The zebrafish optic tectum processes visual inputs and other sensory information, mapping them topographically over the tectum, setting the locations of objects and events in a body-centered space.

Neurons have the amazing ability to self-organize into highly refined networks. I am interested in how these networks form. I am especially interested in the molecular pathways underlying this process ...

The SC, lying on the roof of the mammalian midbrain (with a homologous structure known as the optic tectum in non-mammalian vertebrates), receives direct input from the retina and transmits this ...

Retinal ganglion cells in the eye project their axons to the optic tectum, the visual center of the tadpole brain, where they form synapses directly onto tectal neurons. Because Xenopus tadpoles are ...

Estuardo Robles is a neuroscientist with broad interests in how nervous systems use sensory information extracted from their surroundings to direct behavioral programs. Previous research focused on ...