CV Bartos
Prof. Dr. Marlene Bartos
EDUCATION
1994 PhD Faculty of Biology / Technical University Munich / Institute for Zoology /Germany
1991 Diploma Faculty of Life Sciences / University of Braunschweig / Institute for Zoology
CURRENT POSITION(S)
PREVIOUS POSITIONS
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
2018-2022 ERC-Advanced Grant (ERC-AdG) holder (2.5 Mil €)
2009-2015 Lichtenberg Award / Volkswagen (VW) Foundation / Germany (1.9 Mil €)
2012 Senior Fellowship of the Excellence Initiative ‘Freiburg Institute of Advanced Studies’ (FRIAS)/ University of Freiburg (30.000 €)
2010 Best publications in 2010 by Faculty of Biology 2010; Sauer & Bartos 2010 J Neurosci 30
2012 Schram Award / Schram Foundation for basic Neuroscience / Germany (280.000 €)
1995-1997 Posttdoctoral Fellowship from the German Science Foundation (‘Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft’ (DFG)
1995 Price for ‘Young Investigators’ of the ‘International Society for Neuroethology’ / US
1992-1995 Fellowship for Graduate Students of the ‘Friedrich-Ebert Stiftung’ / Germany
TEACHING ACTIVITIES
Since 1998 Organization of practical courses, seminars, lectures in Neuroscience and Physiology of the human organism (e.g. lectures on higher CNS functions, endocrinology, lung function, and membrane biophysics; seminars cover all topics in Physiology such as heart, kidney and circulation) University Freiburg / Medical Faculty and University of Aberdeen. Examiner in the 1st exam (‘Physikum’) of students in human and dental medicine in Physiology / Freiburg.
ORGANISATION OF SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS (selection of last 5 years)
2021 Organizer of the Gordon conference ‘Inhibition in the CNS’ together with Beatrix Ricco (London Kings College / UK)
2020 Organizer of a symposium ‘Engram formation in the dentate gyrus’ at the international conference FENS.
2019 Vice-organizer with B. Ricco of the Gordon conference ‘Inhibition in the CNS’ (primary organizer Ivan Soltesz, Stanford / USA)
2017 Organizer of the Symposium 'The dentate gyrus: from microcircuits to cognitive functions'; Society for Neuroscience (SFN) meetings / Washington / USA
2017 Member of the organizing board ‘International Conference Brain Links-Brain Tools’ and ICAN ‘International Conference of Advanced Neurotechnology’ / Merzhausen / Germany
2016 Organiser of the FENS Satellite Symposium ‘Interneuron plasticity from Mechanisms to higher brain function’ / Copenhagen / Denmark
2016 Coordinator of the Symposium ‘Structural and functional Interneuron plasticity’; conference of the German Physiological Society / Lübeck / Germany
2015 Coordinator of ‘Schram Symposium’ during ‘Göttingen Neuroscience conference’ / Germany
2014 Coordinator of the ‘Networks of European Neuroscience Institutes’ (ENINET) conference / Freiburg / Germany
2013 Organiser of the Symposium ‘Interneuron in higher brain functions’; conferences of the German Physiology Society / Heidelberg / Germany
INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES
Since 2014 Equal opportunity commissioner, Medical Faculty / University of Freiburg
Since 2013 Board member of the Medical Faculty advisory board ‘Structural and Strategic Development of the Medical Faculty / University of Freiburg
2016-2018 Director FRIAS (Freiburg Institute for Advanced Science) in the field of Life Science
2012-2014 Vice-director ‘Spemann Graduate School of Biology and Medicine’ (SGBM)
Since 2010 Member of the Medical Faculty Committee, University of Freiburg
2007-2010 Member of the Faculty Committee, University of Aberdeen / School of Medicine / UK
COMMISSIONS OF TRUST
Since 2020 Special field-reviewer (‘Fachkollegin’) for the German Science Foundation (DFG) ‘Cognitive and systemic behavioural Neurobiology’
Since 2014 Speaker of the International Research Unit FOR2143; ‘Synaptic plasticity of interneurons: from mechanisms to higher brain function’ University Freiburg (M. Bartos, A. Kulik, I. Diester) / Charité Berlin (J. Geiger, I. Vida, H. Sprekeler, J. Poulet) / University Kiel (P. Wulff; Germany) / Institute for Science and Technology (IST) Austria (J. Csicsvari).
