B. Semihcan Sermet

The Rod Bipolar Cell Pathway Contributes To Surround Responses In OFFRetinal Ganglion Cells

The paper identifies rod bipolar and AII amacrine cells as key to surround responses in OFF retinal ganglion cells through optogenetics and electrophysiology.

High frequency spike inference with particle Gibbs sampling

This paper introduces a Bayesian method using particle Gibbs sampling to infer high-frequency neuronal spikes and quantify their uncertainty, showing improved performance on benchmark datasets.

Synaptic dynamics are a tunable substrate sculpting neuralpopulation activity

The paper shows that synaptic dynamics shape sparse neural activity patterns in granule cells, tuning them to match learning demands.

Dopaminergic Control of Retinal Oscillations Driving Infantile Nystagmus

This paper identifies dopaminergic modulation of AII amacrine cells as a therapeutic target for infantile nystagmus by showing that restoring dopamine suppresses retinal oscillations and improves visual signal fidelity.

Precise calcium-to-spike inference using biophysical generative models

The paper develops biophysically-inspired models to improve spike inference from calcium imaging by accounting for kinetic features of fluorescent indicators.

Temporal pattern recognition in retinal ganglion cells is mediated by dynamical inhibitory synapses

The paper shows that depressing inhibitory synapses enable retinal ganglion cells to signal omitted stimuli in flash sequences, revealing a mechanism for predictive error signaling.