Portrait Noa Lipstein

Dr.

Noa Lipstein

Born in Israel, Noa completed her Bachelor studies at the Tel Aviv University. Her PhD project developed into a collaboration between the Dr. Uri Ashery lab and the laboratory of Prof. Nils Brose at the Max Planck Institute of Experimental Medicine in Göttingen, combining mouse genetics and electrophysiology to study synaptic signaling pathways that control short-term synaptic plasticity. As a postdoc she continued these studies and in addition characterized a new inborn brain disorder associated with variations in the UNC13A gene. Since 2020 she leads the Junior Research Group ‘Synapse Biology’ at the FMP.

Molecular Physiology & Cell Biology


Lipstein Group


FMP

Number and relative abundance of synaptic vesicles in functionally distinct priming states determine synaptic strength and short‐term plasticity

  • Kun‐Han Lin; Mrinalini Ranjan; Noa Lipstein; Nils Brose; Erwin Neher; Holger Taschenberger

The Journal of Physiology 2025

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Pathogenic UNC13A variants cause a neurodevelopmental syndrome by impairing synaptic function

  • Reza Asadollahi; Aisha Ahmad; Paranchai Boonsawat; Jasmine Shahanoor Hinzen; Mareike Lohse; Boris Bouazza-Arostegui; Siqi Sun; Tillmann Utesch; Jonas D. Sommer; Dragana Ilic; Murugesh Padmanarayana; Kati Fischermanns; Mrinalini Ranjan; Moritz Boll; Chandran Ka; Amélie Piton; Francesca Mattioli; Bertrand Isidor; Katrin Õunap; Karit Reinson; Monica H. Wojcik; Christian R. Marshall; Saadet Mercimek-Andrews; Naomichi Matsumoto; Noriko Miyake; Bruno de Oliveira Stephan; Rachel Sayuri Honjo; Debora R. Bertola; Chong Ae Kim; Roman Yusupov; Heather C. Mefford; John Christodoulou; Joy Lee; Oliver Heath; Natasha J. Brown; Naomi Baker; Zornitza Stark; Martin Delatycki; Nicole J. Lake; Shimriet Zeidler; Linda Zuurbier; Saskia M. Maas; Chris C. de Kruiff; Farrah Rajabi; Lance H. Rodan; Stephanie A. Coury; Konrad Platzer; Henry Oppermann; Rami Abou Jamra; Skadi Beblo; Caroline Maxton

Nature Genetics 2025

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Proximity labelling reveals the compartmental proteome of murine sensory neurons

  • Julia R Sondermann; Allison M Barry; Feng Xian; Thomas Haberl; David Gomez-Varela; Fritz Benseler; Dietmar Schreiner; Nils Brose; Noa Lipstein; Manuela Schmidt
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Ca2+-phospholipid–dependent regulation of Munc13-1 is essential for post-tetanic potentiation at mossy fiber synapses and supports working memory

  • Francisco José López-Murcia; Dilja Krueger-Burg; Sally Wenger; Tania López-Hernández; Noa Lipstein; Holger Taschenberger; Nils Brose
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Mapping genomic loci implicates genes and synaptic biology in schizophrenia

