March 22, 2017
Goettingen, Germany, speaking at the annual meeting of the German Neuroscience Society. Thanks to Michael Pankratz and Andreas Thum for the invitation.March 13-14, 2017
New York, USA, speaking at the "Columbia Workshop on Brain Circuits, Memory, and Computation 2017" organized by Aurel Lazar. Thanks very much Aurel for a fantastic meeting and pre-meeting hands-on software workshop.February 27, 2017
Snowbird, Utah, USA, co-organizing a workshop on "Electrons, fluorophores, and nucleotides: bridging the gaps in high-throughput connectomics" with Alex Vaughan.December 12-13, 2016
Lausanne, Switzerland, speaking the meeting on "Synapses and Circuits". Thanks to Graham Knott for the invitation.November 2016
Cambridge, UK, giving lectures on neuroscience.October23-26, 2016
HHMI Janelia, USA, co-organizing a meeting on the "Behavioral Neurogenetics of Drosophila Larva".September 9-10, 2015
Cambridge, UK invited to speak at the Cambridge Neuroscience Symposium: Imaging the Nervous System.July 5-10, 2015
Crete, Greece, invited to speak at the EMBO meeting on Neural Circuits and Behaviour of Drosophila.March 10, 2015
Harvard, USA, invited to give a seminar at Harvard's Center for Brain Science.February 23-26, 2015
Magdeburg, Germany invited to speak at the XIII International Magdeburg Meeting on "Learning & Memory". My deepest thanks to Bertram Gerber and his student Timo Saumweber who rescued me from several surprisingly failing German trains (I got to see deer crossing the road at midnight somewhere in the deep countryside, and speed through the autobahn like the stuff of legend), and for an otherwise wonderful and very pleasant stay in Magdeburg.June 12, 2014
LMB, Cambridge, UK will give a seminar, invited by Greg Jefferis.September 7-10, 2014
Germany, will give a talk at the joint Max Planck / HHMI Connectomics conference. Thanks to Moritz Helmstaedter and Viren Jain for the invitation.March 2014
Japan, will give a talk at the Behavioral Neurogenetics of Drosophila Larvae, a.k.a. the Maggot Meeting. Thanks to Akinao Nose, the organizer, for the invitation.October 5-7, 2013
HHMI Janelia Farm, will give a talk at the FliACT meeting (see www.fliact.eu) on collaborative neural circuit reconstruction, as well as a demonstration of using CATMAID for reconstructing neurons and synapses.May 5-7, 2013
Arlington, VA, will participate of the BRAIN Initiative preparatory workshop for the NSF, titled "Physical and Mathematical Principles of Brain Structure and Function".September 30th to October 3rd, 2012
HHMI Janelia Farm, will give a talk at the Behavioral Neurogenetics of Drosophila larva, also known as the Maggot Meeting.September 16-19th, 2012
Dresden, Germany, will give a talk at the Bioimage Informatics meeting about CATMAID and how we use it to reconstruct neural circuits on the web.July 26th, 2012
Barcelona, Spain, visiting Francesc Moreno-Noguer and his lab at the IRI (Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial, CSIC-UPC. I gave a talk about current methods for neural circuit reconstruction from electron microscopy image volumes, and the challenges ahead for automatization.
July 21th, 2012
Barcelona, Spain, visiting Matthieu Louis and his lab at the CRG (Centre de Regulació Genòmica). We met with Enrique Martín Blanco, Timo Zimmermann, and Matthieu's lab members who are at the forefront of systems biology research in Drosophila larva. I am indebted to Matthieu and the CRG for their hospitality.
June 25th, 2012
HHMI Janelia Farm, hosted Eduard Serradell Domingo and Dan Ciresan. Eduard recently published his work on non-linear image volume registration across imaging modalities with graph-based methods at CVPR 2012, and Dan is the winner of the ISBI 2012 Challenge on Segmentation of neuronal structures in EM stacks. The challenge asked the participants to segment the cytoplasmatic membranes of the electron microscopical image volume of Drosophila larva brain neuropil that I prepared and segmented myself a few years ago. Dan's results have immediate applicability for my lab.
