Surname | Franke |
First name | Katrin |
Nationality | German |
Present position and title | Junior Research Group Leader Dr. rer. nat. |
Business address
Institute for Ophthalmic Research
University of Tübingen
Otfried-Müller-Str. 25
D-72076 Tübingen,
Germany
Phone: +49 7071 29-84755
E-mail: katrin.franke[at]uni-tuebingen.de
Year | Degree | University | Field of study |
2016 | Dr. rer. nat. | International Max Planck Research School | Tübingen University | Visual neuroscience |
2012 | M. Sc. | Graduate School for Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience | Tübingen University | Neuroscience |
2012 | B. Sc. | Hohenheim University | Biology |
Period | Institution | Position | Discipline |
2021 – present | Institute for Ophthalmic Research, Tübingen University | Junior Research Group Leader | Visual neuroscience |
2020 – present | Center for Integrative Neuroscience, Tübingen University | Principal Investigator | Visual neuroscience |
2019 – present | Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, US | Research Fellow | Visual neuroscience |
2017 – 2020 | Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Tübingen | Junior Research Group Leader | Visual neuroscience |
2012 – 2016 | Institute for Ophthalmic Research & Center for Integrative Neuroscience, Tübingen University | Ph.D. student | Visual neuroscience |
Invited Presentations - Selection
2020 | Invited online talk, World Wide Neuro |
2019 | Invited talk, European Retina Meeting (ERM), Helsinki, Finland |
Invited perspective talk, Janelia Farm Spring Conferences, Ashburn, USA |
Invited talk, NWG Meeting, Göttingen, Germany |
Invited talk, Workshop at Cosyne Meeting, Cascais, Portugal |
2017 | Invited talk, European Retina Meeting, Paris, France |
Invited talk, NWG Meeting, Göttingen, Germany |
Invited talk, ARVO Asia Meeting, Brisbane, Australia |
2015 | Contributed talk, European Retina Meeting, Brighton, UK |
Contributed talk, ARVO Annual Meeting, Denver, USA |
2013 | Contributed talk, European Retina Meeting, Alicante, Spain |
Academic Awards
2021 | Schilling Award, German Neuroscience Society |
2017 | Nemko Prize in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Society for Neuroscience |
2016 | Paper of the Year Award, Tübingen University |
2015 | Young Investigator Award, European Retina Meeting |
Travel Grant, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology |
Academic Teaching and Services
2020 – present | Member of the Education Board for M.Sc. program “Neural Information Processing” of the Graduate Training Center of Neuroscience ,Tübingen University |
2019 – present | Lecturer in course “From Molecules to Circuits: The Retina as a Model System", Graduate Training Center of Neuroscience |
2017 – present | Lecturer in courses “Implantology (M.Sc.)” and “Avitale Implantate (B.Sc.)”, Medical Faculty, Tübingen University |
2016 – present | Member of the Student Selection Board of the Graduate Training Center of Neuroscience, Tübingen University |
2021 – 2024 | PI in CRC 1233 Robust Vision |
2017 – 2020 | Junior Research Group, Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Tübingen |
2021
- Franke K*, Willeke K*, Ponder K, Galdamez M, Muhammad T, Patel S, Froudarakis E, Reimer J, Sinz F, Tolias A. Behavioral state tunes mouse vision to ethological features through pupil dilation. bioRxiv 10.1101/2021.09.03.458870 (2021)
2020
- Szatko K, Korympidou M, Ran Y, Berens P, Dalkara D, Schubert T, Euler T, Franke K (2020) Neural circuits in the mouse retina support color vision in the upper visual field. Nature Communications 11, 3481
- Franke K, Vlasits A (2020) Unblinding with infrared nanosensors (Perspective). Science 368: 1057-1058
- Ran Y, Huang Z, Baden T, Baayen H, Berens P, Franke K, Euler T (2020) Type-specific dendritic integration in mouse retinal ganglion cells. Nature Communications 11, 2101
- Qiu Y, Zhao Z, Kautzky M, Klindt D, Szatko K, Schaeffel F, Rifai K, Franke K, Busse L, Euler T (2020) Mouse retinal specializations reflect knowledge of natural environment statistics. bioRxiv 2020.12.08.416172
2019
- Franke K*, Maia Chagas A*, Zhao Z, Zimmerman M, Qiu Y, Szatko K, Baden T, Euler T (2019) An arbitrary-spectrum spatial visual stimulator for vision research. eLife 8:e48779
- Dhande O, Stafford B, Franke K, El-Danaf R, Percival K, Phan A, Li P, Hansen B, Nguyen P, Berens P, Taylor WR, Callaway E, Euler T, Huberman A (2019) Molecular fingerprinting of On-Off direction selective retinal ganglion cells across species and relevance to primate visual circuits. Journal of Neuroscience 39 (1) 78-95
2018
- Vlasits A, Euler T, Franke K (2018) Function first: classifying cell types and circuits of the retina. Current Opinion in Neurobiology 56:8-15
2017
- Franke K*, Berens P*, Schubert T, Bethge M, Euler T, Baden T (2017) Inhibition decorrelates visual feature representations in the inner retina. Nature 542, 439-444
2016
- Baden T*, Berens P*, Franke K*, Román Rosón M, Bethge M, Euler T (2016) The functional diversity of retinal ganglion cells in the mouse. Nature 529, 345-350