Botond Roska
Neurobiology
Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research
Switzerland
Biography
2014- Professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland 2010- Senior Group Leader, Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland 2005-2010 Junior Group Leader, Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland 2001-2005 Harvard Junior Fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows, Harvard University 1995-1997 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Research Interest
We are interested in how neurons interact in local neuronal networks to compute behaviorally relevant functions
Publications
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Yonehara K, Fiscella M, Drinnenberg A, Esposti F, Trenholm S, Krol J, Franke F, Scherf BG, Kusnyerik A, Müller J, Szabo A, Jüttner J, Cordoba F, Reddy AP, Németh J, Nagy ZZ, Munier F, Hierlemann A, Roska B (2016) Congenital Nystagmus Gene FRMD7 Is Necessary for Establishing a Neuronal Circuit Asymmetry for Direction Selectivity. Neuron. 2016 Jan 6;89(1):177-93
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Rompani SB, Müllner FE, Wanner A, Zhang C, Roth CN, Yonehara K, Roska B. (2017) Different Modes of Visual Integration in the Lateral Geniculate Nucleus Revealed by Single-Cell-Initiated Transsynaptic Tracing. Neuron. 2017 Feb 22;93(4):767-776