Congratulations Dr. Max!

We are most delighted that Maxime Zimmermann has just passed his PhD viva!

For his thesis, maxime looked at the retinal basis of colour vision in zebrafish, with a key focus on bipolar cells. He also spent much energy building a wide range of open source lab tools, including visual stimulators.

Thank you to Isaac Bianco and Andy Penn for serving as examiners, and Guy Richardson for chairing.

Max’s papers so far:

Zimmermann MJY*, Nevala NE*, Yoshimatsu T*, Osorio D, Nilsson DE, Berens P, Baden T^§. Zebrafish differentially process colour across visual space to match natural scenes. Current Biology 28(1-15). direct link. (bioRxiv version). pdf.

Zimmermann MJY^§, Chagas AM, Bartel P, Pop S, Prieto Godino LL, Baden T^§. LED Zappelin’: An open source LED controller for arbitrary spectrum visual stimulation and optogenetics during 2-photon imaging. HardwareX e00127 (bioRxiv version). doi: direct link. pdf.

Baden T^§, 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. (bioRxiv version). direct link. pdf.

Franke K*, Chagas AM*, Zhao Z, Zimmermann MJY, Bartel P, Qiu Y, Szatko K, Baden T, Euler T^§. An arbitrary-spectrum spatial visual stimulator for vision research. eLife 8:e48779. (bioRxiv version). direct link. pdf.