New BBSRC grant on avian vision
by Tom Baden | September 26, 2023 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments
ERM2023 posters now available online
by Tom Baden | September 25, 2023 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments
Best talk award at NeNa Conference
by Tom Baden | September 22, 2023 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments
Congratulations to George Kafetzis!
Paper on Bird Retina out @Nature Comms
by Tom Baden | September 1, 2023 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments
Seifert M§, Roberts PA, Kafetzis G, Osorio D§, Baden T§. Birds multiplex spectral and temporal visual information via retinal On- and Off-channels. Nature Communications. 14, 5308 (2023).
Elected to EMBO
by Tom Baden | July 5, 2023 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments
Congratulations Dr. Tessa!
by Tom Baden | March 9, 2023 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments
We are delighted that Tessa Herzog has passed her PhD viva!
For her PhD, which was done in collaboration with Leon Lagnado, Tessa looked at how cone-photoreceptorsd in the live zebrafish eye encode visual stimuli at the level of glutamate release.
Paper on Amacrine Cell functions now published
by Tom Baden | February 8, 2023 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments
Wang X§, Roberts PA, Yoshimatsu T, Lagnado L*§, Baden T*§. Amacrine cells differentially balance zebrafish colour circuits in the central and peripheral retina. Cell Reports 42:112055.
New paper on bird retina out on bioRxiv
by Tom Baden | October 21, 2022 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments
Seifert et al:
Birds multiplex spectral and temporal visual information via retinal On– and Off–channels
Congratulations DR Marvin!
by Tom Baden | July 15, 2022 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments
We are most delighted that Marvin Seifert has just passed his PhD viva!
Congratulations Tessa and George!
by Tom Baden | July 5, 2022 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments
Congratulations to Tessa Herzog and George Kafetzis for winning this year’s Talk and Posters awards, respectively, at the annual Sussex Life Sciences PhD symposium!
FASEB posters are online!
by Tom Baden | June 17, 2022 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments
New BBSRC grant
by Tom Baden | June 16, 2022 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments
New online talk
by Tom Baden | June 3, 2022 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments
The evolution of computation in the brain: Insights from studying the retina.
Integrative Chronobiology and Visual Neuroscience series.
Filip Janiak wins SN Postdoc Award
by Tom Baden | May 20, 2022 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments
We are delighted that Filip Janiak has been awarded this year’s Sussex Neuroscience postdoc award. The award recognises both Filip’s recent publication on non-telecentric 2P microscopy, and more broadly his numerous contributions to the Department’s scientific activities!
Is our retina really upside down?
by Tom Baden | April 11, 2022 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments
We are delighted that our “my word” piece on retinal orientation is now out in Current Biology. The piece is dedicated to the late Mike Land FRS
“Non-Telecentric 2P microscopy” paper out @Nature Comms
by Tom Baden | January 28, 2022 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments
F. K. Janiak, P. Bartel, M. R. Bale, T. Yoshimatsu, E. Komulainen, M. Zhou, K. Staras, L. L. Prieto-Godino, T. Euler, M. Maravall & T. Baden (2022). Non-telecentric two-photon microscopy for 3D random access mesoscale imaging. Nature Communications 13, 544 (2022)
New paper on amacrine cells on bioRxiv
by Tom Baden | January 23, 2022 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments
Wang X§, Roberts PA, Yoshimatsu T, Lagnado L*§, Baden T*§. Amacrine cells shape retinal functions while dynamically preserving circuits for colour vision. bioRxiv doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.01.22.477338.
Congratulations Dr. John!
by Tom Baden | January 23, 2022 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments
Congratulations to Dr John Bear for passing his PhD viva!
Boehringer Ingelheim-FENS Research Award 2022
by Tom Baden | October 18, 2021 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments
We are honored to share this year’s Boehringer Ingelheim-FENS Research Award with Prof. Tatjana Tchumachenko
Two new papers
by Tom Baden | October 18, 2021 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments
We are delighted to see two related papers on spectral coding in outer and inner retina come out on the same day!