Pre-proposal for the trans-regional Collaborative Research Center (TR-CRC) ‘Role of inhibition in neuronal representation’ submitted (evaluation March 2020).
Since 2016 Advisory board member for the Graduate School 1960 ‘Neural Circuit Analysis’ Cologne
Since 2013 Director of the ‘European Neuroscience Institutes’ (ENINET) University of Freiburg
Since 2013 One of the heads of the new Excellence Initiative ‘IMBIT’, ‘Institute for Machine-Brain Interfacing Technology’, Freiburg / Germany
Since 2014 Editor, Journals eLife / UK, eNeuron / US and Frontiers / Switzerland
Since 2006 Reviewer for Nature / Science / Neuron / Nature Neuroscience / Hippocampus / J Neuroscience / Nature Communication / eLIfe
2014-2018 Board Member and PI of the Excellence Initiative ‘Brain-Links-Brain-Tools’ (BLBT) Freiburg
MEMBERSHIPS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES
Since 1994 Member, ‘Society of Neuroscience (SFN)’ / USA; ‘German Zoological Society’ (DZG), ‘German Physiological Society’ (DPG), ‘Neuroscience Society’ (NRW) / Germany
Since 2005 Member, ‘Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Freiburg’ (BCF) / Freiburg
MAJOR COLLABORATIONS
Peter Jonas, IST Austria; Jozsef Csicsvari, IST Austria; Frances Skinner, Toronto Western Hospital/Canada; Joseph Gogos, Columbia /USA; Ivan Soltesz and Aaron Milstein, Stanford / USA; Richard Huganir (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA, president of the SFN 2019); Rosa Cossart (Institute of Mediterranean Neurobiology, Marseille, France); all members of the research unit FOR2143 (see above).
Invited presentations to peer-reviewed, internationally established conferences and/or international advanced schools (selection of important presentations)
Oct. 2020 Society of Neuroscience (SFN) speaker at ‘special lecture’ Washington DC (USA)
Oct. 2020 EMBO workshop on ‘Neuronal development and regeneration’ in Taipei (Taiwan)
June 2020 Gordon conference on ‘synaptic transmission’ in Ciocco, Italy (inv. Alison Barth)
March 2020 Gordon conference ‘Neuroelectronic Interfaces’ / Ventura / USA (inv. Thomas Stieglitz, Takashi Kozai)
Febr. 2020 University de Descartes, Paris / France (inv. Claude Meunier)
Jan. 2020 Speaker University of Sevilla Instituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla (IBIS), Spain (inv. Rafael Fernández-Chacón).
July 2019 Speaker at RIKEN Center for Brain Science / Japan (inv. Kaz Tanaka and Thomas McHugh)
July 2019 Speaker at Japan Neuroscience Society, Niigata /Japan; Symposium talk (org. Thomas McHugh);
March 2019 Speaker at Neuroscience winter conference, Sölden / Austria (org. Stephan W. Schwarzacher / Frankfurt; Joan Ramirez / CHDD Seatle /USA)
March 2019 Speaker at Neuroscience conference Göttingen (NWG); Symposium on 'Dentate gyrus function'
Febr. 2019 Speaker at Brain Mind Institute Lausanne, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (inv. Johannes Gräff)
Sept. 2018 Speaker FENS international neuroscience meeting; Symposium ‘Parvalbumin neurons, perineuronal nets and network plasticity'; Berlin / Germany (inv. Takao Hensch)
June 2018 Speaker at ‘EMBO workshop’, ‘Cortical interneurons in health and disease’/ Mallorca / Spain (inv. Oscar Marin)
April 2018 Speaker at the conference 'Neuronal Plasticity: from synapses to circuits'; Marseille / France (inv. Rosa Cossar)
Nov 2017 Society for Neuroscience (SFN) international neuroscience meetings / Washington / USA; Speaker at Symposium 'The dentate gyrus: from microcircuits to cognitive functions' (org. Marlene Bartos, Peter Jonas)