  • Trubetskoy, Vassily; Pardinas, Antonio F.; Qi, Ting; Panagiotaropoulou, Georgia; Awasthi, Swapnil; Bigdeli, Tim B.; Bryois, Julien; Chen, Chia-Yen; Dennison, Charlotte A.; Hall, Lynsey S.; Lam, Max; Watanabe, Kyoko; Frei, Oleksandr; Ge, Tian; Harwood, Janet C.; Koopmans, Frank; Magnusson, Sigurdur; Richards, Alexander L.; Sidorenko, Julia; Wu, Yang; Zeng, Jian; Grove, Jakob; Kim, Minsoo; Li, Zhiqiang; Voloudakis, Georgios; Zhang, Wen; Adams, Mark; Agartz, Ingrid; Atkinson, Elizabeth G.; Agerbo, Esben; Al Eissa, Mariam; Albus, Margot; Alexander, Madeline; Alizadeh, Behrooz Z.; Alptekin, Koksal; Als, Thomas D.; Amin, Farooq; Arolt, Volker; Arrojo, Manuel; Athanasiu, Lavinia; Azevedo, Maria Helena; Bacanu, Silviu A.; Bass, Nicholas J.; Begemann, Martin; Belliveau, Richard A.; Bene, Judit; Benyamin, Beben; Bergen, Sarah E.; Blasi, Giuseppe; Bobes, Julio; Bonassi, Stefano; Braun, Alice; Bressan, Rodrigo Affonseca; Bromet, Evelyn J.; Bruggeman, Richard; Buckley, Peter F.; Buckner, Randy L.; Bybjerg-Grauholm, Jonas; Cahn, Wiepke; Cairns, Murray J.; Calkins, Monica E.; Carr, Vaughan J.; Castle, David; Catts, Stanley, V; Chambert, Kimberley D.; Chan, Raymond C. K.; Chaumette, Boris; Cheng, Wei; Cheung, Eric F. C.; Chong, Siow Ann; Cohen, David; Consoli, Angele; Cordeiro, Quirino; Costas, Javier; Curtis, Charles; Davidson, Michael; Davis, Kenneth L.; de Haan, Lieuwe; Degenhardt, Franziska; DeLisi, Lynn E.; Demontis, Ditte; Dickerson, Faith; Dikeos, Dimitris; Dinan, Timothy; Djurovic, Srdjan; Duan, Jubao; Ducci, Giuseppe; Dudbridge, Frank; Eriksson, Johan G.; Fananas, Lourdes; Faraone, Stephen, V; Fiorentino, Alessia; Forstner, Andreas; Frank, Josef; Freimer, Nelson B.; Fromer, Menachem; Frustaci, Alessandra; Gadelha, Ary; Genovese, Giulio; Gershon, Elliot S.; Giannitelli, Marianna; Giegling, Ina; Giusti-Rodriguez, Paola; Godard, Stephanie; Goldstein, Jacqueline, I; Penas, Javier Gonzalez; Gonzalez-Pinto, Ana; Gopal, Srihari; Gratten, Jacob; Green, Michael F.; Greenwood, Tiffany A.; Guillin, Olivier; Guloksuz, Sinan; Gur, Raquel E.; Gur, Ruben C.; Gutierrez, Blanca; Hahn, Eric; Hakonarson, Hakon; Haroutunian, Vahram; Hartmann, Annette M.; Harvey, Carol; Hayward, Caroline; Henskens, Frans A.; Herms, Stefan; Hoffmann, Per; Howrigan, Daniel P.; Ikeda, Masashi; Iyegbe, Conrad; Joa, Inge; Julia, Antonio; Kahler, Anna K.; Kam-Thong, Tony; Kamatani, Yoichiro; Karachanak-Yankova, Sena; Kebir, Oussama; Keller, Matthew C.; Kelly, Brian J.; Khrunin, Andrey; Kim, Sung-Wan; Klovins, Janis; Kondratiev, Nikolay; Konte, Bettina; Kraft, Julia; Kubo, Michiaki; Kucinskas, Vaidutis; Kucinskiene, Zita Ausrele; Kusumawardhani, Agung; A-Ptackova, Hana Kuzelov; Landi, Stefano; Lazzeroni, Laura C.; Lee, Phil H.; Legge, Sophie E.; Lehrer, Douglas S.; Lencer, Rebecca; Lerer, Bernard; Li, Miaoxin; Lieberman, Jeffrey; Light, Gregory A.; Limborska, Svetlana; Liu, Chih-Min; Lonnqvist, Jouko; Loughland, Carmel