Jon Booth

Lab tech / scientist

Jon is our resident neurobiologist and lab manager. When he is not serving as the font of knowledge and master organiser, he studies how fly gut microbiota signal to the brain and what it means for ageing.

C.V.

2018 - 2024 

PhD in the lab of Malte Gather, Cologne / St Andrews (Department of Physics).

2023

Leverhume Research Fellow. University of St Andrews & University of Cologne, Humboldt Centre for Nano- and Biophotonics

2014 - 2018

BSc Neuroscience, St Andrews.

Publications

  1. Booth, J. H., Meek, A. T., Kronenberg, N. M., Pulver, S. R., & Gather, M. C. (2022). Optical mapping of ground reaction force dynamics in freely behaving Drosophila melanogaster larvae (p. 2022.10.21.513016).
    Reviewed preprint, eLife. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.87746.1

  2. Murawski, C., Mischok, A., Booth, J., Kumar, J. D., Archer, E., Tropf, L., Keum, C.-M., Deng, Y.- L., Yoshida, K., Samuel, I. D. W., Schubert, M., Pulver, S. R., & Gather, M. C. (2019). Narrowband Organic Light-Emitting Diodes for Fluorescence Microscopy and Calcium Imaging. Advanced Materials, 31(42), 1903599. https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201903599

  3. Booth, J. R. H., Sane, V., Gather, M. C., & Pulver, S. R. (2020). Inexpensive Methods for Live Imaging of Central Pattern Generator Activity in the Drosophila Larval Locomotor System. Journal of Undergraduate Neuroscience Education: JUNE: A Publication of FUN, Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience, 19 (1), A124–A133.

  4. Meek, A. T., Kronenberg, N. M., Morton, A., Liehm, P., Murawski, J., Dalaka, E., Booth, J. H., Powis, S. J., & Gather, M. C. (2021). Real-time imaging of cellular forces using optical interference. Nature Communications, 12 (1), Article 1. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23734-4