Dr Stefan Pulver
Lecturer in Neuroscience
Teaching
Spring 2015: Module Organizer, PN4231, University of St Andrews
2015-2017: Co-Director, Drosophila Neurobiology summer course, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories, U.S.A
2012-2015: Co-founder, Co-director, CrawFly Neurophysiology course for educators, Cornell University, U.S.A.
Research areas
I study the neural control of locomotion in Drosophila larvae. Work in the lab is highly integrative, involving everything from genetics to anatomy to electrophyisology and live imaging to animal behaviour. Since the Drosophila nervous system shares many of the same molecular genetic building blocks observed in spinal networks, our work is well positioned to provide insights and foundations for work in vertebrates.
PhD supervision
- Jonathan Booth
- James Macleod
- Jacob Francis
- Nikolaos Maragkos
Selected publications
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Narrowband organic light-emitting diodes for fluorescence microscopy and calcium imaging
Murawski, C., Mischok, A., Booth, J. H., Kumar, J. D., Archer, E., Tropf, L. C., Keum, C., Deng, Y., Yoshida, K., Samuel, I. D. W., Schubert, M., Pulver, S. & Gather, M. C., 5 Sep 2019, In : Advanced Materials. Early View, 8 p.Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article
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High-brightness organic light-emitting diodes for optogenetic control of Drosophila locomotor behaviour
Morton, A., Murawski, C., Pulver, S. & Gather, M. C., 3 Aug 2016, In : Scientific Reports. 6, 8 p., 31117.Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article
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Organic light-emitting diodes for optogenetic stimulation of Drosophila larvae
Murawski, C., Morton, A., Samuel, I. D. W., Pulver, S. & Gather, M. C., 14 Nov 2016, Proceedings, Light, Energy and the Environment. Optical Society of American (OSA), 3 p. JW4A.9. (Fourier Transform Spectroscopy).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding ? Conference contribution
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Selective inhibition mediates the sequential recruitment of motor pools
Zwart, M. F., Pulver, S. R., Truman, J. W., Fushiki, A., Fetter, R. D., Cardona, A. & Landgraf, M., 3 Aug 2016, In : Neuron. 91, 3, p. 615-628 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article
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Selective inhibition mediates the sequential recruitment of motor pools: Correction
Zwart, M. F., Pulver, S., Truman, J., Fushiki, A., Cardona, A. & Landgraf, M., 17 Aug 2016, In : Neuron. 91, 4, p. 944Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article
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Identification of inhibitory premotor interneurons activated at a late phase in a motor cycle during Drosophila larval locomotion
Itakura, Y., Hiroshi, K., Ohyama, T., Zlatic, M., Pulver, S. & Nose, A., 3 Sep 2015, In : PLoS One. 10, 9, e0136660.Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article
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Imaging fictive locomotor patterns in larval Drosophila
Pulver, S., Bayley, T., Taylor, A., Berni, J., Bate, M. & Hedwig, B., 6 Nov 2015, In : Journal of Neurophysiology. 114, 5, p. 2564-2577Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article
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Light activated escape circuits: a behavior and neurophysiology lab module using Drosophila optogenetics
Titlow, J. S., Johnson, B. R. & Pulver, S. R., 7 Jul 2015, In : Journal of Undergraduate Neuroscience Education. 13, 3, p. A166?A173Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article
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Whole-central nervous system functional imaging in larval Drosophila
Lemon, W., Pulver, S., Hockendorf, B., McDole, K., Branson, K., Freeman, J. & Keller, P., 11 Aug 2015, In : Nature Communications. 6, 16 p., 7924.Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article
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Addendum: independent optical excitation of distinct neural populations
Klapoetke, N. C., Murata, Y., Kim, S. S., Pulver, S. R., Birdsey-Benson, A., Cho, Y. K., Morimoto, T. K., Chuong, A. S., Carpenter, E. J., Tian, Z., Wang, J., Xie, Y., Yan, Z., Zhang, Y., Chow, B. Y., Surek, B., Melkonian, M., Jayaraman, V., Constantine-Paton, M., Wong, G. K-S. & Edward S Boyden, E. S. B., Sep 2014, In : Nature Methods. 11, 9, p. 972Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article