University Professor
Education/Degrees:
1995-2000 Studies of Biology, Physiology (Diploma); Department of Human and Animal Physiology, Biological Faculty, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia.
2003 Dr. rer.nat., Prof. Dr. H. L. Haas, Düsseldorf University, magna cum laude
Academic Career:
2003-2005 Postdoctoral fellow (DFG GK 320), Institute of Neurophysiology (Director: Prof. Dr. H.L. Haas), Heinrich Heine University, Dusseldorf, Germany.
2005-2009 Postdoctoral fellow of the Ernst Schering Foundation; postdoctoral researcher, Department of Clinical Neurobiology (Director: Prof. Dr. H. Monyer), University Clinic for Neurology, Heidelberg, Germany
2009-2010 Postdoctoral researcher, Department „Physiology and Pathology of Ion Transport“ (Director: Prof. Dr. Dr. T.J. Jentsch), FMP Institute, Berlin
2011-2012 Project leader, NeuroCure Cluster of Excellence / FMP Institute, Berlin
2012-2017 Junior group leader, NeuroCure Cluster of Excellence / Leibniz Institute for Molecular Pharmacology (FMP), Berlin
2017-2020 Max Planck Research Group leader, Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research, Cologne, Germany
Since April 2019 University Professor (W3), Managing Director of Institute for Vegetative Physiology, Medical Faculty, University of Cologne
Awards and Honors:
2017 ERC Consolidator Grant
2016-2018 GIF Regular Program Grant
2013 The Junior Brain Prize, Lundbeck Foundation
2012-2016 The Human Frontier Science Program Grant
2005-2007 Postdoctoral stipend of the Ernst Schering Foundation
2003-2005 Postdoctoral stipend of DFG graduate college
2002-2003 Doctoral stipend of DFG graduate college
2000 Diploma with distinction, Biological Faculty, Lomonosov Moscow State University
Memberships, academic and professional duties (selection):
2019 – Head of Research Area 3, DFG-funded Exc 229 “Cellular Stress Responses in Aging-associated Diseases” (CECAD), Cologne.
2019 – Head of the Cologne Graduate School of Ageing Research (CGA)
2019 – Deputy spokesperson of the DFG-funded Graduate School “Neural Circuit Analysis on the Cellular and Subcellular Level”
2014 – NWG (German Neuroscience Society) /FENS (Federation of European Neuroscience Societies), member
Ad hoc Reviewer: Nature, Science, Cell, Nature Medicine, Nature Neuroscience, Molecular Psychiatry, Nature Communications, PLOS Biology, eLIFE, Frontiers in Neuroscience, Int. J. Exp. Pathology; Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF), Medical Research Council (MRC).
List of 10 most important publications
Jais, A., Paeger, L., Sotelo-Hitschfeld, T., Bremser, S., Prinzensteiner, M., Klemm, P., Mykytiuk, V., Widdershooven, P.J.M., Vesting, A.J., Grzelka, K., Minère, M., Cremer, A.L., Xu, J., Korotkova, T., Lowell, B.B., Zeilhofer, H.U., Backes, H., Fenselau, H., Wunderlich, F.T., Kloppenburg, P., Brüning, J.C. (2020) PNOC-ARC Neurons Promote Hyperphagia and Obesity upon High-Fat-Diet Feeding. Neuron. pii: S0896-6273(20)30229-4. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2020.03.022.
Ruud, J., Alber, J., Tokarska, A., Engström Ruud, L., Nolte, H., Biglari, N., Lippert, R., Lautenschlager, Ä., Cieślak, P.E., Szumiec, Ł., Hess, M.E., Brönneke, H.S., Krüger, M., Nissbrandt, H., Korotkova, T., Silberberg, G., Rodriguez Parkitna, J., Brüning, J.C. (2019) The Fat Mass and Obesity-Associated Protein (FTO) Regulates Locomotor Responses to Novelty via D2R Medium Spiny Neurons.Cell Rep. 27(11), 3182-3198.
Carus-Cadavieco, M., Gorbati, M., Ye, L., Bender, F., van der Veldt, S., Kosse, C., Börgers, C., Lee, S.Y., Ramakrishnan, C., Hu, Y., Denisova, N., Ramm, F., Volitaki, E., Burdakov, D., Deisseroth, K., Ponomarenko, A and Korotkova, T. (2017) Gamma oscillations organize top-down signalling to hypothalamus and enable food seeking. Nature, 542(7640), 232-236.
Herrera, C.G., Carus-Cadavieco, M., Jego, S., Ponomarenko, A., Korotkova, T., Adamantidis, A. (2016) Hypothalamic feed-forward inhibition of thalamocortical network controls arousal and consciousness. Nature Neuroscience, 19(2), 290-298.
Bender, F., Gorbati, M., Carus-Cadavieco, M., Denisova, N., Gao, X., Holman, C., Korotkova, T.,*§ Ponomarenko, A.*§. (2015) Theta oscillations regulate speed of locomotion via hippocampus to lateral septum pathway. Nature Communications, 6, 8521. (* equal contribution, § corresponding authors)
Fidzinski, P*., Korotkova, T*., Heidenreich, M*., Maier, N., Schuetze, S., Kobler, O., Zuschratter, W., Schmitz, D., Ponomarenko, A., Jentsch, T.J. (2015) KCNQ5 K+ channels control hippocampal synaptic inhibition and fast network oscillations. Nature Communications, 6, 6254. (* equal contribution)
Korotkova, T., Fuchs, E.C., Ponomarenko, A., von Engelhardt, J., Monyer,, H. (2010) NMDA receptor ablation on parvalbumin-positive interneurons impairs hippocampal synchrony, spatial representation and working memory. Neuron, 68(3), 557-569.
Korotkova, T§., Sergeeva, O.A., Eriksson, K.S., Haas, H.L., Brown, R.E. (2003) Excitation of ventral tegmental area dopaminergic and non-dopaminergic neurons by orexins/hypocretins. Journal of Neuroscience, 23, 7-11. (§ corresponding author)