Project Details
Projekt
Homeostatic regulation of networkfunction under normal and altered sensory input (C07*)
Subject Area
Experimental and Theoretical Network Neuroscience
Term
since 2021
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 221828878
The new project C07 will investigate the homeostatic regulation of network function in the visual cortex in physiological and deprived sensory input by visual monocular deprivation (MD). After identifying the differential effect of MD on neuronal types and circuits and the contribution of different homeostatic mechanisms and interneuron classes to homeostatic recovery, we will now characterize the contribution of excitatory and inhibitory neurons to visual information transfer, the role of heterosynaptic plasticity in excitatory/inhibitory balance, connectivity and cortical computation, and the function of the two major cortical interneuron subtypes in cortical computation, in baseline conditions and after MD in collaboration with B11.
DFG Programme
Collaborative Research Centres
Applicant Institution
Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
Project Head
Professorin Dr. Julijana Gjorgjieva, Ph.D.
