Cris Niell
University of Oregon
Biography
Cris Niell is professor in the Department of Biology and the Institute of Neuroscience at the University of Oregon, where he established his lab in 2011. The Niell lab studies the neural circuits that underlie visually guided behaviour and perception, combining neural recording and imaging methods with ethological behaviours and computational analysis. The group works in both mice and octopuses, drawing on Niell's earlier postdoctoral work at UCSF on visual processing and behavioural state in the mouse cortex.
Research Interests
- visual cortex
- naturalistic behaviour
- two-photon imaging
- mouse vision
- neural coding
SCENE Teams
Featured Publications
The Simons Collaboration on Ecological Neuroscience: Studying how the brain interacts with the world
Angelaki DE, Batista A, Fitzgerald T, Kominsky JF, Lengyel M, Mathis A, Mathis MW, Moss CF, Niell CM, Noel JP, Pitkow X, Rothkopf CA, Savin C, Stachenfeld K, Suthana N, Tolias A, Ulanovsky N, Wolpert DM, Wong A, Zimmermann J
Neuron, 2026 · DOI (opens in new tab) · Preprint (PDF) (opens in new tab)