PERSONAL DATA Name: Marta Rivera-Alba. Birthday: October 20 th 1983, Madrid, Spain. Nationality: Spanish. Current Position: Postdoctoral Associate, Branson Lab Janelia Research Campus, HHMI Ashburn, VA, USA Contact: riveraalbam@janelia.hhmi.org ACADEMIC DEGREES PhD in Biophysics from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain. Defense date June 22nd 2011 graded with the maximum grade Summa Cum Laude. Supervised by Dr. G. de Polavieja in the Instituto Cajal, CSIC, Madrid (Spain) and by Dr. Chklovskii in Janelia Research Campus, HHMI (USA) entitled Wiring economy in the first step of visual processing in Drosophila melanogaster. Master in Education of Physics and Chemistry for High School Students from Universidad de Educacion a Distancia, Spain. (2011/2013). Master in Biophysics from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain. (2006/2007) Five-year undergraduate degree in Physics from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain (2001/2006). Last year completed at the Università degli studi di Firenze, Florence, Italy. POSITIONS Postdoctoral Associate July 2013-current. Dr. Branson Lab. Postdoctoral Visitor. February-July 2012. Dr. Branson Lab. Postdoctoral Scientist. January 2012-June 2013 Dr. Mirth Lab. Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência. Oerias, Portugal. Postdoctoral Visitor. November-December 2011. Dr. Chklovskii Lab. Postdoctoral Scientist. 1 P a g e
September-December 2011. Dr. G. de Polavieja Lab. Instituto Cajal, CSIC. Madrid, Spain. PhD Student Visitor. Discontinuously from April 2008- March 2011 up to 10.35 months. Fly TEM Team and Dr. Chklovskii Lab. FPI Researcher. July 2007-June 2011. Dr. G. de Polavieja Lab. Instituto Cajal, CSIC. Madrid, Spain. Postgraduate Researcher. September 2006-June 2007. Dr. G. de Polavieja Lab. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Madrid, Spain. Marta Rivera-Alba PhD. Curriculum vitae TEACHING EXPERIENCE 5 th TReND in Africa School on Insect Neuroscience and Drosophila Neurogenetics. Kampala International University, Dar Es Salaam Campus, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. August 22 nd -30 th 2015. 3 rd IBRO School on Insect Neuroscience and Drosophila Neurogenetics. University of Dar es Salamm. Dar Es Salam, Tanzania. 25 th -30 th August 2014. MatLab for Scientists. Assistant teacher. Janelia Research Campus, HHMI. May-July 2014, 24 hours Classroom of excellence: CrawFly Invertebrate Neurophysiology. Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. USA. June 20 th -24 th 2014. 2 nd IBRO School on Insect Neuroscience and Drosophila Neurogenetics. Kampala International University, Western Campus, Ishaka, Uganda. September 2 nd -7 th 2013. Physics and Chemistry, Instituto Espanol de Lisboa (Spanish High School in Lisbon). 2012/2013, 40 hours. MatLab programming teacher. Biophysics Master. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. 2009 and 2010, 20 hours. Assistant teacher. Classical Mechanics. Chemistry degree. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid 2006/2007 and 2007/2008, 50 hours. PUBLICATIONS Papers Muscular programs in Drosophila melanogaster larva. Rivera-Alba, M., McCumsey, S. and Branson Kristin. In preparation. Evolution of foraging behavior across 47 species of Drosophila larvae. Rivera-Alba, M., Kabra, M., Kelstrup, H., Riddiford, L., Mirth C. and Branson K. In preparation. A multilevel multimodal circuit for action selection in Drosophila. Ohyama, T., Schneider-Mizell, C., Fetter, R., Valdes Aleman, J., Franconville, R., Rivera-Alba, M., Mensh, B., Branson, K., Simpson, J., Truman, J., Cardona, A. and Zlatic, M. Nature 520. 633-639. (2015) Wiring economy can account for cell body placement across species and brain areas. Rivera-Alba, M., Peng, H., G. de Polavieja, G. and Chklovskii, D.B. Current Biology Vol. 24 (3), R109-R110. (2014) 2 P a g e
JAABA: An interactive machine-learning tool for automatic annotation of animal behavior. Kabra, M., Robie, A., Rivera-Alba, M., Branson, S. and Branson, K. Nat Methods 10(1):64-7. (2013). Wiring economy and volume exclusion determine structure in the Drosophila brain. Rivera-Alba, M., Vitaladevuni. S., Mishchenko, Y., Lu, Z., Takemura, S., Scheffer, L., Meinertzhagen,I.A., Chklovskii, D.B. and G. de Polavieja, G. Current Biology. Vol. 21 (23). 2000-2005. (2011). This paper was awarded with the cover of the journal. Structure of deviations from optimality in biological systems. Pérez-Escudero, A., Rivera-Alba, M. and de Polavieja, G.G. PNAS. 106 (46) 19292-19295. (2009). Books Wiring economy and volume exclusion determine structure in the Drosophila brain. Marta Rivera- Alba. Lambert Academic Publishing, Germany. ISBN: 978-3-8473-3245-9. 