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Postdocs

Kristoffer Højgaard

Opto- and Chemi-Knock: New Tools for Rapid Blockade of Protein Function during Memory Consolidation

PhD Fellow
Aarhus University

Kristoffer Højgaard, Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University, has been awarded a Postdoc Research Grant worth DKK 2.493.260

Memory retention depends on highly specific protein transport and precise timing, which has made research challenging with our currently available techniques. This project aims to establish a rapid and reversible loss-of-function method to investigate the role of specific proteins during memory retention in the hippocampus. When this loss-of-function method has been optimized and established, it may be applied universally and have the potential to help study proteins in many other biological pathways and tissues.

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