M.; Lubinski, Jan; Luykx, Jurjen J.; Lynham, Amy; Macek, Milan, Jr.; Mackinnon, Andrew; Magnusson, Patrik K. E.; Maher, Brion S.; Maier, Wolfgang; Malaspina, Dolores; Mallet, Jacques; Marder, Stephen R.; Marsal, Sara; Martin, Alicia R.; Martorell, Lourdes; Mattheisen, Manuel; McCarley, Robert W.; McDonald, Colm; McGrath, John J.; Medeiros, Helena; Meier, Sandra; Melegh, Bela; Melle, Ingrid; Mesholam-Gately, Raquelle, I; Metspalu, Andres; Michie, Patricia T.; Milani, Lili; Milanova, Vihra; Mitjans, Marina; Molden, Espen; Molina, Esther; Molto, Maria Dolores; Mondelli, Valeria; Moreno, Carmen; Morley, Christopher P.; Muntane, Gerard; Murphy, Kieran C.; Myin-Germeys, Inez; Nenadic, Igor; Nestadt, Gerald; Nikitina-Zake, Liene; Noto, Cristiano; Nuechterlein, Keith H.; O'Brien, Niamh Louise; O'Neill, F. Anthony; Oh, Sang-Yun; Olincy, Ann; Ota, Vanessa Kiyomi; Pantelis, Christos; Papadimitriou, George N.; Parellada, Mara; Paunio, Tiina; Pellegrino, Renata; Periyasamy, Sathish; Perkins, Diana O.; Pfuhlmann, Bruno; Pietilainen, Olli; Pimm, Jonathan; Porteous, David; Powell, John; Quattrone, Diego; Quested, Digby; Radant, Allen D.; Rampino, Antonio; Rapaport, Mark H.; Rautanen, Anna; Reichenberg, Abraham; Roe, Cheryl; Roffman, Joshua L.; Roth, Julian; Rothermundt, Matthias; Rutten, Bart P. F.; Saker-Delye, Safaa; Salomaa, Veikko; Sanjuan, Julio; Santoro, Marcos Leite; Savitz, Adam; Schall, Ulrich; Scott, Rodney J.; Seidman, Larry J.; Sharp, Sally Isabel; Shi, Jianxin; Siever, Larry J.; Sigurdsson, Engilbert; Sim, Kang; Skarabis, Nora; Slominsky, Petr; So, Hon-Cheong; Sobell, Janet L.; Soderman, Erik; Stain, Helen J.; Steen, Nils Eiel; Steixner-Kumar, Agnes A.; Stogmann, Elisabeth; Stone, William S.; Straub, Richard E.; Streit, Fabian; Strengman, Eric; Stroup, T. Scott; Subramaniam, Mythily; Sugar, Catherine A.; Suvisaari, Jaana; Svrakic, Dragan M.; Swerdlow, Neal R.; Szatkiewicz, Jin P.; Thi Minh Tam Ta; Takahashi, Atsushi; Terao, Chikashi; Thibaut, Florence; Toncheva, Draga; Tooney, Paul A.; Torretta, Silvia; Tosato, Sarah; Tura, Gian Battista; Turetsky, Bruce, I; Ucok, Alp; Vaaler, Arne; van Amelsvoort, Therese; van Winkel, Ruud; Veijola, Juha; Waddington, John; Walter, Henrik; Waterreus, Anna; Webb, Bradley T.; Weiser, Mark; Williams, Nigel M.; Witt, Stephanie H.; Wormley, Brandon K.; Wu, Jing Qin; Xu, Zhida; Yolken, Robert; Zai, Clement C.; Zhou, Wei; Zhu, Feng; Zimprich, Fritz; Ayub, Muhammad; Benner, Christian; Bertolino, Alessandro; Black, Donald W.; Bray, Nicholas J.; Breen, Gerome; Buccola, Nancy G.; Byerley, William F.; Chen, Wei J.; Cloninger, C. Robert; Crespo-Facorro, Benedicto; Donohoe, Gary; Freedman, Robert; Galletly, Cherrie; Gandal, Michael J.; Gennarelli, Massimo; Hougaard, David M.; Hwu, Hai-Gwo; Jablensky, Assen, V; McCarroll, Steven A.; Moran, Jennifer L.; Mors, Ole; Mortensen, Preben B.; Muller-Myhsok, Bertram; Neil, Amanda