Dr Lucy Heap
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Queensland Brain Institute
+61 7 334 66300
| Featured projects | Duration |
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| Functional analysis of sleep promoting neurons in health and disease |
Journal Articles
Tainton-Heap, Lucy A.L., Kirszenblat, Leonie C., Notaras, Eleni T., Grabowska, Martyna J., Jeans, Rhiannon, Feng, Kai, Shaw, Paul J. and van Swinderen, Bruno (2021). A paradoxical kind of sleep in Drosophila melanogaster. Current Biology, 31 (3), 578-590.e6. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2020.10.081
Heap, Lucy A. L., Vanwalleghem, Gilles, Thompson, Andrew W., Favre-Bulle, Itia A. and Scott, Ethan K. (2018). Luminance changes drive directional startle through a thalamic pathway. Neuron, 99 (2), 293-301.e4. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2018.06.013
Heap, Lucy A., Vanwalleghem, Gilles C., Thompson, Andrew W., Favre-Bulle, Itia, Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina and Scott, Ethan K. (2018). Hypothalamic Projections to the Optic Tectum in Larval Zebrafish. Frontiers in Neuroanatomy, 11 135, 1-12. doi: 10.3389/fnana.2017.00135
Vanwalleghem, Gilles, Heap, Lucy A. and Scott, Ethan K. (2017). A profile of auditory-responsive neurons in the larval zebrafish brain. The Journal of Comparative Neurology, 525 (14), 3031-3043. doi: 10.1002/cne.24258
Thompson, Andrew W., Vanwalleghem, Gilles, Heap, Lucy A. and Scott, Ethan K. (2016). Functional profiles of visual-, auditory-, and water flow-responsive neurons in the zebrafish tectum. Current Biology, 26 (6), 743-754. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2016.01.041
Favre-Bulle, Itia A., Preece, Daryl, Nieminen, Timo A., Heap, Lucy A., Scott, Ethan K. and Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina (2015). Scattering of sculpted light in intact brain tissue, with implications for optogenetics. Scientific Reports, 5 (1) 11501, 1-9. doi: 10.1038/srep11501
Heap, Lucy A., Goh, Chi Ching, Kassahn, Karin S. and Scott, Ethan K. (2013). Cerebellar output in zebrafish: an analysis of spatial patterns and topography in eurydendroid cell projections. Frontiers in Neural Circuits, 7 (MAR), 53.1-53.14. doi: 10.3389/fncir.2013.00053
Conference Papers
Vanwalleghem, Gilles, Heap, Lucy A., Favre-Bulle, Itia, Schuster, Kevin, Thompson, Andrew and Scott, Ethan K. (2015). Sensory integration in the Zebrafish brain, what are the functions of the thalamus and the cerebellum ?. Neuroinformatics 2015, Cairns, Australia, 20-22 August, 2015. Lausanne Switzerland: Frontiers. doi: 10.3389/conf.fnins.2015.91.00018
Favre-Bulle, Itia, Nieminen, Timo A., Preece, Daryl, Heap, Lucy A., Scott, Ethan K. and Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina (2015). Computational modeling of scattering of a focused beam in zebrafish brain tissue. Optics and the Brain, BRAIN 2015, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 12-15 April 2015. Washington, DC, USA: OSA - The Optical Society. doi: 10.1364/BODA.2015.JT3A.34
Data Collection
Heap, Lucy (2020). LALTH_CB_2020. The University of Queensland. (Dataset) doi: 10.14264/351118d
Thesis
Heap, Lucy Anne Lesley (2017). Anatomical and functional analysis of non-retinal tectal afferents in larval zebrafish. PhD Thesis, School of Medicine, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/uql.2017.805