Cardona lab
Institute of Neuroinformatics, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich
Research project: neural circuits
The lab studies the neural circuit underlying somatosensation and motor function. We use the larva of Drosophila melanogaster as a model system. We are currently reconstructing one complete abdominal segment of the nerve cord with synaptic resolution, using serial section electron microscopy. We write and use the software TrakEM2, Fiji and CATMAID.
We aim at understanding the integration of somatosensory information and the generation and modulation of motor patterns.
We are an interdisciplinary neuroscience laboratory that draws from the fields of biology, computer science and physics.
Lab members
- Albert Cardona (group leader)
- Alexander Berthold van der Bourg (master student)
- Jan Funke (PhD student)
- Stephan Gerhard (PhD student)
- Mark Longair (postdoc)
- Casey Schneider-Mizell (postdoc)
Collaborations
- Matthew Cook at the Institute of Neuroinformatics, UZH/ETH Zurich.
- Marta Zlatic lab at HHMI Janelia Farm, USA.
- Pavel Tomancak lab at MPI-CBG, Germany.
- Mehdi Bolorizadeh and Harald Hess at HHMI Janelia Farm, USA.
Open positions (2011)
- Postdoctoral position in sectioning, imaging and reconstructing complete brains with electron microscopy.
- PhD position in computer science, focused on automatic neural circuit reconstruction from serial EM data.
- Master and semester student projects in computer science, biology or physics.
Contact
Albert Cardona
Institute of Neuroinformatics
University of Zurich and ETH Zurich
Bau 55
Winterthurerstrasse, 190
Zurich CH-8057
Tel: +41 44 63 53 019
Contact acardona at ini phys ethz ch.
Funding sponsors
- 2008-present Institute of Neuroinformatics, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich
- 2010-2011 Forschungskredit Universtät Zürich
- 2010-2011 HHMI Janelia Farm Visitor Program
- 2011-2014 Swiss National Foundation
- 2011-2014 National Competence Center for Biomedical Imaging