L.; Nordentoft, Merete; Pato, Michele T.; Petryshen, Tracey L.; Pirinen, Matti; Pulver, Ann E.; Schulze, Thomas G.; Silverman, Jeremy M.; Smoller, Jordan W.; Stahl, Eli A.; Tsuang, Debby W.; Vilella, Elisabet; Wang, Shi-Heng; Xu, Shuhua; Adolfsson, Rolf; Arango, Celso; Baune, Bernhard T.; Belangero, Sintia Iole; Borglum, Anders D.; Braff, David; Bramon, Elvira; Buxbaum, Joseph D.; Campion, Dominique; Cervilla, Jorge A.; Cichon, Sven; Collier, David A.; Corvin, Aiden; Curtis, David; Di Forti, Marta; Domenici, Enrico; Ehrenreich, Hannelore; Escott-Price, Valentina; Esko, Tonu; Fanous, Ayman H.; Gareeva, Anna; Gawlik, Micha; Gejman, Pablo, V; Gill, Michael; Glatt, Stephen J.; Golimbet, Vera; Hong, Kyung Sue; Hultman, Christina M.; Hyman, Steven E.; Iwata, Nakao; Jonsson, Erik G.; Kahn, Rene S.; Kennedy, James L.; Khusnutdinova, Elza; Kirov, George; Knowles, James A.; Krebs, Marie-Odile; Laurent-Levinson, Claudine; Lee, Jimmy; Lencz, Todd; Levinson, Douglas F.; Li, Qingqin S.; Liu, Jianjun; Malhotra, Anil K.; Malhotra, Dheeraj; McIntosh, Andrew; McQuillin, Andrew; Menezes, Paulo R.; Morgan, Vera A.; Morris, Derek W.; Mowry, Bryan J.; Murray, Robin M.; Nimgaonkar, Vishwajit; Nothen, Markus M.; Ophoff, Roel A.; Paciga, Sara A.; Palotie, Aarno; Pato, Carlos N.; Qin, Shengying; Rietschel, Marcella; Riley, Brien P.; Rivera, Margarita; Rujescu, Dan; Saka, Meram C.; Sanders, Alan R.; Schwab, Sibylle G.; Serretti, Alessandro; Sham, Pak C.; Shi, Yongyong; St Clair, David; Stefansson, Hreinn; Stefansson, Kari; Tsuang, Ming T.; van Os, Jim; Vawter, Marquis P.; Weinberger, Daniel R.; Werge, Thomas; Wildenauer, Dieter B.; Yu, Xin; Yue, Weihua; Holmans, Peter A.; Pocklington, Andrew J.; Roussos, Panos; Vassos, Evangelos; Verhage, Matthijs; Visscher, Peter M.; Yang, Jian; Posthuma, Danielle; Andreassen, Ole A.; Kendler, Kenneth S.; Owen, Michael J.; Wray, Naomi R.; Daly, Mark J.; Huang, Hailiang; Neale, Benjamin M.; Sullivan, Patrick F.; Ripke, Stephan; Walters, James T. R.; O'Donovan, Michael C.; Jung, Hwajin; Kim, Eunjoon

Nature Reviews Bioengineering 2022

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Mechanism underlying a risk gene in neurodegeneration

  • Lipstein, Noa

Nature 2022

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Molecular and functional architecture of striatal dopamine release sites

  • Banerjee, Aditi; Imig, Cordelia; Balakrishnan, Karthik; Kershberg, Lauren; Lipstein, Noa; Uronen, Riikka-Liisa; Wang, Jiexin; Cai, Xintong; Benseler, Fritz; Rhee, Jeong Seop; Cooper, Benjamin H.; Liu, Changliang; Wojcik, Sonja M.; Brose, Nils; Kaeser, Pascal S.

Neuron 2022

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Phorbolester-activated Munc13-1 and ubMunc13-2 exert opposing effects on dense-core vesicle secretion

  • Houy, Sebastien; Martins, Joana S.; Lipstein, Noa; Sorensen, Jakob Balslev

eLife 2022

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