New review published
“As I transitioned from studying Drosophila to the larval zebrafish, I have been noticing a lot of interesting parallels between their visual systems (esp. tectum vs. lobula), which I feel […]
The lab is heading to Cornell!
Starting this summer, and after 11 wonderful years in Munich, the Portugues Lab will be starting a new adventure at the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior (NBB) at Cornell University […]
Ot is Doc
Ot is Doc. Doc is Ot. Who is Ot? Ot is Doc! Ot Prat just defended his thesis entitled “Sensory Representations of Visual Stimuli in the Zebrafish Brain” and he […]
New lab preprint on visual inputs into the heading direction network
The representation of visual motion and landmark position aligns with heading direction in the zebrafish interpeduncular nucleus https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.09.25.614953v1 Briefly – we show that different visual signals that are important for […]
FENS-Kavli PhD Thesis Prize for Luigi
At the 2024 FENS Forum held in Vienna from June 25 to June 29, Luigi was awarded the FENS-Kavli Network of Excellence (FKNE) PhD Thesis Prize. Luigi’s thesis is entitled: […]
Portugues Retreat 2024
Hong, a visiting researcher from the Suzhou Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, brought a unique perspective to our annual Portugues Lab retreat in Berchtesgaden, Germany. […]