Volker Bormuth

This paper introduces a rotating two-photon light-sheet microscope for vestibular imaging in larval zebrafish during physiological stimulation.

The paper maps zebrafish brain responses to pitch and roll-axis vestibular stimulation, revealing directional biases in neuronal activity and identifying specific brain regions involved in motion perception.

The paper introduces LaRBMs to uncover a shared latent representation of spontaneous brain activity across individuals, showing functional cell assemblies are conserved in larval zebrafish.

The paper identifies a sensorimotor instability driving a locomotor transition in Danionella cerebrum, showing it is an energy-saving strategy linked to swimming strength.

This study uses Hidden Markov Models to link neural activity and behavior in zebrafish larvae, revealing state-based correlations between swimming patterns and circuit activation.

The paper shows that logarithmic nonlinearities in sensory and motor systems stabilize sensorimotor control despite delays and uncertainty.

The paper describes a massively collaborative project using spiking neural networks to study sound localization, involving 31 researchers across multiple countries.

The paper demonstrates that nonlinear fusion outperforms linear fusion in multisensory integration tasks when sensory signals are statistically dependent, and shows that spiking neural networks can approximate this nonlinear algorithm.

This paper presents an open-source design for a one- and two-photon light-sheet microscope that reduces cost and complexity while improving accessibility.

The paper uses magnetic actuation of otoliths in larval zebrafish to study vestibulo-motor processing without head movement, revealing commissural inhibition between brain hemispheres.

The paper uses a generative model to uncover neural assemblies in zebrafish brains, showing it can replicate activity statistics and reveal functional connectivity.

This paper develops a light-sheet microscope to enable whole-brain calcium imaging in head-restrained zebrafish during vestibular stimulation, revealing dynamic brain responses to physiological inputs.