Olga did an amazing job today, defending her PhD work for 3 hours (!), in an excellent discussion with her opponent Eric Warrant from the Lund Vision Group. I am so proud of Dr Olga and so grateful to have been allowed to be a part of her journey. Incredibly well done.
By Karin
Olga did an amazing job today, defending her PhD work for 3 hours (!), in an excellent discussion with her opponent Eric Warrant from the Lund Vision Group. I am so proud of Dr Olga and so grateful to have been allowed to be a part of her journey. Incredibly well done.
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By Karin
I am in Uppsala at the moment for Olga's PhD defense (woohoo!). When I left BMC yesterday it was absolutely beautiful and I really enjoyed meeting some old friends in the Botanic Garden. By Richard Leibbrandt
The Hoverfly Vision group (in conjunction with a number of other labs here at Flinders) have been awarded a Strategic Project / Capacity-Building Research Grant by our College of Medicine and Public Health. The funding will be used to support the development of software that can automatically perform spike sorting on extracellular recordings. This is great news, as it means we won't be restricted to using the kind of spike sorting provided by the software systems we already have. We'll be able to set up a spike-sorting approach that best suits our data, and that of the other labs on the grant. We already have a basis for the code, in the form of an excellent spike sorting program written by Dr Lukasz Wiklendt here at Flinders (screen cap below), and I've started to look into ways to extend it. So this will be the main task keeping me busy for the foreseeable future! by Sarah Nicholas
Have you ever wanted to explore neuroscience in your own backyard? I stumbled upon this great website backyard brains where they show you how to do exactly that. They have developed and sell a small and simple bioamplifier, the Neuron SpikerBox. It allows you to hear, see and record action potentials from live neurons in invertebrates. This simple technology has even been used to record from TSDNs in the dragonfly. Pretty amazing, especially considering the amount of equipment and technology we use to do almost the same thing, and a great way to showcase neuroscience to kids. By Malin: Some weeks have now past since my happy assistant and I went to collect larvae and we can now see the results, namely over 700 new hoverflies!
By Marissa Holden - During my recently travels through sunny Italy, I kept stumbling across a large variety of interesting looking flies. Pictured is my personal favourite, Sarcophaga, enjoying a beautiful river in Verona. Seeing all the flies buzzing about in the sunshine got me excited for the change in weather back home. Now that the sun is out hopefully I can recruit a diverse new range of species to the lab!
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The hoverfly vision group can be found at 2 locations: At Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia, and at Uppsala University in Sweden. Archives
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