Hi! My name is Esa-Ville, but everybody calls me by my nickname, Ekku. I’m a new postdoctoral researcher working in the Lund Vision Group, under Marie Dacke and Basil el Jundi.
Before moving to Lund in May 2015 I was working for a few months as a postdoc in Matti Weckström’s Neuronal Signalling research group at the University of Oulu. This also where I finished my MSc (2009) and PhD (2014) in biophysics. During my studies I was supposed to focus on doing in vitro electrophysiology from cockroach photoreceptors, but, as it often turns out in science, every now and then I deviated from my path, and ended up doing recordings from photoreceptors of various insect species. More specifically, what I actually recorded from them was ionic currents and responses to intensity-modulated light stimuli.
Today, here in Lund, I’ll be working on the integration of environmental cues in the dung beetle brain. In this multidisciplinary project, I get to do brain anatomy, in vivo electrophysiology from the central brain neurons, behavioural experiments, and dung handling. How could I refuse?
