Karin Nordström
Researcher at Institutionen för medicinsk cellbiologi; Forskargrupp Karin Nordström
- Fax:
- +46 18 51 15 40
- E-mail:
- karin.nordstrom@uu.se
- Visiting address:
- BMC
Husargatan 3
751 23 Uppsala - Postal address:
- Box 571
751 23 UPPSALA
- Academic merits:
- PhD, Associate Professor
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Short presentation
My research group works on the neural mechanisms underlying motion detection in the fly brain. For more, check my up-to-date homepage.
Biography
Jan 2010: Docent in Neurophysiology, Department of Neuroscience, Uppsala University.
April 2010 – present: Visiting Lecturer, School of Medical Sciences, The University of Adelaide
2009 – present. Presentation technique coordinator for The Biomedical Program, Faculty of Medicine, Uppsala University. 10% appointment.
June 2009 – present: Swedish Research Council (VR) Research Fellow (Forskarassistent, 4 years), Department of Neuroscience, Uppsala University.
Jan 2008 – May 2009: Australian Research Council (ARC) Research Fellow (APD, 3 years), School of Molecular and Biomedical Science, The University of Adelaide.
May 2007 – May 2009: Lecturer in Physiology (continuing appointment), School of Molecular and Biomedical Science, the University of Adelaide.
April – Dec 2006: Maternity leave.
Jan 2005 – April 2007: Swedish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow (2 years), School of Molecular and Biomedical Science, The University of Adelaide.
2004: Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Molecular and Biomedical Science, The University of Adelaide, with Dr. David O’Carroll.
Jan – April 2004: Research associate, School of Molecular and Biomedical Science, The University of Adelaide, with Prof. Caroline McMillen.
1999 – 2003: PhD, Department of Cell & Organism Biology, Unit of Zoology, Lund University and Department of Neuroscience, Unit of Pharmacology, Uppsala University.
Publications
Recent publications
- Temperature during pupal development affects hoverfly developmental time, adult life span, and wing length (2023)
- Vision: Flies move their eyes (2023)
- Descending neurons of the hoverfly respond to pursuits of artificial targets (2023)
- Hoverfly (Eristalis tenax) pursuit of artificial targets (2023)
- The impulse response of optic flow-sensitive descending neurons to roll m-sequences (2021)
All publications
Articles
- Temperature during pupal development affects hoverfly developmental time, adult life span, and wing length (2023)
- Vision: Flies move their eyes (2023)
- Descending neurons of the hoverfly respond to pursuits of artificial targets (2023)
- Hoverfly (Eristalis tenax) pursuit of artificial targets (2023)
- The impulse response of optic flow-sensitive descending neurons to roll m-sequences (2021)
- Facilitation of neural responses to targets moving flow (2021)
- Efference copies (2021)
- Insect Vision (2020)
- Visual motion sensitivity in descending neurons in the hoverfly. (2020)
- Persistent Firing and Adaptation in Optic-Flow-Sensitive Descending Neurons (2020)
- Image statistics of the environment surrounding freely behaving hoverflies (2019)
- Acute sleep loss induces signs of visual discomfort in young men (2019)
- Integration of Small- and Wide-Field Visual Features in Target-Selective Descending Neurons of both Predatory and Non-Predatory Dipterans (2018)
- Rearing and Long-Term Maintenance of Eristalis tenax Hoverflies for Research Studies. (2018)
- Visual approach computation in feeding hoverflies (2018)
- Image statistics and their processing in insect vision (2017)
- In situ modeling of multimodal floral cues attracting wild pollinators across environments (2017)
- The price of looking sexy (2017)
- A Novel Interception Strategy in a Miniature Robber Fly with Extreme Visual Acuity (2017)
- Target detection in insects (2016)
- Hoverfly locomotor activity is resilient to external influence and intrinsic factors (2016)
- A higher order visual neuron tuned to the spatial amplitude spectra of natural scenes (2015)
- Spatio-temporal dynamics of impulse responses to figure motion in optic flow neurons (2015)
- The Killer Fly Hunger Games (2015)
- Identification of the elementary motion detector model in fly motion vision from intracellularly recorded neural data (2014)
- Spatial excitation properties of sinusoidal grating stimuli in the identification of a layer of motion detectors (2014)
- Novel Flicker-Sensitive Visual Circuit Neurons Inhibited by Stationary Patterns (2013)
- Robust prey detection in a small nervous system (2013)
- Invertebrate vision (2013)
- Octopaminergic modulation of contrast sensitivity (2012)
- Higher-order motion sensitivity in fly visual circuits (2012)
- Neural specializations for small target detection in insects (2012)
- Temporal and spatial adaptation of transient responses to local features (2012)
- Spatial facilitation by a high-performance dragonfly target-detecting neuron (2011)
- Rapid contrast gain reduction following motion adaptation (2011)
- Local and global responses of insect motion detectors to the spatial structure of natural scenes (2011)
- Motion adaptation and the velocity coding of natural scenes (2010)
- Local and large-range inhibition in feature detection (2009)
- First year expectations and experiences (2009)
- Evolution of vertebrate rod and cone phototransduction genes (2009)
- The motion after-effect (2009)
- Feature detection and the hypercomplex property in insects. (2009)
- Sexual dimorphism in the hoverfly motion vision pathway. (2008)
- Retinotopic organization of small-field-target-detecting neurons in the insect visual system. (2007)
- Neural mechanisms underlying target detection in a dragonfly centrifugal neuron. (2007)
- Prediction of transcription factor binding to DNA using rule induction methods (2006)
- Insect detection of small targets moving in visual clutter. (2006)
- Small object detection neurons in female hoverflies. (2006)
- Extensive duplications of phototransduction genes in early vertebrate evolution correlate with block (chromosome) duplications. (2004)
- Mutational analysis of the Acropora millepora PaxD paired domain highlights the importance of the linker region for DNA binding. (2003)
- A simple visual system without neurons in jellyfish larvae. (2003)
- Target pursuits in male hoverflies
Chapters
Conferences
- On identification of elementary motion detectors (2013)
- Laguerre Domain Identification of the Elementary Motion Detector Model in Insect Vision (2013)
- Computational models reveal non-linearity in integration of local motion signals by insect motion detectors viewing natural scenes (2011)
- A neuromorphic model for a robust, adaptive photoreceptor reduces variability in correlation based motion detectors (2006)
