Publications

Learning to cluster neuronal function
Nellen NS, Turishcheva P, Vystrcilova M, Sridhar S, Gollisch T, Tolias AS, Ecker AS
arXiv 2506.03293 (2025)
link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03293

Spatial adaptation of primate retinal ganglion cells between artificial and natural stimuli
Vystrcilova M, Sridhar S, Burg MF, Khani MH, Karamanlis D, Schreyer HM, Ramakrishna V, Krüppel S, Zapp SJ, Mietsch M, Gollisch T, Ecker AS
bioRxiv 2025.04.09.647910 (2025)
link: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.09.647910v1

Accelerated spike-triggered non-negative matrix factorization reveals coordinated ganglion cell subunit mosaics in the primate retina
Zapp SJ, Khani MH, Schreyer HM, Sridhar S, Ramakrishna V, Krüppel S, Mietsch M, Protti DA, Karamanlis D, Gollisch T
bioRxiv 2024.04.22.590506 (2024)
link: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.04.22.590506v1

AMPA receptor desensitization shapes gain control in the lateral geniculate nucleus
Ruggieri S, Gollisch T, von Engelhardt J
bioRxiv 2024.03.12.584576 (2024)
link: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.03.12.584576v1

Modeling spatial contrast sensitivity in responses of primate retinal ganglion cells to natural movies
Sridhar S, Vystrcilova M, Khani MH, Karamanlis D, Schreyer HM, Ramakrishna V, Krüppel S, Zapp SJ, Mietsch M, Ecker A, Gollisch T
bioRxiv 2024.03.05.583449 (2024)
link: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.03.05.583449v2

