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Benedikt Berninger, PhD (he/him/his)

King's College London, UK

Benedikt Berninger is professor of Developmental Neurobiology at King's College London. He graduated in biology from the University of Munich and obtained there a PhD in 1996. He continued with postdoctoral studies at UC San Diego. Benedikt returned as lecturer in Physiological Genomics to Munich. With Magdalena Götz he discovered the capacity of proneural genes Neurog2 and Ascl1 to reprogram astrocytes of the mouse cortex. In 2011, Benedikt was appointed Professor of Physiological Chemistry at the University Medical Center Mainz. In 2018, Benedikt joined the Centre for Developmental Neurobiology, King’s College London and set up a satellite at the Francis Crick Institute. His research focuses on glia-to-neuron conversion, addressing questions ranging from the molecular underpinnings of reprogramming to the functional integration of the induced neurons.

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