April 22-24th, 2012
Zurich, Switzerland, attending the Master Thesis defense of my student Alex Berthold van der Bourg. Passed with excellent! Was great to catch up with colleagues at the Institute of Neuroinformatics.
January 1st, 2012
HHMI Janelia Farm, Washington DC, officially moved the lab to Janelia.
October 29th to December 31st, 2011
HHMI Janelia Farm, Washington DC, resuming the visitor program.
October 2nd to 29th, 2011
Zurich, Switzerland, preparing the transition to HHMI Janelia Farm.
September 11th to 14th, 2011
HHMI Janelia Farm, Washington DC, attending the High Resolution Neural Circuit Reconstruction meeting. Gave a talk on CATMAID and Stephan Saalfeld on the elastic registration of collections of images.
July 5th to 13th, 2011
HHMI Janelia Farm, Washington DC, USA, attending and organizing the first CATMAID hackathon, generously hosted by Davi Bock and Janelia.
April 22th to July 19th, 2011
HHMI Janelia Farm, Washington DC, USA, resuming my visitor program on Drosophila neuronal circuit reconstruction and analysis.
January 28th to February 3rd, 2011
Madison, Wisconsin attending the ImageJ 2.0 hackathon. Thanks to Kevin Eliceiri and Curtis Rueden from the LOCI lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
December 2010 to February 2011
HHMI Janelia Farm, Washington DC, USA, resuming my visitor program on Drosophila neuronal circuit reconstruction and analysis.
December 2 and 3, 2010
HHMI Janelia Farm, Washington DC, USA, teaching at the image processing tutorials together with Stephan Preibisch and Ignacio Arganda. Organized by the Janelia postdoc society, Sara Abrahamsson and Tihana Jovanovic.
November 26-28th, 2010
the Max Plank Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics-CBG, Dresden, Germany, working with Pavel Tomancak, Johannes Schindelin and Stephan Preibisch. The scripting library for imglib went public.
October 24-27th, 2010
HHMI Janelia Farm, Washington DC, USA, will attend and give a talk at the Light-Based Approaches to Neural Circuit Reconstruction conference.
October 17-22nd, 2010
Barcelona, Spain will attend and give a talk at the "Functional Neurobiology in Minibrains: From Flies to Robots and Back Again", chaired by Matthieu Louis from the Center for Genomic Regulation.
October 1-9th, 2010
Oeiras, Portugal will teach at the EMBO Practical Course on 3D Developmental Imaging at the Gulbenkian Institute for Science, organized by Gabriel G. Martins.
September 5-8th, 2010
Heidelberg, Germany will attend and give a talk at the conference on Structure and Function of Neural Circuits, at EMBL, organized by Barry Dickson and Cori Bargmann.
July 25-27th, 2010
Bangalore, India will give a talk at the 2010 Bangalore Maggot Meeting: Neural Circuits to Behaviour.
July 21-24th, 2010
Bangalore, India will teach at the EMBO Global Exchange Lecture Course on Systems neuroscience of the Drosophila larva: genetic and circuit bases of behavior.
June 20th, 2010
Cold Spring Harbor, USA will give a workshop on Fiji and TrakEM2 at the workshop on circuit and molecular architecture of the vertebrate brain".
April to June, 2010
HHMI Janelia Farm, Washington DC, USA as a visiting scientist for neuronal reconstruction using serial section electron microscopy.
April 7-11, 2010
Washington DC, USA, attending the Drosophila Research Conference 2010. I'll give a short talk on Saturday, April 10th, in Pavel Tomancak's and Uwe Ohler's workshop.
March 15-26th, 2010
European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg, Germany organizing and participating in a hackathon together with Francesca Peri and Kota Miura. The development sprint will focus on performance, scope and capabilities of Fiji's 3D Viewer.
March 10th, 2010
Fribourg, Switzerland. Gave a talk hosted by Reinhard Stocker on fly brain comparative neuroanatomy, from EM data. I had the opportunity to talk to Simon Sprecher, Andreas Thum and Mareike Selcho.
March 13th, 2010
Lausanne, Switzerland, attending the Swiss Society for Neuroscience anual meeting.
March 6th to 12th, 2010
Nendaz, Switzerland. Back to the Monfort.
