Karl Kandler, PhD
Professor, Neurobiology
Ph. D., University of Tübingen (1993)
10016 BST-3
kkarl@pitt.edu, 412-624-8393
Bio
My training started at the University of Regensburg, Germany, where I studied Pharmacy and Biology. After my ‘Vordiplom’ I transitioned to the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen where I also received my PhD training with Dr. Eckhart Friauf in the Dept. of Animal Physiology investigating the development of auditory brainstem circuits. As a graduate student I also spend one year as an exchange student at the University of Colorado, Boulder where I did some research on the predatory behavior of snakes. For my postdoctoral training I moved back to the US to work with Dr. Lawrence Katz at Duke University and the HHMI. During this time, I investigated the organization and development of visual cortex circuits and mechanisms of synaptic plasticity in the hippocampus. In 1998, I started my own lab in the Dept. of Neurobiology at the University of Pittsburgh focusing on the plasticity and development of auditory circuits. From 2007 -2017 I was the director for auditory research in the Dept. of Otolaryngology where I established the auditory research group (here is my full CV and Neurotree). When I am not in the lab I enjoy the outdoors whenever possible and like listening to Jazz (live and recorded).
Affiliations
Department of Bioengineering (BioE)
Center for Neuroscience, University of Pittsburgh (CNUP)
Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition (CNBC)
Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP)
Adjunct Professor, Dept. of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University