Avi Patel is a new doctoral researcher in our group and GSN member. Avi came from Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, where he obtained a combined BSc / MSc degree in Neuroscience and a BA in Psychology, Minor in Mathematics. Before joining us, he worked on the time and exposure dependence of taste neophobia in rats, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Donald Katz. We are very happy that he decided to join our lab and are looking forward to investigate together the invariance of population responses across internal and external states.
Poster at the Bernstein Conference 2025
Congratulations to Ann Kotkat who will present her collaborative work with Florentyna Deja and Thomas Euler (both U Tübingen, SFB1233) on suppressed-by-contrast neurons along the retina-geniculo-cortical pathway at the Bernstein Conference 2025.
Welcome to Lara Quack
We are delighted to announce that Lara Quack has joined the lab for her MSc thesis in the Graduate School of Systemic Neurosciences. She will perform exciting multi-area recordings and analyses to reveal the dynamics of corticothalamic interactions.
New publication in Neuron
Viewing the world through the lens of oscillations
Congratulations to Lukas Meyerolbersleben for a fantastic publication co-supervised with Anton Sirota in Neuron (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2025.03.030) and many thanks to Chockalingam Ramanathan and Julia Veit for writing a comprehensive preview of the work entitled Lights, contrast, action! Disentangling visually induced oscillations (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2025.06.008)
New publication in iScience
Celebrating our new publication in iScience, in collaboration with Philipp Berens in Tübingen:
Schmors, L., Kotkat, A.H., Bauer, Y., Huang, Z., Crombie, D., Meyerolbersleben, L.S., Sokoloski, S., Berens, P., Busse, L., 2025. Effects of corticothalamic feedback depend on visual responsiveness and stimulus type. iScience 28, 112481.
Congratulations to all authors!
Welcome to Stella and Nick
Welcome to this semester’s BSc students Stella Vielhaber and Nick Saiz who will do their thesis work in our lab. In their projects, we will explore the behavioral impact of L6 CT neuron suppression on visual discrimination learning.
Manuscript accepted in Neuron
Congratulations to Lukas Meyerolbersleben, whose manuscript got accepted for publication in Neuron. We apply a framework developed by Anton Sirota and colleagues to data from the Allen Institute Visual Coding Dataset, and show that anatomically resolved oscillatory bursts reveal dynamic motifs of thalamocortical activity during naturalistic stimulus viewing.
3rd funding period for CRC1233 Robust Vision projects granted
We are extremely happy to learn that a 3rd funding period for the CRC1233 “Robust Vision” projects have been granted. We are excited to start a new project on context-adapted visual codes in a collaboration with Philipp Berens, Katrin Franke and Fabian Sinz. And we are very pleased that we can continue our research towards advanced naturalistic stimuli for mice with Thomas Euler and Katrin Franke. We are grateful for the reviewers’ positive evaluation and we thank the DFG for funding these projects!
New review submitted
Together with Steffen Katzner, Tobias Rose, and Tatjana Tchumatchenko, we submitted a review to Annual Reviews of Vision Science on “The Role of Layer 6 Corticothalamic Circuits in Vision: Plasticity, Sensory Processing, and Behavior”. We are looking forward to the reviewers’ comments.
Summer schools!
Huge congrats to Ann Kotkat and Verena Peterreins for being accepted into the CSHL Summer School Computational Neuroscience: Vision and the Cajal Computational Neuroscience Course, respectively. We’ll be travelling, studying, and networking a lot this summer!