Responsibilities
Professor of Brain Circuit Function and Dysfunction
Contact
Technical University of Munich
Biedersteiner Str. 29
D-80802 Munich
Phone:
+49 (0)89 / 8578 3492
Email:
ruben.portugues@tum.de
Website:
https://portugueslab.com/
Further Information
Research focus: My group is interested in understanding the brain circuits that control how the brain responds to stimuli with appropriate behavior and how these circuits allow for modulation and adaptive behavior. This includes processes typically referred to as motor learning and decision-making.
Keywords: zebrafish; cerebellum; sensorimotor control; decision making
GSN students
- Current: Luigi Petrucco, Ot Prat, Shuhong Huang
- Graduated: Dr. Elena Dragomir, Dr. Vilim Štih
Selected publications:
Dragomir EI, Štih V, Portugues R: “Evidence accumulation during a sensorimotor decision task revealed by whole-brain imaging”. Nature Neuroscience. 2020; (23) 85-93.
Knogler LD, Kist AM, Portugues R: "Motor context dominates output from purkinje cell functional regions during reflexive visuomotor behaviours". eLife. 2019: e42138.
Knogler LD, Markov AD, Dragomir EI, Štih V, Portugues R: "Sensorimotor representations in cerebellar granule cells in larval zebrafish are dense, spatially organized, and non-temporally patterned". Current Biology. 2017; 27(9): 1288-1302.
Oteiza P, Odstrcil I, Lauder G, Portugues R, Engert F: "A novel mechanism for mechanosensory-based rheotaxis in larval zebrafish". Nature. 2017; 547(7664): 445-448.
Portugues R, Feierstein CE, Engert F, Orger MB: "Whole-brain activity maps reveal stereotyped, distributed networks for visuomotor behavior". Neuron. 2014; 81(6): 1328-1343.