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We are part of the Department of Ophthalmology at the University Medical Center Göttingen. Our research focuses on the question how the neural network of the retina in the eye processes and encodes visual information. In our work, we tightly combine experiments and theory. We record the activity of neurons in isolated retinas while stimulating the photoreceptors with light patterns, and we use modeling and statistics to understand the relationship between visual stimuli and neural responses.
PhD Position Available
We currently have an opening for a PhD position (announced December 2024). See the information here.
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Recent News
Our paper on redundant retinal coding under natural stimuli and the connection to nonlinear receptive fields by Dimos Karamanlis and others has come out in Nature. Congratulations!
The paper on super-resolved tomographic reconstruction to identify ganglion cell subunits by Steffen Krüppel and others has appeared in PLoS Computational Biology. Congratulations!
Our manuscript on a new, accelerated usage of non-negative matrix factorization to identify receptive-field subunits, developed by Sören Zapp, is now available on bioRxiv.
Our manuscript on using the spatial contrast model to capture primate ganglion cell responses to natural movies, spearheaded by Shash Sridhar, is now available on bioRxiv.
Steffen Krüppel successfully defended his PhD thesis today. Congratulations!
Prof. Dr. Tim Gollisch
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Selected Recent Publications
Karamanlis et al, Nature 2024
Nonlinear receptive fields evoke redundant retinal coding of natural scenes. The role of the vertebrate retina [...]
Krüppel et al, PLoS Computational Biology 2024
Applying super-resolution and tomography concepts to identify receptive field subunits in the retina. Spatially nonlinear stimulus [...]
Krüppel et al, Journal of Neuroscience 2023
Diversity of ganglion cell responses to saccade-like image shifts in the primate retina. Saccades are a [...]
Karamanlis, Schreyer, and Gollisch, Annual Review of Vision Science 2022
Retinal encoding of natural scenes. An ultimate goal in retina science is to understand how the [...]
Zapp, Nitsche, and Gollisch, Trends in Neurosciences 2022
Retinal receptive-field substructure: scaffolding for coding and computation. The center-surround receptive field of retinal ganglion cells [...]
Liu et al., PLoS Computational Biology 2022
Simple model for encoding natural images by retinal ganglion cells with nonlinear spatial integration. A central [...]
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