Benedikt  Berninger

Benedikt Berninger

Professor of Developmental Neurobiology, Group Leader



Biography:

Benedikt Berninger was born in Munich in 1968. He graduated in Biology from the Ludwig Maximilians University (Munich, Germany) in 1992. He obtained his Doctoral Degree from the same university for work he had conducted at the Max-Planck Institute of Psychiatry (now Neurobiology) in the laboratory of Hans Thoenen. He subsequently joined the University of California in San Diego as a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Mu-ming Poo during which time he was supported by a Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) Long-term Fellowship. After a brief stay at the Karolinska Institute in the laboratory of Jonas Fris?n funded by HFSP, he took a group leader position at the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology in Munich in 2001. Subsequently he became staff scientist at the Helmholtz Center Munich (2003) in the laboratory of Magdalena G?tz. In 2005 he became lecturer at the Institute of Physiology where he habilitated in Physiology in 2011. In 2012 he joined the University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University as Full Professor. From March 2018 he is Professor of Developmental Neurobiology at the Centre for Developmental Neurobiology at King?s College London and member of the MRC Centre for Neurodevelopmental Disorders.Benedikt is a Wellcome Trust Investigator.

Related News:

Linking adult neural stem cell activation and tumourigenesis

14/04/23
New work from the Berninger lab

Benedikt Berninger awarded ERC Advanced Grant

22/04/21
Unleashing the potential of engineered neurogenesis for brain repair

The sweet smell of adult neurogenesis

05/02/19
Adult olfactory bulb neurogenesis improves odour distinction

All Publications:

2023

Péron S, Miyakoshi LM, Brill MS, Manzano-Franco D, Serrano-López J, Fan W, Marichal N, Ghanem A, Conzelmann KK, Karow M, Ortega F, Gascón S, Berninger B (2023) Programming of neural progenitors of the adult subependymal zone towards a glutamatergic neuron lineage by neurogenin 2. Stem Cell Reports
Beltrán Arranz A, Berninger B (2023) Seizing hope: Advancing cell therapy for pharmaco-resistant epilepsy toward the clinic. Cell Stem Cell

Felske T, Tocco C, Péron S, Harb K, Alfano C, Galante C, Berninger B, Studer M (2023) Lmo4 synergizes with Fezf2 to promote direct in vivo reprogramming of upper layer cortical neurons and cortical glia towards deep-layer neuron identities. PLoS Biol

Fan W, Jurado-Arjona J, Alanis-Lobato G, Péron S, Berger C, Andrade-Navarro MA, Falk S, Berninger B (2023) The transcriptional co-activator Yap1 promotes adult hippocampal neural stem cell activation. EMBO J

2022

Galante C, Marichal N, Scarante FF, Ghayad LM, Shi Y, Schuurmans C, Berninger B, Péron S (2022) Enhanced proliferation of oligodendrocyte progenitor cells following retrovirus mediated Achaete-scute complex-like 1 overexpression in the postnatal cerebral cortex in vivo. Front Neurosci
Cooper A, Berninger B (2022) Gatekeeping astrocyte identity. Elife
Leschik J, Gentile A, Cicek C, Péron S, Tevosian M, Beer A, Radyushkin K, Bludau A, Ebner K, Neumann I, Singewald N, Berninger B, Lessmann V, Lutz B (2022) Brain-derived neurotrophic factor expression in serotonergic neurons improves stress resilience and promotes adult hippocampal neurogenesis. Prog Neurobiol