Research:
Function of Neural Circuits: My goal is to understand the function of neuronal circuits. By "circuit" I mean a brain structure with many neurons that has some anatomical and functional identity, and exchanges signals with other brain circuits. Most of our work has focused on the retina and the olfactory bulb, with some explorations into the visual cortex and the insect antennal lobe.
Selected Publications: Soucy ER, Albeanu DF, Fantana AL, Murthy VN, Meister M (2009) Precision and diversity in an odor map on the olfactory bulb. Nat Neurosci 12: 210-220. Geffen MN, Broome BM, Laurent G, Meister M (2009) Neural encoding of rapidly fluctuating odors. Neuron 61: 570-586. Fantana AL, Soucy ER, Meister M (2008) Rat olfactory bulb mitral cells receive sparse glomerular inputs. Neuron 59: 802-814. Gollisch T, Meister M (2008) Rapid neural coding in the retina with relative spike latencies. Science 319: 1108-1111. Kim IJ, Zhang Y, Yamagata M, Meister M, Sanes JR (2008) Molecular identification of a retinal cell type that responds to upward motion. Nature 452: 478-482. Ölveczky BP, Baccus SA, Meister M (2007) Retinal adaptation to object motion. Neuron 56: 689-700. Pitkow X, Sompolinsky H, Meister M (2007) A neural computation for visual acuity in the presence of eye movements. PLoS Biol 5: e331. |
