Address: AG Neurosensorik/Animal Navigation, IBU, University of Oldenburg, P/O Box 5634, 26046 Oldenburg Germany.

Phone: +49 (0) 441 798 3425; Fax: +49 441 798 3620

Email:

Publications: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=dedek+k

Google Scholar entry: scholar.google.de/citations?user=-DuVLx4AAAAJ&hl=de

Research interests: see here

Higher Education and Professional Experience

Since 10/2015

Senior Researcher in the Neurosensorics / Animal Navigation group, University of Oldenburg

04/2015

Appointment as apl. Professor at the University of Oldenburg

10/2010

Venia Legendi and Habilitation in Neuroscience, University of Oldenburg 

2006-2007

Visiting Fellow in the lab of Prof. Sheila Nirenberg at Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY, USA

2003-2015

Postdoctoral Fellow, Neurobiology group (Prof. Reto Weiler) at the University of Oldenburg (permanent position; from 2010 to 2015 deputy head of the group)

1999-2003

Doctoral Student in the lab of Prof. Thomas J. Jentsch, University of Hamburg. Thesis title: Charakterisierung von KCNQ-Kaliumkanälen und ihren beta-Untereinheiten. Thesis defense at the University of Oldenburg.

1992-1998

Study of Biology at the University of Oldenburg, Diploma Biology

Selected Activities

2022

Designated Reviewing Editor for The Journal of Physiology

Since 2021

Principal Investigator in the ERA-Net Neuron grant Gap junctions serve to distribute health-signals among neurons of the diseased retina

2020              

Listed on the TOP LIST of Excellent Women in European Vision Research and Ophthalmology 2021

Since 2019    

Principal Investigator and Board member in Collaborative Research Center Magnetoreception and Navigation in Vertebrates

2016 - 2019    

Principal Investigator in Innovative Training Network switchBoard (Marie Curie Action)

2015 - 2022   

Reviewing Editor for Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience

Since 2013     

Principal Investigator in DFG Research Training group “Molecular basis of sensory biology” (GRK 1885/1 and GRK1885/2)