We are a new lab in the Interfaculty Institute for Biochemistry (IFIB) at the University of Tübingen in Germany.
We are interested in neuronal cell biology, with an emphasis on the cytoskeleton-membrane interactions in neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. 

The vast majority (>90%) of patients clinically diagnosed with Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s diseases (AD, PD) do not have a clear genetic etiology. Research in the last decades have identified multiple candidate genes causal for the development of early-onset forms of these diseases, yet little is known on what triggers the late-onset forms. How can we correlate known early-onset genes with unknown triggers of the late-onset forms? Are there intersections where non-genetic factors directly influence cellular processes leading to the observed pathological hallmarks of neurodegeneration.