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.: Pflüger, Hans-Joachim

Treasurer-elect

Prof. Dr. Hans-Joachim Pflüger
FU Berlin
Institut für Biologie
Neurobiologie FB Biologie, Chemie, Pharmazie
Königin-Luise-Str. 28-30
14195 Berlin
Germany
Phone: +49 30 838 54676
Fax: +49 30 838 55455
E-mail: pflueger@neurobiologie.fu-berlin.de

Curriculum Vitae

Education and appointments

1973
State examination in Chemistry and Biology, Stuttgart University
1973 - 1976
PhD (Dr.rer.nat), Kaiserslautern University in the group of Prof. Bässler
1976 - 1977
Postdoc, Dept. of Zoology, University of Cambridge, UK (Prof. Burrows)
1977 - 1980
Assistant Professor, Bielefeld University in the group of Prof. Görner
1980 - 1987
Assistant Professor, Konstanz University in the group of Prof. Rathmayer
1986
Habilitation at Konstanz University
since 1987
Professor of Functional Neuroanatomy/Neurobiology, Freie Universität Berlin
since 1991
Adjunct Professor, University of Arizona, Division of Neurobiology, ARL, Tucson, AZ, USA

Services

1992 - 2003
Treasurer of German Society for Neuroscience (Neurowissenschaftliche Gesellschaft)
2008
PENS-Hertie Winter School Obergurgl, The design of neuronal networks: Contributions from Invertebrates. 6 to 13 January 2008 (Co-organizer, Randolf Menzel)
since 2008
Elected as a member of the DFG-neuroscience review panel (Comparative neurobiology)
since 2007
Councillor of International Society for Neuroethology (ISN)
Councillor of International Society for Invertebrate Neurobiology (ISIN)
since 2003
reviewer for nation wide competition Jugend forscht, and as from 2009 head of jury Biology

Selected Publications

  • Bräunig, P. & Pflüger, H. -J. (2001) The unpaired median neurons of insects. Adv. Insect Physiol. 28: 185-266
  • Mentel, T., Duch, C., Stypa, H., Müller, U., Wegener, G. & Pflüger, H.-J. (2003) Central modulatory neurons control fuel selection in flight muscle of migratory locust. J. Neurosci. 23: 1109-1113
  • Libersat, F. & Pflüger, H.-J. (2004) Monoamines and the orchestration of behavior. BioScience 54 (1): 17 - 25
  • Pflüger, H.- J. & Stevenson, P. A. (2005) Evolutionary aspects of octopaminergic systems with emphasis on arthropods. Arthropod Structure and Development 34: 379-396
  • Heidel; E. & Pflüger, H.-J. (2006) Differential ion current expression in identified subtypes of locust octopaminergic dorsal unpaired median (DUM-) neurons. European J Neuroscience 23: 1189-1206
  • Pflüger, H.-J. & Büschges, A. (2006) Neuromodulation of microcircuits in motor systems of invertebrates. In: S. Grillner and A. Graybiel (eds.) Microcircuits: the interface between neurons and global brain function. 2005. Dahlem Workshop Report 93. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press
  • Ryglewski, S.; Pflüger, H.-J. & Duch, C. (2007) Expanding the Neuron's Calcium Signaling Repertoire: Intracellular Calcium Release via Voltage induced PLC and IP3R Activation. PLoS Biology, 5(4): 818 - 827
  • Brembs, B., Christiansen, F., Pflüger, H.-J. & Duch, C. (2007) Flight motor performance deficits in flies with genetically altered biogenic amine levels. J. Neurosci 27 (41):11122- 11131
  • Field, L. H., Duch, C. & Pflüger, H.-J. (2008) Responses of octopaminergic thoracic unpaired median neurons in the locust to visual and mechanosensory signals J. Insect Physiol 54: 240-254
  • Kononenko, N. L., Wolfenberg, H., Pflüger, H.-J. (2009) Tyramine as an independent transmitter and a precursor of octopamine in the locust central nervous system: An immunocytochemical study. J. Comp. Neurol. 512:433-452