Dr Mikko Juusola

Mikko

Reader

Department of Biomedical Science
Florey Building
The University of Sheffield
Western Bank
Sheffield S10 2TN
United Kingdom

Room: D09 (office), B203 (lab1), B201 (lab2)
Telephone: +44 (0) 114 222 1087

email : M.Juusola@sheffield.ac.uk


Research Interests

  • Neural processing, particularly in the visual system of Drosophila
  • Efficient codes and circuitry, form-function relationships, attention, learning and memory

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History

  • 2007-present: Reader (PI)
    Drosophila Vision Laboratory, Department of Biomedical Science, University of Sheffield
  • 2008-present: Guest Professor (co-PI)
    State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
  • 2007: Visiting Professor
    State Key Laboratory of Brain and Cognitive Science, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
  • 2005-2007: Reader and Royal Society University Research Fellow (PI)
    Drosophila Vision Laboratory, Department of Biomedical Science, University of Sheffield
  • 1999-2005: Royal Society University Research Fellow (PI)
    Drosophila Vision Laboratory, Physiological Laboratory, University of Cambridge
  • 1997-1999: Academy of Finland Research Fellow (PI)
    Drosophila Vision Laboratory, Physiological Laboratory, University of Cambridge
  • 1996-1997: Postdoctoral Fellow
    Physiological Laboratory, University of Cambridge (Awarded Marie Curie Fellowship, 1997)
  • 1994-1996: Postdoctoral Fellow
    Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada
  • 1995: Docent of Neurophysiology
    University of Oulu, Finland
  • 1993-1994: Alberta Heritage Foundation Medical Research Fellow
    Department of Physiology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
  • 1988-1993: M.D. University of Oulu, Finland
  • 1989-1993: Ph.D. University of Oulu, Finland

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Activities and Distinctions

  • Guest Professor and co-PI in State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
  • Visiting Professor, Department of Physical Sciences, University of Oulu, Finland
  • Docent of Neurophysiology, Department of Physiology, University of Oulu, Finland
  • Grant reviewer for the Royal Society, BBSRC, National Science Foundation, USA, etc.
  • Reviewer for Science, Journal of General Physiology, Journal of Physiology, Journal of Neurogenetics, Journal of Neurophysiology, Biological Cybernetics etc.
  • EMBO bio-techniques course teacher (2007, 2010)

Grant Funding

  1. National Science Foundation of China, China; S. Tang (PI) & M. Juusola (PI): The effect of selective attention on information processing in the first synaptic circuits of the Drosophila eye and on the animal behaviour. 01/01/2009-31/12/2012; (funding for our BNU laboratory, including flight simulator systems + other set-ups + personnel).
  2. BBSRC, UK; M. Juusola (PI), T. Wardill (Co-R): How does the Drosophila brain compute and see visual motion? 01/01/2008-31/12/2011; £624,290.
  3. BBSRC, UK; M. Juusola (PI), C. O'Kane (Co-I) & S. Tang (Co-I): The effect of selective attention and adaptation on the information transfer in the first visual synapse of Drosophila an on the animal behaviour; 27/03/2006-26/04/2008; £177,483.
  4. The Royal Society, UK; The Royal Society University Research Fellowship. M. Juusola (PI): System analysis and modelling of transduction and adaptation in Drosophila visual neurons; 01/10/1999-30/09/2007; ~£450,000.
  5. The Gatsby Charitable Foundation, UK; M. Juusola (PI): Principles of Neural Coding in in vivo fruitfly, Drosophila; 01/01/2005-31/12/2007; £193,000.
  6. The University of Sheffield, UK; M. Juusola (PI): The effect of feedback connections on visual attention and animal behaviour; 01/10/2006-30/09/2009; £40,000.
  7. BBSRC, UK; M. Juusola (PI): Lateral Cell-to-Cell Interactions and the Dynamics of the Graded Synaptic Transfer in Dipteran Compound Eye; 16/09/2002-15/09/2005; £177,728.
  8. The Royal Society, UK; M. Juusola (PI) & G.G. de Polavieja (PI): Learning and memory at the network level in behaving animals; 01/09/2004-31/08/2006; £12,000.
  9. The Wellcome Trust, UK; M. Juusola (PI): Optimising photoreceptor information capacity through interactions on active properties of the membrane; 01/10/2000-31/01/2003; £107,917.

Publications in 2009

  • Gonzalez-Bellido, P.T., Wardill, T.J., Kostyleva, R., Meinertzhagen, I.A. & Juusola, M. (2009). Overexpressing Temperature-Sensitive Dynamin Decelerates Phototransduction and Bundles Microtubules in Drosophila photoreceptors. J Neurosci (in press)
  • Song, Z., Billings, S., Coca, D., Postma, M., Hardie, R.C. & Juusola, M (2009). A biophysical model of Drosophila photoreceptor.
    16th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP'09). 15 pp.
  • Friederich, U., Coca, D., Billings, S. & Juusola, M. (2009). Data modelling for analysis of adaptive changes in fly photoreceptors.
    16th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP'09). 15 pp.
  • Nikolaev, A., Zheng, L., Wardill, T.J., O'Cane, C.J., de Polavieja, G.G. & Juusola, M. (2009). Network adaptation improves temporal representation of naturalistic stimuli in Drosophila eye: II mechanisms. PLoS ONE 4(1): e4306. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0004306
  • Zheng, L., Nikolaev, A., Wardill, T.J., O'Cane, C.J., de Polavieja, G.G. & Juusola, M. (2009). Network adaptation improves temporal representation of naturalistic stimuli in Drosophila eye: I dynamics. PLoS ONE 4(1): e4307.doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0004307

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Group Members

  • Dr. Trevor Wardill, BBSRC Research Associate
  • Dr. Olivier List, BBSRC Research Associate
  • Paloma Gonzalez, Ph.D. student
  • Zhuoji Song, Ph.D. student
  • Uwe Friederich, Ph.D. student
  • Xiaofeng Li, Ph.D. student
  • An Dau, Ph.D. student
  • Marie McCulloch, Research technician
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