Dr Andre Ferreira Castro

University position

Research Associate

Departments

Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience

Institutes

Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology

Email

af745@cam.ac.uk

Home page

http://aferreiracastro.com (personal home page)

Research Themes

Developmental Neuroscience

Systems and Computational Neuroscience

The Cambridge Neuroscience Community

Interests

Research Focus

Keywords

Computational Neuroscience

Drosophila

Development

Structure-Function

Clinical conditions

No direct clinical relevance

Equipment

Computational modelling

Confocal microscopy

Collaborators

Cambridge

Albert Cardona

Tomke Stuerner

International

Hermann Cuntz Web: https://www.treestoolbox.org/hermann/

Adrian Moore Web: https://cbs.riken.jp/en/facu...

Gaia Tavosanis Web: https://www.dzne.de/en/rese...

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    Key publications

    Ferreira Castro, A., Baltruschat, L., Bahrami, A., Stuerner, T., Jedlicka, P., Tavosanis, G., Cuntz, H. (2020), “Achieving functional neuronal dendrite structure through sequential stochastic growth and retraction” elife. doi: 10.7554/eLife.60920

    Publications

    in submission

    Stürner, T., Ferreira Castro, A., Philipps, M., Cuntz, H., Tavosanis,G. (in submission), “The branching code: a model of actin-driven dendrite arborisation.” bioRxiv. doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.10.01.322750