Neurobiologist. Group leader @uniGoettingen, formerly @MPIforBI
Joined October 2019
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16 Apr 2024
Paper alert! We combine modeling and experiments to study “balanced” EI assemblies of co-tuned excitatory and inhibitory neurons in a memory network. TL; DR: EI assemblies suppress “runaway activity” & “runaway correlations” - which interfere w/ memory capacity & discriminability
13 Apr 2024
Computational functions of precisely balanced neuronal assemblies in an olfactory memory network biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #biorxiv_neursci
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We are proud to present our new preprint “Correlative light and electron microscopy reveals the fine circuit structure underlying evidence accumulation in larval zebrafish”, just posted on bioRxiv (biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…). (1/10)
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11 Mar 2025
Are you using GCaMP8 or planning to switch from GCaMP6? Then check out this new preprint from our lab! biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
- Calcium imaging
- GCaMP8 vs. GCaMP6
- Spike inference
- Imaging ephys ground truth
With F. Helmchen, K. Svoboda @svoboda314, M. Rozsa & X. Fang.
ALT Three images with figure excerpts from the paper, highlighting 1) single-spike detection analysis, 2) autocalibration analysis, and 3) non-linearity of calcium-to-fluorescence transfer functions and their effect on the reporting of complex spiking events.
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8 Mar 2025
Together with cSAXS, the Coherent X-ray Scattering Group at PSI, we are looking for a
Postdoctoral Fellow on High-Throughput X-ray Ptychographic Imaging of 🧠:
psi.ch/en/hr/job-opportuniti…
work at 4th gen synchrotron
interdisciplinary team science
Swiss salary and benefits
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22 Feb 2025
The mouse cochlea is another excellent and beautiful sample imaged with our new rapid isotropic light sheet microscope. Big thanks to Lennart Roos for preparing the sample precisely. The video shows the spiral ganglion neurons (SGNs). @AuditoryNeuros
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21 Feb 2025
I'm excited to share our latest work at Huisken Lab, where we have developed a high-speed, aberration-corrected light sheet microscope that delivers sub-micron isotropic resolution for imaging a wide range of cleared tissues, such as a mouse brain.
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16 Jan 2025
Should I stay or should I go?! New study by @BaierLab shows that in cichlid fish mother and larvae follow their own intrinsic schedules during brood care. This leads to the larvae leaving their home shell exactly 9 days after fertilization.
Find out more: bi.mpg.de/news/2025-01-baier
Scientific publication: dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.202…
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Hippocampal neuronal activity is aligned with action plans
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Human hippocampal CA3 uses specific functional coHuman hippocampal CA3 uses specific functional connectivity rules for efficient associative memory: cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092…
Ssparse connectivity in human hippocampal CA3, and reliable transmission in CA3-CA3 synapses.
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16 Dec 2024
Great opportunity to apply to a young lab and work on exciting questions about how memories are transformed into actions, with an amazing mentor! Don't miss it!
15 Dec 2024
Pls retweet! Just five more days to apply for this cool (admittedly, I'm biased) and fully-funded #PhD project in our lab! #jobalert ovgu.b-ite.careers/56yvk
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15 Dec 2024
Pls retweet! Just five more days to apply for this cool (admittedly, I'm biased) and fully-funded #PhD project in our lab! #jobalert ovgu.b-ite.careers/56yvk
2 Dec 2024
Have you ever wondered how memories are processed downstream of the #hippocampus and how this is affected by #Alzheimer's? We believe we may find some answers by riding all the way down the fornix to the mammillary body. Apply here for a #PhD with us: ovgu.b-ite.careers/56yvk
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13 Dec 2024
Happy to share my second paper with Peter Dayan on our decision-theoretic approach to perceptual multistability (see the tweeprint of the first paper here x.com/neuroprinciples/status…): A decision-theoretic model of multistability biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
29 Aug 2022
Happy to share my first post-doc paper with Peter Dayan just published at @NeuroCellPress
"Multistability, Perceptual Value, and Internal Foraging"
Paper (free access before Oct 18th): authors.elsevier.com/a/1ffq3…
No access? Email me at neuron2022@shervinsafavi.org
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11 Dec 2024
Congratulations to Fabian Sinz (@sinzlab)! The computer scientist and neuroscientist at our university has been awarded an #ERC Consolidator Grant. His project “Vision2Action” will use #AI to show how movement influences visual processing in the brain: s.gwdg.de/hcdf6c
ALT Prof. Dr. Fabian Sinz – Foto: Emmanouil Froudarakis
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Thomas Frank retweeted
10 Dec 2024
We have a new PhD position available. Please spread the word and retweet. The project will combine retina recordings, computational modeling, and optogenetics to help further develop vision restoration therapy. See here for more information: retina.uni-goettingen.de/joi…
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28 Nov 2024
Wir freuen uns mit @yourUMG und @moser_tmoser über die Bewilligung eines neuen SFB. Ziel ist es, vorhandene Therapien für Patient*innen mit Sinnes- und Bewegungseinschränkungen zu verbessern und neue Behandlungsansätze zu finden. Mehr unter s.gwdg.de/g6snF5 @dfg_public
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27 Nov 2024
How natural stimuli lead to highly correlated ganglion cell activity in primate (marmoset) and mouse retina. Now out in @nature.
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19 Sep 2024
Announcing the 2nd Subcortical Sensory Circuits meeting! We have amazing speakers, including Sonja Hofer (@SonjaBHofer) and David Anderson (Caltech)
Subcortical Sensory Circuits: From Perception to Behavior
Feb 11-14, 2025
Assisi, Italy
meetings.embo.org/event/25-s…
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Thomas Frank retweeted
21 Nov 2024
Strikingly different neurotransmitter release strategies in dopaminergic subclasses biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #biorxiv_neursci
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Thomas Frank retweeted
21 Nov 2024
📣 The first bit of my postdoc work is out! 📣
We described another layer of heterogeneity in the fascinating dopaminergic neurons in the olfactory bulb. Follow the thread to read a tale about axonless neurons, dendrites releasing GABA and self-inhibition 👀 🧵
@GrubbLab
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Thomas Frank retweeted
21 Nov 2024
If you need an inline perfusion heater, for example for your patch clamp rig, here is one for <30$.
nature.com/articles/s41598-0…
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20 Nov 2024
The results of this work have changed my view of olfactory cortex function, and of autoassociative memory in general. Great work by @AloeJrny, @nztemiz1, et al in a wonderful collaboration with Chi-Ning Chou and @s_y_chung.
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