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Mikko Juusola is affiliated with the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple fields with a focus on neuroscience and related areas.

The primary fields of study for Mikko Juusola include:

  • Neuroscience
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Within these fields, the subfields they have contributed to are:

  • Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Genetics
  • Molecular Biology

The main research topics covered in their work are:

  • Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research
  • Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
  • Animal Behavior and Reproduction
  • Visual perception and processing mechanisms
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Plant and Biological Electrophysiology Studies

Mikko Juusola has had frequent collaboration with several researchers including:

  • Lars Chıttka
  • Joni Kemppainen
  • Jouni Takalo
  • Alice Bridges
  • HaDi MaBouDi

Their publications have appeared in several notable venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Preprints.org
  • Nature
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Vision Research

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Mikko Juusola include:

  • Theory of morphodynamic information processing: Linking sensing to behaviour, 2025, Vision Research
  • Bumblebees socially learn behaviour too complex to innovate alone, 2024, Nature
  • Binocular mirror-symmetric microsaccadic sampling enables Drosophila hyperacute 3D vision, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • High-speed imaging of light-induced photoreceptor microsaccades in compound eyes, 2022, Communications Biology
  • Multiscale 'whole-cell' models to study neural information processing - New insights from fly photoreceptor studies, 2021, Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Best Publications

  • Calcium influx via TRP channels is required to maintain PIP2 levels in Drosophila photoreceptors.

    Roger C Hardie;Padinjat Raghu;Suzanna Moore;Mikko Juusola

  • Information processing by graded-potential transmission through tonically active synapses

    Mikko Juusola;Andrew S French;Raimo O Uusitalo;Matti Weckström

  • Light Adaptation in Drosophila Photoreceptors: I. Response Dynamics and Signaling Efficiency at 25°C

    Mikko Juusola;Roger C. Hardie

  • Normal Mitochondrial Dynamics Requires Rhomboid-7 and Affects Drosophila Lifespan and Neuronal Function

    G. Angus McQuibban;G. Angus McQuibban;Jeffrey R. Lee;Lei Zheng;Mikko Juusola

  • Phototransduction in Drosophila

    Roger C Hardie;Mikko Juusola

  • Compound eyes and retinal information processing in miniature dipteran species match their specific ecological demands

    Paloma T. Gonzalez-Bellido;Trevor J. Wardill;Trevor J. Wardill;Mikko Juusola;Mikko Juusola

  • Multiple spectral inputs improve motion discrimination in the Drosophila visual system.

    Trevor J. Wardill;Olivier List;Xiaofeng Li;Xiaofeng Li;Sidhartha Dongre

  • Transfer of Graded Potentials at the Photoreceptor-Interneuron Synapse

    M Juusola;R O Uusitalo;M Weckström

  • Molecular basis of amplification in Drosophila phototransduction: roles for G protein, phospholipase C, and diacylglycerol kinase.

    R.C. Hardie;F. Martin;G.W. Cochrane;M. Juusola

  • Contrast gain, signal-to-noise ratio, and linearity in light-adapted blowfly photoreceptors.

    M Juusola;E Kouvalainen;M Järvilehto;M Weckström

  • Light Adaptation in Drosophila Photoreceptors: II. Rising Temperature Increases the Bandwidth of Reliable Signaling

    Mikko Juusola;Roger C. Hardie

  • Feedback Network Controls Photoreceptor Output at the Layer of First Visual Synapses in Drosophila

    Lei Zheng;Gonzalo G. de Polavieja;Verena Wolfram;Musa H. Asyali

  • Stochastic, Adaptive Sampling of Information by Microvilli in Fly Photoreceptors

    Zhuoyi Song;Marten Postma;Marten Postma;Stephen A. Billings;Daniel Coca

  • The contribution of Shaker K + channels to the information capacity of Drosophila photoreceptors

    Jeremy E. Niven;Mikko Vähäsöyrinki;Mika Kauranen;Roger C. Hardie

  • Distinct roles for two histamine receptors (hclA and hclB) at the Drosophila photoreceptor synapse.

    Antonios Pantazis;Ashvina Segaran;Che-Hsiung Liu;Anton Nikolaev

  • The Efficiency of Sensory Information Coding by Mechanoreceptor Neurons

    Mikko Juusola;Andrew S French

  • Stimulus history reliably shapes action potential waveforms of cortical neurons.

    Gonzalo G de Polavieja;Annette Harsch;Ingo Kleppe;Hugh P C Robinson

  • The rate of information transfer of naturalistic stimulation by graded potentials.

    Mikko Juusola;Gonzalo G. de Polavieja;Gonzalo G. de Polavieja

  • Robustness of neural coding in Drosophila photoreceptors in the absence of slow delayed rectifier K+ channels.

    Mikko Vähäsöyrinki;Jeremy E. Niven;Roger C. Hardie;Matti Weckström

  • Intrinsic Activity in the Fly Brain Gates Visual Information during Behavioral Choices

    Shiming Tang;Shiming Tang;Mikko Juusola;Mikko Juusola

  • channels to the information capacity of Drosophila photoreceptors

    Jeremy E. Niven;Mika Kauranen;Roger C. Hardie;Mikko Juusola

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew S. French
Andrew S. French Dalhousie University
Stephen A. Billings
Stephen A. Billings University of Sheffield
Hugh P. C. Robinson
Hugh P. C. Robinson University of Cambridge
Erik De Schutter
Erik De Schutter Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology
Ian A. Meinertzhagen
Ian A. Meinertzhagen Dalhousie University

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