Rainer W. Friedrich
Neurobiology
Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research
Switzerland
Biography
2007- Senior Group Leader, Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel 2001-2007 Research Group Leader, Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Heidelberg, Germany 2000-2001 Junior Group Leader, Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Heidelberg, Germany 1998-2000 Postdoctoral Fellow, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA 1998 Postdoctoral Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany
Research Interest
The goal of our research is to understand how neuronal circuits perform intelligent computations. Unlike most technical devices, brains learn to interpret their environment from experience and use this knowledge to inform behavior.
Publications
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Frank T, Friedrich RW (2015) Individuality sniffed out in flies. Nature 526:200-201
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Wanner AA, Genoud C, Masudi T, Siksou L, Friedrich RW (2016) Dense EM-based reconstruction of the interglomerular projectome in the zebrafish olfactory bulb. Nat Neurosci. 2016 Apr; [Epub ahead of print]
