Publications

Journals

• Hilgen G, Sorbaro M, Pirmoradian S, Muthmann JO, Kepiro IE, Ullo S, Ramirez CJ, Puente Encinas A, Maccione A, Berdondini L, Murino V, Sona D, Cella Zanacchi F, Sernagor E, Hennig MH. Unsupervised Spike Sorting for Large-Scale, High-Density Multielectrode Arrays. Cell Rep. 2017 Mar 7;18(10):2521-2532

• Hilgen G, Pirmoradian S, Pamplona D, Kornprobst P, Cessac B, Hennig MH, Sernagor E. Pan-retinal characterisation of Light Responses from Ganglion Cells in the Developing Mouse Retina. Sci Rep. 2017 Feb 10;7:42330.

• Barrett JM, Hilgen G, Sernagor E. Dampening Spontaneous Activity Improves the  Light Sensitivity and Spatial Acuity of Optogenetic Retinal Prosthetic Responses. Sci Rep. 2016 Sep 21;6:33565

• N.V.K. Medathati, H. Neumann, G.S. Masson and P. Kornprobst, "Bio-Inspired Computer Vision: Towards a Synergistic Approach of Artificial and Biological Vision" Computer Vision and Image Understanding, vol. 150, (2016) http://doi.org/10.1016/j.cviu.2016.04.009

• G. Portelli G., Barrett J.M., Hilgen G., Masquelier T., Maccione A., Di Marco S., Berdondini L., Kornprobst P., Sernagor E., “Rank order coding: a retinal information decoding strategy revealed by large-scale multielectrode array retinal recordings.” eNeuro, 3 (3), 2016 DOI: 10.1523/ENEURO.0134-15.2016 

• T. Masquelier, G. Portelli and P. Kornprobst “Microsaccades enable efficient synchrony-based coding in the retina: a simulation study” Scientific Reports, 6 doi:10.1038/srep24086 (2016)

• Zeno Lavagnino, Giuseppe Sancataldo, Marta d’Amora, Philipp Follert, Davide De Pietri Tonelli, Alberto Diaspro & Francesca Cella Zanacchi, “4D (x-y-z-t) imaging of thick biological samples by means of Two-Photon inverted Selective Plane Illumination Microscopy (2PE-iSPIM)” Scientific Reports 6, DOI: 10.1038/srep23923 (2016)

• A. Maccione, M. Gandolfo, S. Zordan, H. Amin, S. Di Marco, T. Nieus, G. N. Angotzi and L. Berdondini  “Microelectronics, bioinformatics and neurocomputation for massive neuronal recordings in brain circuits with large scale multielectrode array probes” Brain Research Bulletin special issue in  Neural data analysis. vol.119 partB, (2015) http://doi.org/10.1016/j.brainresbull.2015.07.008

• R. Cofré, B. Cessac, “Exact computation of the maximum-entropy potential of spiking neural-network models”,Phys. Rev. E 89, 052117 (2014)

• H. Nasser, B. Cessac, “Parameters estimation for spatio-temporal maximum entropy distributions: application to neural spiketrains”,Entropy, 16(4), 2244- 2277 (2014). doi:10.3390/e16042244

• B. Cessac, R. Cofré, Spike train statistics and Gibbs distributions, J. Physiol. Paris, Volume 107, Issue 5, Pages 360-368 (November 2013). Special issue: Neural Coding and Natural Image Statistics.

• A. Maccione, M.H. Hennig, M. Gandolfo, O. Muthmann, J. van Coppenhagen, S.J. Eglen, L. Berdondini, E. Sernagor, Following the Ontogeny of Retinal Waves: Pan-Retinal Recordings of Population Dynamics in the Neonatal Mouse, J Physiol. (December 2013).

