James Poulet's lab at the MDC uses advanced techniques to monitor the activity of networks of single sensory neurons in the brain. By listening in on hundreds of conversations, the scientists have ...

Poulet and Hedwig worked with male field crickets, which produce loud mating, courtship and territorial calls. By replacing one wing with a microelectrode, they were able to encode what the ...

Grants from the European Research Council (ERC) are among the most prominent and coveted grants in the European Union. Poulet established his laboratory with a 1.5 million Euro ERC Starting Grant.

American Diabetes researcher Dr. Matthew Poy and British neuroscientist Dr. James Poulet, belong to the 427 researchers the ERC has chosen from more than 2873 applicants this year.

Along the way the signal can be amplified by excitatory neurons such as pyramidal cells (PYRs) or dampened by inhibitory neurons such as SST and PV cells. Inhibition keeps a signal from spreading ...