February 1st, 2010
Lausanne, Switzerland, visiting Graham Knott at EPFL. I helped his group with Fiji and TrakEM2, finding the right parameters for stitching thousands of image tiles, and also scripting for measurements.
October to December, 2009
HHMI Janelia Farm, Washington DC, USA as a visiting scientist for neuronal reconstruction using serial section electron microscopy.
September 25-27th, 2009
Tarragona, Spain, recharging batteries.
September 20-23rd, 2009
Harnack House Berlin, Germany, attending the High-Resolution Circuit Reconstruction meeting, organized by Mitya Chklovskii and Winfried Denk, and sponsored by HHMI Janelia Farm.
September 9-12th, 2009
Pilsen, Czech Republic, organizing and teaching an Image Processing School based on Fiji and for biologists.
September 6-8th, 2009
Pilsen, Czech Republic, 2nd INCF Congress of Neuroinformatics -- Databasing and Modelling the brain" [web]. I will give a short talk at the workshop on Neuroinformatics of Neural Connectivity.
September 4-5th, 2009
Pilsen, Czech Republic, Digital Atlasing Workgroup meeting, where the Allen Institute for Brain Science will demonstrate "a new proposed canonical reference space for the rodent, as well as certain tools and applications for mapping new and existing resources to this space".
July 3rd, 2009
New York, Marta Zlatić and I got married!
June 3rd to 13th, 2009
HHMI Janelia Farm, Washington DC, meeting Stephan Saalfeld and Mitya Chklovskii to work on TrakEM2.
May 30th to June 2nd, 2009
New York, visiting Marta Zlatić at Columbia University.
April 26th to May 10th, 2009
Capo Caccia, Sardinia, at the Capo Caccia Cognitive Neuromorphic Engineering Workshop. I will likely lead a workgroup on Blender, and gather all interested in image segmentation and Fiji or TrakEM2.
April 15-16th, 2009
Stockholm, Sweeden, attending an INCF board meeting.
March 30th to April 3rd, 2009
Dresden, Germany on the 2nd Fiji Hackathon at the the Max Plank Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics. TrakEM2 got a GUI cleanup, lots of bug fixes, GUI repaint speed ups, and new functionality as well such as integrated lens distortion correction, tile blending, align multi-layer mosaic, and more. Checkout the up comming new Fiji release.
February 13th to 22nd, 2009
New York, visiting Marta Zlatić at Columbia University.
February 5th 2009
Tuebingen, Germany, visiting friends at Nico Michiels' lab. I attended a talk on the cost of sex changing (a widespread strategy of many animals to increase their [reproductive] fitness. Individuals switch to the most advantageos sex form depending upon their size and that of their peers in the population.)
February 3-4th, 2009
EMBL Heildelberg, Germany, visiting Kota Miura and Mette Handberg (Detlev Arendt's lab). will give a talk on serial section electron microscopy, and two workshops on Fiji and TrakEM2.
January 19-25th, 2009
New York, visiting Marta Zlatić at Columbia University.
January 12-18th, 2009
HHMI Janelia Farm, Washington DC, meeting Stephan Saalfeld and Mitya Chklovskii to work on non-linear transformations for TrakEM2.
November 6-7th, 2008
Luxemburg, presenting a workshop at the ImageJ Conference 2008. Lots of fijiers will gather for the event.
October 19th to 22nd, 2008
HHMI Janelia Farm, Washington DC, attending the meeting on Behavioral Neurogenetics of Drosophila Larva.
October 12th to 17th, 2008
Dresden, Germany, hacking on fiji and TrakEM2 with my friends and colleagues at the the Max Plank Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics.
September 13th and 14th, 2008
Barcelona, Spain, attending Samuel Ojosnegros' wedding. Best wishes for your new life my dear friend.
September 6-10th, 2008
Stockholm, Sweden presenting a workshop at the neuroinformatics meeting organized by Rodney Douglas, within the INCF.
August 25th to 30th, 2008
Samuel Ojosnegros visited me in Zurich, Switzerland for a three-day session of programming a simulation of populations of viruses on cell plates.
August 18th, 2008
moving to Zurich, Switzerland for a whole new adventure at the Institute of Neuroinformatics.
