Publications

Articles in peer-reviewed journals
Contributions to conferences, meetings and symposia
Seminars and courses
PhD Thesis

Articles in peer-reviewed journals

Schröter C, Herrgen L, Cardona A, Brouhard GJ, Feldman B, Oates AC. 2008. Dynamics of zebrafish somitogenesis. Dev. Dyn. Feb 8.
Morris, J., Cardona, A., de Miguel-Bonet M. del M. and Hartenstein, V. 2007. Neurobiology of the basal platyhelminth Macrostomum lignano: map and digital 3D model of the juvenile brain neuropile. Dev. Genes Evol. 217(8):569-84.
Cardona, A., Hartenstein, V., Romero, R. 2006. Early embryogenesis of planaria: a cryptic larva feeding on maternal resources. Dev. Genes Evol. 216: 667-81. [ PDF ]
Cardona, A., Fernández-Rodríguez, J., Solana, J., Romero, R. 2005. An in situ hybridization protocol for planarian embryos: monitoring myosin heavy chain gene expression. Development Genes and Evolution, 215(9):436-42. [ PDF ]
Cardona, A., Hartenstein, V., Romero, R. 2005. The embryonic development of the triclad Schmidtea polychroa. Development Genes and Evolution 215(3):109-131. [ PDF ]
Bueno. D., Fernández-Rodríguez J., Cardona, A., Hernández-Hernández, V., Romero, R. 2002. A novel invertebrate trophic factor related to invertebrate neurotrophins is involved in planarian body regional survival and asexual reproduction. Developmental Biology 252: 188-201.

Contributions to conferences, meetings and symposia

Cardona, A. Blender's Game Engine as a Live 3D Simulator for External Programs. Blender Conference 2007. De Zwijger, Amsterdam, 12-14 October 2007. The Netherlands. Workshop.
Cardona, A., Saalfeld, S., Preibisch, S., Tomancak, P. and Hartenstein, V. 2007. Serial section TEM of fly brain. HHMI Janelia Farms Conference on Neural Circuit Reconstruction, Sept. 22-25, 2007. Poster.
Cardona, A. and Hartenstein, V. "Fly Bran Microcircuitry." Neuroanatomy and Stereotypy of the Adult Drosophila Nervous System. HHMI Janelia Farms Conference. March 11-13, 2007. Poster and poster handout.
Cardona, A. and Hartenstein, V. "Drosophila CNS Connectivity. A study of the first instar larva." Neurofly 2007. Leuven, Belgium. Talk slides and poster.
Cardona, A. "3D Modeling Fly Brains: Biologists Use Blender as a Tool." Blender Conference 2006. The Haag, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Abstract, paper [ PDF ], talk slides and talk video recording.
Cardona, A. Hartenstein, V. and Romero, R. "Early embryonic development of planarians." International Symposium of Flatworm Biology, Innsbruck 2006. Talk slides and Macrostomum brain poster
Cardona, A. "TrakEM2: an ImageJ-based program for morphological data mining and 3D modeling." 1st ImageJ User and Developer Conference, Centre de Recherche Public Henri Tudor, Luxembourg, May 18-19th 2006. Talk slides.
Cardona, A., Fernández-Rodríguez, J., Solana, J., Vila, M., Hartenstein, V., Romero, R. 2005. "Planarian development." Memorial Campos-Ortega, Sevilla (Spain), May 12-16. Poster.
Cardona, A., Fernández-Rodríguez, J., Vila, M., Hernández-Hernández, V., Solana, J., Cuesta, N., Bueno, D., Hartenstein, V., Romero, R. 2003. "Insights into embryonic development of the planarian Schmidtea polychroa." CNRS - Conference Jacques Monod: Form and Function in Development and Disease. La Londe-les-Maures (France). June14-18th, 2003. Poster.

Seminars and courses

"From micro to nano: mapping neuroanatomical data from confocal imaging to TEM serial sections and back." Seminar hosted by Matthieu Louis at Centre de Regulació Genòmica (CRG) in Barcelona, Spain.
"Neuroanatomy of Drosophila larval brain." Seminar hosted by the Reid (and Lichtman) labs, Harvard, Boston. May 9th, 2008.
"Bioinformatics for neurons. Identifying neurons by sequence analysis of their 3D structure." Image Processing Journal Club hosted by Hanchuan Peng and Gene Myers. April 17th, 2008. Janelia Farm, Washington.
"Fly brain connectivity." Joint Friday Seminar with Pavel and Stephan Saalfeld, from Pavel Tomancak's group at the Max Plank Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics-CBG. October 19th, 2007. Dresden, Germany.
"Analyzing neuronal structure and connectivity." Leiden University. October 16th, 2007. Leiden, the Netherlands.
"Microcircuitry." Together with Volker Hartenstein. Scripps Institute, January 25th 2007, San Diego.
"Fundamentals of Image Processing." Together with Pavel Tomancak and Andy Oates. December 2006 at the Max Plank Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden. Course paper [ PDF ] and presentation slides
"ImageJ." November 2006 at the Max Plank Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics. Slides of the talk.
"Embryonic development of planarians" at Nico Michiel's lab, Tuebingen, November 15-18th 2006. Slides of the talk.

PhD Thesis

"The embryonic development of the triclad Schmidtea polychroa."
Defended July 19th, 2005, at the University of Barcelona, Spain. Directed by Prof. Rafael Romero.
Available in printing quality [ PDF ]; also the public defense slides.

Last updated: 2008-07-16 17:47 Los Angeles time. Copyright Albert Cardona 2007,2008.