Staff

Stephanie Schimmer

PhD Student

Department Neuropeptide Research in Psychiatry

About me

I joined the lab of Valery Grinevich for a laboratory internship during my Master studies over a year ago, and stayed to write my Master thesis in his lab and now to continue on with my PhD. During my Master thesis, I investigated the role of Oxytocin signalling in the insular cortex in the processing and perception of pain, more specifically the alterations in emotional valence towards painful stimuli. During my PhD I am now interested in further dissecting the interplay of pain perception and oxytocin in the context of reward and social interactions.

Stephanie holds a M.Sc. in Neuroscience from the University of Heidelberg and a B.Sc. in Biology from the LMU in Munich. She currently works as a PhD student in our team and is enrolled in the HBIGS graduate school.

Expertise

Animal behavior	Stereotactic Injections
Immunohistochemistry	Graphical design

Publications

Publications in peer reviewed journals since 2006

TOP 5 publications:

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.
Keller D, Láng T, Cservenák M, Puska G, Barna J, Csillag V, Farkas I, Zelena D, Dóra F, Küppers S, Barteczko L, Usdin TB, Palkovits M, Hasan MT, Grinevich V, Dobolyi A. A thalamo-preoptic pathway promotes social grooming in rodents.Curr Biol. 2022 32(21):4593-4606. Epub 2022 Sep 15.
Althammer F, Roy RK, Kirchner MK, Lira EC, Schimmer S, Charlet A, Grinevich V, Stern JE. Impaired oxytocin signalling in the central amygdala in rats with chronic heart failure.J Physiol. 2024 602(22):6259-6280. Epub 2024 Nov 12.
Althammer F, Wimmer MC, Krabichler Q, Küppers S, Schimmer J, Fröhlich H, Dötsch L, Gruber T, Wunsch S, Schubert T, Kirchner MK, Stern JE, Charlet A, Grinevich V, Schaaf CP. Analysis of the hypothalamic oxytocin system and oxytocin receptor-expressing astrocytes in a mouse model of Prader-Willi syndrome.J Neuroendocrinol. 2022 34(12):e13217. Epub 2022 Dec 1.
Althammer F, Roy RK, Kirchner MK, Lira EC, Schimmer S, Charlet A, Grinevich V, Stern JE. Impaired oxytocin signaling in the central amygdala in rats with chronic heart failure.bioRxiv. 2023.

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