

Beckervordersandforth Lab
Astrocyte Diversity and Dynamics
Felix Beyer

BIOGRAPHY:
2019 - 2023 Postdoctoral fellow, Institute of Biochemistry, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
2014 – 2019 PhD student, Neurology, University of Düsseldorf
2008 – 2014 Biology (Bachelor and Master of Science), Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf
PUBLICATIONS:
Stüfchen, I., Beyer, F., Staebler, S., Fischer, S., Kappelmann, M., Beckervordersandforth, R., & Bosserhoff, A. K. (2023). Sox9 regulates melanocytic fate decision of adult hair follicle stem cells. Iscience, 26(6). doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2023.106919
Stüfchen, I., Beckervordersandforth, R., Fischer, S., Kappelmann‐Fenzl, M., Bosserhoff, A. K., & Beyer, F. (2022). Two novel CreERT2 transgenic mouse lines to study melanocytic cells in vivo. Pigment Cell & Melanoma Research, 35(6), 613-621. doi: 10.1111/pcmr.13061
Karpf, J., Unichenko, P., Chalmers, N., Beyer, F., Wittmann, M. T., Schneider, J., ... & Beckervordersandforth, R. (2022). Dentate gyrus astrocytes exhibit layer-specific molecular, morphological and physiological features. Nature Neuroscience, 1-13. doi: 10.1038/s41593-022-01192-5
Beyer, F., Lüdje, W., Karpf, J., Saher, G., & Beckervordersandforth, R. (2021). Distribution of Aldh1L1-CreERT2 Recombination in Astrocytes Versus Neural Stem Cells in the Neurogenic Niches of the Adult Mouse Brain. Frontiers in neuroscience, 15, 713077. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2021.713077
Beyer, F.*, Jadasz J.*, Samper Agrelo I., Schira-Heinen J., Groh J., Manousi A., Bütermann C., Estrada V., Reiche L., Cantone M., Vera J., Viganò F., Dimou L., Müller H.W., Hartung H.P. and Küry P. (2020) Heterogeneous fate choice of genetically modulated adult neural stem cells in grey and white matter of the central nervous system. Glia. 2020 Feb;68(2):393-406. doi: 10.1002/glia.23724. Epub 2019 Oct 21.
Lerchundi R.*, Kafitz K.W.*, Färfers M., Beyer F., Huang N., Rose C.R. (2019) Imaging of Intracellular ATP in Organotypic Tissue Slices of the Mouse Brain Using the FRET-Based Sensor ATeam1.03YEMK. J Vis Exp. 2019 Dec 19;(154). doi: 10.3791/60294
Cantone, M., Küspert, M., Reiprich, S., Lai, X., Eberhardt, M., Göttle, P., Beyer, F., Azim, K., Küry, P., Wegner, M., Vera, J. (2019) A gene regulatory architecture that controls region-independent dynamics of oligodendrocyte differentiation. Glia. 2019;1-19. doi.org/10.1002/glia.23569
Beyer, F.*, Samper Agrelo, I.*, Küry, P. (2019) Do Neural Stem Cells Have a Choice? Heterogenic Outcome of Cell Fate Acquisition in Different Injury Models. Int J Mol Sci. 2019 Jan 21;20(2). pii: E455. doi: 10.3390/ijms20020455
Jadasz, J, Tepe L., Beyer, F., Samper-Agrelo, I., Akkermann, R., Spitzhorn, L., Silva, M.E., Oreffo, R., Hartung, H.P., Prigione, A., Rivera, F.J., Adjaye, J., and Küry, P. (2018) Human mesenchymal factors induce rat hippocampal- and human neural stem cell dependent oligodendrogenesis. Glia. 2018 Jan;66(1):145-160. doi: 10.1002/glia.23233. Epub 2017 Sep 22
Akkermann, R.*, Beyer, F.*, Küry, P.* (2017) Heterogeneous populations of neural stem cells contribute to myelin repair. Neural Reg Res. 2017 Apr;12(4):509-517. doi: 10.4103/1673-5374.204999.
Beyer, F., and Küry, P. (2015) Novel approaches towards the development of peripheral nerve regenerative therapies. Neural Reg. Res. 10(11): 1743-1745. doi: 10.4103/1673-5374.170298
Beyer, F., & Küry, P. (2015). Novel approaches for the development of peripheral nerve regenerative therapies. Neural Regeneration Research, 10(11), 1743. doi: 10.4103/1673-5374.170298
Heinen, A.*, Beyer, F.*, Tzekova, N., Hartung, H.P., Küry, P. (2015) Fingolimod induces the transition to a nerve regeneration promoting Schwann cell phenotype. Exp Neurol. 271:25-35.
doi: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2015.05.002
Illes, S., Jakab, M., Beyer, F., Gelfert, R., Couillard-Despres, S., Schnitzler, A., Ritter, M. and Aigner, L. (2014) Intrinsically active and pacemaker neurons in pluripotent stem cell-derived neuronal populations. Stem Cell Reports 20;2(3):323-36. doi: 10.1016/j.stemcr.2014.01.006
(* authors contributed equally)

