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Ruben Portugues

Prof. Dr. Ruben Portugues

GSN core faculty, associate member MCN, Advisory Board member MCN

Responsibilities

Professor of Brain Circuit Function and Dysfunction

Contact

Institute of Neuroscience
Technical University of Munich
Biedersteiner Str. 29
D-80802 Munich

Phone: +49 (0)89 / 8578 3492

Website: https://portugueslab.com/

Further Information

Research focus: My group is interested in understanding the brain circuits that control how the brain responds to stimuli with appropriate behavior and how these circuits allow for modulation and adaptive behavior. This includes processes typically referred to as motor learning and decision-making.

Keywords: zebrafish; cerebellum; sensorimotor control; decision making

GSN students

Selected publications:

Dragomir EI, Štih V, Portugues R: “Evidence accumulation during a sensorimotor decision task revealed by whole-brain imaging”. Nature Neuroscience. 2020; (23) 85-93.

Knogler LD, Kist AM, Portugues R: "Motor context dominates output from purkinje cell functional regions during reflexive visuomotor behaviours". eLife. 2019: e42138.

Knogler LD, Markov AD, Dragomir EI, Štih V, Portugues R: "Sensorimotor representations in cerebellar granule cells in larval zebrafish are dense, spatially organized, and non-temporally patterned". Current Biology. 2017; 27(9): 1288-1302.

Oteiza P, Odstrcil I, Lauder G, Portugues R, Engert F: "A novel mechanism for mechanosensory-based rheotaxis in larval zebrafish". Nature. 2017; 547(7664): 445-448.

Portugues R, Feierstein CE, Engert F, Orger MB: "Whole-brain activity maps reveal stereotyped, distributed networks for visuomotor behavior". Neuron. 2014; 81(6): 1328-1343.