Cephalopods

…visual ecology of polychaete worms and cephalopods (firefly squid). It combines behavioural experiments on colour and polarisation stimuli at field stations in Italy and Japan; single-nucleus transcriptomics to localise photoreceptor and visual interneuron classes in the retina and optic lobe; and serial block-face electron micr

“Call me a marine vision scientist. Some years ago - never mind how long precisely - having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see what animals see in the watery part of the world. It is a way I have of dividing off the spectrum, and regulating circular polarisation.” Sometimes I wish I had just set out to harpoon a white whale as it would have been easier than studying stomatopod (mantis shrimp) vision. Nowhere near as much fun of course and certainly less dangerous so in this presentation I track the histo