Beate Knauer, PhD

Professional Experience

  • since 2017  postdoctoral research fellow, Institute for Pathophysiology, University Medical Center Mainz
  • 2015-2016  postdoctoral research fellow, Dept. of Neurophysiology, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia (Drs. D. Reser and M. Rosa)

Education

  • 2015  PhD in Neuroscience, International Graduate School of Neuroscience, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
  • 2011  Master of Science in Psychology, focus on cognitive neuroscience, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
  • 2009  Bachelor of Science in Psychology, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany


Awards/Honors

  • 2015  Gateway Fellowship of the Research School PLUS (funded by the German Research Foundation) of the Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
  • 2014  PhD completion stipend of the Wilhelm- und Günter-Esser-Stiftung
  • 2011-2013  PhD scholarship of the International Graduate School of Neuroscience, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany

Publications

Stoilova VV*, Knauer B*, Berg S, Rieber E, Jäkel F, Stüttgen MC (in press) Auditory cortex reflects goal-directed movement but is not necessary for behavioral adaptation in sound-cued reward tracking. Journal of Neurophysiology. * equal contribution



Knauer B, Stüttgen MC (2019) Assessing the impact of single-cell stimulation on local networks in rat barrel cortex - a feasibility study. International Journal of Molecular Sciences 20(10): 2604.



Knauer B, Yoshida M (2019) Switching between persistent firing and depolarization block in individual rat CA1 pyramidal neurons. Hippocampus. doi: 10.1002/hipo.23078. [Epub ahead of print]



Knauer B, Majka P, Watkins KJ, Taylor AWR, Malamanova D, Paul B, Yu HH, Bush AI, Hare DJ, Reser DH (2017) Whole-brain metallomic analysis of the common marmoset (Callithrix jacchus). Metallomics 9(4): 411-423.



Giovannini F, Knauer B, Yoshida M, Buhry L (2017) The CAN-In neural network: a biologically-inspired model for self-sustained theta oscillations and memory maintenance in the hippocampus. Hippocampus 27(4): 450-463.



Hare DJ, Kysenius K, Paul B, Knauer B, Hutchinson RW, O'Connor C, Fryer, F, Hennessey TB, Bush AI, Crouch PJ, Doble PA (2017) Imaging metals in brain tissue by laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry. Journal of Visualized Experiments 119: e55402.



Knauer B, Jochems A, Valero-Aracama MJ, Yoshida M (2013) Long-lasting intrinsic persistent firing in rat CA1 pyramidal cells: A possible mechanism for active maintenance of memory. Hippocampus 23(9): 820-31.



Yoshida M, Knauer B, Jochems A (2012) Cholinergic modulation of the CAN current may adjust neural dynamics for active memory maintenance, spatial navigation and time-compressed replay. Frontiers in Neural Circuits 6:10.