Ten Years of Berens Lab: a whole decade of research in brain health and vision

Last Friday, we celebrated the 10-year anniversary of the lab of Philipp Berens.

What began in 2016, with Philipp Berens becoming a Group Leader at the Institute for Ophthalmic Research at the University of Tübingen, has now grown into the founding of the Hertie Institute for AI in Brain Health. Today, Philipp serves as Director of Hertie AI, leading a growing research community at the intersection of machine learning, neuroscience, and clinical translation.

The lab's work centers on interpretable algorithms for the early detection of degenerative eye diseases, and on using diverse biological data to understand neural computations. People in the lab have worked with a wide range of data modalities, electrophysiological recordings, calcium imaging, single-cell transcriptomics, and large-scale electron microscopy reconstructions, to name just a few.

Ten years in, looking around at the people, their projects, the cross-institutional and cross-continent collaborations, and the questions we can ask now; we've really come a long way.

Excited to see what the next 10 years will bring!