Institut für Angewandte Physiologie

AG Jun. Prof. Kätzel

Portrait von Junior Professor Doktor Kätzel
Quelle: E. Eberhardt, Universität Ulm

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Kontakt

Institut für Angewandte Physiologie
Albert-Einstein-Allee 11, N27
89081 Ulm

N27, Raum 433
Telefon:  +49 (0)731 500 33-770
E-mail: dennis.kaetzel(at)uni-ulm.de

Forschung

Research Focus: Circuits, Drugs and Schizophrenia

We focus on the understanding of the neural mechanisms that lead to schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is a psychiatric disease affecting close to 1 % of the population and accounting for 25 % of psychiatric hospital beds. It is characterized by "positive" symptoms such as halluzinations and delusions, but also by "cognitive" and "negative" symptoms like deficits in working memory, attention, cognitive flexibility, social interaction and motivation. It is such cognitive and negative symptoms that hardly respond to currently available drug therapy and therefore represent the focus of our translational research efforts.

Our goals are to support the development of novel therapeutical approches by:

  • understanding where symptoms of schizophrenia originate from at the neural circuit level.
  • develop better preclinical models of schizophrenia and better biomarkers for prediction of clinical efficacy.
  • understand how existing drugs and novel drug candidates actually work at the circuit level.
  • identify cellular and circuit targets for therapy.

Our approach is to combine state-of-the-art techniques of neural circuit analysis, including:

  • optogenetic and chemogenetic circuit manipulation (i.e. the remote control of genetically specified cell types).
  • in vivo electrophysiological technique.
  • behavioural analysis and behavioural pharmacology.
  • transgenic models of schizophrenia.

Publikationen

Kätzel D, Wolff AR, Bygrave AM, Bannermann DM. (2020): Hippocampal Hyperactivity as a Druggable Circuit-Level Origin of Aberrant Salience in Schizophrenia. 2020 October 16; 11:486811; doi: 10.3389/fphar.2020.486811

Bygrave AM, Kilonzo K, Kullmann DM, Mannermann DM, Kätzel D (2019): Can N-Methyl-D-Aspartate Receptor Hypofunction in Schizophrenia Be Localized to an Individual Cell Type? Reviev Front. Psychiatry. 2019 November 21; 10:835. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2019.00835

Teutsch J, Kätzel D (2019): Operant Assessment of DMTP Spatial Working Memory in Mice. Front Behav Neurosci. 2019 Aug 27;13:193. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2019.00193.

Bygrave AM, Jahans-Price T, Wolff AR, Sprengel R, Kullmann DM, Bannerman DM, Kätzel D. (2019): Hippocampal-prefrontal coherence mediates working memory and selective attention at distinct frequency bands and provides a causal link between schizophrenia and its risk gene GRIA1., Transl Psychiatry. 2019 Apr 18;9(1):142. doi: 10.1038/s41398-019-0471-0.

Liss B, Kätzel D (2019): Kleinhirn, in Brandes R, Lang F, Schmidt RF: Physiologie des Menschen: mit Pathophysiologie, Springer-Verlag. ISBN 978-3-662-56467-7 Link

Jendryka M, Palchaudhuri M, Ursu D, van der Veen B, Liss B, Kätzel D, Nissen W, Pekcec A (2019): Pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic actions of clozapine-N-oxide, clozapine, and compound 21 in DREADD-based chemogenetics in mice. Scientific Reports 9:4522. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-41088-2.

Bygrave AM, Masiulis S, Kullmann DM, Bannerman DM, Kätzel D (2018): Gene-Environment Interaction in a Conditional NMDAR-Knockout Model of Schizophrenia. Front Behav Neurosci. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2018.00332.

Grimm CM, Aksamaz S, Schulz S, Teutsch J, Sicinski P, Liss B and Kätzel D (2018): Schizophrenia-related cognitive dysfunction in the Cyclin-D2 knockout mouse model of ventral hippocampal hyperactivity. Translational Psychiatry 8:212. doi:10.1038/s41398-018-0268-6.

