Awards and prices won by the Ph.D. students/post-docs in the Juusola Lab
Year 2011
Paloma Gonzalez-Bellido
$1,000 + plaque, 2011 International Society for Neuroethology Capranica Prize in recognition of a paper judged to be most scientifically significant in the field of Neuroethology in 2010:
Gonzalez-Bellido PT, Wardill TJ, Juusola M. (2011). Compound eyes and retinal information processing in miniature dipteran species match their specific ecological demands. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 108:4224-9.
Xiaofeng Li
Janelia Conference Scholarship
Year 2010
Zhuoyi Song
Invited talk, Neurofly, 13th European Drosophila Neurobiology Conference, Manchester, UK, 2010
"Modelling molecular mechanisms of light adaptation in Drosophila photoreceptor"
Zhuoyi Song
£500, Society for Experimental Biology travel grant, 2010
Zhuoyi Song
£500, Physiological Society travel grant, 2010
Zhuoyi Song
2,500 Euros, Internship to Prof. Eric De Shutter's laboratory
in Okinawa of Institute and Technology, Okinawa, Japan, 2010
Xiaofeng Li
£500, British Society for Developmental Biology (BSCB) travel grant, 2010
An Dau
EMBO Practical Course on Advanced Optical Microscopy, Plymouth, 2010.
An won a place for this acclaimed and highly competitive international course (16 students chosen)
Zhuoyi Song
£500, Royal Academy of Engineering, International travel grant, 2010
Uwe Friederich
£500, Royal Academy of Engineering, International travel grant, 2010
Uwe Friederich
$700, Computational and Systems Neuroscience, Utah, USA, 2010
Uwe won Gatsby Cosyne Fellowship Fellowship (only 26 given)
Zhuoyi Song
£350, British Society for Developmental Biology (BSDB) travel grant, 2010
Xiaofeng Li
£350, British Society for Developmental Biology (BSDB) travel grant, 2010
Uwe Friederich
Invited talk, Computational and Systems Neuroscience, Salt Lake City, USA, 2010
"Invariant Contrast Coding in Photoreceptors"; <5% of submissions were given a talk.
Zhuoyi Song
Invited presentation, Computational and Systems Neuroscience, Salt Lake City, USA, 2010
"Modelling molecular mechanisms of light adaptation in Drosophila photoreceptor"
Xiaofeng Li
Invited presentation, Computational and Systems Neuroscience, Salt Lake City, USA, 2010
"Do quantal dynamics of graded synaptic signal transfer adapt to maximise the rate of information?"
Year 2009
Uwe Friederich
Best 10% Student Paper Award, International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP'09)
Zhuoyi Song
Best 10% Student Paper Award, International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP'09)
Zhuoyi Song
£170, International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP'09) travel grant, 2009
Uwe Friederich
£170, International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP'09) travel grant, 2009
Uwe Friederich
£440, British Society for Cell Biology (BSCB) travel grant, 2009
Zhuoyi Song
£340, British Society for Cell Biology (BSCB) travel grant, 2009
Uwe Friederich
£400, British Society for Developmental Biology, BSDB travel grant, 2009
Zhuoyi Song
£500, Royal Academy of Engineering, International travel grant, 2009
Uwe Friederich
Invited talk, 16th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP'09)
"Data Modelling for Analysis of Adaptive Changes in Fly Photoreceptors"
Zhuoyi Song
Invited talk, 16th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP'09)
"Biophysical Model of a Drosophila Photoreceptor"
Paloma Gonzalez
Young Scientist Award, £600 first prize; title: "Dissecting the resolution of a fruit fly retina.". Society for Experimental Biology conference in Glasgow, 2009.
This Elsevier sponsored award was open to PhD students and those in the first three years of their first postdoctoral position and designed to recognise the best young researchers.
An Dau
Ranked the 1st in the Faculty of Science/the University of Sheffield Studentship competition. An was given a full Ph.D. studentship, 2009
Uwe Friederich
26th Microelectrode Techniques for Cell Physiology workshop in Plymouth, 2009
Uwe won a place for this acclaimed and highly competitive international course (only 20 students chosen)
Zhuoyi Song
26th Microelectrode Techniques for Cell Physiology workshop in Plymouth, 2009
Zhuoyi won a place for this acclaimed and highly competitive international course (only 20 students chosen)
Xiaofeng Li
26th Microelectrode Techniques for Cell Physiology workshop in Plymouth, 2009
Xiaofeng won a place for this acclaimed and highly competitive international course (only 20 students chosen)
Zhuoyi Song
The 13th Advanced Course in Computational Neuroscience in the Bernstein/Gatsby Neuroscience School, Freiburg, Germany, 2009.
Zhuoyi won a place for this acclaimed and highly competitive international course (only 30 students chosen)
Uwe Friederich
Computational and Systems Neuroscience, Utah, USA, 2009
Uwe won $500 Swartz Cosyne Fellowship (only 20 given)
Zhuoyi Song
Computational and Systems Neuroscience, Utah, USA, 2009
Zhuoyi won $500 Neuron Cosyne Fellowship (only 5 given)
Zhuoyi Song
£720, Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Freiburg, Germany, 2009
Zhuoyi won a Fellowship from Advanced Course in Computational Neuroscience
Uwe Friederich
£500, Royal Academy of Engineering, International travel grant, 2009
Uwe Friederich
£1000, EPSRC bridging the gap travel grant, 2009
Uwe Friederich
£400, British Society for Developmental Biology, BSDB travel grant, 2009
Zhuoyi Song
£500, Physiological Society travel grant, 2009
Zhuoyi Song
£600, Microelectrode Techniques for Cell Physiology Course travel grant, 2009
Zhuoyi Song
£500, Royal Academy of Engineering, International travel grant, 2009
Zhuoyi Song
£500, Society of Experimental Biology (SEB) and Company of Biologist (COB) travel grant, 2009
Zhuoyi Song
£400, British Society of Developmental Biology (BSDB) travel grant, 2009
Uwe Friederich
£500, Physiological Society travel grant, 2009
Xiaofeng Li
£500, Physiological Society travel grant, 2009
Year 2008
Uwe Friederich
£1000, EPSRC bridging the gap travel grant, 2008
Zhuoyi Song
£400, Physiological Society travel grant, 2008
Paloma Gonzalez
£300, British Society of Developmental Biology (BSDB) travel grant, 2008
Year 2007
Trevor Wardill
Wellcome Trust Advanced Course: Drosophila Genetics and Genomics
Trevor won a a place for this acclaimed and highly competitive international course
Trevor Wardill
£680, Wellcome Trust Advanced Course: Drosophila Genetics and Genomics