Prof. Dr. Michael Brecht

Contact

Facility

Faculty of Life Sciences

Department of Biology

Animal Physiology/Systems Neurobiology and Neural Computation

Email

michael.brecht☞ Please insert an @ at this point ☜bccn-berlin☞ Please insert a period at this pointde

Telephone

+49 30 2093-98502

Postal address

Unter den Linden 6, 10117 Berlin

Registered office

Philippstraße 13 (Haus 6), 10115 Berlin

Room

208

Research projects

Project
DFG Individual Research Grant02/2026 - 01/2029
Contrast Agents for Volumetric Analysis of Large, Complex Nervous Systems with X-rays
Project head(s): Prof. Stefan Hecht, Ph.D., Prof. Dr. Michael Brecht
Project
DFG Research Unit01/2026 - 12/2029
Midbrain and brainstem of control of vocalizations in neutral and playful contexts
Project head(s): Prof. Dr. Michael Brecht
Project
DFG Individual Research Grant10/2025 - 09/2028
Contrast Agents for Volumetric Analysis of Large, Complex Nervous Systems with X-rays
Project head(s): Prof. Dr. Michael Brecht, Prof. Stefan Hecht, Ph.D.
Project
DFG other programmes07/2025 - 06/2030
Reinhardt Koselleck Project: Large Brain Neuroscience in Elephants
Project head(s): Prof. Dr. Michael Brecht
Project
DFG Collaborative Research Centre07/2022 - 06/2026
CRC 1315/2: A comparative approach to the consolidation of kinship memory (SP A03)
Project head(s): Prof. Dr. Michael Brecht, Prof. Dr. Marina Mikhaylova
Project
Horizon 2020: Individual Fellowship Global (IF-G)09/2019 - 08/2022
EU: The Neuroscience of Tickling: Cerebellar Mechanisms and Sensory Prediction (NeuroTick)
Project head(s): Prof. Dr. Michael Brecht
Project
Horizon 2020: ERC Synergy Grant08/2019 - 10/2026
The Self-Teaching Brain (BrainPlay)
Project head(s): Prof. Dr. Michael Brecht
Project
DFG Individual Research Grant04/2019 - 03/2022
Presubicular Bursting and Visual Anchoring of the Head Direction Signal
Project head(s): Prof. Dr. Michael Brecht
Project
DFG Excellence Strategy Cluster01/2019 - 12/2025
EXC 2049: Comprehensive Approaches to Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders “NeuroCure”
Project head(s): Prof. Andrew Plested, Prof. Dr. Michael Brecht, Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Isabel Dziobek, Prof. Dr. Matthew Larkum, Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Peter Hegemann
Project
Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space01/2019 - 12/2021
Cellular Neuroscience: School of Cognition
Project head(s): Prof. Dr. Michael Brecht
Project
DFG Collaborative Research Centre07/2018 - 06/2022
CRC 1315/1: Formation and Consolidation of Social Memories in the Ventral Hippocampus (SP A03)
Project head(s): Prof. Dr. Michael Brecht
Project
03/2018 - 09/2018
ENCODS 2018, Science & Society Session “Methods of an Embodied Mind”
Project head(s): Prof. Dr. Michael Brecht, Margret Brigitte Franke
Project
Internationale Fachgesellschaften02/2018 - 12/2026
Winter School Ethics and Neuroscience 2018
Project head(s): Prof. Dr. Michael Brecht
Project
DFG Individual Research Grant01/2018 - 12/2020
Structural, Neural and Mental Underpinnings of Rat Ticklishness
Project head(s): Prof. Dr. Michael Brecht
Project
DFG Individual Research Grant01/2018 - 06/2021
Sex Hormonal Control of the Rat Somatosensory Cortex
Project head(s): Prof. Dr. Michael Brecht
Project
ESB: Forschungsvorhaben11/2017 - 10/2020
Dynamics of Electrically Coupled Neuronal Networks
Project head(s): Prof. Dr. Michael Brecht
Project
DFG Excellence Initiative Cluster11/2017 - 12/2018
Intrasurgical stimulation of the human cerebral cortex – from basic physiology to cognition
Project head(s): Prof. Dr. Michael Brecht
Project
DFG Priority Programme01/2017 - 12/2019
PP 1665: Delineating and Testing a Microcircuit Model of Parahippocampal Phase Precession
Project head(s): Prof. Dr. Richard Kempter
Project
DAAD01/2017 - 12/2018
SPACEBRAIN – Structure-Function Relationship in Rodent Presubiculum
Project head(s): Prof. Dr. Michael Brecht
Project
DFG Priority Programme11/2016 - 12/2019
PP 1665: Delineating and Testing a Microcircuit Model of Parahippocampal Phase Precession
Project head(s): Prof. Dr. Michael Brecht
Project
09/2016 - 12/2025
Event: Bernstein Conference 2016: Registration Fees
Project head(s): Prof. Dr. Michael Brecht, Margret Brigitte Franke
Project
DFG Research Training Group01/2016 - 12/2019
RTG 1589/2: Sensory Computation in Neural Systems
Project head(s): Prof. Dr. Michael Brecht
Project
Einstein Foundation Berlin07/2014 - 12/2017
The Axonal Code of Information Processing
Project head(s): Prof. Dr. Michael Brecht
Project
Donations04/2014 - 12/2025
Untersuchungen zur Eignung von 54-Liter-Standardaquarien zur tierschutzgerechten Pflege von Aquarienfischen
Project head(s): Prof. Dr. Michael Brecht
Project
DFG Research Unit02/2013 - 01/2016
RG 1346/1: Cellular and Synaptic Analysis of Rodent Social Facial Touch (SP 09)
Project head(s): Prof. Dr. Michael Brecht
Project
DFG Leibniz Prize07/2012 - 06/2021
Leibniz-Prize 2012
Project head(s): Prof. Dr. Michael Brecht
Project
Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space06/2010 - 12/2015
BCCN II: Spikelet Activity and Hippocampal Spatial Representations (SP A2)
Project head(s): Prof. Dr. Michael Brecht
Project
DFG Excellence Initiative Cluster01/2010 - 10/2012
CL: NeuroCure-Kollaboration mit Prof. Alison Barth, Gastaufenthalt im BCCN
Project head(s): Prof. Dr. Michael Brecht
Project
DFG Collaborative Research Centre07/2009 - 06/2017
CRC 665/2: Experience-Dependent Development of Prey Capture and of Higher-Order Cortical Areas in the Etruscan Shrew (SP B10)
Project head(s): Prof. Dr. Michael Brecht
Project
02/2009 - 01/2014
ERC: From Neuron to Behavior (Neuro-Behavior)
Project head(s): Prof. Dr. Michael Brecht
Project
DFG Excellence Initiative Cluster07/2008 - 12/2008
EXC 257/1: Dendric Mechanisms of Neural Plasticity and Episodic Memory Formation in the Mammalian Hippocampus
Project head(s): Prof. Dr. Michael Brecht
Project
01/2008 - 06/2012
EU: BIOmimetic Technology for Vibrissal ACtive Touch (BIOTACT)
Project head(s): Prof. Dr. Michael Brecht
Project
01/2008 - 12/2009
Collaborative Research: CRCNS Data Sharing of Intracellular Recordings from the Neocortex
Project head(s): Prof. Dr. Michael Brecht
Project
10/2006 - 10/2008
Spike choreographie: Role of neuronal dynamics in sensory-motor encodiung and decoding
Project head(s): Prof. Dr. Michael Brecht
Project
Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space09/2004 - 08/2009
Centre for Computational Neuroscience Berlin - Teilprojekt A 1: Investigating sub-millisecond dynamics through single-spike probabilities
Project head(s): Prof. Dr. Michael Brecht
Project
Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space09/2004 - 09/2011
Bernstein Centre for Computational Neuroscience Berlin
Project head(s): Prof. Dr. Michael Brecht

