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- June 30th, SFB889 Colloquium, Norbert Babai, PhD, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg [more]
- July 9th, 5. Nacht des Wissens, Zentrales Hörsaalgebäude (ZHG) [more]
- July 11th, MPI-NAT City Campus Lecture Hall, Prof. Viviana Gradinaru, California Institute of Technology [more]
- October 5th - 7th,OPTOGENETICS CONFERENCE & SUMMERSCHOOL, Presentations by members of the SPP1926 [more]
Neurotalks: the upcoming neuroscience talks in Göttingen [more]
- Currently we do not have open positions [more]
- Europäische Spitzenförderung zur Erforschung des Hörens[more]
- "Tierversuche an Affen: Diskussion zum Tag des Versuchstiers"[more]
- Gutes Hören ist wichtig für die Lebensqualität[more]
- It´s the rhythm that counts [more]
- Mit zunehmendem Alter wird oft das Gehör schlechter [more]
- Göttinger Foscherinnen untersuchen, wie das Gehirn sich anpasst [more]
- DFG extends neurobiological research group at the University of Göttingen [more]
- Göttingen researchers investigate the effect of certain enzymes in the healthy and diseased brain [more]
- Das Ohr zur Welt. [more]
- Deciphering the behavioral and neurobiological basis of social interactions - new Collaborative Research Center in Göttingen [more]
- Statistical determinants of visuomotor adaptation along different dimensions during naturalistic 3D reaches. [more]
- Retinal Encoding of Natural Scenes. [more]
- Biallelic KITLG variants lead to a distinct spectrum of hypomelanosis and sensorineural hearing loss. [more]
- Genome-wide association meta-analysis identifies 48 risk variants and highlights the role of the stria vascularis in hearing loss. [more]
- Retinal receptive-field substructure: scaffolding for coding and computation. [more]
- Ca 2+-permeable AMPA receptors set the threshold for retrieval of drug memories. [more]
- Autosomal dominant non-syndromic hearing loss maps to DFNA33 (13q34) and co-segregates with splice and frameshift variants in ATP11A, a phospholipid flippase gene. [more]
- Methods for multiscale structural and functional analysis of the mammalian cochlea. [more]
- First-order visual interneurons distribute distinct contrast and luminance information across ON and OFF pathways to achieve stable behavior. [more]
- Simple model for encoding natural images by retinal ganglion cells with nonlinear spatial integration. [more]
- Dynamic coupling of oscillatory neural activity and its roles in visual attention. [more]
- The Road Traveled and Journey Ahead for the Genetics and Genomics of Tinnitus. [more]
- Allosteric control of Ubp6 and the proteasome via a bidirectional switch. [more]
- Rethinking Opsins. [more]
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The interdisciplinary Collaborative Research Center 889 “Cellular Mechanisms of Sensory Processing” was established by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG), took effect beginning January 1st, 2011, and was prolonged for another four years beginning January 1st, 2019.
Summary of SFB 889:
Processing of sensory information is the basis of our interaction with the outside world and sensory deficits remain a major concern and serious burden for public health. This CRC will take a multidisciplinary and integrative approach to elucidate cellular mechanisms of processing sensory information. Sensory cells and neurons feature specialized signaling machinery achieving remarkable performance, which when disturbed result in sensory dysfunction. We will study sensory transduction, synaptic transmission, neuronal plasticity and the function of neuronal networks from the level of protein complexes to behavior. Combining molecular perturbations with analysis of morphology and function of sensory systems and mathematical modeling, we will contribute to a comprehensive understanding of sensory processing and its disorders. Working on flies, rodents and primates and comparing audition, vision, olfaction and somatosensation we will explore common principles and decipher specialized mechanisms of sensory processing. Intensifying pre-existing and initiating collaborations among scientists from various university and non-university institutions is key to accomplishing our ambitious research plan.
Goals of the SFB 889 are:
- Characterization of the specialized supramolecular machinery of sensory transduction and synaptic transmission
- Unravelling of mechanisms of neuronal plasticity in sensory systems
- An improved understanding of integration and representation of sensory information in the CNS
- To contribute to an improved understanding of sensory deficits and the development of therapeutic approaches



