Excited to share our new paper in Current Biology! 🚀📄 "Retinal direction of motion is reliably transmitted to visual cortex via highly selective thalamocortical connections" cell.com/current-biolog…

Ants and humans share a rare ability: each can work together in groups to mobilize oversized objects. In a new PNASNews study, Prof. Ofer Feinerman and his team explored this, uncovering surprising insights into the strengths and challenges of cooperation >> bit.ly/Ants-human-EN

Non-image-forming photoreceptors improve visual orientation selectivity and image perception: cell.com/neuron/abstrac… Photosensitive retinal ganglion cells, besides their role in regulating circadian rhythms, enhance the orientation selectivity of layer 2/3 neurons in mouse V1

SEEING THROUGH YOUR EYES 👁️: Excited to share our new paper (which is out now!!) with Wenbo Tang, Annabella, Thokozile Nyasulu, Maddie Wolf, AntonioFR @azayhara : we discovered a novel sleep microstructure that promotes memory replay! nature.com/articles/s4158… 🧵 1/12👇

✨Breakthrough: IOB & Beam Therapeutics develop efficient gene editing for Stargardt disease. Published in Nature Medicine, the study shows promise in halting vision loss. Watch the full movie on: iob.ch/news-view-all?… #GeneEditing #VisionResearch #IOBBasel #EyeHealth #Optogenetics

Apply for your participation in the Systems Vision Science Summer School and Symposium 2025: summerschool.lizhaoping.org/application/ Application deadline is March 31, 2025. Experimental vision researchers, vision theorists, engineers and computer scientists should not miss this unique event!

After a long wait, our paper is out! We show that differences in learning between the sexes are modulated by the NPY receptor, which gates sensory perception. Great work led by PhD student, soon to be Dr, Sonu Kurien with Rizwanul Haque & Asaf Gat nature.com/articles/s4146…

Prof. Nachum Ulanovsky’s team found that bat hippocampal neurons, known for spatial mapping, also encode social info like identity, status & relationships - creating a unified social-spatial map of the world >> doi.org/10.1126/scienc… 📷Yuval Barkai Science Magazine

What are serotonin neurons trying to tell the brain? Our work on the question has been so much fun (Jean-Claude Beique , @JermiahYCohen, cooper grossman ). Check out Emerson F. Harkin 's exciting paper biorxiv.org/content/10.110… nature.com/articles/s4158…

Our two-photon GABA imaging from mouse retina has been published! Akihiro Matsumoto in my lab spearheaded this project. I want to thank LoogerLab for molecular clustering and Janelia GENIE for the amazing iGABASnFR2 sensor! nature.com/articles/s4159…

Must read new book by Nachum Ulanovsky!! The book outlines a new revolutionary approach for studying the brain closer to the natural behavior of animals and humans — namely, taking a more ecological approach to neuroscience.

The ON/OFF dichotomy is fundamental to visual processing. In a new study led by Flori Soto, we identify a conserved molecular mechanism establishing the OFF pathway. rdcu.be/eikoa

65 years after Lettvin’s bug detector neurons in the frog retina, we revisit how the retina drives behavior—from reflexes to prey capture to brain-state modulation New review with Anna Vlasits & Serena Riccitelli in Annual Review of Vision Science 👇 tinyurl.com/ymp3vs4d

Now out in NatComms: Mice and monkeys spontaneously shift through comparable cognitive states - and it's written all over their faces! (1/7) nature.com/articles/s4146…

Our latest work is out today in Neuron . Using voltage imaging, we clarified how serotonergic neurons compute action effectiveness during learning behavior. With Ravid Haruvi, Ziqiang Wei and Misha Ahrens sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Vision shapes representations of space in the hippocampus, whether you are a bird or a primate. It is sensory ecology doing its job... nature.com/articles/s4158…

Karl and I wrote a short opinion piece on the importance of comparative neuroscience

Next-generation phenotyping of inherited retinal diseases: Eye2Gene (AI-driven algorithm). Better-than-expert accuracy for 63 common genetic causes. UCL Nikolas Pontikos Michalis Georgiou, MD, PhD Maximilian Pfau Siegfried Wagner Sagnik Sen, M.D. KonstantinosBalaskas #NIH Nature Machine Intelligence: brnw.ch/21wUfkJ

The human brain synchronizes visual signals by adjusting axonal conduction speed in the retina—revealing a previously unknown mechanism for precise perceptual timing Annalisa Felix Franke IOB.ch nature.com/articles/s4159…