Dr Gianoli awarded Biophysical Society Travel Award
/Dr Gianoli will be going to the Biophysical Society Annual meeting to present a poster on hair cell maturation.
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!
Welcome Dr Hogan
/Today we welcome the latest addition to the lab: Dr Brenna Hogan! She will be bringing her expertise in modelling mechanotransduction processes to the lab.
Welcome Dr Peimyoo
/We are excited to have Dr Namphung Peimyoo join the lab! Namphung is working with the Almquist lab to develop new tools for neuroscience using nanofabrication methods.
Welcome Grace
/Today we welcome Grace who will be joining the lab to work on her PhD co-supervised by Prof Claudia Clopath. She will be working on feature selectivity and invariance in the auditory cortex
Welcome Dr Qian!
/We welcome Dr Yang Qian into the lab. He will be working on developing optical methods to investigate hair-cell mechanotransduction. We are excited for Yang to share his expertise in optics with the rest of the lab!
New paper on maturation of mechanotransduction in the hair cell
/Our latest paper has been published in the Biophysical Journal. Well done, Dr. Gianoli!
Welcome Konstantinos
/We welcome to our new PhD student Konstantinos Tsikonofilos who will be working with the Centre for Blast Injury Studies investigating the auditory cortex!
Nature Live - Biomimetics
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Dr. Andrei Kozlov will be giving a talk at the Natural History Museum on Biomimetics. Drop by on 29th March to learn how we turn to nature to find ingenious ways to solve problems.
For more information, visit the website.
Grant success
/Andrei Kozlov has received an award from the highly prestigious Excellence Fund for Frontier Research with his collaborators, Drs. Ben Almquist and Chris Rowlands, to develop a novel method of voltage imaging in neurons. The award is designed to support research ideas that are potential breakthrough programs and which could put Imperial College London in a leadership position in the field.
Andrei Kozlov has been awarded the Wellcome Trust Investigator Award
/The funding will be used for experimental and theoretical investigation of cochlear hair-cell mechanotransduction.
Join us
We are currently looking for post-docs with expertise in optics, hair-cell biophysics, or theoretical modelling. For more information, please contact Andrei Kozlov.
Congratulations to Francesco Gianoli on a successful PhD viva!
/On 19th April, Francesco Gianoli successfully completed his viva voce examination, where he presented his thesis on modelling inner hair cell mechanotransduction.
Many congratulations!
New journal article in PNAS
/Our new article on hair-cell biophysics, "Lipid bilayer mediates ion-channel cooperativity in a model of hair-cell mechanotransduction", is available in PNAS.
Congratulations to Drs Gianoli, Risler and Kozlov!
Royal Society meeting on vertebrate and insect hearing
/Hearing evolved independently in insects and vertebrates, and their auditory systems can look very different. For example, grasshoppers have "ears" on their legs. But are there some shared, fundamental principles of hearing?
To discuss this, Dr Kozlov and Dr Joerg Albert are holding a meeting at the Royal Society on the 4th and 5th December 2017. More information on the Royal Society website.
New PhD Students
/We are pleased to welcome to the lab two new PhD students! Julià Agramunt will be working on the neurobiology of the hair follicle in partnership with the Higgins Lab here at Imperial College, and Chrissa Kaza will be adding to our work on the auditory cortex.