Madhura defended her PhD thesis “Strategies for dynamic vision in the Drosophila peripheral visual system”. Congratulations to an excellent thesis, and a well-deserved summa cum laude degree!
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Madhura defended her PhD thesis
Luis' paper is now published in Nature Communications!
Check out our paper "The physiological basis for contrast opponency in motion detection in Drosophila", now published in Nature Communications.
Using computational modelling and in vivo two photon calcium imaging, Luis' revealed the biological substrate for motion computation. This work shows how a key neuronal computation is implemented by its constituent neuronal circuit elements to ensure direction selectivity. Congratulations, Luis!
Miriam defended her PhD thesis
Congratulation to Miriam Henning, who not only defended her PhD thesis "Mechanisms of local and global motion computation", but did so with excellence
Madhura’s and Katja’s paper is out in Current Biology
How can visual systems deal with fast and dynamically changing light conditions? Our work on the role of luminance sensitivity for the accurate computation of contrast is now online in Current Biology
An interview about our work, and our new home in Mainz
Sebastian’s paper is out in eLife
Many sensory systems split information into distinct ON and OFF channels. You can read here how this ON/OFF dichotomy is implemented in the Drosophila visual system. Also, some cool (we think) new pharmacogenetics reagents in here, that add molecular specificity to pharmacology.
Burak’s paper is now online!
We have a learned a lot about the peripheral circuitry that processes visual motion, but how do individual neurons achieve their distinct processing properties?
Burak set out to answer this question and identified a role for two potassium channels in defining the initial visual processing stages. This is now out in the Journal of Comparative Physiology A, in a special edition on insect vision, edited by Uwe Homberg.
Two out of three. We rocked the Breaking News Session (NWG meeting)
Madhura and Sebastian have both podiumed at the Breaking News‘ Best Paper Award in 2019 at the Göttingen Meeting of the German Neuroscience Society (NWG).
Sebastian Mauricio Molina Obando
has received a second place for his short talk "A combination of GABA- and glutamate-gated chloride channels mediates ON selectivity in the Drosophila visual system".
Madhura Ketkar
was awarded a third place for her presentation "A luminance-sensitive cell type in Drosophila facilitates visual contrast computation".