Prof. Dr. Marlene Bartos

• 1984 – 1986
  Studied biology at Braunschweig University of Technology, Germany; Vordiplom (intermediate examination) in biology
  
  

• 1986 – 1990
  Studied biology at Braunschweig University of Technology and the Technical University of Munich, Germany; Diplom degree in biology
  
  

• 1995
  Doctorate in biology under Prof. Honegger at the Technical University of Munich
  
  

• 2006
  Habilitation (postdoctoral qualification) in physiology under Prof. P. Jonas at the University of Freiburg, Germany
  
  

• 1995 – 1998
  Postdoc under Prof. M. Nusbaum at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
  
  

• 1998 – 2007
  C1 assistant professor at the University of Freiburg
  
  

• 2007 – 2010
  Full professor (personal chair) of neuroscience at the University of Aberdeen, Institute of Medical Sciences, UK
  
  

• Since 2010
  W3 Professor of cellular and systemic neurophysiology, University of Freiburg
  
  

• Murray AJ, Sauer J, Mcclure CJ, Cheyne LA, Riedel G, Bartos M, Wisden W, Wulff P (2011): Parvalbumin-positive hippocamapl interneurons are required for spatial working but not reference memory Nat Neurosci (Epup ahead of print).

• Bartos M, Alle H, Vida I (2010): Role of microcircuit structure and input integration in hippocampal interneuron recruitment and plasticity. Neuropharmacology (Epub ahead of print).

• Sambandan S, Sauer J, Vida I, Bartos M (2010): Associative plasticity at excitatory synapses of fast-spiking interneurons in the dentate gyrus. J Neurosci 30:11826-11837.

• Sauer J, Bartos M (2010): Recruitment of early postnatal parvalbumin-positive hippocampal interneurons by GABAergic excitation. J Neurosci 20:110-115.

• Doischer, D, Hosp, P, Yanagawa, Y, Obata, K, Jonas, P, Vida, I, Bartos, M (2008): Postnatal development of hippocampal basket cells from slow to fast signaling devices. J Neurosci 26:12956-12968.

• Bartos M, Vida I, Jonas P (2007): Synaptic mechanisms of synchronized gamma oscillations in inhibitory interneuron networks. Nat Rev Neurosci 8:45-56.

• Vida I, Bartos M, Jonas P (2006): Shunting inhibition improves robustness of gamma oscillations in hippocampal interneuron networks by homogenizing firing rates. Neuron 49:107-117 (equal contribution of the authors).

• Disc1 schizophrenia model

• Mechanisms of synaptic plasticity

• Theoretical neural networks of the hippocampus

• Synaptic communication between nerve cells

• Imaging techniques for displaying the spread of activity in biological neural networks

• Reviewer for international journals such as Science, The Journal of Neuroscience and Neuron

• Referee for various international research programmes, such as Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP), Welcome Trust, National Institutes of Health (USA, Canada)

• Society of Neuroscience

• German Physiological Society (DPG)

• Equal opportunity liaison for the Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Germany

• Higher education association

• Member of the Neurex advisory board (Neuroscience upper Rhine network)

Other activities and achievements/family

• 2 years of parental leave, family with 2 children

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