Warsha Barde

LIFE Fellow from 2021 to 2025, Deutsches Zentrum für Neurodegenerative Erkrankungen e.V. (DZNE), Dresden

Dr. rer. nat.

Dissertation defended at Technische Universität Dresden in October 2025

Emergence of Individuality Beyond Nature and Nurture: The Role of Learning, Experience, and Agency

(Advisor: Gerd Kempermann)

Selected Publications

Barde, W., Renner, J., Emery, B., Khanzada, S., Hu, X., Garthe, A., Rünker, A. E., Amin, H., & Kempermann, G. (2025). Beyond nature, nurture, and chance: Individual agency shapes divergent learning biographies and brain connectome. Science Advances, 11(2), Article eads7297. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.ads7297

Ehret, F., Doludda, B., Liu, H., Nexhipi, S., Huang, H., Rost, F., Overall, R. W., Barde, W., Rünker, A. E., Sieweke, M., Dahl, A., Schmidt, M. H. H., & Kempermann, G. (2025). Lifestyle shapes preclinical social and microglial deficits in an Alzheimer’s disease mouse model. Molecular Psychiatry. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41380-025-03368-4

Saxena, R., Barde, W., & Deshmukh, S. S. (2018). Inexpensive, scalable camera system for tracking rats in large spaces. Journal of Neurophysiology, 120(5), 2383–2395. https://doi.org/10.1152/jn.00215.2018