory engrams. Using local light stimulation I will manipulate surviving neurons to unveil their role in rewiring network dynamics and repair processes and to enhance their engagement in restorative operations.
With ARISE I will establish a novel experimental pipeline to identify the cellular mechanisms of neuronal repair that are linked to distinct behavioural outcome parameters. This approach will also allow me to train generalized linear models (GLMs) to assess the efficiency and predict the outcome of novel restorative therapies in stroke.
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- medical and health sciences basic medicine neurology dementia
- medical and health sciences basic medicine neurology stroke
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HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC)
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80539 MUNCHEN
Germany
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