College of Medicine - Phoenix, Department of Translational Neurosciences
When
Where
Health Sciences Education Building, Room C401
435 N. Fifth St., Phoenix AZ 85004
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Event Description
In this Department of Translational Neurosciences guest seminar, Franziska Auer, PhD, of the New York University Grossman School of Medicine, will deliver a talk titled "Auditory Processing and Modulation in the Auditory Cortex."
Presenter Details
Franziska Auer, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, Neuroscience Institute
NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY
Dr. Franziska Auer is a postdoctoral fellow at the Neuroscience Institute at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine. She earned her bachelor's in pharmaceutical sciences and her doctorate 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 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.