Presenter
Franziska Auer, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, Neuroscience Institute
NYU Grossman School of Medicine, NY
Title
- Auditory Processing and Modulation in the Auditory Cortex
Biosketch
Dr. Franziska Auer is a postdoctoral fellow at the Neuroscience Institute at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. She earned her BSc in Pharmaceutical Sciences and her PhD in Systemic Neurosciences from Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, Germany. During her doctoral research, Dr. Auer used longitudinal in vivo imaging in zebrafish to uncover mechanisms regulating myelin sheath length, stability, and patterning, including identifying axonal Neurofascin clusters as key determinants of node of Ranvier positioning and myelin growth. In her postdoctoral work in the Schoppik Lab at NYU, Dr. Auer studies how myelination shapes circuits and behavior. Her current work examines how hypomyelination affects balance behaviors, eye movements, and vestibular circuit function in zebrafish, demonstrating that myelination differentially shapes distinct neural circuits and behaviors across development. Dr. Auer is the recipient of multiple honors, including the NIH NIDCD Pathway to Independence Award (K99/R00). Her long-term goal is to establish an independent research program investigating the bidirectional interactions between myelin and neural circuits during maturation, with implications for demyelinating diseases.
TNS Host: Ebenezer Yamoah, PhD, Professor
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