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Harbin talk invitation allowed us to visit near-by Yabuli for a day of skiing

The BNU system is now generating good data

Yunqi, Yifan, Keivan and Mikko visited Fudan University, Shanghai, where Mikko gave a talk, and Suzhou "Venice of China" on our way back to Beijing.

James McManus (from St. Andrews University, UK) has accepted a Ph.D. position in our Sheffield laboratory. Welcome to the team :)

Bäckaskog Castle, Sweden | August 5 - August 12, 2019

https://www.jneurosci.org/content/early/2019/07/26/JNEUROSCI.3213-18.2019

Yifan started working on her post-graduate projects in BNU in July.

Welcome to the team, Yifan!

Before the Fudan talk and meetings, Zhuoyi showed us some street life.

Yunqi, Keivan and Mikko stopped by in Huangshan for a mountain hike on our way to Fudan University, Shanghai.

Before and after new x-ray experiments in DESY.

Lovely dinner with the former lab members, Professor Zheng and Professor Song, in Heifei (15 March 2019).

Semi-Naked Keivan playing football in -10 dec C in BNU stalked by Wechat-Moments China paparazzi

Xmas dinner of Lin, Guo and Juusola labs 

Successful experiments :)

2-photon imaging training with Yunqi and Keivan

Sunny October evening lab picture.

Neveen, Ben, Joni and Mikko attended Neurofly 2018 in Krakow, Poland, in September.

Studying insect vision with Marina, Jesper and Fabio in DESY Hamburg (27-30 May 2018).

Narendra's farewell dinner in Ashoka Restaurant (19 April 2018)

2-6 April 2018, Joni, Neveen and Mikko were in ESRF Grenoble with Rajmund (Lund, Sweden), Marko (Oulu, Finland), Paulus (Oulu, Finland) and Gabor (Szeged, Hungary) for testing how photomechanical photoreceptor movements affect Drosophila visual information processing. ESRF made a little story about our research in their newsletter.

See: http://www.esrf.eu/home/news/general/content-news/general/weekendusers-unravelling-the-great-vision-of-flies.html

Yunqi Ma (from Harbin Insitute of Technology, HIT) has accepted a postgraduate position in our BNU laboratory. Welcome to the team :)

Joni Kemppainen and Ben Scales will start their Ph.D. studies on honeybee vision and behaviour projects this October. Welcome to the team :)

A new EPSRC 5-year program grant: "Brains on Board" will be activated on Jan 2017.

This grant involves five subprojects, each run by its own PI, with James Marshall (Computer Science, Sheffield) being the overall PI of the whole endeavour (his subproject is to build flying robots). 

Mikko's subproject is to study the honeybee vision using bespoke VR-systems and electrophysiology. 

The other co-PIs running their specific subprojects are: Thomas Nowotny (Sussex), Andy Philippides (Sussex) and Lars Chittka (Queen Mary).

Many thanks for Zhuoyi, Diana and Florence for organising the Phototransduction 2016 meeting in Sheffield. It was all great fun - great weather, great food and wine, and of course great speakers presenting their exciting science.

Zhuoyi, Florence and Diana are organising the 1st interdisciplinary UK phototransduction & synaptic transmission workshop in Sheffield 31st August - 2nd September, 2016

Their workshop boasts an outstanding speaker list of leading International scientists

Our very good friend, Mikko's and Jouni's former Ph.D. supervisor and collaborator Prof. Matti Weckström (University of Oulu, Finland) died suddenly and unexpectedly of acute illness on 24 October 2015. He was only 56. Matti will be dearly missed. The picture below is from our lab pub outing after Sid's viva voce (Matti was his external examiner) in Sheffield this July. 

Sid Dongre just passed his viva - many congrats to Dr. Sid! :) 

Warm welcome to our new Research Associates, Drs. Zhuoyi Song and Narendra Solanki, who will start working with us this summer 

Here are some shots from the superconducting magic circles that make you fly