Academic studies
2023 Medical licence
2016 – 2023 Medical Studies (state examination),
Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg
Academic Career
since 2024 Group leader Neuroconnectivity (physician), Hannover Medical School, Institute of Neuroanatomy and Cell Biology
2019 – 2024 Medical doctoral (MD) student at the Institute of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Department of Neuroanatomy, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg
2017 – 2023 Fellow of the
German Academic Scholarship Foundation
Prizes and Awards
2022 Poster Award at the annual meeting of the
Anatomische Gesellschaft
Scientific Focus
- Local connectivity of excitatory and inhibitory neurons and their adaptions upon network perturbations.
- Influence of sensory deprivation (e.g. hearing loss) on cortical neurons on a single cell level.
- Translational research of mechanisms of synaptic plasticity and structure/function correlations in physiological and pathological conditions.
- Electrophysiological and microscopic characterization of single neurons in neurosurgical sections of the human neocortex.
- Development of cell culture models for translational and personalized research.
Online presence:
ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-1742-1608
Signature Publications:
Kruse, P., Brandes, G., Hemeling, H., Huang, Z., Wrede, C., Hegermann, J., Vlachos, A., & Lenz, M. (2024). Synaptopodin Regulates Denervation-Induced Plasticity at Hippocampal Mossy Fiber Synapses. Cells, 13(2), 114. doi.org/10.3390/cells13020114
Lenz, M., Eichler, A., Kruse, P., Galanis, C., Kleidonas, D., Andrieux, G., Boerries, M., Jedlicka, P., Müller, U., Deller, T., & Vlachos, A. (2023). The Amyloid Precursor Protein Regulates Synaptic Transmission at Medial Perforant Path Synapses. The Journal of Neuroscience : The Official Journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 43(29), 5290–5304. doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1824-22.2023
Lenz, M., Eichler, A., Kruse, P., Stöhr, P., Kleidonas, D., Galanis, C., Lu, H., & Vlachos, A. (2023). Denervated mouse CA1 pyramidal neurons express homeostatic synaptic plasticity following entorhinal cortex lesion. Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience, 16, 1148219. doi.org/10.3389/fnmol.2023.1148219
Lenz, M., Eichler, A., Kruse, P., Muellerleile, J., Deller, T., Jedlicka, P., & Vlachos, A. (2021). All-trans retinoic acid induces synaptopodin-dependent metaplasticity in mouse dentate granule cells. ELife, 10. doi.org/10.7554/eLife.71983
Lenz, M., Kruse, P., Eichler, A., Straehle, J., Beck, J., Deller, T., & Vlachos, A. (2021). All-trans retinoic acid induces synaptic plasticity in human cortical neurons. ELife, 10. doi.org/10.7554/eLife.63026
Lenz, M., Eichler, A., Kruse, P., Strehl, A., Rodriguez-Rozada, S., Goren, I., Yogev, N., Frank, S., Waisman, A., Deller, T., Jung, S., Maggio, N., & Vlachos, A. (2020). Interleukin 10 Restores Lipopolysaccharide-Induced Alterations in Synaptic Plasticity Probed by Repetitive Magnetic Stimulation. Frontiers in Immunology, 11, 614509. https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2020.614509
Pia Kruse
Institute of Neuroanatomy and Cell Biology
Hannover Medical School
OE4140, Carl-Neuberg-Str. 1, 30625 Hannover, Germany
Tel.: +49511532-2894
kruse.pia@mh-hannover.de
www.mhh.de/institute-der-mhh/institut-fuer-neuroanatomie-und-zellbiologie