New lab member
by Tom Baden | September 3, 2021 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments
We are pleased to welcome Dr. Chiara Fornetto to the lab
New paper about cone-integration on bioRxiv
by Tom Baden | August 11, 2021 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments
Paper on ribbon-tuning now out at eLife
by Tom Baden | July 16, 2021 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments
Schroeder C$, Oesterle J, Berens P*, Yoshimatsu T*, Baden T*$. Distinct Synaptic Transfer Functions in Same-Type Photoreceptors. eLife 10:e67851.
New review on colour vision in the water
by Tom Baden | June 21, 2021 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments
We are delighted to see this review on show zebrafish process “colour” published in Current Biology
Congratulations Dr. Mingyi!
by Tom Baden | June 18, 2021 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments
Congratulations to DR Mingyi Zhou for passing her PhD viva!
New lab members
by Tom Baden | June 2, 2021 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments
We are pleased to welcome to Eira and Carola to the lab.
Eira is part of the new Leverhulme DTC on biomimetic AI at Sussex. She will be doing her PhD on individual differences in zebrafish vision. Her project is co-supervised by Jenny Bosten from Sussex Psychology.
Carola is a new MarieCurie Fellow, and she will work on “Colour vision in the dark”, using the frog visual system as a model.
New online talk on colour vision
by Tom Baden | March 23, 2021 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments
Many thanks again to Young IBRO for inviting us to give the inaugural talk in their new “NextInNeuro” webinar series! The recording from our talk “Retinal Circuits for Colour Vision: From Fish to Humans” available online.
New paper on colour processing the brain
by Tom Baden | March 8, 2021 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments
We are delighted to see Philipp’s latest paper formally published!
Bartel P$, Janiak FK, Osorio D, Baden T$. Colourfulness as a possible measure of object proximity in the larval zebrafish brain. Current Biology 31(5): R235-6.
New preprint on ribbon-tuning!
by Tom Baden | February 25, 2021 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments
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
New Research Centre on Sensory Neuroscience and Computation
by Tom Baden | February 15, 2021 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments
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 Dr. Max!
by Tom Baden | February 2, 2021 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments
Congratulations to Dr. Maxime Zimmermann for passing his viva!
Congratulations Dr. Phil!
by Tom Baden | December 17, 2020 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments
Congratulations to DR Philipp Bartel for passing his PhD viva!
New preprint on colour processing in the zebrafish brain
by Tom Baden | December 4, 2020 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments
The brain’s bulk spectral response encodes object colourfulness, which may serve as a proxy for object distance
Open Hardware efforts featured @Nature Magazine
by Tom Baden | November 18, 2020 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments
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.
New lab talk on Worldwide Neuro
by Tom Baden | November 11, 2020 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments
The talk can be accessed here:
https://www.worldwideneuro.com/seminar-event.html?id=1267
New zebrafish colour vision paper on bioRxiv
by Tom Baden | October 27, 2020 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments
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.
Vertebrate Vision: Lessons from non-model species. Special Issue out now
by Tom Baden | September 8, 2020 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments
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.
Two new “remote” lab additions
by Tom Baden | September 5, 2020 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments
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
LED-Zappelin’ out @HardwareX
by Tom Baden | July 24, 2020 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments
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!
Paper on TReND out in Neuron
by Tom Baden | July 20, 2020 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments
New paper out in Current Biology
by Tom Baden | June 11, 2020 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments
New paper on bioRxiv: 20 years of African Neuroscience
by Tom Baden | June 5, 2020 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments
UV vision paper out in Neuron
by Tom Baden | May 30, 2020 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments
PPE produced by the lab to help healthcare workers
by Tom Baden | April 24, 2020 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments
Wellcome Investigator Award in Science
by Tom Baden | April 24, 2020 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments
Sussex Visions live @Worldwide Neuro
by Tom Baden | April 24, 2020 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments
New PLoS Biol paper on COVID-19 response through Open Hardware
by Tom Baden | April 24, 2020 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments
Marvin’s Chicken-vision review now online
by Tom Baden | April 13, 2020 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments
First PhD student from the lab passes her viva!
by Tom Baden | April 6, 2020 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments
COVID-19 and Open Hardware – new preprint live
by Tom Baden | March 24, 2020 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments










