Professor Stephen John Eglen | Faculty of Mathematics

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Career

1997-2000 Wellcome Trust Fellow in Mathematical Biology, Edinburgh
2000-2001 Lecturer, School of Informatics, Edinburgh
2001-2004 Wellcome Trust Travelling Fellowship, St Louis and Edinburgh
2004-2006 Lecturer, DAMTP
2006-2015 Senior Lecturer, DAMTP
2015- Reader. DAMTP

Research

Stephen Eglen is a computational neuroscientist: he uses computational methods to study the development of the nervous system, using mostly the retina and other parts of the visual pathway as a model system. He is particularly interested in questions of structural and functional development:

Structural development: how do retinal neurons acquire their positional information within a circuit?

Functional development: what are the mechanisms by which neurons make contact with each other, to perform functioning circuits?

Selected Publications

Please see my publications page

Publications

A data repository and analysis framework for spontaneous neural activity recordings in developing retina.

SJ Eglen, M Weeks, M Jessop, J Simonotto, T Jackson, E Sernagor

– GigaScience

(2014)

3,

2047-217x-3-3

(doi: 10.1186/2047-217x-3-3)

Following the ontogeny of retinal waves: pan-retinal recordings of population dynamics in the neonatal mouse

A Maccione, MH Hennig, M Gandolfo, O Muthmann, J van Coppenhagen, SJ Eglen, L Berdondini, E Sernagor

– The Journal of Physiology

(2014)

592,

1545

(doi: 10.1113/jphysiol.2013.262840)

Can retinal ganglion cell dipoles seed iso-orientation domains in the visual cortex?

M Schottdorf, SJ Eglen, F Wolf, W Keil

– PLoS ONE

(2014)

9,

e86139

(doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0086139)

Retinotopic Development, Models of

SJ Eglen

(2014)

1

(doi: 10.1007/978-1-4614-7320-6_406-1)

A data repository and analysis framework for spontaneous neural activity recordings in developing retina

SJ Eglen, M Weeks, M Jessop, J Simonotto, T Jackson, E Sernagor

(2013)

(doi: 10.1101/000455)

Neural circuits for peristaltic wave propagation in crawling Drosophila larvae: analysis and modeling

J Gjorgjieva, J Berni, JF Evers, SJ Eglen

– Front Comput Neurosci

(2013)

7,

24

(doi: 10.3389/fncom.2013.00024)

Following the assembly of functional circuitry: high resolution large-scale population neuronal dynamics in the neonatal mouse retina

A Maccione, MH Hennig, M Gandolfo, O Muthmann, M Down, CJ van, A Jones, SJ Eglen, L Berdondini, E Sernagor

(2013)

Parasol cell mosaics are unlikely to drive the formation of structured orientation maps in primary visual cortex.

VRA Hore, JB Troy, SJ Eglen

– Visual neuroscience

(2012)

29,

283

(doi: 10.1017/s0952523812000338)

GABAergic control of retinal ganglion cell dendritic development.

FP Chabrol, SJ Eglen, E Sernagor

– Neuroscience

(2012)

227,

30

(doi: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2012.09.040)

Neuronal clustering and fasciculation phenotype in Dscam‐ and Bax‐deficient mouse retinas

PW Keeley, BJ Sliff, SC Lee, PG Fuerst, RW Burgess, SJ Eglen, BE Reese

– J Comp Neurol

(2012)

520,

Spc1

(doi: 10.1002/cne.23089)