Grant success: "Biomimetic quantum-dot nanodonuts for membrane voltage imaging"
/We have won a BBSRC blue skies grant to develop basic technologies in sensing and imaging. This is our collaborative project with Ben Almquist and Chris Rowlands.
Biomimetic computations improve neural network robustness
November 3, 2023
Our new preprint is now on bioRxiv. Congratulations to Linnea, Maksim, Iakov, and Sihao!
First direct observation of individual ultrasound-driven microbubbles oscillating in brain microvessels
October 29, 2023
Our new preprint is now on bioRxiv. This is a collaborative project with labs of James Choi, Kirsten Christensen-Jeffries, Paul Prentice, and Chris Rowlands.
Our new paper reveals that epithelial cells from human hair follicles can release serotonin and histamine.
October 27, 2023
Our new collaborative study with the labs of Claire Higgins and Parry Hashemi has now been published in Science Advances.
Bidirectional Generative Adversarial Representation Learning for Natural Stimulus Synthesis
October 17, 2023
Our new preprint is now on bioRxiv. Congratulations to Johnny Reilly, John Goodwin, and Sihao Lu!
Andriy Kozlov has been promoted to Reader in Sensory Neuroscience.
/What is “Reader” anyway? This is what Wikipedia has to say about it:
Bioinspired Stretchable Transducer for Wearable Continuous Monitoring of Respiratory Patterns in Humans and Animals
/Check out this new device developed by our collaborators at the Güder lab at Imperial.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adma.202203310
Congratulations to Sihao Lu for passing his PhD viva!
/Yesterday, Sihao succesfully completed viva voce examination where he presented his work on receptive fields of neurons and astrocytes in the auditory cortex in vivo. Many congratulations!
Congratulations Dr Julia Sun!
/Congratulations to Julia for successfully defending her PhD Thesis on nanofabrication of materials for neuroscience research. Julia will start as a medical student at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.
Congratulations Dr Agramunt!
/Congratulations to Julià for passing his viva!
Immunohistochemistry localises myosin-7a to cochlear efferent boutons
/Just published in Wellcome Open Research!
We show that, suprisingly, there is strong myosin 7a staining in the medial olivocochlear efferent synaptic boutons contacting the outer hair cells. Well done Piotr!
Fast adaptation of cooperative channels engenders Hopf bifurcations in auditory hair cells
/Out in the Biophysical Journal today! Beautiful work by Francesco and Brenna. Using our previously developed model we show that hair cells behave as nonlinear oscillators that exhibit Hopf bifurcations, dynamical instabilities long understood to be signatures of the active process.
New preprint: Composite receptive fields in the mouse auditory cortex
/Our latest preprint, and Sihao’s first manuscript is now on bioRxiv!
New preprint: Fast adaptation of cooperative channels engenders Hopf bifurcations in auditory hair cells
/Our latest preprint with Dr Thomas Risler is now available on bioRxiv!
More great work from Dr Francesco Gianoli!
Welcome John!
/John Goodwin has joined the Kozlov lab as a PhD student to study complex pathologies associated with traumatic brain injuries and their possible treatment using novel techniques!
Welcome Dr Vikhorev!
/We welcome Dr Petr Vikhorev to the lab. Dr Vikhorev will be working with Dr Yang Qian and Dr Piotr Sirko on hair cells!
eLife Digest: Using light to study sound
/Check out the digest published alongside our paper, Rapid mechanical stimulation of inner-ear hair cells by photonic pressure!
Delighted to see our paper rated Exceptional on Faculty Opinions!
Rapid mechanical stimulation of inner-ear hair cells by photonic pressure
/We are thrilled to announce that Sanjee’s PhD work has been published in eLife:
https://elifesciences.org/articles/65930
John and Frances Jones Prize 2019-2020
/Congratulations to Julia for winning the John and Frances Jones Prize for the PhD student that has contributed the most to college life in 2019-2020!
Welcome Dr Sirko!
/We welcome Dr Piotr Sirko to our lab! Piotr did his PhD with Prof Jonathan Ashmore at UCL, recording from cells in the cochlea. We look forward to doing some exciting science with Piotr!
Goodbye Sanjee and Francesco!
/It is with a heavy heart that we bid farewell to Dr Sanjee Abeytunge and Dr Francesco Gianoli. They were the lab’s first members and have done some great work with us!
The preprint for Sanjee’s work on rapid mechanical stimulation of inner-ear hair cells by photonic pressure can be found on bioRxiv!
We also recall Francesco’s work on ion channel cooperativity in a model of hair-cell mechanotransduction and his work on the development of cooperative channels to explain the maturation of the hair-cell’s mechanotransduction
Sanjee will move on to become Senior Optical Engineer at QinetiQ-US and Francesco has accepted a position with the Laboratory of Sensory Neuroscience at The Rockefeller University with Prof A.J. Hudspeth. We wish them both the best of luck!
New pre-print: Rapid mechanical stimulation of inner-ear hair cells by photonic pressure
/Congratulations Dr Abeytunge!
/A massive congratulations to Sanjee for successfully defending his PhD thesis: Development of methods to mechanically stimulate hair cells! His work has been invaluable in our goal to uncover the properties of mechanotransduction of hair cells in the inner ear.
Welcome Dr Kiskin
/We welcome our newest lab member, Dr Nikolai Kiskin! Nikolai is supported by the NRC Research Associateship Program, and he will be investigating the influence of traumatic brain injury on the neurophysiological parameters of the rat auditory cortex.