We are most delighted that Marvin Seifert has just passed his PhD viva!

For his thesis, which was done in collaboration with Daniel Osorio, Marvin looked at what the chicken eye tells the chicken brain. Combining MEA recordings with patterend spectral stimulation he worked out lots of exciting and new things in the way that birds process spectral information. Poster teaser below, watch this space for paperz!

Thank you to Almut Kelber and Miguel Maravall for serving as examiners!

Seifert M^§, Baden T, Osorio D. The Retinal Basis of Vision in Chicken. Sem Cell Dev Biol. direct link. (preprints.org version).  pdf.

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!

The awards recorgnise Tessa’s work on in vivo synaptic function of photoreceptors, and George’s ventures into trying to understand the retinal basis of vision in sharks!

For a flavour, see their recent conference posters below!

With the FASEB Conference on Retinal Neurobiology 2022 coming up in a couple of days, we have uploaded all our coming posters to our online repository.

Check them out here!

We are excited that our BBSRC grant “Spectral Circuits for Figure-Ground Segregation in Motion Vision” has been funded