Pia Kruse
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:
Synaptopodin Regulates Denervation-Induced Plasticity at Hippocampal Mossy Fiber Synapses. Kruse, P., Brandes, G., Hemeling, H., Huang, Z., Wrede, C., Hegermann, J., Vlachos, A., & Lenz, M. (2024). Cells, 13(2), 114. https://doi.org/10.3390/cells13020114
The Amyloid Precursor Protein Regulates Synaptic Transmission at Medial Perforant Path Synapses. Lenz, M., Eichler, A., Kruse, P., Galanis, C., Kleidonas, D., Andrieux, G., Boerries, M., Jedlicka, P., Müller, U., Deller, T., & Vlachos, A. (2023). The Journal of Neuroscience : The Official Journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 43(29), 5290–5304. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1824-22.2023
Denervated mouse CA1 pyramidal neurons express homeostatic synaptic plasticity following entorhinal cortex lesion.Lenz, M., Eichler, A., Kruse, P., Stöhr, P., Kleidonas, D., Galanis, C., Lu, H., & Vlachos, A. (2023). Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience, 16, 1148219. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnmol.2023.1148219
All-trans retinoic acid induces synaptopodin-dependent metaplasticity in mouse dentate granule cells.Lenz, M., Eichler, A., Kruse, P., Muellerleile, J., Deller, T., Jedlicka, P., & Vlachos, A. (2021). ELife, 10. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.71983
All-trans retinoic acid induces synaptic plasticity in human cortical neurons.Lenz, M., Kruse, P., Eichler, A., Straehle, J., Beck, J., Deller, T., & Vlachos, A. (2021). ELife, 10. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.63026
Interleukin 10 Restores Lipopolysaccharide-Induced Alterations in Synaptic Plasticity Probed by Repetitive Magnetic Stimulation.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). 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