Johan Winnubst
Johan is the Lead Scientist of Neuroanatomy, with his experience in collecting and analyzing large-scale anatomy data he aims to bridge the gap between advanced optics, computer vision and data science techniques to make next-generation brain circuit mapping a reality.
During his PhD, Johan studied the role of spontaneous activity in shaping synaptic connectivity during development and discovered a novel ‘out-of-sync lose-your-link’ wiring-rule (Winnubst et al., Neuron, 2015). For his Postdoc, he was the principal scientist on the Janelia MouseLight project that developed a sub-micron, whole-brain imaging pipeline that led to the generation of a database of over 1000 fully reconstructed neurons, the largest of it’s kind at the time (Winnubst et al., Cell, 2019). He later developed a novel VR imaging system in the lab of Nelson Spruston and studied changes in hippocampal network activity as mice learned a complex navigation and generalization task.
In his spare time Johan loves to learn about history, mythology and space travel, as well as going on long walks with his Border Collie Millie.