We are excited to share our new preprint on #ioRxiv: “Eye-Region Specific Ribbon Tuning Supports Distinct Modes of Synaptic Transmission in Same-Type Cone-Photoreceptors”. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.02.24.432674v1

We are excited to announce the founding of SNAC, the Sussex Centre for Sensory Neuroscience and Computation. With this move, we bring together 27 research-focused labs from all across campus into a consolidated effort to study the fundamental underpinning of sensation and neuronal computation. Follow us on http://www.scsnac.org, and @Sussex_SNAC (Twitter).

Congratulations to Dr. Maxime Zimmermann for passing his viva!

Congratulations to DR Philipp Bartel for passing his PhD viva!

The brain’s bulk spectral response encodes object colourfulness, which may serve as a proxy for object distance

We are delighted that several of our efforts to promote the use of Open Hardware in research in education were featured in a recent Nature Technology Feature by Sandeep Ravindran.

The talk can be accessed here:
https://www.worldwideneuro.com/seminar-event.html?id=1267

Near-optimal rotation of colour space by zebrafish cones in vivo.

Yoshimatsu T, Bartel P, Schroeder C, Janiak FK, St-Pierre F, Berens P, Baden T. bioRxiv doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.10.26.356089. direct link. pdf.

The special review issue on “Vertebrate Vision: Lessons from non-model Species” is now out in Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology.

In this work we brought together experts on the visual systems of diverse groups of vertebrates, from lampreys to ground squirrels.

We are delighted to have two “remote” lab members join us this month:

Aisha Wamala joins us remotely from London as TReND General coordinator to cover for the maternity leave of Samyra Salek

Carola Yovanovich joins us remotely from São Paulo for a project on the evolution of retinal layering

Maxime’s paper on our 2p scan interdigitated LED zapper is now out in HardwareX complete with BOM and detailed build instructions. Want an easy and low cost way to zap your prep without swamping the PMTs? We got you covered!