Wolff AR, Bygrave AM, Sanderson DJ, Boyden DS, Bannerman DM, Kullmann DM, Kätzel D (2018): Optogenetic induction of the schizophrenia-related endophenotype of ventral hippocampal hyperactivity causes rodent correlates of positive and cognitive symptoms; Sci Rep. 2018 Aug 27;8(1):12871. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-31163-5.

De Bruyckere E, Simon R, Nestel S, Heimrich B, Kätzel D, Egorov AV, Liu P, Jenkins NA, Copeland NG, Schwegler H, Draguhn A, Britsch S (2018): Stability and Function of Hippocampal Mossy Fiber Synapses Depend on Bcl11b/Ctip2; Front Mol Neurosci. 2018 Apr 5;11:103. doi: 10.3389/fnmol.2018.00103

Kohl MM, Kätzel D (2017): Optogenetic mapping of neuronal connections and their plasticity, in Appasani K (ed.): Optogenetics: from neuronal function to mapping and disease biology, Cambridge University Press, 2017. Link

Bygrave AM, Masiulis S, Nicholson E, Berkemann M, Barkus C, Sprengel R, Harrison P, Kullmann DM, Bannermann DM, Kätzel D (2016): Knockout of NMDA-receptors from parvalbumin interneurons sensitizes to schizophrenia-related deficits induced by MK-801; Translational Psychiatry (2016) 6, e778; doi: 10-1038/tp.2016.44; published online: 12 April 2016.

Anastasiades PG, Marques-Smith A, Lyngholm D, Lickiss T, Raffiq S, Kätzel D, Miesenböck G, Butt SJ (2016): GABAergic interneurons form transient, layer-specific circuits in early postnatal neocortex; Nature Communications February 04; doi:10.1038/ncomms10584. 

Kätzel D, Kullmann D (2015): Optogenetic and chemogenetic tools for drug discovery in schizophrenia. Book chapter in: Drug discovery for schizophrenia. RSC Publishing. Lipina T, Roder J (eds.). ISBN 978-1-78262-026-6.

Kätzel D, Nicholson E, Schorge S, Walker MC, Kullmann DM (2014): Chemical-genetic attenuation of focal neocortical seizures; Nature Communications May 27; doi: 10.1038/ncomms4847. 

Kätzel D, Miesenböck G (2014): Experience-dependent rewiring of specific inhibitory connections in adult neocortex. PLoS Biol, February 25; 12(2): e1001798. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001798. 

Kätzel D, Zemelman BV, Buetfering C, Wölfel M, Miesenböck G (2011): The columnar and laminar organization of inhibitory connections to neocortical excitatory cells; Nat Neurosci. 2011 Jan, 14(1): 100-107. doi: 10.1038/nn2687. PDF.

Mitarbeiter

Nachname           Vorname   Titel                   Tel.          Fax.  Büro Labor Geb. Funktion                      
Kätzel Dennis Jun.-Prof. Dr. 33770 33779 453 4401-7 N26 Head of the Group
Bühner Lukas cand.Med 33775 33779 454 4401-7 N26 MD-Student
Kapanaiah Sampath M.Sc. 33775 33779 4405 4401-7 N26 PhD-Student
Kilonzo Kasyoka M.Sc. 33775 33779 454 4401-7 N26 PhD-Student
Jendryka Martin M. Sc. 33775 33779 4405 4401-7 N26 PhD-Student
Schmid Mark B.Sc. 33775 33779 4405 4401-7 N26 Wiss. Hilfskraft
Schulz Stefanie BTA 15248 33779 454 4401-7 N26 Techn. Assistant
Strahnen Daniel cand.Med 33775 33779 4405 4401-7 N26 MD-Student
Research Assistant
van der Veen Bastiaan M. Sc. 33775 33779 454 4401-7 N26 PhD-Student