Dr Benjamin Judkewitz PhD

Research Fellow - Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellow

Education

2010: PhD in Physiology and Neuroscience at University College London
2005: Diplom thesis at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research (Department of Biomedical Optics) in Heidelberg, Germany
2000 - 2005: Undergraduate studies in Biology at the University of Heidelberg and the University of California, Berkeley

Awards and Scholarships

2010 - 2014: Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellowship
2008: UCL Young Investigator Award in Neuroimaging Techniques
2006 - 2010: Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds PhD Scholarship
2006 - 2010: UK Medical Research Council PhD Scholarship
2000 - 2005: German National Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung) Scholarship
2003 - 2004: University of California Exchange Student Scholarship
2003 - 2004: German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Scholarship

Publications

1. Wiechert MT, Judkewitz B, Riecke H, Friedrich RW, Mechanisms of pattern decorrelation by recurrent neuronal circuits, Nature Neuroscience 2010, 13 (8): 1003-1010

2. Judkewitz B, Rizzi M, Kitamura K, Häusser M, Targeted single-cell electroporation of mammalian neurons in vivo, Nature Protocols 2009, 4 (6): 862-869

3. Judkewitz B, Rizzi M, Häusser M, 3D reconstruction of neuronal microcircuits with single cell precision in vivo, Society for Neuroscience Abstracts 2009

4. *Kitamura K, *Judkewitz B, Kano M, Denk W, Häusser M, Targeted patch-clamp recordings and single-cell electroporation of unlabeled neurons in vivo, Nature Methods 2008, 5(1): 61-67 (*: shared first authorship)

5. Porter J, Craven B, Khan RM, Chang SJ, Kang I, Judkewitz B, Volpe J, Settles G, Sobel N, Mechanisms of scent-tracking in humans, Nature Neuroscience 2007, 10 (1): 27-29

6. Yaksi E, Judkewitz B, Friedrich RW, Topological reorganization of odor representations in the olfactory bulb, PLoS Biology 2007, 5 (7): e178

7. Judkewitz B, Roth A, Häusser M, Dendritic enlightenment: using patterned two-photon uncaging to reveal the secrets of the brain's smallest dendrites, Neuron 2006, 50 (2): 180-183

Affiliation

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