We are very grateful for recognition of our recent work on the superior colliculus as being “EXCEPTIONAL” by F1000Prime! The full recommendation can be read here:  F1000Prime faculty member Prof. Richard Krauzlis highlighted our 2019 Current Biology paper on “The foveal visual representation of the primate superior colliculus”. In this work, we discovered, among other[…]

Our lab was part of a visit to Kyoto University, participating in interactions between our department with the department of Professor Tadashi Isa. Our delegation consisted of Prof. Peter Thier and Prof. Ziad Hafed from our department, as well as colleagues Antimo Buonocore and Sylvia Spadacenta. Thier and Hafed gave symposium presentations, hosted by Kyoto[…]

Our lab was part of this year’s ninth NIPS-CIN symposium on systems neuroscience! This year’s meeting was the ninth one of its kind, demonstrating strong bilateral interactions between our institute, the Werner Reichardt Centre for Integrative Neuroscience (CIN), and the National Institute for Physiological Sciences in Okazaki, Japan (NIPS). This year, the meeting was extended[…]

“NeNa is an annual conference organised by doctoral students from the vibrant neuroscience community of Tübingen”. This year, Matthias joined the conference and gave an oral presentation on his exciting work investigating the role of visual flow in dictating the properties of perceptual saccadic suppression! He showed that reductions of visual sensitivity around the time[…]