Sina Tootoonian

The paper explains 'silent' mitral cells in the olfactory bulb using a computational model that incorporates common feature subtraction, showing baseline activity cancels common olfactory features to enhance odor response.

The paper shows that the mouse olfactory bulb decorrelates odour representations from input to output, enhancing separability through gain modulation.

The paper uses synchrotron X-ray nanotomography to link subcellular anatomy to odor response diversity in mouse olfactory bulb projection neurons.

The paper investigates how temporal information from odour stimuli is encoded in mouse olfactory bulb neurons, finding a consistent temporal resolution and separable encoding of odour quality and dynamics.

The paper proposes a method for MAP inference in linear models using sparse connectivity, inspired by sister mitral cells in the olfactory system.

The paper identifies 165 cell types in the Drosophila lateral horn and shows that 33 of them have stereotyped odor responses, revealing principles of odor categorization in a higher olfactory center.