Marion Silies
Contributing Principal Investigator
- Project: Project A.08, Project A.11
- Research Group
- Address: iDN, Biozentrum I, Hanns-Dieter-Hüsch-Weg 15, 55128 Mainz
- Phone: +49 6131 39 28 966
"I am excited to explore how visual processing strategies evolved, and how they are mechanistically implemented. Merging these two within GenEvo will allow to identify optimal coding strategies of the brain."
- since 2019: Professor for Neurobiology (W3) at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
- 2015–2018: Group leader at the European Neuroscience Institute (ENI) Göttingen
- 2009–2014: Postdoc, Department of Neurobiology, Stanford University, USA, with Dr. Thomas Clandinin
Education:
- 2005–2009: PhD, Institute for Neurobiologiy, University of Münster, Germany, with Dr. Christian Klämbt
- 2001–2005: Biology (Dipl.), University of Munster/Wetsphalia, Germany
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Akhtar J, Renaud Y, Albrecht S, Ghavi-Helm Y, Roignant J, Silies M, Junion G (2021)
m6A RNA methylation regulates promoter- proximal pausing of RNA polymerase II Molecular Cell, 81(16):3356-3367.e6 -
Ramos-Traslosheros G and Silies M (2021)
The physiological basis for contrast opponency in motion computation in Drosophila Nature Communications, 12:4987 -
Brandão SC, Silies M and Martelli C (2021)
Adaptive temporal processing of odor stimuli Cell and Tissue Research, 383:125–141 -
Gür B, Sporar K, Lopez-Behling A and Silies M (2020)
Distinct expression of potassium channels regulates visual response properties of lamina neurons in Drosophila melanogaster J Comp Physiol A, 206:273–287 -
Ketkar MD, Sporar K, Gür B, Ramos-Traslosheros G, Seifert M and Silies M (2020)
Luminance Information Is Required for the Accurate Estimation of Contrast in Rapidly Changing Visual Contexts Curr Biol, 30:657-669.e4 -
Neuert H, Deing P, Krukkert K, Naffin E, Steffes G, Risse B, Silies M and Klämbt C (2020)
The Drosophila NCAM homolog Fas2 signals independently of adhesion Development, 147:dev181479 -
Molina-Obando S, Vargas-Fique JF, Henning M, Gür B, Schladt TM, Akhtar J, Berger TK and Silies M (2019)
ON selectivity in the Drosophila visual system is a multisynaptic process involving both glutamatergic and GABAergic inhibition Elife -
Akhtar J, More P, Albrecht S, Marini F, Kaiser W, Kulkarni A, Wojnowski L, Fontaine J-F, Andrade-Navarro MA, Silies M and Berger C (2019)
TAF-ChIP: an ultra-low input approach for genome-wide chromatin immunoprecipitation assay Life Sci Alliance, 2:e201900318