Neuroscience at ISTA covers multiple approaches, from structural, molecular, cellular, and systems level of analysis, to computational neuroscience and the study of neurodevelopmental disorders.
Understanding the function of the brain is one of the major challenges in modern life sciences. Particularly intriguing questions are how higher brain functions in brain circuits, such as encoding of information (Tkacik), neuronal networks (Vogels), learning and memory (Csicsvari), neuronal basis of innate behaviors (Jösch), motor circuitry (Sweeney), and dysfunctions such as epilepsy, autism, or schizophrenia (Novarino) emerge from elementary processes, such as molecular, cellular, and synaptic components (de Bono, Jonas, Shigemoto, Siegert) and their development (Hippenmeyer). In the multidisciplinary neuroscience track, we aim to examine brain function at multiple levels in both health and disease, as well as develop advanced techniques and optical tools (Danzl) for addressing these research questions.
A wide variety of cutting-edge techniques such as nanophysiology, nanophotonics, electron imaging, patch-clamp recording, genetics and genomics, mosaic analysis with double markers (MADM), 4D live-imaging, optogenetics, signal processing, computational modeling, neuronal network and behavioral analysis are employed to probe the complexity of animal neuronal systems.
COMPLETE neuroscience RESEARCH GROUP DETAILS ON ISTA’S MAIN SITE:
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- Systems Neuroscience
JOZSEF CSICSVARI - High-resolution Optical Imaging for Biology
JOHANN DANZL - Genes, Circuits, and Behavior
MARIO DE BONO - Protein Homeostasis and Aging
MARTIN HETZER - Genetic Dissection of Cerebral Cortex Development
SIMON HIPPENMEYER - Cellular Neuroscience
PETER JONAS - Neuroethology
MAX JÖSCH
- Systems Neuroscience
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- Tissue Growth and Developmental Pattern Formation
ANNA KICHEVA - Genetic and Molecular Basis of Neurodevelopmental Disorders
GAIA NOVARINO - Molecular Neuroscience
RYUICHI SHIGEMOTO - Neuroimmunology in Health and Disease
SANDRA SIEGERT - Evolution, Development and Function of Motor Circuits
Lora SWEENEY - Computational Neuroscience and Neurotheory
Tim VOGELS - Information Processing in Biological Systems
GAšPER TKAčIK
- Tissue Growth and Developmental Pattern Formation
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