Holger Dannenberg, PhD
Assistant professor in the Department of Bioengineering at George Mason University and faculty member of the Graduate Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience
Dr. Holger Dannenberg joined the Department of Bioengineering and the Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience as Assistant Professor at George Mason University in 2021. He completed his Ph.D. summa cum laude in Neuroscience at the University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, in 2015 and was awarded a 2-year postdoctoral fellowship from the German Research Foundation and a K99/R00 career development award by the NINDS of the NIH that he both fulfilled in the Center of Systems Neuroscience at Boston University, Boston, MA.
His current research focuses on studying the neural circuit mechanisms and cholinergic modulation underlying spatial memory formation and memory-guided navigation across different time scales. His area of expertise includes rodent in-vivo electrophysiology, optogenetics, signal analysis, single unit recordings, and fiber photometry. His previous work investigated potential codes for location and running speed in the hippocampus and medial entorhinal cortex and temporal dynamics in the activity of entorhinal grid cells. Previously, he investigated the septo-hippocampal system to dissect the specific contribution of cholinergic as opposed to GABAergic septal neurons on encoding and retrieval dynamics in the hippocampus.
In Akureyri, Iceland
A Little Bit About Me
I am originally from Cologne, Germany, and moved to the United States in 2015. Like most Germans, I truly enjoy having afternoon Coffee & Cake Time. When I am not in the lab or teaching students, I enjoy being in the great outdoors exploring National Parks, biking, hiking, and rock climbing. My goal is to visit all the National Parks in the U.S. So far, Yosemite National Park has been my favorite!