Filter-based models of suppression in retinal ganglion cells: comparison and generalization across species and stimuli
Shahidi N, Rozenblit F, Khani MH, Schreyer HM, Mietsch M, Protti DA, Gollisch T
PLoS Comput Biol 21:e1013031 (2025)
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Nonlinear receptive fields evoke redundant retinal coding of natural scenes
Karamanlis D, Khani MH, Schreyer HM, Zapp SJ, Mietsch M, Gollisch T
Nature 637:394-401 (2025)
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Applying super-resolution and tomography concepts to identify receptive field subunits in the retina
Krüppel S, Khani MH, Schreyer HM, Sridhar S, Ramakrishna V, Zapp SJ, Mietsch M, Karamanlis D, Gollisch T
PLoS Comput Biol 20:e1012370 (2024)
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Most discriminative stimuli for functional cell type clustering
Burg MF, Zenkel T, Vystrcilova M, Oesterle J, Höfling L, Willeke KF, Lause J, Müller S, Fahey PG, Ding Z, Restivo K, Sridhar S, Gollisch T, Berens P, Tolias AS, Euler T, Bethge M, Ecker AS
In The Twelfth International Conference on Learning Representations, ICLR (2024)
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Neuronal temporal filters as normal mode extractors
Golkar S, Berman J, Lipshutz D, Haret RM, Gollisch T, Chklovskii DB
Phys Rev Res 6:013111 (2024)
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Diversity of ganglion cell responses to saccade-like image shifts in the primate retina
Krüppel S, Khani MH, Karamanlis D, Erol YC, Zapp SJ, Mietsch M, Protti DA, Rozenblit F, Gollisch T
J Neurosci 43:5319-5339 (2023)
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Retinal encoding of natural scenes
Karamanlis D, Schreyer HM, Gollisch T
Annu Rev Vis Sci 8:171-193 (2022)
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Molecular mechanisms mediating the transfer of disease-associated proteins and effects on neuronal activity
Brás IC, Khani MH, Vasili E, Möbius W, Riedel D, Parfentev I, Gerhardt E, Fahlbusch C, Urlaub H, Zweckstetter M, Gollisch T, Outeiro TF
J Parkinsons Dis 12:2397-2422 (2022)
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Ectosomes and exosomes modulate neuronal spontaneous activity
Brás IC, Khani MH, Riedel D, Parfentev I, Gerhardt E, van Riesen C, Urlaub H, Gollisch T, Outeiro TF
J Proteom 269:104721 (2022)
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Retinal receptive-field substructure: scaffolding for coding and computation
Zapp SJ*, Nitsche S*, Gollisch T (* = equal contribution)
Trends Neurosci 45:430-445 (2022)
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Simple model for encoding natural images by retinal ganglion cells with nonlinear spatial integration
Liu JK, Karamanlis D, Gollisch T
PLoS Comput Biol 18:e1009925 (2022)
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Nonlinear spatial integration in retinal bipolar cells shapes the encoding of artificial and natural stimuli
Schreyer HM, Gollisch T
Neuron 109:1692-1706 (2021)
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Nonlinear spatial integration underlies the diversity of retinal ganglion cell responses to natural images
Karamanlis D, Gollisch T
J Neurosci 41:3479-3498 (2021)
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Linear and nonlinear chromatic integration in the mouse retina
Khani MH, Gollisch T
Nat Commun 12:1900 (2021)
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What the salamander eye has been telling the vision scientist’s brain
Rozenblit F, Gollisch T
Semin Cell Dev Biol 106:61-71 (2020)
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Activity correlations between direction-selective retinal ganglion cells synergistically enhance motion decoding from complex visual scenes
Kühn NK, Gollisch T
Neuron 101:963-976 (2019)
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CKAMP44 modulates integration of visual inputs in the lateral geniculate nucleus
Chen X, Aslam M, Gollisch T, Allen K, von Engelhardt J
Nat Commun 9:261 (2018)
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Bioinspired approach to modeling retinal ganglion cells using system identification techniques
Vance PJ, Das GP, Kerr D, Coleman SA, McGinnity TM, Gollisch T, Liu JK
IEEE Trans Neural Netw Learn Syst 29:1796-1808 (2018)
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Diversity in spatial scope of contrast adaptation among mouse retinal ganglion cells
Khani MH, Gollisch T
J Neurophysiol 118:3024-3043 (2017)
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Differential effects of HCN channel block on On and Off pathways in the retina as a potential cause for medication-induced phosphene perception
Bemme S, Weick M, Gollisch T
Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 58:4754-4767 (2017)
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Inference of neuronal functional circuitry with spike-triggered non-negative matrix factorization
Liu JK, Schreyer HM, Onken A, Rozenblit F, Khani MH, Krishnamoorthy V, Panzeri S, Gollisch T
Nat Commun 8:149 (2017)
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Loss of Neuroligin3 specifically downregulates retinal GABAAα2 receptors without abolishing direction selectivity
Hoon M, Krishnamoorthy V, Gollisch T, Falkenburger B, Varoqueaux F
PLoS One 12:e0181011 (2017)
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Sensitivity to image recurrence across eye-movement-like image transitions through local serial inhibition in the retina
Krishnamoorthy V, Weick M, Gollisch T
Elife 6:e22431 (2017)
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Neural circuit inference from function to structure
Real E, Asari H, Gollisch T, Meister M
Curr Biol 27:189-198 (2017)
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Joint encoding of object motion and motion direction in the salamander retina
Kühn NK, Gollisch T
J Neurosci 36:12203-12216 (2016)
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Using matrix and tensor factorizations for the single-trial analysis of population spike trains
Onken A, Liu JK, Karunasekara PPCR, Delis I, Gollisch T, Panzeri S
PLoS Comput Biol 12:e1005189 (2016)
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Non-linear retinal processing supports invariance during fixational eye movements
