Albert Cardona Torrens

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How does a brain work? What is its structure? How does it develop? I address these very related questions using the first instar larva of Drosophila melanogaster as a model system.

What I do:

  • Serial section electron microscopy of first instar brain neuropile.
  • Automatic neuron and neuronal lineage identification, on confocal image stacks and TEM stacks of first and third instar Drosophila brains.
  • Write software to stitch/register/3D model/analyze TEM and confocal images. See TrakEM2 and Fiji.

    • See also my personal webpage.

Teaching

INI-426 Block: Systems Neuroscience

Publications

2010

  • Bery, A and Cardona, A and Martinez, P and Hartenstein, V Structure of the central nervous system of a juvenile acoel, Symsagittifera roscoffensis, Development Genes and Evolution, 220:(3-4) 61-76, 2010
  • Cardona, A and Saalfeld, S and Arganda, I and Pereanu, W and Schindelin, J and Hartenstein, V Identifying neuronal lineages of Drosophila by sequence analysis of axon tracts, Journal of Neuroscience, 30:(22) 7538-7553, 2010
  • Cardona, A and Saalfeld, S and Preibisch, S and Schmid, B and Cheng, A and Pulokas, J and Tomancak, P and Hartenstein, V An integrated micro- and macroarchitectural analysis of the drosophila brain by computer-assisted serial section electron microscopy, PLoS Biology , 8:(10) e1000502, 2010
  • Saalfeld, S and Cardona, A and Hartenstein, V and Tomancak, P As-rigid-as-possible mosaicking and serial section registration of large ssTEM datasets, Bioinformatics, 26:(12) i57-i63, 2010
  • Schmid, B and Schindelin, J and Cardona, A and Longair, M and Heinsenberg, M A high-level 3D visualization API for Java and ImageJ, BMC Bioinformatics(11) 274, 2010

2009

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