Iris studies neuronal circuit activation during safety and fear learning using genetic and viral models. Her work is supported by a Feodor Lynen Fellowship of the Humbold Foundation.

In GeNeRARe we investigate activating mutations of the RAS signalling pathway that lead to different form of a group of rare genetic disorders, so-called RASopathies, including Noonan Syndrome, Costellos Syndrome and others. We are interested in the mechanisms that result in intellectual disabilities in these disturbances and investigate the underlying neuronal dysfunction.