Markus Pleijzier
Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Cambridge
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMarkus Pleijzier is a postdoctoral researcher and computational neuroscientist with eight years’ experience combining connectomics, machine learning, optogenetics and behavioural assays to dissect how innate and learned behaviours interact in Drosophila. Trained at UCL and the University of Western Australia, he completed a PhD at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology where he studied functional and computational aspects of innate behaviour and reconstructed Mushroom Body circuitry from whole-brain electron microscopy. Now at the University of Cambridge he leads reconstruction and analysis of a male Drosophila connectome, translating nanoscale anatomical data into testable models of learning. He brings rare hands-on expertise spanning nanometre-resolution EM, data visualisation consultancy, and experimental perturbations via optogenetics. Known for making dense connectomic datasets interpretable, he bridges quantitative modelling and experimental neuroscience to generate mechanistic insights.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Neuroscience and Infectious Diseases, Master’s Degree, Neuroscience and Infectious Diseases at The University of Western AustraliaMaster’s Degree, Human/Medical Genetics, 2:1, Master’s Degree, Human/Medical Genetics, 2:1 at University College London
English, French, Dutch
Github Skills (31)
image-data8
network-analysis7
neuroscience7
microscopy6
robust6
statistics6
python6
imaging6
pandas6
matplotlib6
data-visualization5
computer-vision5
electrophysiology5
signal-processing5
data-science5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
markuspleijzier/AdultEM
Jul 2017 - Jun 2019
Contributions:43 commits, 39 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
markuspleijzier/ORFDiscovery
Sep 2018 - Nov 2018
Contributions:5 commits in 1 month
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