{"id":8969,"date":"2019-07-12T14:56:56","date_gmt":"2019-07-12T12:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.leibniz-bildung.de\/?post_type=nachwuchsfoerderung&#038;p=8969"},"modified":"2025-08-28T10:01:41","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T08:01:41","slug":"synage-graduate-programme","status":"publish","type":"nachwuchsfoerderung","link":"https:\/\/www.leibniz-bildung.de\/en\/about-us\/academic-career\/synage-graduate-programme\/","title":{"rendered":"SynAGE Graduate Program"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Research Training Group 2413 \u201cSynAGE\u201d at the Otto von Guericke University (<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"OVGU (\u00f6ffnet in neuem Tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uni-magdeburg.de\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\">OVGU<\/a>), the Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.leibniz-bildung.de\/en\/about-us\/network-partners\/lin\/\">LIN<\/a>) and the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"DZNE (\u00f6ffnet in neuem Tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dzne.de\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\">DZNE<\/a>), Magdeburg, Germany offers PhD positions for talented, skilled, and highly motivated students of the Life Sciences. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"target-group\">Target Group<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>PhD students<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"objectives\">Objectives<br><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The innovative research program of RTG2413 SynAGE deals with the idea that cognitive decline in normal aging results from subtle synaptic alterations that impart an imbalance between stability and plastic properties of spine synapses and that is qualitatively different from neurodegeneration. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"theme-focus\">Theme Focus<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>altered synaptic proteostasis <\/li><li>dysfunctions of the immune system <\/li><li>altered functionality of the multipartite synapse<\/li><li>changes in neuromodulation <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"activites\">Activites<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Various research laboratories<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"funding-organizations\">Funding Organizations<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>German Research Foundation (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dfg.de\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">DFG<\/a>) with funds from the federal republic of Germany<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-8969","nachwuchsfoerderung","type-nachwuchsfoerderung","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leibniz-bildung.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/nachwuchsfoerderung\/8969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leibniz-bildung.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/nachwuchsfoerderung"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leibniz-bildung.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/nachwuchsfoerderung"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leibniz-bildung.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/www.leibniz-bildung.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/nachwuchsfoerderung\/8969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83284,"href":"https:\/\/www.leibniz-bildung.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/nachwuchsfoerderung\/8969\/revisions\/83284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leibniz-bildung.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}