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John Tuthill
Current Address
220 Longwood Ave
Boston, MA 02115
Contact Information
(207) 314-8294
[email protected]
CURRENT POSITION
Post-doctoral Fellow in the Wilson Lab at Harvard Medical School
EDUCATION
Janelia Farm/ University Of Chicago Graduate Program in Neuroscience, Sept. 2008-2012
Phd Advisor: Michael Reiser ([email protected])
Swarthmore College, Graduated with Highest Honors, June 2006
Honors Biology and Sociology/Anthropology Double Major
PUBLICATIONS
Tuthill JC, Nern A, Rubin GMR, and Reiser MB. (2013) Behavioral contributions of the 12 neuron
types in the fly lamina. In Review.
Tuthill JC, Nern A, Rubin GMR, and Reiser MB. (2013) Wide-field feedback neurons dynamically tune
early visual processing. In Review.
Tuthill JC, Chiappe ME, Reiser MB. (2011) Neural correlates of illusory motion perception in
Drosophila. PNAS. 108(23):9685-90.
Tuthill, JC (2009) Lessons from a compartmental model of a Drosophila neuron. J Neurosci.
29(39):12033-4.
Berón de Astrada, M, Tuthill, JC and Tomsic, D (2009) Morphology and physiology of sustaining and
dimming neurons of the crab, Chasmagnathus granulates. J Comp Phys A. 195(8):791-8.
Fishman, L, Aagaard, J, and Tuthill, JC (2008) Patterns of Transmission Ratio Distortion in
Monkeyflower (Mimulus) Hybrids Reveal a Complex Genetic Basis for Conspecific Pollen Preference.
Evolution. 62(12):2958-70.
Tuthill, JC and Johnsen, S (2006) Polarization sensitivity in the red swamp crayfish Procambarus clarkii
enhances the detection of moving transparent objects. J Exp Biol. 209, 1612-1614.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Insect Vision. March 2013. Janelia Farm.
Talk: Functional dissection of the Drosophila lamina
COSYNE. March 2012. Salt Lake City, Utah.
Talk/Poster: A wide-field neuron enhances visual contrast sensitivity in the fly.
Society for Neuroscience. November 2012. Washington, D.C.
Talk: Behavioral and electrophysiological characterization of a wide-field cell in the fly lamina.
Vision in Flies April 2011. Janelia Farm.
Poster: Behavioral and electrophysiological characterization of a lamina wide-field neuron.
Bottom-up and Top-down Approaches to Understanding Circuit Processing. September 2010. Janelia
Farm.
Poster: Behavioral Roles of Individual Cell Types in the Fly Visual System.
International Congress of Neuroethology. August 2010. Salamanca, Spain.
Poster: Behavioral Roles of Individual Cell Types in the Fly Visual System.
COSYNE. March 2010. Salt Lake City, Utah.
Poster: Perception of the Reverse-Phi Illusion by Drosophila Melanogaster.
Visual Processing in Insects: From Anatomy to Behavior. May 2009. Janelia Farm.
Poster: Perception of the Reverse-Phi Illusion by Drosophila Melanogaster.
Neurobiology Seminar Series. August 2007. University of Buenos Aires.
Talk: Codificación de luz polarizada en los sistemas visuales de crustáceos: comportamiento y
neurobiología.
Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology.. January 2006. Orlando, Florida.
Poster: Polarization vision in crayfish enhances motion detection.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Sensorimotor Neurobiology (Michael Reiser), Spring 2009, Champalimaud Neuroscience Programme
Systems Neuroscience Course (Melina Hale and David Freedman), Spring 2009, University of Chicago
Biological Poisons and Toxins Course (John Kyle), Spring 2009, University of Chicago
Neurobiology (Kathy Siwicki), Spring 2006, Swarthmore College
Invertebrate Zoology (Rachel Merz), Fall 2006, Swarthmore College