Staiger, Jochen, Prof. Dr.

Professor of Neuroanatomy

1993: Graduation as Dr. med. at the Medical Faculty of the Justus-Liebig-University Giessen; grade: summa cum laude
1994-2000: Post-doc at the C. & O. Vogt-Institute for Brain Research, Düsseldorf, (Head: Prof. Dr. K. Zilles); Leader of the research group „Cortical microcircuits“
2000: Habilitation and Venia legendi for Anatomy at the Medical Faculty of the Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf
2006: Appointment as W3 Univ.-Professor for Cell Biology at the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg
Since 2010: Full professor and director of the Department of Neuroanatomy at the Göttingen of Göttingen

Major Research Interests

Developmental plasticity induced by early postnatal deprivation of sensory stimulation in mice with intact or genetically altered thalamo-cortical projections
Thalamo-cortical interactions as the first stage of cortical information processing
Microcircuits in columnar modules – examining the Bauplan of synaptic connectivity of neocortex
Tactile learning: Genomic regulation of experience-dependent plasticity in the trigeminal somatosensory system