News and Events
- Neurotalks: the upcoming neuroscience talks in Göttingen [more]
- July 7th, July 22nd, etc.: Ribbon Synapses Seminar Series 2021 [more]
- July 14th, 2021, Göttingen Sensory Lecture, Hinrich Staecker, MD, PhD, University of Kansas Medical Center [more]
Jobs
Press releases
- Neuronal structures in color – a super-resolution view into the living brain [more]
- Des signaux lumineux contre la surdité, un usage inattendu et prometteur de l’optogénétique [more]
- Göttinger Forscher finden Zellen für Farbinformationen in Mäuseaugen [more]
- Hör-Implantate am Göttinger Primatenzentrum weiterentwickelt [more]
- Better hearing with optical cochlear implants [more]
- Hohe Exzellenz: Göttingen als Partnerstandort im „Deutsches Zentrum für Kinder- und Jugendgesundheit (DZKJ)“ ausgewählt. UMG koordiniert. [more]
- Prämierte Promotion in der neurowissenschaftlichen Hörforschung [more]
- Von leise bis laut: Synaptische Vielfalt erweitert den Bereich hörbarer Töne [more]
- Hochdotierter Wissenschaftspreis der Fondation Pour l’Audition für Göttinger Hörforscher [more]
Publications
- A Turntable Setup for Testing Visual and Tactile Grasping Movements in Non-human Primates. [more]
- Visually and tactually guided grasps lead to different neuronal activity in non-human primates. [more]
- Multi-label in vivo STED microscopy by parallelized switching of reversibly switchable fluorescent proteins. [more]
- PriMa: A low-cost, modular, open hardware, and 3D-printed fMRI manipulandum. [more]
- Nonlinear spatial integration in retinal bipolar cells shapes the encoding of artificial and natural stimuli. [more]
- Multiscale photonic imaging of the native and implanted cochlea. [more]
- The Cone Method: Inferring Decision Times from Single-Trial 3D Movement Trajectories in Choice Behavior. [more]
- Nonlinear Spatial Integration Underlies the Diversity of Retinal Ganglion Cell Responses to Natural Images. [more]
- Linear and nonlinear chromatic integration in the mouse retina. [more]
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The interdisciplinary Collaborative Research Center 889 “Cellular Mechanisms of Sensory Processing” was established by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG), took effect beginning January 1st, 2011, and was prolonged for another four years beginning January 1st, 2019.
Summary of SFB 889:
Processing of sensory information is the basis of our interaction with the outside world and sensory deficits remain a major concern and serious burden for public health. This CRC will take a multidisciplinary and integrative approach to elucidate cellular mechanisms of processing sensory information. Sensory cells and neurons feature specialized signaling machinery achieving remarkable performance, which when disturbed result in sensory dysfunction. We will study sensory transduction, synaptic transmission, neuronal plasticity and the function of neuronal networks from the level of protein complexes to behavior. Combining molecular perturbations with analysis of morphology and function of sensory systems and mathematical modeling, we will contribute to a comprehensive understanding of sensory processing and its disorders. Working on flies, rodents and primates and comparing audition, vision, olfaction and somatosensation we will explore common principles and decipher specialized mechanisms of sensory processing. Intensifying pre-existing and initiating collaborations among scientists from various university and non-university institutions is key to accomplishing our ambitious research plan.
Goals of the SFB 889 are:
- Characterization of the specialized supramolecular machinery of sensory transduction and synaptic transmission
- Unravelling of mechanisms of neuronal plasticity in sensory systems
- An improved understanding of integration and representation of sensory information in the CNS
- To contribute to an improved understanding of sensory deficits and the development of therapeutic approaches