Group Members
Dr. Alexander Gottschalk
Professor & Group Leader
phone +49-(0)69-798-42518 fax +49-(0)69-798-763-42518
a.gottschalk@em.uni-frankfurt.de
Dr. Jana Liewald
Postdoctoral Fellow
phone +49-(0)69-798-42513
j.liewald@biochem.uni-frankfurt.de
Dr. Christina Schüler
Postdoctoral Fellow
phone +49-(0)69-798-42520
cschueler@em.uni-frankfurt.de
Dr. Holger Dill
Postdoctoral Fellow
phone +49-(0)69-798-42519
dill@biochem.uni-frankfurt.de
Barbara Jánosi
PhD Student
phone +49-(0)69-798-42519
Janosi@em.uni-frankfurt.de
Jonas Weil
PhD Student
phone +49-(0)69-798-42713
weil@biochem.uni-frankfurt.de
Frank Becker
PhD Student
phone +49-(0)69-798-42519
fr.becker@em.uni-frankfurt.de
Thilo Henß
PhD Student
phone +49-(0)69-798-42519
Henss@biochem.uni-frankfurt.de
Marcial Engel
PhD Student
phone +49-(0)69-798-42713
marcial.engel@biochem.uni-frankfurt.de
Maximilian Bach
PhD Student
phone +49-(0)69-798-42519
Bach@bpc.uni-frankfurt.de
Amelie Bergs
PhD Student
phone +49-(0)69-798-42713
amelie.bergs@stud.uni-frankfurt.de
Martin Schneider
PhD Student
phone +49-(0)69-798-42519
martinw.schneider@stud.uni-frankfurt.de

Publications 2019
Azimi Hashemi N*, Bergs ACF*, Scheiwe R, Steuer Costa W, Liewald JF, Gottschalk A. (2019) Rhodopsin-based voltage imaging tools for use in excitable cells of Caenorhabditis elegans bioRxiv, 8th Feb 2019, doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/544429
Liu Q, Sinnen BL, Boxer EE, Schneider MW, Grybko MJ, Buchta WC, Gibson ES, Wysoczynski CL, Ford CP, Gottschalk A, Aoto J, Tucker CL, Kennedy MJ. (2019) A photoactivatable botulinum toxin for inducible control of neurotransmission. Neuron. 28th Jan 2019: DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2019.01.002
Publications 2018
Oranth A*, Schultheis C*, Tolstenkov O, Erbguth K, Nagpal J, Hain D, Brauner M, Wabnig S, Steuer Costa W, McWhirther R, Zels S, Palumbos S, Miller DM III, Beets I, Gottschalk A. (2018) Food sensation modulates locomotion by dopamine and neuropeptide signaling in a distributed neuronal network. Neuron. Nov. 1st, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2018.10.024
Brown J, Behnam R, Coddington L, Tervo DGR, Martin K, Proskurin M, Kuleshova E, Park J, Phillips J, Bergs ACF, Gottschalk A, Dudman JT, Karpova AY. Expanding the Optogenetics Toolkit by Topological Inversion of Rhodopsins. Cell. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2018.09.026
Woldemariam S, Nagpal J, Li J, Schneider M, Shankar R, Futey M, Varshney A, Andersen K, Barsi-Rhyne B, Tran A, Steuer Costa W, Brueggemann C, Hamilton S, Ferkey D, VanHoven M, Gottschalk A, L'Etoile N. Robust and sensitive GFP-based cGMP sensor for real time imaging in intact Caenorhabditis elegans. bioRxiv October 2, 2018. doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/43342
Ikeda M, Nakano S, Giles AC, Steuer Costa W, Gottschalk A, Mori I. Circuit Degeneracy Facilitates Robustness and Flexibility of Navigation Behavior in C. elegans. bioRxiv August 5, 2018, doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/385468
Tolstenkov O, Van der Auwera P, Steuer Costa W, Bazhanova O, Gemeinhard T, Bergs ACF, Gottschalk A. (2018) Functionally asymmetric motor neurons contribute to coordinating locomotion of Caenorhabditis elegans. eLife: PDF
Yu S-c*, Jánosi B*, Liewald J, Wabnig S, Gottschalk A. (2018) Endophilin A and B join forces with clathrin to mediate synaptic vesicle recycling in Caenorhabditis elegans. Front Molec Neurosci (17.5.2018): https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnmol.2018.00196/abstract
Bergs ACF, Schultheis C, Fischer E, Tsunoda SP, Erbguth K, Husson SJ, Govorunova E, Spudich JL, Nagel G, Gottschalk A*, Liewald JF*. (2018) Rhodopsin optogenetic toolbox v2.0 for light-sensitive excitation and inhibition in Caenorhabditis elegans. PLoS ONE 13(2): e0191802. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0191802
Publications 2017
Fischer E, Gottschalk A*, Schueler C* (2017) An optogenetic arrhythmia model to study catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia mutations. Sci. Rep. 7: 17514 PDF
Steuer Costa W, Yu S-c, Liewald JF, Gottschalk A. (2017) Fast cAMP modulation of neurotransmission via neuropeptide signals and vesicle loading. Curr. Biol. 27: 495-507