Outside of the lab, I am an avid motorsports fan, casual sports player and lover of impressive feats of engineering (planes, medieval castles and modern skyscrapers especially).
Hello everyone, my name is Joseph Fabian and just like Yuri, I am a new postdoc in Karin's lab. I have recently returned to Australia, after working for 18 months as a postdoc in bioengineering at Imperial College London, where I studied mechanosensors underlying fly-by-feel in dragonfly wings. Prior to that I completed my PhD at the University of Adelaide, studying target-detecting neurons and the optic lobes of dragonflies. Below I have attached some examples of work I did in each of these roles. The top image shows a section of the leading edge of a dragonfly wing, containing airflow and strain sensors. The bottom shows a reconstruction of a Binocular Small Target Motion Detector neuron from a dragonfly brain. My research interests involve understanding what strategies neuronal systems use to solve complex sensory problems. Many insects are incredible tiny flying machines, which achieve their performance through the clever use of control systems. My experience is in electrophysiological recording and neuroanatomical imaging, and I plan on using both of these techniques in my new role. Within Karin's lab I will be studying target and motion sensitive neurons in the optic lobes and ventral nerve cord of hoverflies, in order to understand how different stages of visual processing shape the information which controls flight behaviour.
Outside of the lab, I am an avid motorsports fan, casual sports player and lover of impressive feats of engineering (planes, medieval castles and modern skyscrapers especially).
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