The second guest in our series "Nobel Laureates at TU Dresden" 2019 is Thomas Südhof, Nobel Laureate for Medicine or Physiology 2013. In his public talk entitled "How Synapses Are Made" he will take the audience on a journey to one of the most important transport systems of our cells, the synapses: start 6pm at the Audimax of TU Dresden.

The biochemist was looking for the substances driving the molecular machinery of the synapses. He aimed to understand how and why the synaptic vesicles release the messenger substances they contain at the right point of time. Südhof found Calcium ions triggering chain reactions inside the cells, ending up in the vesicles setting free the neurotransmitters into the neighboring cell. Südhof found these processes and many of the proteins included by the synergy of various contemporary molecular biological and electrophysiological methods, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2013 together with Randy W. Schekman and James E. Rothman. Medicine owes him a profound base for the research on diseases with failures in nerve cells, such as schizophrenia, depressions or diabetes. Since 2008, Südhof has been Professor for Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Neurology, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University.

We are looking forward to an exciting lecture, to which everyone interested is cordially welcome.

More information and registration at https://tu-dresden.de/mn/nobel