In a mouse model with decreased propagation bias (brought to us by @keisukeyonehara.bsky.social), nasal and temporal quadrants were equally activated by waves, and were morphologically more symmetric! This suggests that SACs dendrites respond to biases in propagation with asymmetric growth. (9/11)

Our primer article "Retinal ganglion cells" has been published in Current Biology. This primer provides an overview of advances in research over the past 20 years aimed at identifying different types of retinal ganglion cells. authors.elsevier.com/a/1mTQb3QW8S...

Excited to share our new work on visual information processing in the retinocollicular pathway. We discovered that while luminance responses can predict motion responses in retinal ganglion cells, this prediction does not hold in the superior colliculus cells. www.cell.com/current-biol...

We are happy to announce the recruitment of our new group leader, @fionamuellner.bsky.social. Coming from the Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology Basel, Fiona will investigate how neural circuits at the brain’s first central processing stage—the thalamus—shape the way we see. Welcome!

Denmark’s new centre for Parkinson's research PACE at Aarhus University, hires 2 group leaders in cellular physiology and in vivo modelling of Parkinson’s Disease pathophysiology.https://dandrite.au.dk/display/artikel/new-group-leader-positions-at-denmarks-new-centre-for-parkinsons-research

WOW! What a great application of this powerful new optical tool. Can't wait to try it. Congratulations!

GABA imaging classifies amacrine cell types in mouse retina! Aki and @keisukeyonehara.bsky.social are amazing! future goals include Gly imaging, 2-color Glu/GABA, more complete scRNA-seq/MERFISH mapped onto functional classes. Super-fun collaboration! @janeliagenie.bsky.social

Our two-photon GABA imaging from mouse retina has been published! Akihiro Matsumoto in my lab spearheaded this project. I want to thank @loogerl.bsky.social for molecular clustering and @janeliagenie.bsky.social for the fantastic iGABASnFR2 sensor! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New lab photo at NIG! Now we have 20 members, including 7 PhD students. We are focused on either 1)retina, 2)central areas/behavior, or 3) gene therapy.

I closed my lab at DANDRITE, Aarhus University, Denmark. It's been a fantastic 10 years. Now, I am 100% located at the National Institute of Genetics, Japan. The photo is from our last lab dinner yesterday.

Our lab is looking for a postdoc interested in the development, plasticity, and control of cortical circuits (bhariokelab.com). Please send CV and some research ideas of interest to you. We're flexible & open to new ideas in the lab's general vein! Please repost! More details at shorturl.at/wLvZw.

Our dispatch article on Sue et al. has been published in Curr Biol ”Motion detection: Specific thalamocortical connections revealed” www.cell.com/current-biol... My personalized Share Link for free download: authors.elsevier.com/a/1kOXg3QW8S...

I am thrilled to announce that Rich Kramer and I are co-directing a BRAND NEW hands-on visual neuroscience course at the MBL. August 1-16, 2025. Details in this flyer. Trainees please apply. And everyone, please spread the word!

Horace Barlow, by all accounts, was thinking about 30 years ahead of his time. Here is a transcript of the opening keynote I gave at a symposium honoring Horace's scientific legacy: markusmeister.com/2024/12/14/h....

Fantastic new study from Yonehara lab using a new GABA sniffer that works in retina. So much exciting stuff in this paper www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...