Albert Cardona Torrens

Position:
Group Leader -- ended Dec 2011
Email:
Work phone:
044/6353031
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How does a brain work? What is its structure? How does it develop? I address these very related questions using the first instar larva of Drosophila melanogaster as a model system.

What I do:

  • Serial section electron microscopy of first instar brain neuropile.
  • Automatic neuron and neuronal lineage identification, on confocal image stacks and TEM stacks of first and third instar Drosophila brains.
  • Write software to stitch/register/3D model/analyze TEM and confocal images. See TrakEM2 and Fiji.

    • See also my personal webpage.

Publications

2015

2013

2012

  • Cardona, Albert and Saalfeld, Stephan and Schindelin, Johannes and Arganda-Carreras, Ignacio and Preibisch, Stephan and Longair, Mark and Tomancak, Pavel and Hartenstein, Volker and Douglas, Rodney J. TrakEM2 Software for Neural Circuit Reconstructions, PLOS ONE, 7:(6) 1-8, 2012
  • Funke, Jan and Andres, Bjoern and Hamprecht, Fred A. and Cardona, Albert and Cook, Matthew Efficient Automatic 3D-Reconstruction of Branching Neurons from EM Data , Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2012 1004 - 1011, 2012
  • Schindelin, Johannes and Arganda-Carreras, Ignacio and Frise, Erwin and Kaynig, Verena and Longair, Mark and Pietzsch, Tobias and Preibisch, Stephan and Rueden, Curtis and Saalfeld, Stephan and Schmid, Benjamin and Tinevez, Jean-Yves and James White, Daniel and Hartenstein, Volker Eliceiri, Kevin and Tomancak, Pavel and Cardona, Albert Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis, Nature Methods, 9:(7) 676-682, 2012

2010

  • Bery, A and Cardona, A and Martinez, P and Hartenstein, V Structure of the central nervous system of a juvenile acoel, Symsagittifera roscoffensis, Development Genes and Evolution, 220:(3-4) 61-76, 2010
  • Cardona, A and Saalfeld, S and Arganda, I and Pereanu, W and Schindelin, J and Hartenstein, V Identifying neuronal lineages of Drosophila by sequence analysis of axon tracts, Journal of Neuroscience, 30:(22) 7538-7553, 2010
  • Cardona, A and Saalfeld, S and Preibisch, S and Schmid, B and Cheng, A and Pulokas, J and Tomancak, P and Hartenstein, V An integrated micro- and macroarchitectural analysis of the drosophila brain by computer-assisted serial section electron microscopy, PLoS Biology , 8:(10) e1000502, 2010
  • Saalfeld, S and Cardona, A and Hartenstein, V and Tomancak, P As-rigid-as-possible mosaicking and serial section registration of large ssTEM datasets, Bioinformatics, 26:(12) i57-i63, 2010
  • Schmid, B and Schindelin, J and Cardona, A and Longair, M and Heinsenberg, M A high-level 3D visualization API for Java and ImageJ, BMC Bioinformatics(11) 274, 2010

2009

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