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The Neuro Stem Modulation Consortium comprises 12 research groups within Austria. The consortium is a Special Research Program (SFB) funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF).

Research

The central goal of this consortium is to make significant strides in dissecting the molecular mechanisms that regulate neural progenitors and stem cells in space and time to generate the extensive diversity of neurons found in the central nervous system.

We hypothesise that proper integration of extrinsic signals and changes in the internal state of neural stem cell lineages and neuronal subtypes are critical for the establishment of neural circuits and a functional nervous system. We aim to characterise the mechanisms that regulate temporal identity in neural stem cells and analyse how they are modulated by extrinsic factors and during regeneration.