Biography
Markus Dittrich (contractor) serves as NEI acting scientific information officer. Before joining NEI, Markus was the director of the Biomedical Applications Group at Carnegie Mellon University’s Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center and the principal investigators of a computational neuroscience lab conducting research in synaptic structure and function. He completed postdoctoral fellowships at Carnegie Mellon University in computational neuroscience and at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC) in computational biophysics. He earned his doctorate in physics at UIUC using molecular modeling approaches to study enzyme function.
Selected publications
- A.E. Homan, R. Laghaei, M. Dittrich, S.D. Meriney, “Impact of spatiotemporal calcium dynamics within presynaptic active zones on synaptic delay at the frog neuromuscular junction,“ J Neurophysiol 119(2):688-699 (2018)
- M. Dittrich, A.E. Homan, S.D. Meriney, “Presynaptic mechanisms controlling calcium-triggered transmitter release at the neuromuscular junction,“ Curr Opin Physiol, 4:15-24 (2018)
- J. Ma, L. Kelly, J. Ingram, T.J. Price, S.D. Meriney, M. Dittrich, “New insights into short-term synaptic facilitation at the frog neuromuscular junction”, J. Neurophysiol, 113:71-87 (2015)
- M. Dittrich, J. M. Pattillo, J.D. King, S. Cho, J. R. Stiles, and S.D. Meriney “An excess-calcium-binding-site model predicts neurotransmitter release at the neuromuscular junction.”, Biophysical Journal, 104, 2751-2763 (2013)
- M. Dittrich, S. Hayashi, and K. Schulten, “ATP hydrolysis in the βTP and βDP catalytic sites of F1-ATPase,” Biophysical Journal 87, 2954 (2004)
- M. Dittrich, S. Hayashi, and K. Schulten, “On the mechanism of ATP hydrolysis in F1-ATPase,” Biophysical Journal 85, 2253 (2003)