Realistic retinal modeling unravels the differential role of excitation and inhibition to starburst amacrine cells in direction selectivity

• Elishai Ezra-Tsur ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Elishai Ezra-Tsur, Oren Amsalem, Lea Ankri

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: elishai@nbel-lab.com (EE-T); michal.rivlin@weizmann.ac.il (MR-E)

  Affiliations Department of Brain Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, The Open University of Israel, Ra’anana, Israel

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1304-8022

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• Oren Amsalem ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Elishai Ezra-Tsur, Oren Amsalem, Lea Ankri

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Division of Endocrinology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

  Affiliation Department of Neurobiology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8070-0378

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• Lea Ankri ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Elishai Ezra-Tsur, Oren Amsalem, Lea Ankri

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Brain Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7622-6239

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• Pritish Patil,

  Roles Formal analysis, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Brain Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2655-4090

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• Idan Segev,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Neurobiology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel, Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

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• Michal Rivlin-Etzion

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: elishai@nbel-lab.com (EE-T); michal.rivlin@weizmann.ac.il (MR-E)

  Affiliation Department of Brain Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1310-3370

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