Imke Kirste

LIFE Fellow from 2006 to 2011, Center for Regenerative Therapies Dresden

Dr. rer. nat.

Dissertation completed in January 2012

Psychosocial Influences on the Dynamics of Adult Hippocampal Neurogenesis

(Advisor: Gerd Kempermann)

Selected Publications

Freund, J., Brandmaier, A. M., Lewejohann, L., Kirste, I., Kritzler, M., ... Lindenberger, U., & Kempermann, G. (2015). Association between exploratory activity and social individuality in genetically identical mice living in the same enriched environment. Neuroscience, 309, 140–152. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroscience.2015.05.027

Kirste, I., Nicola, Z., Kronenberg, G., Walker, T. L., Liu, R. C., & Kempermann, G. (2015). Is silence golden? Effects of auditory stimuli and their absence on adult hippocampal neurogenesis. Brain Structure and Function, 220, 1221–1228. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00429-013-0679-3

Freund, J., Brandmaier, A. M., Lewejohann, L., Kirste, I., Kritzler, M., Krüger, A., Sachser, N., Lindenberger, U., & Kempermann, G. (2013). Emergence of individuality in genetically identical mice. Science, 340(6133), 756–759. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1235294