Sreedharan Sajikumar,
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Affiliation(s):
National University of Singapore
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Areas of Interest:
synaptic plasticity, Alzheimer disease, long-term potentiation
Biography & Research:
Sajikumar Sreedharan obtained his Ph.D in 2005 from the Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology (LIN), Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany. He did his Ph.D research on the fundamental mechanisms of memory under the supervision of Professor Julietta U. Frey. During the course of his postdoctoral training in Prof Martin Korte’s laboratory at the Technical University, Braunschweig, Germany, he investigated the role of metaplasticity on associative memory at the cellular level. His research on synaptic tagging and capture has uncovered many important mechanisms and molecules for the establishment of associative plasticity. He has a long-standing interest in the neural basis of long-term memory and has edited a book on ‘Synaptic tagging and capture’ published by Springer, New York. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Physiology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine at the National University of Singapore. His work has been well supported over the years from prestigious funding bodies including the Alexander von Humboldt foundation, Germany, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Germany, the National Medical Research Council and Ministry of Education in Singapore.
