Graduate School

    Mitglieder der IRTG 2021

    Integrated Research Training Group (IRTG)

    The Integrated Research Training Group (IRTG) aims to meet the individual career needs of young researchers and to prepare them for knowledge transfer from basic research to the application of cognitive resources.

    We offer young scientists structured doctoral training in an interdisciplinary and international environment. Our Principal Investigators (PIs) are internationally recognized scientists who conduct pioneering research and cover a wide range of expertise. We intend to foster the academic independence of our students by immersing them in high-quality research and fostering critical thinking skills, lively exchange with other scholars, and active participation.

    Individual career needs will be addressed in general by providing a profound scientific background and education for all participating doctoral and postdoctoral researchers to enable communication between the interdisciplinary fields and preparation of the young researchers to their further scientific career.

    All communication and courses are conducted in English. The international character of IRTG members and interdisciplinary projects create a highly innovative research and study environment that encourages ‘thinking outside the box’. IRTG also serves as a discussion platform for students and PIs to deal with important ethical issues of neural resource enhancement and emphasize ethical principles of animal and human experimentation in the study program. 

    IRTG – Graduate Program
    IRTG Activities
    MD Fellowships
    Graduation at OVGU

    IRTG Team

    CRC 1436 member Anne Albrecht

    Prof. Dr. Dr. med. Anne Albrecht

    CRC 1436 member Christoph Knoll

    Christoph Knoll

    Prof. Dr. Dr. med. Anne Albrecht

    Anne Albrecht is the head of the Department of Neuroanatomy at the Institute of Anatomy at the Otto-von-Guericke University. Her research group studies the functional neuroanatomy of emotional memory and stress adaptation circuits. She also teaches anatomy to 1st and 2nd year medical students.

    The focus of her research is on the investigation of GABAergic interneurons and neuropeptides in learning, memory and stress processing in rodent models. To analyze the role of e.g. orexin in circuits of memory formation, her group uses neuronal tracing, high-resolution methods for expression analysis (RNAScope, laser-assisted microdissection & qPCR) as well as viral and pharmacological interventions in conjunction with behavioral analysis in mice and structural and molecular studies in cell and tissue cultures.

    Institut:Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Medical Faculty

    Project Title:A07 Mobilising cognitive resource through orexinergic modulation of hippocampal circuits

    Christoph Knoll

    “Ingenuity, excellence and continual learning” – these three words sum up my passion for the field of Cognitive Neuroscience and Sport Science. In my PhD, I aim to develop a research profile within the field of Cognitive Neuroscience and Microstructural Imaging that investigates in brain vasculature and connected ccognitive changes. I aspire to gain practical insights about the best spatial resolution system of 7 Tesla magnetic resonance imaging.

    Institut:Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Medical Faculty

    :IRTG

    :Z02 Human imaging at meso-scale

    PhD – Students Representatives

    CRC 1436 member Anwesha Das

    Anwesha Das

    CRC 1436 member Martin Matke

    Martin Matke

    Anwesha Das

    I am a doctoral researcher working in the groups of Elena Azañón and Max-Philipp Stenner, at Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Magdeburg. Prior starting my PhD in September 2021, I pursued my master’s in neuroscience from National Brain Research Centre, in India. At SFB1436, I am a part of the sub-project C03 and we are investigating the cognitive resources associated with motor skill learning in healthy humans. We use behavioural measurements and magnetoencephalography (MEG) data for answering our research questions.magnetoencephalography (MEG) data for answering our research questions.

    Institut:Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Medical Faculty

    project:C03 Parallel planning as a resource for human skill learning and memory

    Martin Matke

    I am working as a PhD student in the C01 project of the CRC on dynamic modelling of structural brain alterations and changes in functional abilities during learning. My goal as a researcher is to help understand how changing environments induce neuroplasticity. This understanding may help to inform future interventions that aim to mobilise neural resources in aged humans. As a basis for that, I am also interested in ongoing improvements in quantitative MRI.

    Institut:Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Medical Faculty

    project:C01 Embodied cognitive reserve in the cortico-subcortical premotor network