Gero Miesenböck
Research Themes
Divisional Themes
- Neuroscience
- Cell and Molecular Biology
- Behavioural Science
- Imaging
- Genetics and Genomics
Group Members
- Dennis Kaetzel
- Andrew Lin, Sir Henry Wellcome Fellow
- Paul Overton
- Moshe Parnas
- Diogo Pimentel
- Yan Tan
- Robert D. Roorda
- Eleftheria Vrontou, EMBO Postdoctoral Fellow
| Web | Personal Website |
|---|---|
| gero.miesenboeck@dpag.ox.ac.uk | |
| Tel | 01865 282261 |
| Fax | 01865 272469 |
| PA | Fiona Woods |
| Email (PA) | fiona.woods@dpag.ox.ac.uk |
| Tel (PA) | 01865 282246 |
| Contact address | Sherrington Building, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PT |
| Department | Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics |
| College | Magdalen College |
Gero Miesenböck is Waynflete Professor of Physiology. A native of Austria, he received his medical degree from the University of Innsbruck in 1993 and then moved to the United States as a postdoctoral fellow with James Rothman. Before coming to Oxford in 2007, he held faculty appointments at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York and at Yale University.
Miesenböck is the principal architect of the emerging field of "optogenetics", which develops genetic strategies for observing and controlling the function of brain circuits with light. He uses these optical approaches to read and change the minds of fruit flies (and other species); his current research focuses on the structure and dynamics of circuits involved in sensory processing, memory, action selection, and motor pattern generation.
Gero Miesenböck: instructing the nervous system. Interview by William A Wells.
Further information can be found at Miesenböck Research
