Curriculum
Dr. rer. nat. Laura Lückemann is a postdoc at the Institute for Medical Psychology and Behavioral Immunology, at the University Hospital Essen, Germany. She studied biology at the Justus Liebig University in Gießen and graduated in 2013 with a master's degree in Medical Biology from the University of Duisburg Essen. In her PhD thesis from 2014 until 2017, she worked on conditioned immunosuppression in a model of rheumatoid arthritis in terms of mechanisms and clinical relevance at the Institute of Medical Psychology and Behavioral Immunobiology.
Interests
My research in the Institute focuses on the bidirectional communication between the central nervous system and the peripheral immune system. I am interested in the effects of the learned immunosuppression on experimentally induced autoimmune disease development and progression. In this context I try to understand the immunology behind the inflammatory responses and the influence of classical conditioning on these processes. In further research I investigate the mechanisms of extinction learning in immunoconditioned reactions as part of SFB 1280.
Selected publications
Leisengang S, Schedlowski M., Hadamitzky M, Lückemann L (2022) Taste-Associative Learning in Rats: Conditioned Immunosuppression with Cyclosporine A to Study the Neuro-Immune Network. Curr Protoc. 2: e573.
Lückemann L, Hetze S, Hörbelt T, Jakobs M, Schedlowski M, Hadamitzky M (2021) lncomplete reminder cues trigger memory reconsolidation and sustain learned immune responses. Brain Behav Immun. 95: 115-121.
Lückemann L, Stangl H, Straub RH, Schedlowski M, Hadamitzky M (2020). Learned Immunosuppressive Placebo Response Attenuates Disease Progression in a Rodent Model of Rheumatoid Arthritis. Arthritis Rheumatol. 72: 588-597.
Hadamitzky M, Lückemann L, Pacheco-López G, Schedlowski M. (2020). Pavlovian Conditioning of Immunological and Neuroendocrine Functions. Physiol Rev. 100: 357-405.
Lückemann L, Unteroberdörster M, Martinez Gomez E, Schedlowski M, Hadamitzky M. (2019). Behavioral conditioning of anti-proliferative and immunosuppressive properties of the mTOR inhibitor rapamycin. Brain Behav Immun. 100: 357-405.
Hörbelt T, Martínez-Gómez EM, Hadamitzky M, Schedlowski M, Lückemann L (2019). Behaviorally conditioned immunosuppression with cyclosporine A forms long lasting memory trace. Behav Brain Res. 376: 112208.
Lückemann L, Unteroberdörster M, Kirchof J, Martinez-Gomez EM, Schedlowski M, Hadamitzky M (2017). Applications and limitations of behaviorally conditioned immunopharmacological responses. Neurobiol Learn Mem. 142: 91-98
Hadamitzky M, Bösche K, Wirth T, Buck B, Beetz O, Christians U, Schniedewind B, Lückemann L, Güntürkün O, Engler H, Schedlowski M (2016). Memory-updating abrogates extinction of learned immunosuppression. Brain Behav Immun. 52: 40-8.
Lueckemann L, Bösche K, Engler H, Schwitalla JC, Hadamitzky M, Schedlowski M (2016). Pre-exposure to the unconditioned or conditioned stimulus does not affect learned immunosuppression in rats. Brain Behav Immun. 51: 252-7.