August 1st to 17th, 2008
New York and Los Angeles, USA working, hiking, working, packing up and shipping boxes, having a good time. I love New York.
July 18th to 31st, 2008
HHMI Janelia Farm, Washington, finishing up imaging of first instar brain neuropile.
July 17th and 18th, 2008
Zurich, Switzerland, touch down at the Institute of Neuroinformatics.
July 12th to 16th, 2008
Geneve, Switzerland, presenting an ImageJ-oriented image processing workshop at the FENS meeting with Dimiter Prodanov, Bene Schmid and D. Sage. My topic will be TrakEM2.
July 11th, 2008
Zurich, Switzerland, touch down at the Institute of Neuroinformatics.
July 3rd to 10th, 2008
Tarragona and Barcelona, on private vacation. I visited the CRG once more -- the best research center in Barcelona by far.
July 3rd, 2008
CRG Barcelona, gave a seminar titled "From micro to nano: mapping neuroanatomical data from confocal imaging to TEM serial sections and back." I am indebted to Matthieu Louis for inviting and setting me up for a very nice visit to Barcelona's newest and shiniest research center.
June 27th to July 2nd, 2008
Rovigno, Istria, Hrvatia (Croatia), on private vacations.
June 21st to 26th, 2008
Venice, Italy, attending a fabulous wedding. I will never ever forget the simple yet exquisite civil wedding, the bride on the gondola, the freshness of the day, the amazing boat taxi drive back and forth and a fantastic small gathering on an island for dinner. Thank you my dear friends for granting me the priviledge of sharing this day with you.
June 14th to 20th, 2008
HHMI Janelia Farm, Washington, imaging serial sections with TEM/Leginon.
June 2nd to 13th, 2008
HHMI Janelia Farm, Washington, organizing and attending the 2nd Janelia Farm Hackathon on image processing. About 15 people from around the world will gather for the event. Generously hosted and funded by HHMI investigator and Janelia Farm director Gerry Rubin.
May 12th to June 2nd, 2008
University of California Los Angeles at the Hartenstein's lab.
May 7th to 11th, 2008
Boston, Massachussets, visiting Davi Bock from Clay Reid's lab. I will give a talk Friday 9th, at 10:50 in the Lichtman/Sanes Lab Tea Room.
May 2st to 6th, 2008
New York, visiting Marta Zlatić from Columbia University.
April 21st to April 30th, 2008
Dresden, Germany, attending the foundation hackathon for fiji: fiji is just ImageJ (with batteries included). I am indebted to Jean-Yves Tivenez for providing the necessary environment for the hackathon, and to Pavel Tomancak for his hospitality. My dear hackers, we are on our way.
March 15th to April 21st, 2008
Janelia Farms, Washington, working with Richard Fetter, Julie Simpson, Jim Truman's lab, Ian Meinertzhagen and Marta Zlatić on fly brains, electron microscopical analysis of neuropiles, and brain simulations.
January 16th to March 14th, 2008
University of California Los Angeles at the Hartenstein's lab.
January 15th and 16th, 2008
Zurich, Switzerland, blendering with Tobi Delbrück, and getting Verena Kaynig up to speed with ImageJ and TrakEM2. I am indebted to Tobi and Shi-Chi for their hospitality.
January 14th and 15th, 2008
Tübingen, Germany, visiting Gregor Schulte and Nico Michiels, and my dearest friends from my recent marine biology trip to Mangrove Bay, Egypt. I am indebted once more to Gregor for his hospitality.
January 13th and 14th, 2008
Innsbruck, Austria, sledging with Bernhard Egger and his little dragon. A picture in the beautiful Austrian countryside. I am indebted to Bernhard and Petra for their hospitality, particularly for once more sharing the best vegan food I've ever tasted.
January 6th to 13th, 2008
Obergurgl, Austria, participating in the PENS/Hertie Winter School 2008, which focuses on insect neuroanatomy and neural networks. The meeting was excellent. The 3-hour free time (a.k.a. ski sessions) every afternoon went a long way in providing fun and leisure hours to talk to each other. I joined the "Development of Neural Networks" workgroup, and our presentation consisted of a theater play depicting the topic of the workgroup from neurogenesis to multiple network interactions, including path finding, regeneration and all. Professors played along at our request and we all had a great time (Joachim Pflüger won't forget the red wine mediated neuromodulation for a while!) Art beats slide presentations any day.
