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Assoc.Prof Pollak Daniela

2013 \"Top 35 under 35\" (FWF)
2011 ?Dr. Maria Schaumayer- Foundation?, Award for habilitation thesis
2010 Prize of the City of Vienna for Achievements in Science
Förderpreis der Stadt Wien für die Wissenschaft)
2009 \"OTTO-LOEWI Award\" for excellent scientific achievements in the neurosciences,
awarded by The Austrian Neuroscience Organization (ANA)
2005 ?Dr. Maria Schaumayer- Foundation?, Award for doctoral thesis
2002, 2001 ?Student Excellency?Award University of Veterinarian Medicine Vienna, Austria

Ten most important scientific publications (* corresponding author)

[1] Pollak DD, Monje FJ, Zuckerman L, Denny CA, Drew MR, Kandel ER. An animal model of a behavioral intervention for depression. Neuron. 2008 Oct 9;60(1):149-61.
[2] Pollak DD, Rogan MT, Egner T, Perez DL, Yanagihara TK, Hirsch J. A translational bridge be-tween mouse and human models of learned safety. Ann Med. 2010 Mar;42(2):115-22.
[3] Pollak DD, Monje FJ, Lubec G. The learned safety paradigm as a mouse model for neuropsychi-atric research. Nat Protoc.2010 5(5):954-62.
[4] Pollak DD*, Rey CE, Monje FJ. Rodent models in depression research: Classical strategies and new directions. Ann Med. 2010 May 6;42(4):252-64.
[5] Monje FJ, Kim EJ, Cabatic M, Lubec G, Herkner KR, Pollak DD*. A role for glucocorticoid-signaling in depression-like behavior of gastrin-releasing peptide recteptor knock-out mice. Ann Med. 2011 Aug;43(5):389-402.
[6] Monje FJ, Cabatic M, Divisch I, Kim EJ, Herkner KR, Binder BR, Pollak DD*. Constant darkness induces IL-6 dependent depression-like behavior through the NF?B signaling pathway. J Neurosci 2011 June 22;31(25): 9075-9083
[7] Levine A, Huang Y, Drisaldi B, Griffin EA Jr, Pollak DD, Xu S, Yin D, Schaffran C, Kandel DB, Kandel ER. Molecular mechanism for a gateway drug: epigenetic changes initiated by nicotine prime gene expression by cocaine. Sci Transl Med. 2011 Nov ;3(107):107ra109.
[8] Monje FJ, Divisch I, Demit M, Lubec G, Pollak DD*. Flotillin-1 is an evolutionary conserved memory-related protein up-regulated in implicit and explicit learning paradigms. Ann Med 2013 Jun;45(4):301-7
[9] Kong E, Monje FJ, Hirsch J, Pollak DD*. Learning not to fear: neural correlates of learned safe-ty. Neuropsychopharmacology 2013 Aug 21
[10] Khan D, Fernando P, Cicvaric A, Berger A, Pollak A, Monje FJ, Hirsch J, Pollak DD*. Long-term effects of maternal immune activation on depression-like behavior in the mouse. Transl Psychiatry 2014 Feb 18;4:e363
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