Prof. Dr. Gemma Mazzuoli-Weber
Work experience
May 2017
Nominated Professor at the Institute for Physiology and Cell Biology of the University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Foundation, leading the Working group Neurogastroenterology
April 2016
Abilitation in Physiology. Chair of Human Biologie, Technical University Munich (TUM). Title: “Sensory transmission in the enteric nervous system”
January 2009 - April 2017
Postdoc at the chair of Human Biology, TUM. Maternity leave: January – October 2014 and November 2016 - April 2017
January 2006 - Dicember 2008
PhD student at the Anatomical Institut of the faculty of Veterinary Medicine of the Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna (Italy)
Education
May 2016
German offical license to practice veterinary medicine (Approbation)
January 2012
Italian offical license to practice veterinary medicine
April 2009
PhD from the Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna (Italy)
Title of the thesis: “Mechanosensitivity in the myenteric plexus of the guinea pig ileum”
March 2005
“European Specialist” in Veterinary Medicine (Dr. med. vet.) from the faculty of Veterinary Medicine of the Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna (Italy).
Title of the Thesis: “Cytoarchitecture, morphology, and lumbosacral spinal cord projections of the red nucleus in the cattle”. Votation 109/110
September 1998 bis March 2005
Student of Veterinary Medicine at the faculty of Veterinary Medicine of the Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna (Italy).
Funded projects
German Research Foundation (DFG)
MA 5202/1-1, MA 5202/1-2:
Mechanosensitivity in the enteric nervous system
German Research Foundation
GRK 1482
Interface functions of the intestine between luminal factors and host signals
National Institutes of Health
1OT2OD024899-01
Comprehensive Structural and Functional Mapping of Mammalian Colonic Nervous System
German Research Foundation (DFG)
MA MA 5202/5-1
Intrinsic sensory-motor circuits regulating gastric motility
EPAA Refinement Prize 2019
Yvonne Armbrecht, our animal caretaker, won the Refinement Prize 2019 of the European Partnership for Alternative Approaches to Animal Testing (EPAA), which is leader in the replacement, reduction and refinement (3Rs) of testing on animals.