Dr Mikko Juusola
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
Highlighted Discoveries in:
- Sensory evolution: information processing matches ecological demands
- Decision making: intrinsic activity in the fly brain gates visual choices
- Network adaptation: improving signalling in the first optic neuropil
- Synaptic feedbacks: dynamic regulation of photoreceptor output
- Cortical codes: action potential waveform code
- Information theory: measuring information transfer of any signalling system
- Neural filtering: value of ion channels in neural information transfer
- In vivo experimentation: Drosophila for intracellular electrophysiology
- Sensory transformations: 1st direct efficiency estimate of sensory codes
Read more on research in the Juusola laboratory
Popular science article about our research by Marie McCulloch
History
Career
- 2005-present: Reader (PI)
Drosophila Vision Laboratory, Department of Biomedical Science, University of Sheffield - 2008-present: Guest Professor (PI)
National Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China - 1999-2007: Royal Society University Research Fellow (PI), Universities of Cambridge & Sheffield
- 1997-1999: Academy of Finland Research Fellow (PI), University of Cambridge, UK
- 1996: Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Cambridge, UK
- 1995-1996: Post-Doctoral Fellow, Dalhousie University, Canada
- 1993-1995: Alberta Heritage Foundation Medical Research Fellow, University of Alberta, Canada
Education
- 1993, Ph. D. (Neurophysiology), University of Oulu, Finland
- 1993, M.D., University of Oulu, Finland
Activities and Distinctions
- Guest Professor and PI in State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
- Visiting Professor in Department of Physics and Docent of Neurophysiology, University of Oulu, Finland
- Grant reviewer for UK/EU/US Research Councils and Charities
- Reviewer for many leading scientific journals
- Teacher in many advanced international courses
- Examiner of higher degrees in UK and abroad
Current Grant Funding
- BBSRC
- The University of Sheffield
- National Science Foundation of China
Publications in 2011-12
- Lipscomb, L., Parkin, C.A., Juusola, M. & Winder, S.J.* (2011).
The proteasomal inhibitor MG132 prevents muscular dystrophy in zebrafish.
PLoS Currents: Muscular Dystrophy. 3: RRN1286. doi: 10.1371/currents.RRN1286 - Abou Tayoun, A.N., Li, X., Chu, B., Hardie, R.C., Juusola, M.* & Dolph, P.J.* (2011).
The Drosophila SK channel (dSK) contributes to photoreceptor performance by mediating sensitivity control at the first visual network.
J. Neurosci. 31: 13897-13910. - Gonzalez-Bellido, P.T., Wardill, T.J. & Juusola, M.* (2011).
Compound eyes and retinal information processing in miniature dipteran species match their specific ecological demands.
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 108: 4224-4229.
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Group Members
- Zhuoji Song, Post-Doc
- Uwe Friederich, Post-Doc
- Xiaofeng Li, Ph.D. student
- An Dau, Ph.D. student
- Sidhartha Dongre, Ph.D. student