December 30th to January 6th, 2008
Barcelona, Spain, recharging batteries. Some pictures from home.
November 7th to December 29th, 2007
University of California Los Angeles at the Hartenstein's lab.
November 3rd to 7th, 2007
San Diego, attending the anual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. Plenty of neuromorphs gathered for the event. Some pictures from outdoors. My deep thanks to Ping Wang (from Terry Sejnowski's Computational Neurobiology Laboratory at Salk Institute) for very kind hosting.
October 27th to November 2nd, 2007
University of California Los Angeles at the Hartenstein's lab.
October 24th to 27th, 2007
Zurich, Switzerland, at the Institute of Neuroinformatics again for some talks with Rodney Douglas and Kevan Martin.
October 17th to 23rd, 2007
Dresden, Germany, back to Pavel Tomancak's lab for another round of TrakEM development. Can't wait to meet you again Stephans! Jan de Sonneville came along for an extended weekend and we started a beautiful project. How far will we go, only time will tell. In Dresden, Pavel Tomancak invited me to join his lab in presenting the Max Plank Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics-CBG Friday seminar together with Stephan Saalfeld. Stephan and I presented our work on fly brain TEM data in what was a memorable event, for which I am most grateful. Some pictures of Dresden here.
October 17th, 2007
Brussels, Belgium, visiting Dimiter Prodanov, with whom, together with Bene Schmid and D. Sage, will present an ImageJ-oriented image processing workshop at the FENS meeting next summer in Geneve.
October 16th, 2007
Leiden, The Netherlands, visiting Jan de Sonneville in his current physics lab. I am indebted to Jan for his kind hospitality and most surprisingly, salsa lessons! I gave a talk about fly brain neuroanatomy and my TEM serial section project.
October 12th to 14th, 2007
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, will attend the Blender Conference 2007, and I will be teaching a Blender tutorial on how to use Blender's Game Engine as a 3D simulator for external programs such as the jAER. In particular, I will show the making of Tobi Delbrück's Monster Truck simulator that we crafted at the Neuromorphic Engineering Workshop in Telluride last July. The original blender file and C/python source code are available at the jAER's subversion repository.
September 27th to October 11th, 2007
Red Sea, Egypt, participating in the anual trip organized by Nico Michiels, Nils Anthes, Gregor Schulte and Dennis Sprenger, from Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen. I am indebted to Gregor for his hospitality. My dear fellow divers, I will never forget all I learnt in this trip! I've posted some pictures from the desert trips, as well as my own project report about Pseudochromis fridmani (Orchid dottybacks).
September 26th, 2007
Zurich, Switzerland, touch down at the Institute of Neuroinformatics.
September 22nd to 25th, 2007
Janelia Farms, Washington D.C., attending the conference on Neural Circuit Reconstruction. We had some really nice software presentations and one-to-one chats on the many peaceful corners of Janelia Farms. I was surprised (shouldn't I be?) about how much interest TrakEM2 raised.
August 18th to September 22nd, 2007
University of California Los Angeles at the Hartenstein's lab.
August 12th to August 18th, 2007
Boston, USA visiting Samuel Ojosnegros, the coolest virologist from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. The PED (Program for evolutionary Dynamics), directed by Martin Nowak, turned out to be an excellent and most welcoming dry lab. I gave a very small talk about fly brain development. Many thanks to Samuel and Niko Beerenwinkel for their hospitality.
August 8th to August 12th, 2007
Columbia University, New York visiting Marta Zlatić at the Grueber lab.
August 7-8th, 2007
Zurich, Switzerland, touch down at the Institute of Neuroinformatics.
July 28th to August 7th, 2007
Barcelona, Spain, on private vacations.
July 1st to 27th, 2007
Telluride, Colorado, will attend the Neuromorphic Engineering Workshop. At the event, I taught a hands-on tutorial on Blender, and I built a 3D simulator for Tobi Delbruck's Monster Truck, interacting with the jAER through python sockets. Many thanks to Daniel Fasnach for serious socket advice and debugging, and to Toby for his interest and encouragement. There are some pictures and a real-time (now records) website of the event.
