Note this seminar will be held a different location, and on a different day of the week than typical ION Seminars: Tuesday, May 2nd at 4pm in LISB 217

Visual information from the retina targets multiple brain regions, forming two major pathways going through either the dorsal lateral geniculate of the thalamus or the superior colliculus. To this date, the respective role of each pathway remains unknown and a clear picture of the orchestrated process that is vision is still lacking. Here I will present recent findings toward a better understanding of how distinct visual features are represented in the superior colliculus and a new approach to link molecularly defined cell-types to function.  I will also discuss recent progress toward the development of a comparative approach using mice and tree shrews. Such knowledge is a required steppingstone to advance both therapeutic approaches to the repair of vision loss, but also to understand most psychiatric conditions in which sensory processing is altered.

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