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Prof. Dr. Bert Sakmann

Principal Investigator

Address:
MPI - Emeritus Group Cortical column in silico
Am Klopferspitz 18
82152 Martinsried, Germany

Phone: +49-89-8578-3459
Email: fhofmann[at]neuro.mpg.de

Related Publications

Research topics

  • mechanisms of synaptic transmission
  • function of dendrites in signaling and computations
  • large scale anatomical methods
  • simulations of small nerve nets modeled according to realistic anatomical assumptions

Scientific approach

We develop methods to generate anatomical data on local and longrange circuits at cellular subcellular resolution.

These anatomical data are used to simulate signal flow through small nerve nets that underly simple behaviours, like “decision making” in a gap-cross task.

Bernstein projects

Project A1 - Neural Circuits for Motion Detection: From 3D-Reconstruction to Computational Modeling. Alexander Borst (MPI) and Bert Sakmann (MPI)

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