Ben James

The paper develops an all-optical system to study whole-brain neuronal dynamics during gut interoception in zebrafish, revealing how nutrient delivery and sensory stimuli are encoded across brain regions.

This study shows that multivesicular release improves information transfer efficiency in sensory neurons by increasing spike generation and reducing latency.

The paper shows that diurnal modulation enhances information transmission efficiency at zebrafish retinal synapses through increased synaptic gain, reduced noise, and multivesicular release.

This study shows how dopamine and Substance P modulate synaptic gain and temporal filtering in retinal bipolar cells by altering calcium transients during multivesicular release.

The paper develops an approximate Bayesian inference method for a mechanistic model of glutamate release at a ribbon synapse, showing it can estimate parameters from synthetic and experimental data and outperforms a standard GLM.

The paper shows that ribbon synapses in zebrafish retinal bipolar cells use amplitude coding to enhance the efficiency of visual signal transmission by encoding more information per vesicle.