Sensory input across modalities is highly dynamic and continuously confronts the brain with the task of making sense of the external world. This is particularly true for sensory systems that are subjected to a high amount of information. How does the brain do this? How does it use this information to make decisions?
In our group at the IEECR which will start in August 2023, we study olfaction as a key sense that many species depend on for survival. Olfactory cues can be especially useful in situations such as locating food sources, mating partners or avoiding predator encounters. Natural odours form temporally complex plumes that provide information over a large range of distances, in the absence of visual cues. The complex temporal dynamics of odour plumes carry spatial information about the odour landscape.
Understanding how the spatial information caried by odour plumes is used by mammals to navigate their environment on the cellular, circuit and behavioural level constitutes the primary research focus of the lab. We will use cutting-edge opto- and electrophysiological approaches and novel quantitative behavioural paradigms to learn how the dynamics of the external world are encoded in the brain and how they inform behaviour.
Please get in touch with Dr. Tobias Ackels if you are interested in joining us: ackelsgroup@ieecr-bonn.de.
For further information, please visit www.ackelslab.com
Sensory input across modalities is highly dynamic and continuously confronts the brain with the task of making sense of the external world. This is particularly true for sensory systems that are subjected to a high amount of information. How does the brain do this? How does it use this information to make decisions?
In our group at the IEECR which will start in August 2023, we study olfaction as a key sense that many species depend on for survival. Olfactory cues can be especially useful in situations such as locating food sources, mating partners or avoiding predator encounters. Natural odours form temporally complex plumes that provide information over a large range of distances, in the absence of visual cues. The complex temporal dynamics of odour plumes carry spatial information about the odour landscape.
Understanding how the spatial information caried by odour plumes is used by mammals to navigate their environment on the cellular, circuit and behavioural level constitutes the primary research focus of the lab. We will use cutting-edge opto- and electrophysiological approaches and novel quantitative behavioural paradigms to learn how the dynamics of the external world are encoded in the brain and how they inform behaviour.
Please get in touch with Dr. Tobias Ackels if you are interested in joining us: ackelsgroup@ieecr-bonn.de.
For further information, please visit www.ackelslab.com
Sensory input across modalities is highly dynamic and continuously confronts the brain with the task of making sense of the external world. This is particularly true for sensory systems that are subjected to a high amount of information. How does the brain do this? How does it use this information to make decisions?
In our group at the IEECR which will start in August 2023, we study olfaction as a key sense that many species depend on for survival. Olfactory cues can be especially useful in situations such as locating food sources, mating partners or avoiding predator encounters. Natural odours form temporally complex plumes that provide information over a large range of distances, in the absence of visual cues. The complex temporal dynamics of odour plumes carry spatial information about the odour landscape.
Understanding how the spatial information caried by odour plumes is used by mammals to navigate their environment on the cellular, circuit and behavioural level constitutes the primary research focus of the lab. We will use cutting-edge opto- and electrophysiological approaches and novel quantitative behavioural paradigms to learn how the dynamics of the external world are encoded in the brain and how they inform behaviour.
Please get in touch with Dr. Tobias Ackels if you are interested in joining us: ackelsgroup@ieecr-bonn.de.
For further information, please visit www.ackelslab.com
The BTC offers a rich repertoire of cutting-edge technologies organized into 12 core facilities. Numerous transgenic mouse lines and viral vectors is freely available at our in-house repositories.
The BTC offers a rich repertoire of cutting-edge technologies organized into 12 core facilities. Numerous transgenic mouse lines and viral vectors is freely available at our in-house repositories.
The BTC offers a rich repertoire of cutting-edge technologies organized into 12 core facilities. Numerous transgenic mouse lines and viral vectors is freely available at our in-house repositories.
