Dieter D. Brandner

UMN MSTP student Dieter Brandner

Email: bran0886@umn.edu

Entering Class: 2016

Education:
Whitman College
Biology major, Chemistry minor
B.A., 2013

University of Minnesota
Graduate Program in Neuroscience
Ph.D., 2022

Honors and Awards:

  • Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award for Predoctoral MD/PhD Fellows, National Institute on Drug Abuse, 2020-2024

Thesis Advisors: Patrick Rothwell, Ph.D. and Paul Mermelstein, Ph.D.

 

Publications (pubmed)

Trieu BH, Remmers BC, Toddes C, Brandner DD, Lefevre EM, Kocharian A, Retzlaff CL, Dick RM, Mashal MA, Gauthier EA, Xie W, Zhang Y, More SS, Rothwell PE. Angiotensin-converting enzyme gates brain circuit-specific plasticity via an endogenous opioid. Science. 2022 Mar 11;375(6585):1177-1182.

Toddes C, Lefevre EM, Brandner DD, Zugschwert L, Rothwell PE. ÎĽ-Opioid Receptor (Oprm1) Copy Number Influences Nucleus Accumbens Microcircuitry and Reciprocal Social Behaviors. J Neurosci. 2021 Sep 22;41(38):7965-7977.

Gross KS, Brandner DD, Martinez LA, Olive MF, Meisel RL, Mermelstein PG. Opposite Effects of mGluR1a and mGluR5 Activation on Nucleus Accumbens Medium Spiny Neuron Dendritic Spine Density. PLoS One. 2016 Sep 12;11(9):e0162755. PMCID: PMC5019418.

Work prior to the UMN MSTP:

Bagi Z, Brandner DD, Le P, McNeal DW, Gong X, Dou H, Fulton DJ, Beller A, Ngyuen T, Larson EB, Montine TJ, Keene CD, Back SA. Vasodilator dysfunction and oligodendrocyte dysmaturation in aging white matter. Ann Neurol. 2018 Jan;83(1):142-152. PMCID: PMC5876126

McNeal DW, Brandner DD, Gong X, Postupna NO, Montine TJ, Keene CD, Back SA. Unbiased Stereological Analysis of Reactive Astrogliosis to Estimate Age-Associated Cerebral White Matter Injury. J Neuropathol Exp Neurol. 2016 Jun;75(6):539-54. PMCID: PMC6250206