Institute for Anatomy and Cell Biology
Department of Neuroanatomy
Albertstraße 17
D - 79104 Freiburg
Germany
+49 761 203 5056
+49 761 203 5054
Vita
| 2001-2008 | Studies of human medicine at the University of Frankfurt |
| 2006 | Research at the Department for Neurobiology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel |
| 2008-2016 | Doctorate, postdoc, group leader, and habilitation for Anatomy, Institute for Clinical Neuroanatomy, Dr. Senkenbergische Anatomie, University of Frankfurt, Germany |
| 2016-2017 | Associate Professor, Institute for Anatomy II, University of Düsseldorf, Germany |
| Since 2017 | Full Professor, Head of Department, Institute for Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Freiburg |
Research Fields
- Role of associative and homeostatic structure-function relations in central nervous system under physiological and pathological conditions
- Neurothromboinflammation, neurocoagulation
- Cellular and molecular mechanisms of non-invasive brain stimulations, transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)
- Restorative and Regenerative Neuromodulation
Selected publications
- Lenz M, Kruse P, Eichler A, Straehle J, Beck J, Deller T, Vlachos A. (2021) All-trans retinoic acid induces synaptic plasticity in human cortical neurons. Elife. 10:e63026.
- Galanis C, Fellenz M, Becker D, Bold C, Lichtenthaler SF, Müller UC, Deller T, Vlachos A. (2021) Amyloid-Beta Mediates Homeostatic Synaptic Plasticity. J Neurosci. 14:1470-1482.
- Lenz M, Galanis C, Müller-Dahlhaus F, Opitz A, Wierenga CJ, Szabó G, Ziemann U, Deller T, Funke K, Vlachos A. (2016) Repetitive magnetic stimulation induces plasticity of inhibitory synapses. Nat Commun. 7:10020.
- Vlachos A, Ikenberg B, Lenz M, Becker D, Reifenberg K, Bas Orth C, Deller T. (2013) Synaptopodin regulates denervation-induced homeostatic synaptic plasticity. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 110:8242-7.
- Vlachos A, Reddy-Alla S, Papadopoulos T, Deller T, Betz H. (2013) Homeostatic regulation of gephyrin scaffolds and synaptic strength at mature hippocampal GABAergic postsynapses. Cereb Cortex. 23:2700-11.
- Vlachos A, Müller-Dahlhaus F, Rosskopp J, Lenz M, Ziemann U, Deller T. (2012) Repetitive magnetic stimulation induces functional and structural plasticity of excitatory postsynapses in mouse organotypic hippocampal slice cultures. J Neurosci. 32:17514-23.