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| Professor Simon Laughlin |
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By virtue of their adaptability, eyes and brains are remarkably plastic organs. This plasticity has enabled the evolution of an astonishingly wide range of behavioural patterns. What forms does adaptation take, and how has adaptability determined the design and evolution of nervous systems? My interest started with a well known form of adaptation, an eye's rapid adjustment to changes in light level. My finding that adaptation adjusts neural processing to optimise the flow of information from eye to brain led to a broader question. How are sense organs, neural membranes, neural circuits and neural codes adapted to optimise function, and what are the relevant constraint?
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| Nikon Rasumov |
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B.A., M.Sci. (Cantab), Natural Sciences (Physics)
University of Cambridge
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| Arjun Bharioke |
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B.Sc. Chemical Physics, University of Toronto
B.Sc. Biochemistry, University of Toronto
Janelia Farm/Cambridge joint graduate program
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| Armando Castillo |
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B.Sc. Microbiology and Parasitology, University of Panama
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| Francisco J. Hernandez Heras |
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Lic. Physics, University of Valladolid (Spain)
M.Phil. Biological Sciences (Zoology), University of Cambridge
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| Dr. Steve Rogers |
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Department of Zoology
University of Cambridge
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| Dr. Swidbert Ott |
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Department of Zoology
University of Cambridge
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| Professor Malcolm Burrows |
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Department of Zoology
University of Cambridge
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| Patricio Simoes |
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| Biswa Sengupta |
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| Matthew Parsons |
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| Dr. Brian Burton |
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