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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 and Gollisch, Journal of Neuroscience 2021
Nonlinear spatial integration underlies the diversity of retinal ganglion cell responses to natural images. How neurons [...]
Schreyer and Gollisch, Neuron 2021
Nonlinear spatial integration in retinal bipolar cells shapes the encoding of artificial and natural stimuli. The [...]
Khani and Gollisch, Nature Communications 2021
Linear and nonlinear chromatic integration in the mouse retina. The computations performed by a neural circuit [...]
Rozenblit and Gollisch, Semin Cell Dev Biol 2020
What the salamander eye has been telling the vision scientist’s brain. Salamanders have been habitual residents [...]
Kühn and Gollisch, Neuron 2019
Activity Correlations between Direction-Selective Retinal Ganglion Cells Synergistically Enhance Motion Decoding from Complex Visual Scenes. Neurons [...]
Khani and Gollisch, Journal of Neurophysiology 2017
Diversity in spatial scope of contrast adaptation among mouse retinal ganglion cells. Retinal ganglion cells adapt [...]
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