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 Frisén 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 Götz. 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:

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

Welcome to two new labs!

02/02/18
Welcome to Adil Khan and Benedikt Berninger labs

All publications:

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 16: 919462
Cooper A, Berninger B (2022) Gatekeeping astrocyte identity. Elife 11
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 217: 102333

2021

Lattke M, Goldstone R, Ellis JK, Boeing S, Jurado-Arjona J, Marichal N, MacRae JI, Berninger B, Guillemot F (2021) Extensive transcriptional and chromatin changes underlie astrocyte maturation in vivo and in culture. Nat Commun 12: 4335
Sharif N, Calzolari F, Berninger B (2021) Direct In Vitro Reprogramming of Astrocytes into Induced Neurons. Methods Mol Biol 2352: 13-29