Albrecht Haase

The project is a collaboration with the companies Media System Lab and the FLIM Labs. It aims at:

• Integration and Testing of Fluorescence lifetime acquisition electronics into a two-photon microscope
• Identification of potential contrast mechanisms for brain activity imaging and metabolic imaging at the cellular level

The project is about studying the visual processing pathway in insect models. It will contain

• functional imaging of visual information processing
• tracing the processing pathway from the receptor level to higher brain centers
• study coding of different visual features like movement, color, resolution
• study plastic changes within the visual system due to learning

The project aims at testing predictions noise-level dependence of neuronal coding, involving

• Acquisition of 4D maps of  neuronal network activity
• Testing noise-induced change of the sensitivity threshold
• Comparing data to models of stochastic resonances

This project is a collaboration with the Quantum Biology and Computational Physics Lab at the University of Oldenburg aiming at:

• connecting experimental data on magnetoreception with quantum mechanical models
• quantifying the influence of magnetic fields on the visual brain activity pattern
• testing sensitivity, directionality, and light dependence predictions

The project involves behavioural experiments and functional neuroimaging in insects, in order to

• localize for the first time magnetosensitive neurons
• characterize neuronal activity pattern in response to magnetic field stimuli
• test the dependency of magnetosensitivity on light