Responsibilities
Director & Head of Dept. Circuits – Computation – Models, MPI for Biological Intelligence
Contact
Department Circuits – Computation – Models
Am Klopferspitz 18
D-82152 Martinsried
Phone:
+49 (0)89 / 8578-3250
Fax:
+49 (0)89 / 8578-3252
Email:
christine.thalhammer@bi.mpg.de
Website:
https://www.bi.mpg.de/borst
Further Information
Research focus: Computational neuroscience, systems neurobiology
Key words: Fly motion vision, dendritic processing, computational neuroscience
GSN students
- Current: Sandra Fendl, Maria Bianca Leonte, Nadezhda Pirogova, Nikolai Hörmann, Florian Richter, Abhishek Mishra, Jonatan Malis, Aicha Haji Ali, Amalia Braun
- Graduated: Dr. Georg Ammer, Dr. Aljoscha Leonhardt, Dr. Katarina Pankova, Dr. Armin Bahl, Dr. Franz Weber, Dr. Matthias Meier, Dr. Etienne Serbe, Dr. Michael Drews, Dr. Anna Schützenberger, Dr. Matthew Maisak, Dr. Christian Busch
Selected publications:
Weber F, Machens CK and Borst A. (2012) Disentangling the functional consequences of the connectivity between optic-flow processing neurons. Nature Neurosci 15: 441-448.
Borst A and Grothe B. (2011) Die Welt im Kopf. In: Zukunft Gehirn. Eds: T Bonhoeffer, P Gruss. C.H. Beck, pp 37-58.
Borst A and Euler T. (2011) Seeing things in motion: Models, circuits, and mechanisms. Neuron 71: 974-994.
Wang H, Isik M, Borst A and Hemmert W. (2011) Auditory information coding by cochlear neurons. J Comput Neurosci 30: 529-542.
Joesch M, Schnell B, Raghu SV, Reiff DF and Borst A. (2010) ON and OFF pathways in Drosophila motion vision. Nature 468: 300-304.