Benedikt Berninger

Benedikt Berninger

Professor of Developmental Neurobiology, Group Leader


Engineering neurogenesis

All publications:

2014

Heinrich C, Bergami M, Gascón S, Lepier A, Viganò F, Dimou L, Sutor B, Berninger B, Götz M (2014) Sox2-mediated conversion of NG2 glia into induced neurons in the injured adult cerebral cortex. Stem Cell Reports 3: 1000-14

2013

Motori E, Puyal J, Toni N, Ghanem A, Angeloni C, Malaguti M, Cantelli-Forti G, Berninger B, Conzelmann KK, Götz M, Winklhofer KF, Hrelia S, Bergami M (2013) Inflammation-induced alteration of astrocyte mitochondrial dynamics requires autophagy for mitochondrial network maintenance. Cell Metab 18: 844-59
Deshpande A, Bergami M, Ghanem A, Conzelmann KK, Lepier A, Götz M, Berninger B (2013) Retrograde monosynaptic tracing reveals the temporal evolution of inputs onto new neurons in the adult dentate gyrus and olfactory bulb. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 110: E1152-61

2012

Heinrich C, Götz M, Berninger B (2012) Reprogramming of postnatal astroglia of the mouse neocortex into functional, synapse-forming neurons. Methods Mol Biol 814: 485-98
Mu L, Berti L, Masserdotti G, Covic M, Michaelidis TM, Doberauer K, Merz K, Rehfeld F, Haslinger A, Wegner M, Sock E, Lefebvre V, Couillard-Despres S, Aigner L, Berninger B, Lie DC (2012) SoxC transcription factors are required for neuronal differentiation in adult hippocampal neurogenesis. J Neurosci 32: 3067-80
Chen X, Lepier A, Berninger B, Tolkovsky AM, Herbert J (2012) Cultured subventricular zone progenitor cells transduced with neurogenin-2 become mature glutamatergic neurons and integrate into the dentate gyrus. PLoS One 7: e31547

2011

Heinrich C, Gascón S, Masserdotti G, Lepier A, Sanchez R, Simon-Ebert T, Schroeder T, Götz M, Berninger B (2011) Generation of subtype-specific neurons from postnatal astroglia of the mouse cerebral cortex. Nat Protoc 6: 214-28