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Dimitri Tränkner, PhD

Academic Information

Departments Primary - Neurobiology

Education History

Graduate Training University of Cologne
Master's
Graduate Training Institute of Biological Information Processing, Jülich Research Center
Doctoral Training Institute of Biological Information Processing, Jülich Research Center, University of Cologne
PhD

Selected Publications

Journal Article

  1. Tränkner D, Jägle H, Kohl S, Apfelstedt-Sylla E, Sharpe LT, Kaupp UB, Zrenner E, Seifert R, Wissinger B (2004). Molecular basis of an inherited form of incomplete achromatopsia. J Neurosci, 24(1), 138-47.
  2. Peng Y, Gillis-Smith S, Jin H, Tränkner D, Ryba NJ, Zuker CS (2015). Sweet and bitter taste in the brain of awake behaving animals. Nature, 527(7579), 512-5.
  3. Huang AL, Chen X, Hoon MA, Chandrashekar J, Guo W, Tränkner D, Ryba NJ, Zuker CS (2006). The cells and logic for mammalian sour taste detection. Nature, 442(7105), 934-8.
  4. Tränkner D, Hahne N, Sugino K, Hoon MA, Zuker C (2014). Population of sensory neurons essential for asthmatic hyperreactivity of inflamed airways. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 111(31), 11515-20.
  5. Tränkner D, Boulet A, Peden E, Focht R, Van Deren D, Capecchi M (2019). A Microglia Sublineage Protects from Sex-Linked Anxiety Symptoms and Obsessive Compulsion. Cell Rep, 29(4), 791-799.e3.
  6. Sugino K, Clark E, Schulmann A, Shima Y, Wang L, Hunt DL, Hooks BM, Tränkner D, Chandrashekar J, Picard S, Lemire AL, Spruston N, Hantman AW, Nelson SB (2019). Mapping the transcriptional diversity of genetically and anatomically defined cell populations in the mouse brain. Elife, 8.