Sep 03, 2024 – The paper on super-resolved tomographic reconstruction to identify ganglion cell subunits by Steffen Krüppel and others has appeared in PLoS Computational Biology. Congratulations!

Apr 26, 2024 – 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.

Mar 10, 2024 – 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.

Jan 19, 2024 – Steffen Krüppel successfully defended his PhD thesis today. Congratulations!

Aug 14, 2023 – Juan Diego Prieto successfully defended his PhD thesis today. Congratulations!

Jun 20, 2023 – The paper on saccade responses in the primate retina by Steffen Krüppel and others has appeared in The Journal of Neuroscience. Congratulations!

Jan 25, 2023 – Sören Zapp successfully defended his PhD thesis today. Congratulations!

Jan 10, 2023 – Our manuscript on concerted nonlinear responses in the primate retina under natural stimuli, spearheaded by Dimos Karamanlis, is now available on bioRxiv.

Dec 01, 2022 – Our manuscript on filter-based models of suppression in retinal ganglion cells, spearheaded by Neda Shahidi, is now available on bioRxiv.

Oct 08, 2022 – Our “Tag der Sinne” (“Day of Senses”), organized by the Collaborative Research Center 889: Experience your senses! With small experiments, tests, and games. Vision experiments and optical illusions presented by the Gollisch Lab.

Aug 15, 2022 – Our manuscript on responses of primate retinal ganglion cells to saccadic image shifts, spearheaded by Steffen Nitsche, is now available on bioRxiv.

Jul 09, 2022 – Nacht des Wissens (Night of Knowledge) with science-related activities and presentations throughout Göttingen, including a talk about the visual system by Tim Gollisch.

Apr 11, 2022 – The review by Steffen Nitsche and Sören Zapp on retinal receptive-field substructure came out today in Trends in Neurosciences. Congratulations!

Mar 08, 2022 – The paper by Jian Liu and Dimokratis Karamanlis on modeling responses of ganglion cells to flashed natural images now came out in PLoS Computational Biology. Congratulations!

Feb 23, 2022 – Dimokratis Karamanlis successfully defended his PhD thesis today. Congratulations!

Jan 12, 2022 – Helene Schreyer was named a recipient of the Bernstein SmartSteps Award 2021 for her presentation on nonlinear retinal bipolar cells. Congratulations!

Sep 16, 2021 – Mohammad Khani’s paper in Nature Communications from earlier this year was selected as the Gö-VIP (=“Göttingen Very Important Publication”) in the 25th Gö-VIP round under “Basic Science”. Congratulations! List of Gö-VIPs with summaries in German here.

Apr 29, 2021 – Press release on our recent paper in Nature Communications! See here in German or here in English.

Apr 14, 2021 – The paper by Dimokratis Karamanlis on nonlinear spatial integration and natural-image encoding in the retina now came out in the Journal of Neuroscience. Congratulations!

Apr 01, 2021 – Helene Schreyer’s paper on nonlinear spatial integration in retinal bipolar cells now came out in Neuron. Congratulations!

Mar 26, 2021 – Mohammad Khani’s paper on linear and nonlinear chromatic integration now came out in Nature Communications. Congratulations!

Nov 26, 2020 – New Collaborative Research Center “Mathematics of Experiment” in Göttingen. Funding from the German Research Foundation for four years. Our project on analyzing the retina with artificial neural nets is part of it!

June 30, 2020 – The manuscript by Mohammad Khani on linear and nonlinear chromatic integration is now available on bioRxiv.

June 19, 2020 – The manuscript by Dimokratis Karamanlis on spatial nonlinearities and natural image encoding is now available on bioRxiv.

June 12, 2020 – Helene Schreyer’s manuscript on nonlinear spatial integration in retinal bipolar cells is now available on bioRxiv.

May 20, 2020 – Talk by Tim Gollisch in the online talk series of World Wide Neuro!

Apr 29, 2020 – Fernando Rozenblit’s review on the history and highlights of vision research with salamanders appeared in Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology. Congratulations!

Sep 11, 2019 – Keynote lecture, quickfire talk, and 9 posters from the group at the upcoming European Retina Meeting in Helsinki.

Jun 10, 2019 – Three talks from our group at the Rank Prize Funds Symposium on “The Retinal Processing of Natural Signals” in Grasmere, UK, which is starting today.

Feb 20, 2019 – Press release on our recent Neuron paper! See here in German or here in English.

Jan 29, 2019 – Norma Kühn’s paper on motion decoding from populations of direction-selective ganglion cells appeared in Neuron. Congratulations!
Nov 23, 2018 – Our Collaborative Research Center 889 has received extension of funding from the German Research Foundation for another four years, reaching the maximum funding period!
May 08, 2018 – Helene Schreyer successfully defended her PhD thesis today. Congratulations!

