Curriculum vitae
1988 – 1993 Studies of Biology at the University of Bielefeld, Germany.
07/1993 Diploma degree
1992 – 1993 Guest researcher at the National Institute of Physiological Sciences, Dept. of Neurochemistry (Prof. Dr. K. Obata), Okazaki, Japan
1994 – 1997 PhD thesis at the Swiss Federal Technical University, Dept. of Neurobiology (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. M. Schachner).
11/1997 Dr. sc. nat.
1997 – 1999 Postdoctoral Fellow at the National Institute of Physiological Sciences, Dept. of Neurochemistry (Prof. Dr. K. Obata), Okazaki, Japan
2000 – 2001 Research fellow, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, Dept. of Physiology (Prof. Dr. H.-C. Pape)
2001 – 2007 Senior research fellow / lecturer (C1), Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, Dept. of Physiology (Prof. Dr. H.-C, Pape)
06/2005 Habilitation and venia legendi for General Physiology, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg
2007 – 2008 Substituting professor for Molecular Neurobiology at the Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, Institute of Biology
Since 2008 Professor for Molecular Neurobiology and Head of Department at the Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, Institute of Biology
Contact information
E-mail: oliver.stork[at]ovgu.de
Telephone: +49(391)-67 55100
Selected publications
Richter-Levin G, Stork O, Schmidt MV. Animal models of PTSD: a challenge to be met. Molecular Psychiatry 2019; 24(8):1135-1156
Mikhaylova M, Bär J, van Bommel B, Schätzle P, YuanXiang P, Raman R, Hradsky J, Konietzny A, Loktionov EY, Reddy PP, Lopez-Rojas J, Spilker C, Kobler O, Raza SA, Stork O, Hoogenraad CC, Kreutz MR. Caldendrin Directly Couples Postsynaptic Calcium Signals to Actin Remodeling in Dendritic Spines. Neuron. 2018 Feb 20. pii: S0896-6273(18)30071-0.
Raza SA, Albrecht A, Çalışkan G, Müller B, Demiray YE, Ludewig S, Meis S, Faber N, Hartig R, Schraven B, Lessmann V, Schwegler H, Stork O. HIPP neurons in the dentate gyrus mediate the cholinergic modulation of background context memory salience. Nature Communications 2017 Aug; 8(1):189.
Çalışkan G, Müller I, Semtner M, Winkelmann A, Raza AS, Hollnagel JO, Rösler A, Heinemann U, Stork O, Meier JC. Identification of Parvalbumin Interneurons as Cellular Substrate of Fear Memory Persistence. Cerebral Cortex 2016 May;26(5):2325-40.
Rehberg, K., Kliche, S., Madencioglu, D. A., Thiere, M., Muller, B., Meineke, B. M., Freund, C., Budinger, E., Stork, O. (2014). The serine/threonine kinase Ndr2 controls integrin trafficking and integrin-dependent neurite growth. The Journal of Neuroscience, 34(15), 5342–5354. doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2728-13.2014
Albrecht, A., Caliskan, G., Oitzl, M. S., Heinemann, U., & Stork, O. (2013). Long-lasting increase of corticosterone after fear memory reactivation: anxiolytic effects and network activity modulation in the ventral hippocampus. Neuropsychopharmacology, 38(3), 386–394. doi:10.1038/npp.2012.192
Seidenbecher, T., Laxmi, T. R., Stork, O., & Pape, H.-C. (2003). Amygdalar and hippocampal theta rhythm synchronization during fear memory retrieval. Science (New York, N.Y.), 301(5634), 846–850. doi:10.1126/science.1085818