MPIDS Colloquium: Vegetative Optogenetics: Explore muscle physiology with light and enlighten new treatment options for patients

MPIDS Colloquium

  • Date: Apr 3, 2019
  • Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Prof. Tobias Brügmann
  • Physiology and Patho-physiology, University Medical Center Göttingen, Germany
  • Location: Max-Planck-Institut für Dynamik und Selbstorganisation (MPIDS)
  • Room: Prandtl lecture hall
  • Host: MPIDS
  • Contact: claudia.richter@ds.mpg.de
Optogenetics is a new method enabling the stimulation of cells expressing light-inducible channels, receptors and proteins with light. This new techniques allows thus to investigate skeletal, smooth and cardiac muscle physiology with unforeseen spatial and temporal precision as well as cell-specificity. In addition, cell-specific stimulation allows pain-free and harmless pacemaking and ter-mination of cardiac arrhythmia as well as restoring laryngeal functions with high precision. There-fore this talk will built a bridge between basic research addressing muscular (patho-)physiology with new stimulation paradigms and completely new translational prospects, both enabled by a fascinat-ing new technique.
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