Anthi Krontira 
Institute of Stem Cell research, Stem Cell Center, Helmholtz Center Munich & Division of Physiological Genomics, LMU, Munich
Title
Stress hormones during pregnancy, the evolutionary expansion of the mammalian cortex and neuropsychiatric phenotypes
Abstract
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Biosketch
I am Anthi Krontira and I am currently a postdoctoral fellow with Magdalena Götz in Munich. I did my BSc in Biology and my MSc in Biomedical Sciences in Greece, my master thesis was on mesothelioma a type of cancer affecting the pleura that surrounds the lungs, and then moved to the University of Vienna at the department of Neurobiology for a research internship on the development of the olfactory system in Drosophila melanogaster. I did my PhD with Elisabeth Binder at the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry at the crossroads of stress biology, psychiatric genetics and neurodevelopment using mice and cerebral organoids, which was awarded in November 2022. I joined the ISF and the group of Magdalena Götz in May 2023 as a postdoctoral researcher and have been working on various projects all concerning the prolongation of cortical neurogenesis of glutamatergic projection neurons. I was awarded a Klaus Tschira Boost Fund grant in April 2025, a grant for innovative ideas and promising future scientists and a DFG EpiAdapt grant together with Magdalena for studying histone methylation control of the neurogenesis to gliogenesis switch.