Greene G, Gollisch T, Wachtler T
Vision Res 118:158-170 (2016)
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Spike-triggered covariance analysis reveals phenomenological diversity of contrast adaptation in the retina
Liu JK, Gollisch T
PLoS Comput Biol 11:e1004425 (2015)
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Nonlinear spatial integration in the receptive field surround of retinal ganglion cells
Takeshita D, Gollisch T
J Neurosci 34:7548-7561 (2014)
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Local and global contrast adaptation in retinal ganglion cells
Garvert MM, Gollisch T
Neuron 77:915-928 (2013)
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Features and functions of nonlinear spatial integration by retinal ganglion cells
Gollisch T
J Physiol Paris 107:338-348 (2013)
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Spike-triggered covariance: geometric proof, symmetry properties, and extension beyond Gaussian stimuli
Samengo I, Gollisch T
J Comput Neurosci 34:137-161 (2013)
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Computing complex visual features with retinal spike times
Gütig R*, Gollisch T*, Sompolinsky H, Meister M (* = equal contribution)
PLoS One 8:e53063 (2013)
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The iso-response method: measuring neuronal stimulus integration with closed-loop experiments
Gollisch T, Herz AVM
Front Neural Circuits 6:104 (2012)
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Deletion of the presynaptic scaffold CAST reduces active zone size in rod photoreceptors and impairs visual processing
tom Dieck S*, Specht D*, Strenzke N, Hida Y, Krishnamoorthy V, Schmidt KF, Inoue E, Ishizaki H, Tanaka-Okamoto M, Miyoshi J, Hagiwara A, Brandstätter JH, Löwel S, Gollisch T, Ohtsuka T, Moser T (* = equal contribution)
J Neurosci 32:12192-12203 (2012)
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Closed-loop measurements of iso-response stimuli reveal dynamic nonlinear stimulus integration in the retina
Bölinger D, Gollisch T
Neuron 73:333-346 (2012)
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Gene therapy restores missing cone-mediated vision in the CNGA3(-/-) mouse model of achromatopsia
Michalakis S, Mühlfriedel R, Tanimoto N, Krishnamoorthy V, Koch S, Fischer MD, Becirovic E, Bai L, Huber G, Beck SC, Fahl E, Büning H, Schmidt J, Zong X, Gollisch T, Biel M, Seeliger MW
Adv Exp Med Biol 723:183-189 (2012)
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Neue Ansätze zur Therapie genetisch bedingter Blindheit
Michalakis S, Mühlfriedel R, Koch S, Gollisch T, Biel M, Seeliger MW
BIOspektrum 7:749-750 (2010)
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Restoration of cone vision in the CNGA3(-/-) mouse model of congenital complete lack of cone photoreceptor function
Michalakis S, Mühlfriedel R, Tanimoto N, Krishnamoorthy V, Koch S, Fischer MD, Becirovic E, Bai L, Huber G, Beck SC, Fahl E, Büning H, Paquet-Durand F, Zong X, Gollisch T, Biel M, Seeliger MW
Mol Ther 18:2057-2063 (2010)
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Eye smarter than scientists believed: neural computations in circuits of the retina
Gollisch T, Meister M
Neuron 65:150-164 (2010)
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Throwing a glance at the neural code: rapid information transmission in the visual system
Gollisch T
HFSP J 3:36-46 (2009)
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Modeling convergent ON and OFF pathways in the early visual system
Gollisch T, Meister M
Biol Cybern 99:263-278 (2008)
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Rapid neural coding in the retina with relative spike latencies
Gollisch T, Meister M
Science 319:1108-1111 (2008)
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Time-warp invariant pattern detection with bursting neurons
Gollisch T
New J Phys 10:015012 (2008)
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From response to stimulus: adaptive sampling in sensory physiology
Benda J, Gollisch T, Machens CK, Herz AVM
Curr Opin Neurobiol 17:430-436 (2007)
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Modeling single-neuron dynamics and computations: a balance of detail and abstraction
Herz AVM, Gollisch T, Machens CK, Jaeger D
Science 314:80-85 (2006)
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Estimating receptive fields in the presence of spike-time jitter
Gollisch T
Network 17:103-129 (2006)
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Spike-timing precision underlies the coding efficiency of auditory receptor neurons
Rokem A, Watzl S, Gollisch T, Stemmler M, Herz AVM, Samengo I
J Neurophysiol 95:2541 -2552 (2006)
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Disentangling sub-millisecond processes within an auditory transduction chain
Gollisch T, Herz AVM
PLoS Biol 3:e8 (2005)
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Testing the efficiency of sensory coding with optimal stimulus ensembles
Machens CK, Gollisch T, Kolesnikova O, Herz AVM
Neuron 47:447-456 (2005)
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Spike-train variability of auditory neurons in vivo: dynamic responses follow predictions from constant stimuli
Schaette R, Gollisch T, Herz AVM
J Neurophysiol 93:3270-3281 (2005)
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Input-driven components of spike-frequency adaptation can be unmasked in vivo
Gollisch T, Herz AVM
J Neurosci 24:7435-7444 (2004)
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Analyzing mechanosensory transduction by identifying invariant directions in stimulus space
Gollisch T, Herz AVM
Neurocomput 52-54:525-530 (2003)
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Energy integration describes sound-intensity coding in an insect auditory system
Gollisch T, Schütze H, Benda J, Herz AVM
J Neurosci 22:10434-10448 (2002)
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Equation of state for helium-4 from microphysics
Gollisch T, Wetterich C
Phys Rev B 65:134506 (2002)
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Unique translation between Hamiltonian operators and functional integrals
Gollisch T, Wetterich C
Phys Rev Lett 86:1-5 (2001)
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