Maike Glitsch

Maike Glitsch read Biological Sciences at Giessen (prelims) and Goettingen (Diplom, PhD). She became interested in the regulation of synaptic transmission when carrying out research for her Diploma thesis (Masters thesis equivalent) in Professor Erwin Neher’s Department at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry and followed this up with her PhD, working in the same department under Drs Alain Marty and Isabel Llano, looking at the regulation of inhibitory synaptic transmission in brain slices using electrophysiology and fluorescence Ca2+ imaging.

Following her PhD, Dr Glitsch moved to the then University Laboratories of Physiology (today: Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics) on an HFSP Long Term Fellowship to work in the laboratory of Professor Julian Jack. She gained her independence with a Dorothy Hodgkin Royal Society Fellowship, was a Junior Research Fellow at St Anne’s College and became Director of Studies in Physiology (the old Biomedical Sciences Course) at St Catherine’s College.