CV

Education

• 2015
  Ph.D Biology
  University of Tübingen, Germany
  Supervisor: Prof Gáspár Jékely
  PhD Thesis: Neuronal connectome of a visual eye circuit in Platynereis dumerilii
  

• 2006
  Diploma (Master equivalent)
  University of Rostock, Germany
  Supervisors: Prof. Ragnar Kinzelbach and Dr. Andreas Bick
  Thesis: Ultrastructure of the branchial crown in Fabriciinae
  

Professional experience

• 2021-2023
  Research Associate
  University of Cambridge, UK
  Supervisor: Dr Marta Zlatic
  Topic: Combining brain-wide neurotransmitter maps with connectomics
  

• 2019-2021
  Senior Fellow
  University of Cambridge, UK
  Supervisor: Dr Marta Zlatic
  Topic: Neural mechanism of behavioral transition with single-cell resolution
  

• 2015-2019
  Postdoctoral Associate
  Howard Hughes Medical Institute - Janelia Research Campus, Ashburn, VA, USA
  Supervisors: Dr Marta Zlatic and Dr Albert Cardona
  Topic: Neural basis of stimulus-induced action selection
  

Fellowships and awards

• 2019-2021
  Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions – Individual fellowship
  University of Cambridge, UK

Teaching activities

• 2022
  Tutor Evolution and Animal Diversity (2nd year)
  University of Cambridge, UK

• 2020-2022
  Tutor Evolution and Animal Behavior (1st year)
  University of Cambridge, UK

• 2020
  Tutor Evolution and Animal Diversity (2nd year)
  University of Cambridge, UK

• 2019
  Tutor Evolution and Behavior (3rd year)
  University of Cambridge, UK

Publications

• Özpolat BD, Randel N, Williams EA, Bezares-Calderón LA, Andreatta G, Balavoine G, Bertucci PY, Ferrier DEK, Gambi MC, Gazave E, Handberg-Thorsager M, Hardege J, Hird C, Hsieh YW, Hui J, Mutemi KN, Schneider SQ, Simakov O, Vergara HM, Vervoort M, Jékely G, Tessmar-Raible K,Raible F, Arendt D. The Nereid on the rise: Platynereis as a model system. Evodevo. 2021 Sep 27;12(1).
  

• Hörl D, Rojas Rusak F, Preusser F, Tillberg P, Randel N, Chhetri RK, Cardona A, Keller PJ, Harz H, Leonhardt H, Treier M, Preibisch S. BigStitcher: reconstructing high-resolution image datasets of cleared and expanded samples. Nat Methods. 2019 Sep;16(9):870-874.
  

• Verasztó C, Gühmann M, Jia H, Rajan VBV, Bezares-Calderón LA, Piñeiro-Lopez C, Randel N, Shahidi R, Michiels NK, Yokoyama S, Tessmar-Raible K, Jékely G. Ciliary and rhabdomeric photoreceptor-cell circuits form a spectral depth gauge in marine zooplankton. Elife. 2018 May 29;7:e36440.
  

• Almeida-Carvalho MJ, Berh D, Braun A, Chen YC, Eichler K, Eschbach C, Fritsch PMJ, Gerber B, Hoyer N, Jiang X, Kleber J, Klämbt C, König C, Louis M, Michels B, Miroschnikow A, Mirth C, Miura D, Niewalda T, Otto N, Paisios E, Pankratz MJ, Petersen M, Ramsperger N, Randel N, Risse B, Saumweber T, Schlegel P, Schleyer M, Soba P, Sprecher SG, Tanimura T, Thum AS, Toshima N, Truman JW, Yarali A, Zlatic M. The Ol1mpiad: concordance of behavioural faculties of stage 1 and stage 3 Drosophila larvae. J Exp Biol. 2017 Jul 1;220(Pt 13):2452-2475.
  

• Randel N, Jékely G. Phototaxis and the origin of visual eyes. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2016 Jan 5;371(1685):20150042.
  

• Gühmann M, Jia H, Randel N, Verasztó C, Bezares-Calderón LA, Michiels NK, Yokoyama S, Jékely G. Spectral Tuning of Phototaxis by a Go-Opsin in the Rhabdomeric Eyes of Platynereis. Curr Biol. 2015 Aug 31;25(17).
  

• Randel N, Shahidi R, Verasztó C, Bezares-Calderón LA, Schmidt S, Jékely G. Inter-individual stereotypy of the Platynereis larval visual connectome. Elife. 2015 Jun 10;4:e08069.
  

• Randel N, Asadulina A, Bezares-Calderón LA, Verasztó C, Williams EA, Conzelmann M, Shahidi R, Jékely G. Neuronal connectome of a sensory-motor circuit for visual navigation. Elife. 2014 May 27;3:e02730.
  

• Holder T, Basquin C, Ebert J, Randel N, Jollivet D, Conti E, Jékely G, Bono F. Deep transcriptome-sequencing and proteome analysis of the hydrothermal vent annelid Alvinella pompejana identifies the CvP-bias as a robust measure of eukaryotic thermostability. Biol Direct. 2013 Jan 16;8:2.4
  

• Randel N, Bezares-Calderón LA, Gühmann M, Shahidi R, Jékely G. Expression dynamics and protein localization of rhabdomeric opsins in Platynereis larvae. Integr Comp Biol. 2013 Jul;53(1):7-16.
  

• Conzelmann M, Williams EA, Tunaru S, Randel N, Shahidi R, Asadulina A, Berger J, Offermanns S, Jékely G. Conserved MIP receptor-ligand pair regulates Platynereis larval settlement. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2013 May 14;110(20):8224-9.
  

• Randel N, Bick A. Development, morphology and ultrastructure of the branchial crown of Fabricia stellaris (Müller, 1774) (Polychaeta: Sabellida: Fabriciinae). Acta Zoologica. 2011.
  

• Bick A, Randel N. Ontogenetic variations in characters of Euchone analis (Krøyer, 1856) (Polychaeta, Sabellidae, Sabellinae) from Spitzbergen, and new assignment of Oriopsis ingelorae Plate, 1995 and O. liefdefjordensis Plate, 1995. Acta Zoologica. 2005.

Talks

• Connectomics conference, Berlin, Germany (2022)
  
• External Postdoctoral Seminar Series Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt, Germany (2021)
  
• TechEM Seminar Series Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal (2021)
  
• Monthly Maggot Meeting (2021)
  
• 1st Virtual Platynereis conference (2020)
  
• Institute Seminar Living System Institute Exeter, UK (2019)
  
• Institute Seminar Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Magdeburg, Germany (2019)
  
• Conference: Progress in Preparation and Instrumentation for Electron microscopy, Oberjoch, Germany (2012)
  

Public outreach

• Volunteer Teacher – Neuroscience in flies (School class 9th grade), 2020
  Museum of Zoology, Cambridge, UK
  

• Volunteer Teacher – Practical courses: sensory biology, cell biology, prey and predator interaction (School class 5th grade), 2017-2019
  RESET volunteer program, Washington DC, USA
  

• Presenter – Public engagement (Scientific discoveries in basic research), 2017
  Ashburn, VA, USA