Research Areas

* neurophysiology of pain
* animal models of pain
* synaptic plasticity
* neuro-immune interaction

Research population

*rats and mice

Research methods

* fMRI
* whole-cell patch-clamp
* optogenetic
* in vivo Ca2+ recording
* immuno-histochemistry

Selected Publications

ML Kloc*, B Pradier*, AM Chirila, JA Kauer. „NMDA receptor activation induces long-term
potentiation of glycine synapses”. PLOS ONE (2019) *contributed equally

B Pradier, SJ McCormick, AC Tsuda, RW Chen, AL Atkinson, MR Westrick, CL Buckholtz, JA
Kauer. “Properties of neurons in the superficial laminae of trigeminal nucleus caudalis”.
Physiological Reports (2019)

B. Pradier, HB Shin, DS Kim, R St Laurent, D Lipscombe, JA Kauer. „Long-term depression
induced by optogenetically driven nociceptive inputs to trigeminal nucleus or headache triggers”. Journal of Neuroscience (2018)

B. Pradier, K. Lanning, K.T. Taljan, C.J. Feuille, M.A. Nagy, J.A. Kauer. „Persistent but labile
synaptic plasticity at excitatory synapses”. Journal of Neuroscience (2018)

B. Pradier, E. Erxlebe, A. Markert, I. Rácz. “Microglial IL-1β progressively increases with
duration of alcohol consumption”. Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's Archives of Pharmacology (2018)

Academic CV

since 2019        Post-Doc at the Dpts. of Radiology and Anesthesiology, University of Münster

2015 - 2019      Post-Doc at Brown University, RI, USA

2010 - 2015      Dissertation at the Institute of Molecular Psychiatry, University of Bonn

2004 - 2010      Studies of Biology at the University of Bonn

Honours and Awards

2020 - 2023     IMF Research Grant

2019                  DFG Returner Grant

2017 - 2019    DFG Postdoctoral Research Grant

2017                 Scholarship Award, American Headache Society