Dr Stefan Pulver

Lecturer in Neuroscience

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 463503

Email

sp96@st-andrews.ac.uk

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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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. 944

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• 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

• 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. 2564-2577

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• 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?A173

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• 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

• 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. 972

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

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