PI: Gerd Leitinger
Focus: The working group uses the latest electron microscopy methods. Iron deposits in the human brain are associated with neurodegenerative diseases, and these deposits are precisely localized in human samples using analytical electron microscopes. In another focus area, three-dimensional models of neural circuits are created using 3D electron microscopy to investigate how these circuits function.
Network: Within the Gottfried Schatz Center, we cooperate closely with the working groups led by Wolfgang Graier, Tobias Madl, and Klaus Groschner (signaling) and with the working group led by Irmgard Prassl (precision medicine). Other partners include Senka Holzer, Stefan Ropele (Medical University of Graz), Eva Roblegg (Karl Franzens University of Graz), and Claire Rind (Newcastle University, UK). We are closely networked with ELMINET Graz, BioTechMed-Graz, and the Austrian Society for Electron Microscopy.