Dr. med. Kristina Lippmann
General information
Lippmann, Kristina, Dr., female
*28.09.1988, in Freiberg (Saxony)
Carl-Ludwig-Institute for Physiology
Medical Faculty
Leipzig University
Liebigstraße 27, 04103 Leipzig
Phone: +49 341 9715570
email: kristina.lippmann@medizin.uni-leipzig.de
ORCID ID: orcid.org/0000-0001-7719-0437
Two children (*2021, *2023)
Current position: Group Leader
University training and degree
Medical studies (2007-2015), Leipzig University, Germany, licensure 2015
Advanced academic qualifications
| 2016 |
Doctorate (Dr. med.): Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany, supervisors: Prof. Uwe Heinemann (Charité) and Prof. Alon Friedman (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel) |
| 2016 |
Neurobiology Course (2 months), Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA, USA, funded by the Frank Morrell Endowed Memorial Scholarship |
| 2011-2013 |
Visiting doctoral student in Alon Friedman´s lab (10 months), Dep. of Physiology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel |
| 2009-2010 |
Student assistant: Max-Planck-Institute for Cognition- and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Group: “Body and Self” |
Postgraduate professional career
| 2024 |
Whitman Fellowship (2.5 months), Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA, USA |
| 2023 |
Whitman Fellowship (2.5 months), Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA, USA |
| Aug 2022 |
Visiting scientist, Shigeki Watanabe´s lab (1 month), Dep. of Cell Biology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA |
| since 2018 |
Group Leader, Carl-Ludwig-Institute for Physiology, Leipzig University |
| Feb 2018 |
Visiting scientist, Jeanne Paz´s lab (1 month), Gladstone Institute of Neurological Diseases & UCSF, San Francisco, USA |
| 2017 |
Grass Fellowship (3.5 months), The Grass Foundation, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA, USA |
| Mar 2016 |
Visiting scientist, Daniel Gitler´s lab (1 month), Dep. of Physiology and Cell Biology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel |
| 2015-2018 |
Postdoctoral fellow, Carl-Ludwig-Institute for Physiology, Leipzig University |
Supplementary Career Information
| 2023-2024 |
Maternity leave (9 months) |
| 2021-2022 |
Maternity leave (9 months) |
Engagement in the research system
| since 2023 |
Review editorial board member of Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience |
| 2022 |
Organizer of the Symposium ‘Minds in Mainz - Brain Dynamics & Information Processing’, Academy of Sciences and Literature (AdW) | Mainz, funded by the Sybille-Kalkhof-Rose Foundation and the Bernstein Center Computational Neuroscience |
| 2021 |
Leader of the Spring Academy: “Information Processing and Neurodegenerative Diseases”, German Academic Scholarship Foundation |
| since 2019 |
Speaker of the study group “Brain Dynamics and Information Processing”, AdW | Mainz, Germany, funded by the Sybille-Kalkhof-Rose Foundation |
| 2018 |
Organizer of “Lost in Translation? Interdisciplinary Symposium on Translational Science in Life Sciences“, AdW | Mainz |
Reviewer for scientific journals, e.g., the FASEB Journal, Neuroscience, Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences, Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience and funding agencies such as the German Academic Scholarship Foundation and the Grass Foundation
Teaching
| since 2023 |
Seminars, B.Sc., Neurobiology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Leipzig University |
| 2021 |
Spring Academy: “Information Processing and Neurodegenerative Diseases”, German Academic Scholarship Foundation |
| since 2018 |
Examiner for Physiology in the Pre-Clinical Medical State Examination |
| since 2015 |
Lectures, Seminars, Practical courses, Physiology, Medical Faculty, Leipzig University |
Doctoral supervision
| since 2022 |
Robert Jacobi |
| since 2020 |
Josephine Kurzke |
| since 2018 |
Marie-Elisabeth Burkart |
Academic distinctions
| 2024 |
Whitman Fellowship, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA, USA |
| 2023 |
Bernard Katz Lecture, Germany/Israel |
| 2023 |
Whitman Fellowship, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA, USA |
| 2022-2023 |
Junior Research Grant, Medical Faculty, Leipzig University |
| 2017 |
Grass Fellowship, The Grass Foundation, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA, USA |
| 2016-2020 |
Elected Member, Junge Akademie (Young Academy), Academy of Sciences and Literature | Mainz, Germany |
| 2016 |
Neurobiology Course, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA, USA, funded by the Frank Morrell Endowed Memorial Scholarship |
| 2013-2015 |
Scholarship of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation |
| 2010-2012 |
MD Scholarship, DFG Research Training Group 1123 “Learning and memory” Charité-Universitätsmedizin-Berlin, associated member until 2014 |
| 2007 |
Honors of the German Physical Society for an excellent Physics ‘Abitur’ |
Funding
| 2024 |
Whitman Fellowship, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA, USA |
| 2022 |
Junior Research Grant, Medical Faculty, Leipzig University |
| 2017 |
Grass Fellowship, Grass Foundation, USA |
Selected talks
| 05/2023 |
29th General Assembly, Czech Learned Society, Prague, Czech Republic |
| 11/2022 |
Nanosymposium “Brain Oscillations in Health & Disease”, Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, USA: “DEND mutation disrupts hippocampal network activity and nocturnal gamma shifts” |
| 11/2022 |
Symposium “Brain Dynamics & Information Processing”, AdW | Mainz: “Hippocampal network oscillations are shaped by KATP channels of fast-spiking interneurons” |
| 08/2022 |
Shigeki Watanabe lab, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA: “Zap-and-2-photon microscopy & Structural correlates underlying parallel fiber bouton activity” |
| 10/2021 |
Annual meeting of the German Physiological Society: Session Chair: “Cellular Neurophysiology: from Molecular Mechanisms to System Function“; and Talk on “KATP channel mutation in fast-spiking GABAergic interneurons disrupts hippocampal network activity” |
| 06/2018 |
Department of Neurology, University Hospital Leipzig: “Blood-brain barrier disruption: on Epileptogenesis and Interneurons” |
| 03/2018 |
Jeanne Paz lab, Gladstone Institutes/UCSF, USA: “The impact of blood- brain barrier dysfunction-induced epileptogenesis on hippocampal network oscillations and synaptic mechanisms“ |
| 07/2017 |
Annual Meeting of the Marine Biological Society, Marine Biological Laboratory Woods Hole, USA: “Are presynaptic mechanisms in inhibitory synapses altered during epileptogenesis?“ |
| 03/2017 |
International Conference on Spreading Depolarizations: “Epileptiform activity in the blood-brain barrier disrupted hippocampus is associated with altered network oscillations and synaptic plasticity” |
| 03/2013 |
Göttingen Meeting of the German Neuroscience Society, “Young Investigator Orals” |
Scientific Publications
https://physiologie.medizin.uni-leipzig.de/?en,id222
