(L-R)Jeff Lichtman, Markus Meister, and Joshua Sanes A special federal grant for bold, outside-of-the-box biomedical proposals has been awarded to an MCB team with an ambitious plan to…
"With the enormous advances made in the miniaturization of instruments, it is not unthinkable anymore that neuroethologists will, at one point in the future, be able to obtain…
Our brains generally represent the outside world using ordered maps. For example, neighboring points in visual space activate neighboring points on the retina, and this relation is preserved…
Many regions of the brain are organized in such a way that they form an ordered representation of our sensory experiences. Similar physical stimuli –nearby points of light…
Co-authors (L to R): Tim Gollisch and Markus Meister The process of vision begins in the retina. This neuronal network at the back of the eyeball receives incident…
Co-authors (L to R) Yifeng Zhang, Markus Meister, Joshua R. Sanes, In-Jung Kim, and Masahito Yamagata, A mouse is small, close to the ground. Hawks and cats may…
No matter how hard we fix our gaze, our eyes are in constant motion due to involuntary head and eye movements. The resulting image motion on our retinas…
Authors (left to right) Maria Neimark Geffen, Saskia E. J. de Vries and Markus Meister The eye communicates to the brain all the information needed for vision in…
Markus Meister Can the closed eyes of an unborn baby produce messages that help normal brain development in the womb? It may seem strange to think so, but…
Markus Meister, left, with Minerva Foundation board member Semir Zeki Markus Meister, Jeff C. Tarr Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology, has been awarded the Golden Brain Award…