June 2nd to 16th, 2007
Janelia Farms, Washington D.C. attended and half-organized a hackathon on image registration and modeling. Hosted by Gerry Rubin and Arnim Jenett. Some pictures of the event.
May 4th and 5th, 2007
San Diego, California acquiring images with Leginon at the Automated Molecular Imaging group, Scripps Institute. I am indebted to Clint Potter, Bridget Carragher, Jim Pulokas and particularly Anchi Cheng for sharing their EM facility and helping so much with the setup.
March 11th to 16th, 2007
Washington D.C. attending the Janelia Farms conferences on Neuroanatomy and Stereotypy of the Adult Drosophila Nervous System and on Insect Behavior: Small Brains, Big Functions.
January 25th, 2007
San Diego, California visiting the Automated Molecular Imaging group. My advisor Volker Hartenstein and I gave a joint talk about our work on Drosophila neurobiology, particularly on the need to make accessible the fine microarchitecture of the fly brain.
January 8th to June 2nd, 2007
University of California Los Angeles at the Hartenstein's lab.
January 6th and 7th, 2006
Würzburg, Germany visiting Johannes Schindelin and Bene Schmid at Martin Heisenberg's lab.
Early December 2006
Brno, Czech Republic attending internal conference of the young group leaders from the Max Plank Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics.
November 15 to 18th, 2006
Tuebingen, Germany visiting Nico Michiels' lab. I am indebted to Nico, Thomas D'Souza and Beatriz Sánchez Navarro for their hospitality. I also gave a seminar on the embryonic development of triclads.
October 20 to 22nd, 2006
Amsterdam, The Netherlands attending the Blender Conference 2006. I gave a talk which was video recorded.
September 6th to 8th, 2006
Ghent, Belgium visiting Maxime Willems and Mieke Boone at the Nematology department, University of Ghent. I am indebted to Maxime Willems for his hospitality. Ghent is a great city!
September 2nd to 6th, 2006
Leuven, Belgium attending the Neurofly 2007 Conference organized by Bassem Hassan. I am indebted to Mimi Deprez for helping me retrieve my lost luggage. I gave a talk.
Late September 2006 to January 8th, 2007
Dresden, Germany at the Max Plank Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, hosted by Pavel Tomancak and having great fun with electron microscopy of fly brain.
August 24 and 25th, 2006
Edinburgh, Scotland for personal matters.
August 13th to mid September, 2006
Zurich, Switzerland at the Institute of Neuroinformatics for more TrakEM2 development.
July 6th to 12th, 2006
Tarragona, Spain, recharging batteries.
July 5th, 2006
Zurich, Switzerland, parting with friends from the Institute of Neuroinformatics.
July 9th to August 5th, 2006
Innsbruck, Austria attending the 10th International Symposium on Flatworm Biology, where I gave a talk titled "Embryonic development of planarians." The symposium was just great, I love Innsbruck. I am indebted to Bernhard Egger and his family for their hospitality.
July 26th and 27th, 2006
Münich, Germany visiting Joachim Walter at Martinsried University. I am indebted to Joachim for his hospitality. And quite a blast of fresh air to hit Europe again!
June and July 2006
University of California Los Angeles at the Hartenstein's lab.
May 22th to 25th, 2006
Dresden, Germany at the the Max Plank Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, visiting Pavel Tomancak.
May 18th and 19th, 2006
Luxembourg at the ImageJ Conference. I gave a talk.
Late May and early June 2006
Zurich, Switzerland working on TrakEM2.
March and May 2006
University of California Los Angeles at the Hartenstein's lab.
February 2006
Zurich, Switzerland working on TrakEM2.
October 2005 to January 2006
University of California Los Angeles at the Hartenstein's lab. I have started postdoctoral research on fly brain connectivity.
June 1st to September 30th, 2005
Zurich, Switzerland at the Institute of Neuroinformatics developing TrakEM2 for Rodney Douglas.
July 2000 to July 2005
Barcelona, Spain at the University of Barcelona working on my PhD Thesis titled "The embryonic development of the triclad Schmidtea polychroa using molecular markers".
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