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Research projects

Contrast Agents for Volumetric Analysis of Large, Complex Nervous Systems with X-rays

Midbrain and brainstem of control of vocalizations in neutral and playful contexts

Contrast Agents for Volumetric Analysis of Large, Complex Nervous Systems with X-rays

Reinhardt Koselleck Project: Large Brain Neuroscience in Elephants

CRC 1315/2: A comparative approach to the consolidation of kinship memory (SP A03)

EU: The Neuroscience of Tickling: Cerebellar Mechanisms and Sensory Prediction (NeuroTick)

The Self-Teaching Brain (BrainPlay)

Presubicular Bursting and Visual Anchoring of the Head Direction Signal

EXC 2049: Comprehensive Approaches to Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders “NeuroCure”

Cellular Neuroscience: School of Cognition

CRC 1315/1: Formation and Consolidation of Social Memories in the Ventral Hippocampus (SP A03)

ENCODS 2018, Science & Society Session “Methods of an Embodied Mind”

Winter School Ethics and Neuroscience 2018

Structural, Neural and Mental Underpinnings of Rat Ticklishness

Sex Hormonal Control of the Rat Somatosensory Cortex

Dynamics of Electrically Coupled Neuronal Networks

Intrasurgical stimulation of the human cerebral cortex – from basic physiology to cognition

PP 1665: Delineating and Testing a Microcircuit Model of Parahippocampal Phase Precession

SPACEBRAIN – Structure-Function Relationship in Rodent Presubiculum

PP 1665: Delineating and Testing a Microcircuit Model of Parahippocampal Phase Precession

Event: Bernstein Conference 2016: Registration Fees

RTG 1589/2: Sensory Computation in Neural Systems

The Axonal Code of Information Processing

Untersuchungen zur Eignung von 54-Liter-Standardaquarien zur tierschutzgerechten Pflege von Aquarienfischen

RG 1346/1: Cellular and Synaptic Analysis of Rodent Social Facial Touch (SP 09)

Leibniz-Prize 2012

BCCN II: Spikelet Activity and Hippocampal Spatial Representations (SP A2)

CL: NeuroCure-Kollaboration mit Prof. Alison Barth, Gastaufenthalt im BCCN

CRC 665/2: Experience-Dependent Development of Prey Capture and of Higher-Order Cortical Areas in the Etruscan Shrew (SP B10)

ERC: From Neuron to Behavior (Neuro-Behavior)

EXC 257/1: Dendric Mechanisms of Neural Plasticity and Episodic Memory Formation in the Mammalian Hippocampus

EU: BIOmimetic Technology for Vibrissal ACtive Touch (BIOTACT)

Collaborative Research: CRCNS Data Sharing of Intracellular Recordings from the Neocortex

Spike choreographie: Role of neuronal dynamics in sensory-motor encodiung and decoding

Centre for Computational Neuroscience Berlin - Teilprojekt A 1: Investigating sub-millisecond dynamics through single-spike probabilities

Bernstein Centre for Computational Neuroscience Berlin