Personen

Konstantinos Afordakos

PhD student

Abteilung Neuropeptidforschung in der Psychiatrie

About me

I joined Valery Grinevich's lab in 2021 as an Erasmus+ trainee, subsequently continuing to work there as a PhD student. During my time there, I developed an interest in the function of oxytocin in different cell types and its impact on local circuitry and behaviour. As a PhD student, I am now investigating this system in depth by examining the cellular components of oxytocin circuits in the forebrain of rats and exploring their connection to social behaviours using a combination of in vivo and ex vivo techniques.

Konstantinos holds an MSc in Biological Applications and Technologies from the University of Ioannina. He is currently a PhD student working in our lab.

Expertise

Ex vivo electrophysiology	Stereotactic Injections
Immunohistochemistry	Fiber photometry

Publikationen

Publikationen in peer-reviewed Zeitschriften seit 2006

TOP 5 Publikationen:

Schimmer S, Kania A, Lefevre A, Afordakos K, Wang K, Lebedeva J, Rozov A, Raftogianni A, Tiwari R, Netser S, Zovko A, Shaheen H, Schimmer J, Patwell R, Denis C, Grelot V, Petitjean H, Geng L, Hefter D, Boender A, Podpecan Y, Schommer F, Schubert I, Sanetra A, Trenk A, Gugula A, Hurlemann R, Wagner S, Li Y, Althammer F, Blasiak A, Melzer S, Monyer H, Charlet A, Eliava M, Grinevich V. Oxytocin facilitates social behavior of female rats via selective modulation of interneurons in the medial prefrontal cortexbioRxiv. 2025.

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