Benjamin Scholl

The paper shows that cortical networks in ferret primary visual cortex switch between amplifying and suppressing sensory inputs based on contrast, using cellular perturbations and models.

The paper develops a fluorescence lifetime-based sensor to image autophagy dynamics in vivo, revealing spatial and activity-dependent patterns in the mouse brain.

The paper demonstrates that CP-AMPAR activation is essential for both homosynaptic and heterosynaptic structural LTP in hippocampal slices, with heterosynaptic LTP showing faster development and trans-synaptic interactions.

This paper introduces a Gaussian process multi-class decoder (GPMD) for neural decoding, achieving state-of-the-art accuracy across species and demonstrating the importance of correlation structure.

The paper examines how astrocyte coverage of synapses in the ferret visual cortex correlates with synaptic structure and function, finding strong relationships between coverage and synaptic size, complexity, and functional properties.

The paper examines the positioning of mitochondria relative to dendritic spines in ferret visual cortex, finding no correlation with synaptic strength but instead suggesting a role in supporting diverse functional inputs.

The paper presents a computational model where synaptic weights correlate with presynaptic selectivity, improving decoding of stimuli compared to maximum likelihood inference.

The paper investigates how binocular synaptic networks in visual cortical neurons contribute to interocular response alignment through functional and structural analysis.

The paper challenges the Hebbian plasticity model by showing that cortical neuron selectivity arises from the total number of synapses, not strong individual inputs.

The paper shows that synaptic diversity in neurons arises from decoding sensory information from heterogeneous input populations, which is necessary for accurate stimulus decoding.

The paper introduces variants of the glutamate sensor iGluSnFR with improved brightness, broader concentration detection, and different emission colors for enhanced in vivo imaging.

This paper introduces a method to achieve video-rate volumetric imaging of brain activity at synaptic resolution using Bessel foci in two-photon microscopy.