I am a PhD student funded by the EPSRC/MRC Doctoral Training Centre in Neuroinformatics. The focus of my research is building up a detailed connectivity map of the brain of Drosophila melanogaster, with the aim of modelling the function of the fruit fly brain. I am building tools for the annotation and registration of confocal microscope scans of whole-mount brains. These are incorporated into an easy-to-use web application for the archiving and sharing of these data.
My PhD supervisors are:
This page is in need of an update with a fuller description of my work, but for the moment these movies and images may give you an idea of the kinds of things that I'm doing:
These are unlikely to be of use to people outside the University of Edinburgh
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This image of the central complex is a volume rendering from an averaged template image generated from 32 brains after each has been registered onto the Standard Brain template. The colour of each neuropil region is taken from the Standard Brain segmentation of the central complex.