…on the critical role of nonhuman primates in medical research. There is also an accompanying brochure on the lifesaving benefits of primate research.

A brief article about our work…

As part of an exciting collaboration with the lab of Brian Corneil at the University of Western Ontario in Canada, our lab has been investigating neural mechanisms for microsaccade generation in cortex. We just published an article in PLOS Biology describing some of the results of this interesting collaboration.   In this study, we exploited[…]

Our recent Current Biology paper was recommended by F1000 Faculty Member Kathleen Cullen! Click on the image for details.

Our lab participated in this year’s NeuroTech symposium, which was held in nearby Reutlingen. The symposium itself was a preamble to the 10th Annual International Meeting on Substrate-Integrated Microelectrode Arrays. The topic of the symposium was on “Research for Vision: From Neuroscience to Neurotechnology”, and it featured speeches by several faculty members from our institute,[…]

For the last two weeks, we were extremely fortunate to host Prof. Klaus-Peter Hoffmann from Ruhr University in Bochum. It was an amazing experience for all of us to hear first hand stories on a long, highly productive, and highly successful science career! The insights that he had, and the advice that he gave, were[…]

Our lab has a new article published in Current Biology. Our study describes new findings about functional organization in the superior colliculus (SC), which is a brain structure that is critical for exploration of the visual world with eye and body orienting movements. We were motivated by the possibility of ecological constraints on SC function and organization.[…]

A couple of months ago, our institute started an initiative to update personnel photos, and they commissioned Akshay Markanday for this. Akshay is a PhD student at Peter Thier’s lab in our neighboring Hertie Institute, but he is also a very talented photographer. Akshay was kind enough to also take a group picture for us[…]

We participated in this year’s Vision Sciences Society annual meeting. Our lab had a poster on microsaccades as well as a talk on the superior colliculus featured in this year’s program. The microsaccade poster described new observations on phase-locking of behavioral fluctuations to the generation of microsaccades, and the talk described our new results on[…]