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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
Bemme et al., IOVS 2017
Differential Effects of HCN Channel Block on On and Off Pathways in the Retina as a Potential Cause [...]
Liu et al., Nature Communications 2017
Inference of neuronal functional circuitry with spike-triggered non-negative matrix factorization. Neurons in sensory systems often pool [...]
Krishnamoorthy et al., eLife 2017
Sensitivity to image recurrence across eye-movement-like image transitions through local serial inhibition in the retina. Standard [...]
Kühn and Gollisch, Journal of Neuroscience 2016
Joint Encoding of Object Motion and Motion Direction in the Salamander Retina. The processing of motion [...]
Liu and Gollisch, PLoS Computational Biology 2015
Spike-Triggered Covariance Analysis Reveals Phenomenological Diversity of Contrast Adaptation in the Retina. When visual contrast changes, [...]
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