Staff Profile

Introduction

I am a postdoc in the lab of Prof. Alexander Thiele. Our research focuses on cognitive modulation of neuronal activity in striate and extrastriate visual areas.

Background

Neurophysiology, visual Psychophysics, comparative Zoology

Qualifications

Dr. rer. nat (PhD), 2004 at Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany, with Prof. Dr. K.-P. Hoffmann
Diplom Biology (MSc), 2000 at Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
Vordiplom Biology (BSc), 1997 at Philipps-University Marburg, Germany

Memberships

Society for Neuroscience

Languages

English, German

• Engel TA, Steinmetz NA, Gieselmann MA, Thiele A, Moore T, Boahen K. Selective modulation of cortical state during spatial attention. Science 2016, 354(6316), 1140-1144.
• Tomsett RJ, Ainsworth M, Thiele A, Sanayei M, Chen X, Gieselmann MA, Whittington MA, Cunningham MO, Kaiser M. Virtual Electrode Recording Tool for EXtracellular potentials (VERTEX): comparing multi-electrode recordings from simulated and biological mammalian cortical tissue. Brain Structure and Function 2015, 220(4), 2333-2353.
• Herrero JL, Gieselmann MA, Sanayei M, Thiele A. Attention-Induced Variance and Noise Correlation Reduction in Macaque V1 Is Mediated by NMDA Receptors. Neuron 2013, 78(4), 729-739.
• Bartolo MJ, Gieselmann MA, Vuksanovic V, Hunter D, Sun L, Chen X, Delicato LS, Thiele A. Stimulus-induced dissociation of neuronal firing rates and local field potential gamma power and its relationship to the blood oxygen level-dependent signal in macaque primary visual cortex. European Journal of Neuroscience 2011, 34(11), 1857-1870.
• Chalk M, Herrero JL, Gieselmann MA, Delicato LS, Gotthardt S, Thiele A. Attention Reduces Stimulus-Driven Gamma Frequency Oscillations and Spike Field Coherence in V1. Neuron 2010, 66(1), 114-125.
• Dannenberg S, Gieselmann MA, Kruse W, Hoffmann KP. Influence of visually guided tracking arm movements on single cell activity in area MT. Experimental Brain Research 2009, 199(3-4), 355-368.
• Herrero JL, Roberts MJ, Delicato LS, Gieselmann MA, Dayan P, Thiele A. Acetylcholine contributes through muscarinic receptors to attentional modulation in V1. Nature 2008, 454(7208), 1110-1114.
• Gieselmann MA, Thiele A. Comparison of spatial integration and surround suppression characteristics in spiking activity and the local field potential in macaque V1. European Journal of Neuroscience 2008, 28(3), 447-459.
• Roberts M, Delicato LS, Herrero J, Gieselmann MA, Thiele A. Attention alters spatial integration in macaque V1 in an eccentricity-dependent manner. Nature Neuroscience 2007, 10(11), 1483-1491.
• Thiele A, Delicato LS, Roberts MJ, Gieselmann MA. A novel electrode-pipette design for simultaneous recording of extracellular spikes and iontophoretic drug application in awake behaving monkeys. Journal of Neuroscience Methods 2006, 158(2), 207-211.
• Herrero JL, Gieselmann MA, Thiele A. Muscarinic and nicotinic contribution to contrast sensitivity of macaque area V1 neurons. Frontiers in Neural Circuits 2017, 11, 106.
• Dasilva M, Brandt C, Gieselmann MA, Distler C, Thiele A. Contribution of Ionotropic Glutamatergic Receptors to Excitability and Attentional Signals in Macaque Frontal Eye Field. Cerebral Cortex 2021, 31(7), 3266–3284.
• van Kempen J, Gieselmann MA, Boyd M, Steinmetz NA, Moore T, Engel TA, Thiele A. Top-down coordination of local cortical state during selective attention. Neuron 2021, 109(5), 894-904.
• Tremblay S, Acker L, Afraz A, Albaugh DL, Amita H, Andrei AR, Angelucci A, Aschner A, Balan PF, Basso MA, Benvenuti G, Bohlen MO, Caiola MJ, Calcedo R, Cavanaugh J, Chen Y, Chen S, Chernov MM, Clark AM, Dai J, Debes SR, Deisseroth K, Desimone R, Dragoi V, Egger SW, Eldridge MAG, El-Nahal HG, Fabbrini F, Federer F, Fetsch CR, Fortuna MG, Friedman RM, Fujii N, Gail A, Galvan A, Ghosh S, Gieselmann MA, Gulli RA, Hikosaka O, Hosseini EA, Hu X, Huer J, Inoue KI, Janz R, Jazayeri M, Jiang R, Ju N, Kar K, Klein C, Kohn A, Komatsu M, Maeda K, Martinez-Trujillo JC, Matsumoto M, Maunsell JHR, Mendoza-Halliday D, Monosov IE, Muers RS, Nurminen L, Ortiz-Rios M, O'Shea DJ, Palfi S, Petkov CI, Pojoga S, Rajalingham R, Ramakrishnan C, Remington ED, Revsine C, Roe AW, Sabes PN, Saunders RC, Scherberger H, Schmid MC, Schultz W, Seidemann E, Senova YS, Shadlen MN, Sheinberg DL, Siu C, Smith Y, Solomon SS, Sommer MA, Spudich JL, Stauffer WR, Takada M, Tang S, Thiele A, Treue S, Vanduffel W, Vogels R, Whitmire MP, Wichmann T, Wurtz RH, Xu H, Yazdan-Shahmorad A, Shenoy KV, DiCarlo JJ, Platt ML. An Open Resource for Non-human Primate Optogenetics. Neuron 2020, 108(6), 1075-1090.
• Dasila M, Brandt C, Gotthardt S, Gieselmann MA, Distler C, Thiele A. Cell Class specific modulation of attentional signals by acetylcholine in macaque frontal eye field. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2019, 116(40), 20180-20189.