Staff

Dr. Alan Kania

Postdoctoral fellow

Department Neuropeptide Research in Psychiatry

About me

I obtained my PhD in the Department of Neurophysiology and Chronobiology at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland. Since the beginning of my lab experience I’ve been interested in the interactions of neuropeptidergic signalling controlling physiological processes and behaviour. In my research I employ various techniques focusing on electrophysiological approaches in vivo and ex vivo. The main scope of my current studies is to understand how a single neuropeptide can modulate different aspects of social interaction by modulation of forebrain structures (e.g. hippocampus). Moreover I carried over some of my PhD interests and investigate the modulatory action of oxytocin in the brainstem regions controlling arousal.

Alan holds a B.Sc. in Neuroscience and a PhD in Exact and Natural Sciences in Biological Sciences. He joined our lab as a PostDoc in April 2021.

Expertise

Ex vivo electrophysiology	Stereotactic Injections
Immunohistochemistry	Fiber photometry

Publications

Publications in peer reviewed journals since 2006

TOP 5 publications:

Qian T, Wang H, Wang P, Geng L, Mei L, Osakada T, Wang L, Tang Y, Kania A, Grinevich V, Stoop R, Lin D, Luo M, Li Y. A genetically encoded sensor measures temporal oxytocin release from different neuronal compartments.Nat Biotechnol. 2023 41(7):944-957. Epub 2023 Jan 2.
Iwasaki M, Lefevre A, Althammer F, Clauss Creusot E, Łąpieś O, Petitjean H, Hilfiger L, Kerspern D, Melchior M, Küppers S, Krabichler Q, Patwell R, Kania A, Gruber T, Kirchner MK, Wimmer M, Fröhlich H, Dötsch L, Schimmer J, Herpertz SC, Ditzen B, Schaaf CP, Schönig K, Bartsch D, Gugula A, Trenk A, Blasiak A, Stern JE, Darbon P, Grinevich V, Charlet A. An analgesic pathway from parvocellular oxytocin neurons to the periaqueductal gray in rats.Nat Commun. 2023 14(1):1066.

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