We are most delighted that Philipp Bartel has just passed his PhD viva!
For his thesis, Philipp looked at spectral processing in zebrafish, from cones to brain circuits. Some of his work is already published, with much more to come!
Thank you to Andrew Stockman and Tom Collett for serving as examiners, and Daniel Osorio for chairing.

Phil’s papers so far:
Bartel P$, Janiak FK, Osorio D, Baden T$. Colourfulness as a possible measure of object proximity in the larval zebrafish brain. bioRxiv doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.12.03.410241. direct link. pdf.
Yoshimatsu T, Bartel P, Schroeder C, Janiak FK, St-Pierre F, Berens P, Baden T$. Near-optimal rotation of colour space by zebrafish cones in vivo. bioRxiv doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.10.26.356089. direct link. pdf.
Janiak FK
, Bartel P, Bale M, Yoshimatsu T, Komulainen EH, Zhou M, Staras K, Prieto Godino LL, Euler T, Maravall M, Baden
Baden TbioRxiv version). direct link. pdf.
, James B, Zimmermann M, Bartel P, Griseels D, Lagnado L* and Maravall M*. Spikeling: a low-cost hardware implementation of a spiking neuron for neuroscience teaching and outreach. PLoS Biology doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.2006760.