Christian Broberger

Professor · Karolinska Institutet · company speakers →

CB graduated under Tomas Hökfelt's supervision in 1999 with a thesis describing the neuroanatomy of brain circuits involved in the regulation of energy metabolism. After finishing his MD training, he then studied the mechanisms whereby the brain switches from sleep to arousal as a postdoc with David McCormick at Yale University. Since 2004 CB runs his own lab at the Dept of Neuroscience dedicated to characterizing the neural networks that underlie motivated states such as defense, feeding and reproduction. His group combines neuroanatomy and electrophysiology to identify how hypothalamic neurones are connected, what their membrane properties are and how they are regulated to enable e.g. hormone release, feeding behaviour and wakefulness. Most recently, the Broberger lab was able to describe a curious oscillatory discharge pattern in hypothalamic dopamine neurons that inhibit prolactin secretion, which may be crucial in the control of lactation. In a separate line of research, CB is studying a novel protein family, the nucleobindings, in pancreatic islets. CB has been awarded the Florman award from the Royal Academy of Sciences (2006) and an ERC Starting grant (2010) and is an inaugural member and vice president of the Young Academy of Sweden.

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