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.
Allgemein
Burak’s paper is now online!
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".