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Dr Lucy Heap

Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Queensland Brain Institute
+61 7 334 66300
l.heap@uq.edu.au
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Featured projects Duration
Functional analysis of sleep promoting neurons in health and disease

Publications

Journal Articles (6)
Conference Papers (2)
Data Collection (1)
Thesis (1)

Journal Articles

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
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