• A. Maccione, S. Di Marco, G. Pruzzo, G. Hilgen, E.Sernagor and L.Berdondini, “Combining high dense MEA retina recording with precise spatiotemporal visual stimulation reveals spatial horizontal interactions of amacrine cell layer”. In preparation
• Gerrit Hilgen, Martino Sorbaro, Sahar Pirmoradian, Jens-Oliver Muthmann,Ibolya Kepiro, Simona Ullo, Cesar Juarez Ramirez, Alessandro Maccione, Luca Berdondini, Vittorio Murino, Diego Sona,Francesca Cella Zanacchi,Upinder Bhalla, Evelyne Sernagor, Matthias H Hennig "Unsupervised spike sorting for large scale, high density multielectrode arrays" (Preprint BioRxiv) 
• Gerrit Hilgen, Sahar Pirmoradian, Daniela Pamplona, Pierre Kornprobst, BrunoCessac, Matthias H Hennig, Evelyne Sernagor "Pan-retinal characterization of light responses from ganglion cells in the developing mouse retina"  (Preprint BioRxiv)

Conferences

• I. Kepiro et al. “Microscopy imaging accompanied with electrophysiology: A tool to investigate retinal functionality” 2nd light sheet fluorescence microscopy international conference, Genova, July 2015.

• F. Cella Zanacchi et al. “Advanced selective plane illumination imaging of tissues by two photon excitation” 2nd light sheet fluorescence microscopy international conference, Genova, July 2015.

• E. Sernagor, J.M.Barrett, G. Portelli, G. Hilgen, T.Masquelier, P. Kornprobst “Visual information encoded by the wave of first stimulus-evoked spikes revealed in the retinal ganglion cell layer by large-scale multielectrode array recordings” Neuroscience, 2015.

• Gerrit Hilgen, Samantha Softley, Daniela Pamplona, Pierre Kornprobst, Bruno Cessac, Evelyne Sernagor, “The effect of retinal GABA Depletion by Allylglycine on mouse retinal ganglion cell responses to light ”European Retina Meeting, Brighton2015

• Pamplona D., Hilgen G., Cessac B., Sernagor E., Kornprobst P., A super-resolution approach for receptive fields estimation of neuronal ensembles, Organization for Computational Neurosciences Meeting (CNS) 2015, Prague, July

• S. Zordan, M. Zanotto, T. Nieus, S. Di Marco, H. Amin, A. Maccione, L. Berdondini“A Scalable High Performance Client/server Framework to Manage and Analyze High Dimensional Datasets Recorded by 4096 CMOS-MEAs”,7th International IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering 2015, April 22th-24th   Montpellier,France

• D. Spicher, G. Hilgen, H. Amin, A. Maccione, S. Pirmoradian, G. Tkacik, E. Sernagor, L. Berdondini, M.H. Hennig, “Energy-based latent variable models as efficient descriptors of multi-neuron activity patterns”,Computational and Systems Neuroscience COSYNE 2015, Salt Lake City USA

• S. Pirmoradian, G. Hilgen, O. Muthmann, A. Maccione, U. Bhalla, L. Berdondini, E. Sernagor, M.H. Hennig, “Characterising retinal population response with high density multielectrode arrays”,Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting Abstracts 2015,Washington DC USA

• S. Pirmoradian, G. Hilgen, M. Sorbaro, O. Muthmann, U. Bhalla, E. Sernagor, M.H. Hennig, “Characterization of very large ganglion cell populations in the mouse retina”,Computational and Systems Neuroscience COSYNE 2015, Salt Lake CityUSA.

• Pamplona D., Cessac B., Kornprobst P., Shiftingstimulus for faster receptive eldsestimation of ensembles of neurons,Cosyne Abstracts2015, Salt Lake City USA.

• L. Berdondini, “CMOS multielectrode arrays: an opportunity to read-out optogenetically evoked neural activity from thousands of single-neurons simultaneously”, Optogen 2014, 16th December 2014, Lecce, Italy

• F. Cella Zanacchi, Z. Lavagnino, I. Kepiro, M. d'Amora, G. Sancataldo, F.Pennacchietti, A. Diaspro, “Light-sheet based microscopy towards imaging of mouse retina”,1st Light Sheet Fluorescnce International Conference, Barcellona, Sept 2014

• A. Simi, H. Amin, A. Maccione, T. Nieus, S. Di Marco, M. Dipalo, S. Talaei, M. Koudelka-Hep, P. D. van der Wal, N. F. de Rooij and L. Berdondini, “Micro-/nano-technologies and microelectronics for neuroscience research and applications”,6thEuropean Conference of the IFMBE MBEC 2014, 7-11 September 2014, Dubrovnik,Croatia.

