2013 - present: Lecturer, Department of Biomedical Science, The University of Sheffield 2008 - 2013: Postdoctoral Fellow, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge 2006 - 2008: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Sheffield 2005 - 2006: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Umea 2001 - 2005: PhD, Institute of Cytology, Russian Academy of Science, St.Petersburg 1994 - 2000: BSc, MSc, University of St.Petersburg.

Our research is focused on investigating the neuronal circuits responsible for information processing in the visual system. The vertebrate visual system is able to recognize a remarkable number of objects of different appearances but the mechanisms and neural circuits underlying this ability are not known. To tackle this problem we use in vivo imaging of neuronal activity in zebrafish and follow the processing of visual information in different brain areas.

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