Laura Busse (born 19 September 1977) is a German neuroscientist and professor of Systemic Neuroscience within the Division of Neurobiology at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.

Busse's lab studies context-dependent visual processing in mouse models by performing large scale in vivo electrophysiological recordings in the thalamic and cortical circuits of awake and behaving mice.

[2] Busse then pursued further studies at the Max Planck Research School at the University of Tübingen in Germany where she focused in Neural and Behavioral Sciences from 1999 to 2001.

[4] After successfully completing her Master's in 2001, Busse stayed at Duke University for another year to work as a research technician, continuing to explore the neurobiological underpinnings of cognition using various imaging techniques such as fMRI, EEG, and ERP.

[5] Busse completed her PhD in neuroscience in 2006 and then moved back to the United States for one year funded by the Leopoldina Postdoctoral Scholarship.

[7] However, Busse sought to explore the hypothesis that “null-event” trials actually evoke unique brain activity patterns, called the omitted stimulus response (OSR).

[13] After extensive training, they found that choices mice made in this operant task were not only based on the learned contrast association but also factors such as reward value or recent failures.

[13] In 2010, Busse became a Junior Research Group Leader in the Werner Reichardt Center for Integrative Neuroscience at the University of Tübingen, in Germany.

[15] Busse currently leads the Vision Circuits Lab along with co-principal investigator Steffen Katzner within the Department of Biology, Neurobiology Division.

[16][17] As a Junior Research Group Leader, Busse began to explore the neural circuits underlying visual processing in mouse models.

[18] Continuing to use mice as models to study visual processing, Busse and her team explored how behavioral context impacts neural activity in V1.