Curriculum Vitae

Professional Experience and Postdoctoral Training

• 2012 – present Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Pysiology, University of Saarland, Advisor: D. Bruns

Academic Education

• 2007 – 2012 Dr. rer. nat., Biology, University of Saarland, Molecular Neurophysiology, Advisor: D. Bruns

• 2001 – 2006 Studies of Human- and Molecularbiology, Saarland University, Germany

Honours, Awards, Scholarships and Other Qualifications

• 2016 YoungGlia Platinum Awards (2017-2018) together with Hideyuki Nakashima “The role of astrocytic MeCP2 in synaptic transmission”

• 2015 HOMFOR Grant (Funding Nr: T201000777)

Professional Activities, Memberships

• 2017 – 2020 Member of the SPP1757 (together with D. Bruns)

Publications

• Schwarz Y, Zhao N, Kirchhoff F and Bruns D. Astrocytes control synaptic strength by two distinct v-SNARE-dependent release pathways. Nat Neurosci, DOI:10.1038/nn.4647, 2017

• Bröker-Lai J, Kollewe A*, Schindeldecker B*, Pohle J*, Nguyen Chi V*, Mathar I, Guzman R, Schwarz Y, Lai A, Weißgerber P, Schwegler H, Dietrich A, Both M, Sprengel R, Draguhn A, Köhr G, Fakler B, Flockerzi V, Bruns D, Freichel M. Heteromers from TRPC1, TRPC4 and TRPC5 define hippocampal synaptic transmission and working memory. EMBO J 36:2770-2789, 2017. *contributed equally

• Bost A., Shaib AH, Schwarz Y, Niemeyer BA and Becherer U. Large dense core vesicle exocytosis from mouse dorsal root ganglion neurons is regulated by neuropeptide Y. J Neurosci 27: 1-13, 2017.

• Dhara M*, Yarzagaray A*, Schwarz Y, Makke M, Schindeldecker B, Shaaban A, Böckmann R, Sharma S, Lindau M, Mohrmann R, Bruns D. SNARE transmembrane domains function as catalysts for membrane fusion. Elife doi: 10.7554/eLife.17571, 2016. *contributed equally

• Dhara M, Yarzagaray A, Schwarz Y, Dutta S, Grabner C, Kamali Moghadam P, Bost A, Schirra C, Rettig J, Reim K, Brose N, Mohrmann R, Bruns D. Complexin synchronizes primed vesicle exocytosis and regulates fusion pore dynamics. J Cell Biol 204: 1123-1140, 2014.

• Borisovska M, Schwarz YN, Dhara M, Yarzagaray A, Hugo S, Narzi D, Siu SWI, Kesavan J, Mohrmann R, Böckmann RA, Bruns D. Membrane-proximal tryptophans of synaptobrevinII stabilize priming of secretory vesicles. J Neurosci 32:15983-15997, 2012.

• Guzman RE, Schwarz YN, Rettig J, Bruns D. SNARE force synchronizes synaptic vesicle fusion and controls the kinetics of quantal synaptic transmission. J Neurosci 30, 10272-10281, 2010.