Professor Dr. Albert Becker

Address Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
Medizinische Fakultät
Institut für Neuropathologie
Venusberg-Campus 1
53127 Bonn

Projects

As Applicant
- Current projects
  - Molecular and network mechanisms-derived targeted interventions in neonatal genetic epilepsies (Research Units)
- Completed projects
  - Epigenetic phatomechanisms promoting epileptogenesis in focal and generallized epilepsies (EpiGENet) (Research Grants)
  - Functional epigenomic dissection of genetic generalized epilepsies (Research Units)
  - Single-cell transcriptome sequencing to investigate mechanisms of epileptogenesis in genetic mouse models and human brain biopsy tissue (Research Grants)
As Project Head
- Current projects
  - Recombinant adeno-associated- and lentiviral technologies (Collaborative Research Centres)
  - Microcircuit mechanisms underlying epileptogenesis and behavioural impairment in anti-Drebrin auto-antibody mediated limbic encephalitis (Collaborative Research Centres)
- Completed projects
  - Epilepsy as synaptopathy: Plasticity of the presynaptic release machinery (CRC/Transregios)
  - Antiepileptogenic approaches targeting the T-type Ca2+ channel Cav3.2 (CRC/Transregios)
  - Mechanisms of zinc-sensitive metal-regulatory transcription factor 1 induction of hippocampal epileptic network activity (Collaborative Research Centres)
As Participating Person
- Completed projects
  - Mechanisms of microglia-mediated neuronal damage and dysfunction: Role of the "TNFa-Zn2+" cascade (Clinical Research Units)