Professor Marlene Bartos

Biography

2011            Schram Award 2009            Lichtenberg Award of the Volkswagen Stiftung 2011            Associated Member of the Excellence Cluster ‘Brain links-Brain Tools’ 2011            Associated Member of the Excellence Cluster ‘bioss’ (Centre for biological signalling studies) 2011            Member of the EU-funded ‘Erasmus Mundus’ as Principal Investigator (until today) 2011            Internal senior member of FRIAS (Freiburg Institute of Advanced Studies)(until today) 2010            Member of the scientific board of Neurex (European Network in Neuroscience) (until today) 2010            Member of the Executive board of the ‘Spemann Graduate School of Biology and Medicine’ (SGBM) (until today) 2005            Member of the Bernstein Center Freiburg (BCF) Freiburg (until today) 1995            Postdoctoral Fellowship of the ‘Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft’ (DFG) (until 1997) 1995            Prize for ‘Young Investigators’ of the ‘International Society for Neuroethology’ 1992            Fellowship of the ‘Friedrich-Ebert Stiftung’ (until 1994)

Research Interest

Rhythmic patterns of synchronously active neuronal assemblies play a key role in cognitive brain functions. Although rhythmic activities occur at various frequencies, specifically fast gamma (30-100 Hz) oscillations attracted highest attention because their functional relation to coding, storing and recall of information in the cortex is most evident. In the hippocampus of humans and rodents gamma activity is essential for spatial navigation and acquisition of new memories.