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
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.87746.1Murawski, 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
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.
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