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Birgit Liss is affiliated with the University of Ulm in Germany and has contributed extensively to the fields of Neuroscience as well as Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology.

Their main fields of study include Neuroscience with a focus on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Molecular Biology. Additional subfields of research cover Cognitive Neuroscience, Neurology, and Genetics. The research topics explored consist of:

  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Ion channel regulation and function
  • RNA Research and Splicing

Birgit Liss has published articles in a variety of scientific venues. Frequent publication platforms include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Communications Biology
  • Scientific Reports
  • eLife
  • Translational Psychiatry

Some recent papers authored or coauthored by Liss are:

  • Control of impulsivity by Gi-protein signalling in layer-5 pyramidal neurons of the anterior cingulate cortex, 2021, Communications Biology
  • Delayed-matching-to-position working memory in mice relies on NMDA-receptors in prefrontal pyramidal cells, 2021, Scientific Reports
  • β2-subunit alternative splicing stabilizes Cav2.3 Ca2+ channel activity during continuous midbrain dopamine neuron-like activity, 2022, eLife
  • Nucleolar stress controls mutant Huntington toxicity and monitors Huntington's disease progression, 2021, Cell Death and Disease
  • Multi-Electrode Array Analysis Identifies Complex Dopamine Responses and Glucose Sensing Properties of Substantia Nigra Neurons in Mouse Brain Slices, 2021, Frontiers in Synaptic Neuroscience

Birgit Liss has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • Sampath K. T. Kapanaiah
  • Dennis Kätzel
  • Rosanna Parlato
  • Thomas Akam
  • Julia Benkert

Best Publications

  • Unique Properties of Mesoprefrontal Neurons within a Dual Mesocorticolimbic Dopamine System

    Stephan Lammel;Andrea Hetzel;Olga Häckel;Ian Jones

  • ATP-sensitive K+ channels in the hypothalamus are essential for the maintenance of glucose homeostasis.

    Takashi Miki;Birgit Liss;Kohtaro Minami;Tetsuya Shiuchi

  • Ih Channels Contribute to the Different Functional Properties of Identified Dopaminergic Subpopulations in the Midbrain

    Henrike Neuhoff;Axel Neu;Birgit Liss;Jochen Roeper

  • K-ATP channels promote the differential degeneration of dopaminergic midbrain neurons

    Birgit Liss;Birgit Liss;Olga Haeckel;Johannes Wildmann;Takashi Miki

  • Tuning pacemaker frequency of individual dopaminergic neurons by Kv4.3L and KChip3.1 transcription

    Birgit Liss;Oliver Franz;Sabine Sewing;Ralf Bruns

  • Alternative sulfonylurea receptor expression defines metabolic sensitivity of K-ATP channels in dopaminergic midbrain neurons.

    Birgit Liss;Ralf Bruns;Jochen Roeper

  • Pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic actions of clozapine-N-oxide, clozapine, and compound 21 in DREADD-based chemogenetics in mice.

    Martin Jendryka;Martin Jendryka;Monika Palchaudhuri;Daniel Ursu;Bastiaan van der Veen

  • K-ATP channels in dopamine substantia nigra neurons control bursting and novelty-induced exploration

    Julia Schiemann;Falk Schlaudraff;Verena Klose;Markus Bingmer

  • Molecular physiology of neuronal K-ATP channels (review).

    Birgit Liss;Jochen Roeper

  • Elevated α-synuclein mRNA levels in individual UV-laser-microdissected dopaminergic substantia nigra neurons in idiopathic Parkinson's disease

    Jan Gründemann;Falk Schlaudraff;Olga Haeckel;Birgit Liss

  • Orexin excites GABAergic neurons of the arcuate nucleus by activating the sodium--calcium exchanger.

    Denis Burdakov;Birgit Liss;Frances M. Ashcroft

  • Improved quantitative real-time RT-PCR for expression profiling of individual cells.

    Birgit Liss

  • Converging roles of ion channels, calcium, metabolic stress, and activity-pattern of substantia nigra dopaminergic neurons in health and Parkinson's disease.

    Johanna Duda;Christina Pötschke;Birgit Liss

  • A53T-Alpha-Synuclein Overexpression Impairs Dopamine Signaling and Striatal Synaptic Plasticity in Old Mice

    Alexander Kurz;Kay L. Double;Isabel Lastres-Becker;Alessandro Tozzi

  • Dopamine midbrain neurons in health and Parkinson’s disease: Emerging roles of voltage-gated calcium channels and ATP-sensitive potassium channels

    E. Dragicevic;J. Schiemann;B. Liss

  • Single-cell mRNA expression of HCN1 correlates with a fast gating phenotype of hyperpolarization-activated cyclic nucleotide-gated ion channels (Ih) in central neurons.

    Oliver Franz;Birgit Liss;Axel Neu;Jochen Roeper

  • Cav1.3 channels control D2-autoreceptor responses via NCS-1 in substantia nigra dopamine neurons

    Elena Dragicevic;Christina Poetschke;Johanna Duda;Falk Schlaudraff

  • GDNF–Ret signaling in midbrain dopaminergic neurons and its implication for Parkinson disease

    Edgar R. Kramer;Edgar R. Kramer;Birgit Liss

  • Mutual exacerbation of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor γ coactivator 1α deregulation and α-synuclein oligomerization.

    Judith Eschbach;Björn von Einem;Kathrin Müller;Hanna Bayer

  • Telomere shortening reduces Alzheimer’s disease amyloid pathology in mice

    Harshvardhan Rolyan;Annika Scheffold;Annette Heinrich;Yvonne Begus-Nahrmann

  • NEUROSCIENCE FOREFRONT REVIEW DOPAMINE MIDBRAIN NEURONS IN HEALTH AND PARKINSON'S DISEASE: EMERGING ROLES OF VOLTAGE-GATED CALCIUM CHANNELS AND ATP-SENSITIVE POTASSIUM CHANNELS

    E. Dragicevic;J. Schiemann;B. Liss

Frequent Co-Authors

Jochen Roeper
Jochen Roeper Goethe University Frankfurt
Frances M. Ashcroft
Frances M. Ashcroft University of Oxford
Toni Schneider
Toni Schneider University of Cologne
Michael R. Speicher
Michael R. Speicher Medical University of Graz
Rafael Luján
Rafael Luján University of Castilla-La Mancha
Masahiko Watanabe
Masahiko Watanabe Hokkaido University
Peter Kloppenburg
Peter Kloppenburg University of Cologne
Francisco Ciruela
Francisco Ciruela University of Barcelona
Richard Wade-Martins
Richard Wade-Martins University of Oxford
Christian Kubisch
Christian Kubisch Universität Hamburg

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