Ben Gerhardt
Doctoral Candidate
Academic Education |
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| Since 2025 |
Doctoral candidate, Max Planck School of Cognition, Leipzig, Germany Lab rotations in the orientation phase: Michael Brecht (PhD supervisor), Onur Güntürkün and Moritz Helmstaedter |
| 2022 - 2024 |
Master of Science in Medical Neurosciences, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin |
| 2018 - 2022 |
Bachelor of Science in Biology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin |
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Research Experience |
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2020 – present
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Systems Neurobiology and Neural Computation
Prof. Dr. Michael Brecht Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Berlin |
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Neural Systems and Dynamics
Prof. Dr. Gilles Laurent Max Planck Institute for Brain Research |
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2023
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Deep imaging, Brain-wide circuits, Neurophotonics
Prof. Dr. Benjamin Judkewitz Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin |
| 2018 – 2020 | Molecular Genetics and Breeding Biology (Gudrun Brockmann), Humboldt Universität zu Berlin |
Scholarships & Grants |
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| 2023 – 2024 | Wübben Foundation Wissenschaft, Scholarship for undergraduate students in their thesis year |
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Talks |
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| 2024 | Three-dimensional architecture and linearized mapping of vibrissa follicle afferents (Barrels Meeting, Chicago Oct. 2024) |
Publications
Gerhardt, B*., Rodde, T*., Alfken, J., Reichmann, J., Salditt, T., Brecht, M. (2025) Follicle innervation and architecture of functionally distinct rat vibrissae. Communications Biology
Gerhardt, B., Alfken, J., Reichmann, J., Salditt, T., Brecht, M., (2025) Three-dimensional architecture and linearized mapping of vibrissa follicle afferents. Nature Communications
Yildiz, H., Heise, O., Gerhardt, B., Fritsch, G., Becker, R., Ochs, A., Sicks, F., Buss, P., de Klerk-Lorist, LM., Hildebrandt, T., Brecht, M., (2024) Macrovibrissae and Microvibrissae Inversion and Lateralization in Elephants. Annals of the New York Acadamy of Science
Veith, J.*, Chaigne, T.*, Svanidze, A., Dressler, L., Hoffmann, M., Gerhardt, B., Judkewitz, B. (2024) The mechanism for directional hearing in fish. Nature
Reveyaz, N., Schneeweiß, U., Heise, O., Gerhardt, B., Gui, A.M., Kaufmann, L.V., Alfken, J., Reichmann, J., Salditt, T., Hildebrandt, T.B. and Brecht, M., (2024) A Myelin Map of Trunk Folds in the Elephant Trigeminal Nucleus. Elife
Mungiani, M.*, Mehrotra, D.*, Davoine, F.*, Sharma, V.*, Mendes, A. R.*, Gerhardt, B., Concha-Miranda, M., Brecht, M., Clemens, A. M. (2023) Supra-orbital whiskers act as wind-antennae in rat anemotaxis. PLOS Biology
Deiringer, N., Schneeweiß, U., Kaufmann. L. V., Eigen, L., Spessegger, C., Gerhardt, B., Holtze, S., Fritsch, G., Göritz, F., Becker, R., Ochs, A., Hildebrandt, T., Brecht, M. (2023) The Functional Anatomy of Elephant Trunk Whiskers. Communications Biology
Gerhardt, B.*, Klaue, K*., Eigen, L*., Schwarz, J*., Hecht, S., & Brecht, M. (2023) DiI-CT—A bimodal neural tracer for X-ray and fluorescence imaging. Cell Reports Methods
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