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Janina Kaspar

Student

Department of Psychiatry/Center for Organoid Systems- Technical University of Munich

Educational background

2023-present Technical University of Munich, Germany
Department of Psychiatry/Center for Organoid Systems PhD Student in the group of Prof. Simon Schäfer
2022 Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, USA
Internship in the group of Prof. Fred (Rusty) Gage
2019 –2022 University of Heidelberg, Germany
M.Sc. Molecular Biosciences, Major in Neuroscience
2016 – 2019
University of Bonn, Germany
B.Sc. Molecular Biomedicine

Scholarships

2022 Promos scholarship supporting the internship at the Salk Institute

Publications:

Weigel B, Tegethoff JF, Grieder SD, Lim B, Nagarajan B, Liu YC, Truberg J, Papageorgiou D, Adrian-Segarra JM, Schmidt LK, Kaspar J, … & Mall M. MYT1L haploinsufficiency in human neurons and mice causes autism-associated phenotypes that can be reversed by genetic and pharmacologic intervention. Mol Psychiatry. 2023 May;28. doi: 10.1038/s41380-023-01959-7.

Gubinelli, F., Salazar, J.M., Kaspar, J., Ortiz, I.S., Schafer, S.T., Burbulla, L.F. (2025). Translational View on Therapeutic Strategies and Upcoming Issues: Stem Cell and Brain Organoid Approaches for Parkinson’s Disease Therapy. In: Groppa, S., Schneider, S.A. (eds) Translational Methods for Parkinson’s Disease and Atypical Parkinsonism Research. Neuromethods, vol 213. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-4083-8_17