Apr 05, 2018 – Our “Beat-the-Prof” Quiz (in German) on “Vision” just went online at the website of the German newspaper “Die Zeit”. Developed together with Siegrid Löwel and Marion Silies. Play it here.

Jan 16, 2018 – Our Nature Communications paper from last year was selected as the Gö-VIP (=“Göttingen Very Important Publication”) in the 16th Gö-VIP round under “Basic Science”. List of Gö-VIPs with summaries in German here.

Dec 14, 2017 – Mohammad Khani successfully defended his PhD thesis today. Congratulations!

Dec 04, 2017 – Mohammad Khani’s paper on the spatial scope of contrast adaptation in mouse retina appeared in the Journal of Neurophysiology. Congratulations!

Nov 17, 2017 – Dimokratis Karamanlis, PhD student in the group, just received a prestigious PhD fellowship from Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds. Congratulations!
Sep 19, 2017 – Sebastian Bemme’s paper on retinal HCN channel block and phosphenes appeared in IOVS. Congratulations!
Sep 03, 2017 – Our “Tag der Sinne” (“Day of Senses”): Experience your senses! With small experiments, tests, and games, in particular for children.
Aug 07, 2017 – Press release in our recent Nature Communications paper!

Jul 26, 2017 – Our article on Spike-Triggered Non-Negative Matrix Factorization (STNMF) appeard today in Nature Communications!

May 30, 2017 – A press release has appeared on our ERC project “CODE4Vision”.

Apr 06, 2017 – A press release on our recent eLife paper appeared. See here (in German).

Mar 22, 2017 – The Göttingen Neurobiology Conference is starting, and our symposium on “The Multiple Neural Codes of the Retina” is coming up on Saturday, March 25.

Feb 23, 2017 – Vidhyasankar Krishnamoorthy’s and Michael Weick’s paper on image recurrence sensitivity in the retina appeared in eLife. Congratulations!
Feb 21, 2017 – Announcement of available postdoc positions in the CODE4Vision project.
Dec 07, 2016 – ERC Consolidator Grant awarded to Tim Gollisch for the CODE4Vision project!
Nov 30, 2016 – Norma Kühn’s paper on motion encoding in the salamander retina appeared. Congratulations!
Jun 22, 2016 – Norma Kühn successfully defended her PhD thesis today. Congratulations!

Oct 12, 2015 – Public lecture by Tim Gollisch at the “Göttingen Health Week” about the sense of sight.

Oct 01, 2015 – Lots of posters and two talks from the group at the European Retina Meeting in Brighton, UK.
Sep 25, 2015 – Fernando Rozenblit successfully defended his PhD thesis today. Congratulations!
Sep 11, 2015 – Just three more days to our workshop “From Retina to Robots” at the Bernstein Conference in Heidelberg.
Jul 31, 2015 – Jian Liu’s paper on analyzing contrast adaptation with spike-triggered covariance appeared. Congratulations!

Jan 17, 2015 – Nacht des Wissens (Night of Knowledge) with science-related activities and presentations throughout Göttingen, including a talk about the visual system by Tim Gollisch.

Nov 21, 2014 – Collaborative Research Center 889 has received extension of funding for another four years!

Sep 02, 2014 – Satellite workshop of the Bernstein Conference in Göttingen on “Characterizing Natural Scences: Retina Coding and Statistical Theory” starts today, organized by Jian Liu from our group and Arno Onken.

Aug 08, 2014 – Radio interview with Tim Gollisch in NDR science program “Logo” about NeuroBridges workshop. Listen here (in German):

Jul 27, 2014 – The NeuroBridges workshop, organized by Ahmed El Hady, Yonatan Loewenstein and Tim Gollisch, starts today. See here for more information.

May 28, 2014 – Daisuke Takeshita’s paper on nonlineal spatial integration in the surround appeard in the Journal of Neuroscience. Congratulations!

Jan 14, 2013 – Daniel Bölinger awared with the Young Scientist Award of the MPI of Neurobiology for his papers on nonlinear stimulus integration. Congratulations!

Apr 01, 2013 – It’s the first official day of our “VISUALISE” project, a collaborative project in developing models of retinal processing for artificial vision applications, funded by the 7th framework programme of the European Union.

Mar 26, 2013 – Mona Garvert’s paper on local and global contrast adaptation appeared in Neuron. Congratulations!

Nov 24, 2012 – Nacht des Wissens (Night of Knowledge) with science-related activities and presentations throughout Göttingen, including a talk about the visual system by Tim Gollisch.

Jan 27, 2012 – Press release on Daniel Bölinger’s paper about nonlinear stimulus integration. See here in English or here in German.

Jan 26, 2012 – Daniel Bölinger’s paper on nonlinear stimulus integration appeared in Neuron. Congratulations!