We are very happy to announce that Prof. Dr. Albena Jordanova is Keynote Speaker at the NeuroDoWo 2022 in Cologne. Prof. Jordanova works at the Vlaams Institute voor Biotechnologie in Antwerp, Belgium on heritable neurodegenerative diseases. Using bioinformatics methods, she was able to identify a mutation that causes Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease in 2012. She is now working on the identification of the functions of that gene using model organisms.

To further spread the word about the NeuroDoWo, the new posters are available for you to download, print and hang up in your university, your institute or wherever other PhD-students in Neuroscience walk by. The posters have now been updated with all the speakers.

We hereby have the pleasure to announce Prof. Dr. Gaia Tavosanis as one of our Keynote Speakers at the NeuroDoWo 2022. Being a research group leader at the DZNE Bonn and a Professor of Neurogenetics at the University of Bonn, she is one of the leading experts in neuronal remodeling. With Drosophila melanogaster being her model system, she investigates the mechanisms in neuronal dynamics during development and adult life of the fly.

We are happy to announce Dr. Jan M. Ache from Würzburg University as presenter of our second career Q & A session. Jan M. Ache is a former attendee of the NeuroDoWo, former Janelia Research Campus Post-Doc and now a junior group leader. We are looking forward to learning more about his career development, starting a lab and finding funding.

I hereby have the pleasure to announce the first point of this year’s NeuroDoWo's programme. In addition to the research talks by our participants and our keynote speakers, we will have Q & A-sessions on different career paths after your PhD. Our first presenter in this category will be Dr. Christian Pichlo. He obtained his PhD in 2017 at the University of Cologne on the "Structural and biochemical characterization of metallopeptidases from enteropathogenic bacteria".