• C. Hilario Gomez, K. Medathati, P. Kornprobst, V. Murino and D. Sona, Improving FREAK descriptor for image classification, 10th International Conference on Computer Vision Systems (ICVS), Copenhagen, Denmark, July 6-9, 2015. 

• M. Zanotto, S. Di Marco, A. Maccione, L. Berdondini, D. Sona and V. Murino, Modelling Retinal Activity with Restricted Boltzmann Machines: a Study on the Inhibitory Circuitry, Computational and Systems Neuroscience (COSYNE), Salt Lake City, UT, USA, March 5-8, 2015

• C. Hilario Gomez, K. Medathati, P. Kornprobst, V. Murino and D. Sona, A retina-inspired descriptor for image classification, 1st workshop on Visual Image Interpretation in Humans and Machines (VIIHM), Stratford-upon-Avon, England, September 24-25, 2014.

• G. Portelli, J. Barrett, E. Sernagor, T. Masquelier, P. Kornprobst, Rapid neural coding in the mouse retina with the wave of first spikes, 23rd Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting (CNS), Québec City, Canada, July 26-31, 2014.

• T. Masquelier, G. Portelli and P. Kornprobst, Microsaccades enable efficient synchrony-based visual feature learning and detection, 23rd Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting (CNS), Québec City, Canada, July 26-31, 2014.

• S. Di Marco, A. Maccione, T. Nieus, M. Hennig, S. Pirmoradian, G. Hilgen, E. Sernagor and L. Berdondini, A high resolution experimental platform for large-scale recording of light-evoked responses in the retinal ganglion cell layer, FENS Milano, July 5-9, 2014.

• G. Hilgen, A. Maccione, S. Di Marco, L. Berdondini, E. Sernagor, High Resolution Large-Scale Recordings of Light Responses from Mouse Retinal Ganglion Cells, 9^th International Meeting on Substrate-Integrated Microelectrode Arrays (MEA2014), Reutlingen, Germany July 1-4, 2014

• G. Hilgen, S. Pirmoradian, A. Maccione, L. Berdondini, M.H. Hennig, E. Sernagor, High Resolution Large-Scale Recordings of Light Responses from Ganglion Cells in the Developing Mouse Retina, FASEB conference on Retinal Neurobiology and Visual Processing, Saxton River, VT, June 22-27 2014.

• Z. Lavagnino, F. Cella Zanacchi, L. Lanzanò, A. Diaspro, Mouse Retina Imaging by Means of Inverted Selective Plane Illumination Microscopy (ISPIM), Biophysical Journal 106 (2), 2014.

• S. Pirmoradian, G. Hilgen, O. Muthman, A. Maccione, U. Bhalla, L.Berdondini, E. Sernagor, M.H. Hennig, Mapping large scale retinal population activity with high density multielectrode arrays, Cosyne Meeting 2014, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.

• W. Taouali, B. Cessac, A maximum likelihood estimator of neural network synaptic weights, 22^nd Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting (CNS) 2013.

• R. Cofre, B. Cessac, Dynamics and spike trains statistics in conductance-based Integrate-and-Fire neural networks with chemical and electric synapses, 22^nd Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting (CNS) 2013.

• H. Nasser, S. Kraria, B. Cessac. EnaS: a new software for neural population analysis in large scale spiking networks. 22nd Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting (CNS) 2013.

• G. Portelli, J. M. Barrett, E. Sernagor, P. Kornprobst, Decoding the retina with the first wave of spikes, European Retina Meeting, 2013, Alicante, Spain.

• E. Sernagor, G. Hilgen, J.M. Barrett, M.H. Hennig, A. Maccione, L. Berdondini, Deciphering retinal functional circuitry: high resolution large scale population recordings from the mouse retinal ganglion cell layer, European Retina Meeting, 2013, Alicante, Spain.

• J.M. Barrett, G. Portelli, P. Kornprobst, P. Degenaar, E. Sernagor, Rate versus latency coding in the developing and mature mouse retina, SfN meeting 2013, San Diego, CA, USA, abstract 736.03.

• Z. Lavagnino, F. Cella Zanacchi, M. d’Amora, F. Pennacchietti, A. Diaspro, Inverted SPIM: a new way to consider light-sheet microscopy geometry, MAF conference, September 2013.