Prof. Dr. Christian Henneberger

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Prof. Dr. Christian Henneberger

University professor

Contact

Phone: +49-228 287 16304; +49-228 287 19121

Email: christian.henneberger@ukb.uni-bonn.de

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Education/Degrees

1996 – 2003 MD, Humboldt University and Freie Universität, Berlin
2003 Doctoral thesis, Prof. R. Grantyn, Department of Physiology, Charité, Berlin

Academic Career

2003 – 2006 Postdoctoral fellow, Prof. R. Grantyn, Developmental Neurophysiology, Charité- Universitätsmedizin Berlin
2006 – 2010 Postdoctoral fellow, Prof. D. A. Rusakov, Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, UK
2010 – 2013 UCL Excellence fellow, UCL Institute of Neurology, London, UK
2011 – 2015 Assistant professor (NRW-Rückkehrergruppe), University of Bonn
Since 2015 University professor (W2, NRW-Rückkehrergruppe), University of Bonn, tenured since 2017
Since 2015 association with the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Bonn, Germany
Since 2016 Honorary senior lecturer, University College London, UK

Awards and Honors

1999 – 2003 Scholarship of the “Studienstiftung”
2003 Award of a ‘Summa cum laude’ for MD thesis work
2010 University College London Excellence Bridging Award
2011 Career development grant (NRW-Rückkehrerförderung)

Most important publications

  1. Henneberger C, Papouin T, Oliet SHR, Rusakov DA (2010). Long-term potentiation depends on release of d-serine from astrocytes. Nature 463: 232-236.
  2. Kochlamazashvili G*, Henneberger C*, Bukalo O*, Dvoretskova E, Senkov O, Lievens PM, Westenbroek R, Engel AK, Catterall WA, Rusakov DA, Schachner M, Dityatev A. (2010) The Extracellular Matrix Molecule Hyaluronic Acid Regulates Hippocampal Synaptic Plasticity by Modulating Postsynaptic L-Type Ca2+ Channels. Neuron 67: 116-128. (* equal contribution)
  3. Anders S, Minge D, Griemsmann S, Herde MK, Steinhäuser C, Henneberger C (2014) Spatial properties of astrocyte gap junction coupling in the rat hippocampus. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 369(1654):20130600.
  4. Minge D, Senkov O, Kaushik R, Herde MK, Tikhobrazova O, Wulff AB, Mironov A, van Kuppevelt TH, Oosterhof A, Kochlamazashvili G, Dityatev A, Henneberger C (2017) Heparan sulfates support pyramidal cell excitability, synaptic plasticity and context discrimination. Cereb. Cortex 27(2):903-918.
  5. Zhang WH, Herde MK, Mitchell JA, Whitfield JH, Wulff AB, Vongsouthi V, Sanchez-Romero I, Gulakova PE, Minge D, Breithausen B, Schoch S, Janovjak H, Jackson CJ, Henneberger C (2018) Monitoring hippocampal glycine with the computationally designed optical sensor GlyFS. Nat. Chem. Biol. 14(9):861-869.
  6. Breithausen B, Kautzmann S, Boehlen A, Steinhäuser C, Henneberger C (2020) Limited contribution of astroglial gap junction coupling to buffering of extracellular K+ in CA1 stratum radiatum. Glia 68(5):918-931.
  7. King CM, Bohmbach K, Minge D, Delekate A, Zheng K, Reynolds J, Rakers C, Zeug A, Petzold GC, Rusakov DA, Henneberger C (2020). Local Resting Ca2+ Controls the Scale of Astroglial Ca2+ Signals. Cell Rep. 30(10):3466-3477.
  8. Semyanov A*, Henneberger C*, Agarwal A* (2020) Making sense of astrocytic calcium signals – from acquisition to interpretation. Nat. Rev. Neurosci. 21(10): 551-564. (* equal contribution and correspondence)
  9. Henneberger C*, Bard L, Panatier A, Reynolds J, Kopach O, Medvedev NI, Minge D, Herde MK, Anders S, Kraev I, Heller JP, Rama S, Zheng K, Jensen TP, Sanchez-Romero I, Jackson CJ, Janovjak H, Ottersen OP, Nagelhus EA, Oliet SHR, Stewart MG*, Nägerl UV*, Rusakov DA* (2020) LTP induction boosts glutamate spillover by driving withdrawal of perisynaptic astroglia. Neuron (in press, doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2020.08.030).
    (* correspondence)
  10. Herde MK, Bohmbach K, Domingos C, Vana N, Komorowska-Müller JA, Passlick S, Schwarz I, Jackson CJ, Dietrich D, Schwarz MK, Henneberger C (2020) Local efficacy of glutamate uptake decreases with synapse size. Cell Rep. 32(12):108182.