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Tim Gollisch

Prof. Dr. Tim Gollisch

Former member MCN, GSN former faculty

Responsibilities

Professor for Sensory Processing in the Retina

Contact

University Göttingen
School of Medicine
Dept. of Opthalmology
Waldweg 33
D-37073 Göttingen

Phone: +49 (0)551 / 39 13542

Website: http://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/187372.html
Website: http://retina.vweb10-test.gwdg.de/contact/

Further Information

Research focus: How the neural network in the vertebrate retina processes visual information

Key words: Visual system, retina, action potentials, electrophysiology, computational modeling, retinal ganglion cells, multi-electrode arrays, whole-cell recordings with patch pipettes, saccades, fixational eye movements

Selected publications:

Bölinger D and Gollisch T. (2012) Closed-loop measurements of iso-response stimuli reveal dynamic nonlinear stimulus integration in the retina. Neuron 73: 333-346.

Gollisch T and Meister M. (2010) Eye smarter than scientists believed: Neural computation in circuits of the retina. Neuron 65: 150-164.

Gollisch T. (2009) Throwing a glance at the neural code: Rapid information transmission in the visual system. HFSP Journal 3: 36-46.

Gollisch T and Meister M. (2008) Rapid neural coding in the retina with relative spike latencies. Science 319: 1108-1111.

Herz AVM, Gollisch T, Machens CK and Jaeger D. (2006) Modeling single-neuron dynamics and computations: A balance of detail and abstraction. Science 314: 80-85.