Lisa Fenk: Neural mechanisms for active eye movements in Drosophila
Max-Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence
Sensory perception is often an active process, and many animal species move their sensory organs to control their interaction with the outside world. Fruit flies move their retinas, via tiny muscles, both seemingly spontaneously and in response to visual motion. These movements and our vertebrate eye movements share surprising similarities. We now leverage fly retinal movements as a relatively simple model to examine cellular underpinnings of active visual processing. We make use of the rich experimental toolbox in Drosophila and combine these efforts with comparative experiments in other insect species. We aim to understand how fly eye movements are controlled neuronally, how the brain deals with input provided by moving eyes, and how visual perception in the end benefits from eye movements.
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Martin Rolfs / Lisa Rosenblum
Location: BCCN Berlin, lecture hall 9, Philippstr. 13 Haus 6, 10115 Berlin