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Bernard Katz Lecture

[Translate to English:] Prof Dr Bert Sakmann

The Bernard Katz Lecture (BKL) was founded in 1991 by the Heidelberg Nobel Prize winner Prof. Dr Bert Sakmann from prize funds to honour the life's work of his academic teacher, the British Nobel Prize winner Sir Bernard Katz (1911-2003). Since then, a young scientist who has excelled in neuroscientific research has been selected to give the honorary lecture in the other country, alternating between Germany and Israel. The award is intended to promote relations between Israeli and German neuroscientists and is administered by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

[Translate to English:] Sir Bernard Katz

Sir Bernard Katz, born in Leipzig in 1911, emigrated to London in 1935, where he continued his research work as a young physician. His work on the transmission of excitation between nerve and muscle laid the foundations for the modern physiology of synapses, the contact points of nerve cells. Sir Bernard Katz was Professor and Head of Biophysics at University College London from 1952 to 1978 and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology in 1970. Whenever possible, he attended the award ceremonies. He died in London in 2003.

Award winners 1993 - 2021

2023

Dr Kristina Lippmann, Carl Ludwig Institute for Physiology, Medical Faculty, Leipzig University

Award ceremony and honorary lecture are still pending

2021

Dr Sebastian H. Bitzenhofer, Institute of Developmental Neurophysiology, Center for Molecular Neurobiology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf

"Early activity shapes prefrontal development"

2019

Dr Ofer Yizhar, Department of Neurobiology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot

"Optogenetic dissection of prefrontal cortical circuits"

2017

Dr Omri Barak, Assistant Professor, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa

"Understanding trained current neural networks"

2015

Dr Marion Silies, European Neuroscience Institute (ENI), Group Leader, Göttingen

"New neurons and unexpected features of motion-detecting circuits"

2013

Dr Moritz Helmstaedter, Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Group Leader, Martinsried

"Connectomics: the dense reconstruction of neuronal circuits"

2012

Dr Nachum Ulanovsky, Department of Neurobiology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

"Neural codes for 2-D and 3-D space in the hippocampal formation of bats"

2011

Dr Nathalie Rochefort, Institute of Neuroscience, Technical University of Munich

"Exploring the mouse visual cortex in vivo with two-photon calcium imaging"

2010

Dr Inna Slutsky, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

"Regulation of hippocampal plasticity: from inter-molecular interactions to dynamics of single synapses"

2009

Dr Tim Gollisch, Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Independent Junior Research Group visual coding, Martinsried

"Neural Code and Circuitry for Rapid Image Processing in the Retina"

2008

Dr Adi Mizrahi, Department of Neurobiology, The Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

"Live imaging of new neurons in the adult brain"

2007

Dr Pascal Fries, F.C. Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, Netherlands

"Attentional selection through selective synchronisation"

2006

Dr Uri Ashery, Department of Neurobiochemistry, Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

"The Molecular Mechanisms of Synaptic Transmission: The Roles of DOC2B and Tomosyn"

2005

Prof. Dr. Dietmar Schmitz, Humboldt University Berlin, Neuroscience Research Centre, Berlin

"Plasticity at the Hippocampal Mossy Fibre Synapse"

2004

Dr Noam Zilberberg, Dept. of Life Sciences, Ben Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel

"Regulated Gating of Leak Potassium Channels"

2003

Dr Richard Warth, Institute of Physiology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

"The multi-faceted functions of KCNQ1 potassium channels"

2002

Dr Karen B. Avraham, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

"The Genetics of Deafness: A Model for Genomic and Biological Complexity"

2001

Dr Siegfried Waldegger, University Clinic for Paediatrics, Marburg, Germany

"Modulation of KCNQ Potassium Channel Function by ß-Subunits"

2000

Dr Israel Nelken, The Interdisciplinary Center for Neural Computation, Jerusalem, Israel

"Coding of Auditory Foregrounds and Backgrounds in Auditory Cortex"

1999

Dr Andreas Kleinschmidt, Institute of Neurology, University of London, London, Great Britain

"Linking cerebral blood oxygenation to human brain function"

1998

Dr Frederic Libersat, Dept. Of Life Sciences, Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Israel

"How does a parasitoid Polynesian wasp control the cockroach's mind?"

1997

Dr Michael Pusch, Istituto di Cibernetica e Biofisica, Genoa, Italy

"Voltage-dependent chloride channels: From biophysics to human hereditary diseases"

1996

Dr Chaya Kalcheim, Dept. of Anatomy and Embryology, Hebrew University - Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel

"Trophic interactions in development of neural progenitor cells"

1995

Dr Andreas E. Busch, Head of Cardiovascular Research Hoechst Marion Roussel, Frankfurt

"Physiology, Pharmacology and Regulation of Slowly Activating Isk Channels"

1994

Dr Shimon Marom, Rappaport Family Institute for Research in the Medical Sciences, Haifa, Israel

"Slow Inactivation of Voltage-Gated Potassium Channels: why bother?"

1993

Dr Peter Stern, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Department of Neurophysiology, Frankfurt

"Single Channel Properties of Cloned NMDA-Receptors"

 

Organisation and administration

Prof Dr Andreas Draguhn
Elke Jochum

Institute of Physiology and Pathophysiology
Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
Im Neuenheimer Feld 326
69120 Heidelberg

Andreas Draguhn
Elke Jochum

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Shlomo Rotshenker, MD
Professor of Anatomy & Cell Biology

DR. Leon Simon Goldmann Chair in Medicine
Department of Medical Neurobiology
IMRIC, Hebrew University
Hadassah Medical School
Ein-Kerem, PO Box 12272
Jerusalem 91120 Israel

Shlomo Rotshenker

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Dr Oliver Lange
Regina Basse

Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Head of Division: Life Sciences
Jean-Paul-Str. 12 / D-53173 Bonn / Germany

Oliver Lange
Regina Basse

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