Spatially asymmetric neuronal connectivity in motion-sensitive circuits Center for Developmental Biology

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Category	Seminar
Date and Time	2015-07-22 15:00 - 16:00
Venue	Auditorium C1F
Speaker	Keisuke Yonehara
Affiliation	DANDRITE- Danish Research Institute of Translational Neuroscience, Aarhus University
Title	Spatially asymmetric neuronal connectivity in motion-sensitive circuits
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Host	Masayo Takahashi
Summary	Inferring the direction of image motion is a fundamental component of visual computation, and essential for visually guided behavior. Even at the front of the visual stream, in the retina, a number of parallel circuits extract information about motion direction. We perform cell-type-specific experiments to understand the development and function of direction-selective circuit in mouse retina. My talk will have two parts. First I discuss the computational logic of direction selectivity, based on our study in which we recorded the concerted activity of the circuit elements of single direction-selective cells at subcellular resolution while these circuit elements were computing a specific task. Second I show how and when spatially asymmetric synaptic connectivity, which is a key circuit module of direction-selective circuit, is established during development.