2012. Software JAABA: Janelia Automatic Behavior Annotation. Kabra, M., Robie, A., Rivera-Alba, M., Branson, S. and Branson, K. 2012. http://jaaba.sourceforge.net/ Affine + Consistent Elastic 2D Image Registration. Rivera-Alba, M. and Arganda-Carreras I. ImageJ Macro. 2008. http://imagejdocu.tudor.lu/doku.php?id=macro:affine_consistent_elastic_registration PARTICIPATION IN MEETINGS Meetings and Workshops Talks Gordon Research Seminar. 2015 Neuroethology: Behavior, Evolution & Neurobiology. Renaissance Tuscany Il Ciocco in Lucca (Barga) Italy. 26 th - 28 th June, 2015. Talk: The evolution of foraging in Drosophilid larvae: from video to simulation. American Physical Society, March meeting. San Antonio, Texas, USA. March 2 nd -6 th, 2015. Talk: Evolution of foraging behavior in Drosophilid larvae. Authors: Rivera-Alba, M., Kabra, M., Branson, K. and Mirth, C. Vision in Flies. March 13 th -16 th, 2011. Talk: Wiring economy in the Drosophila visual system. Authors: Rivera-Alba, M., Chklovskii, D.B. and G. de Polavieja, G. Posters Gordon Research Conference. 2015 Neuroethology: Behavior, Evolution & Neurobiology. Renaissance Tuscany Il Ciocco in Lucca (Barga) Italy. 28 th June -3 rd July, 2015. 3 P a g e
Poster: The evolution of foraging in Drosophilid larvae: from video to simulation. Society for Neuroscience (SFN) meeting Washington DC, USA 15 th -19 th November, 2014. Poster: Drosophila larva foraging strategies: Automatic tools for high throughput comparative studies. Behavioral neurogenetic of larval Drosophila: Molecules, Circuits, Computations and Robots. KKR, Atami, Japan. 9 th -12 th March, 2014. Poster: Automatic and quantitative tools for comparative studies of Drosophila larvae foraging behavior. Neurobiology of Drosophila meeting Cold Spring Harbour, USA. 1 st -5 th October, 2013. Poster: Evolution of foraging behavior in Drosophilid larvae. Authors: Rivera-Alba, M., Kabra, M., Branson, K. and Mirth C. Euro EVODEVO Conference Lisbon, Portugal. 10 th -13 th July, 2012. Poster: Automatic tools to compare foraging behavior across species of Drosophilid larvae. Authors: Rivera-Alba, M., Kabra, M., Branson, K. and Mirth C. Machine learning, statistical inference and neuroscience. Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Ashburn, VA. EEUU. 6th-9th May, 2012. Poster: Automatic behavioral tracking of Drosophilid larvae. Authors: Rivera-Alba, M., Kabra, M., Branson, K. and Mirth C. 22nd Drosophila European Research Conference Lisbon, Portugal. September 21th -24th, 2011. Poster: Wring economy in the first step of visual processing. Authors: Rivera-Alba, M., Vitaladevuni. S., Mishchenko, Y., Lu, Z., Takemura, S.,Scheffer, L., Meinertzhagen, I., Chklovskii,D.B. and G. de Polavieja, G. Structure and Function of Neural Circuits EMBL Advanced Training Centre, Heidelberg, Germany. September 5th -8th, 2010. Poster: Wiring economy in Drosophila neural circuits. Authors: Rivera-Alba, M., Chklovskii, D.B. and G. de Polavieja, G. High Resolution Circuit Reconstruction. Max Planck Society, Berlin. Germany. / Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Ashburn, VA. USA. September 20th -23th, 2009. Poster: Circuit reconstruction of the first step in visual processing in Drosophila. Authors: Rivera-Alba, M., Vitaladevuni. S., Mishchenko, Y., Fetter, R., Lu, Z., Takemura, S.,Scheffer, L., G. de Polavieja, G., Meinertzhagen, I. and Chklovskii,D.B. Visual Processing in Insects: From Anatomy to Behavior II. May 17th -20th, 2009. Poster: Reconstructing the first stage of visual processing. Authors: Rivera-Alba, M., Vitaladevuni. S., Mishchenko, Y., Fetter, R., Lu, Z., Takemura, S. Scheffer, L., G. de Polavieja, G., Meinertzhagen, I. and Chklovskii, D.B. ImageJ User and Developer Conference 2008. Centre de Recherche Public Henri Tudor. Luxembourg. Luxembourg. 4 P a g e
November 6th -7th, 2008. Poster: Registration of TEM images with TrakEM and bunwarpj. Authors: Rivera-Alba, M. and G. de Polavieja, G. What Can Computer Vision Do for Neuroscience and Vice Versa? September 14th -17th, 2008. Poster: Reconstructing the first stage of visual processing. Authors: Rivera-Alba, M., Mishchenko, Y., Vitaladevuni. S., Fetter, R., Lu, Z., G. de Polavieja, G., Meinertzhagen, I. and Chklovskii, D.B. SUMMER SCHOOLS XIII International Summer School Nicolás Cabrera. Biophysics and Biological Circuits: From molecules to networks. Madrid, Spain. September 18th-22th, 2006. Fronteras de la Física. Fundación Centro de Ciencias de Benasque. Benasque (Huesca). Spain. September, 2004. INVITED TALKS Quantifying behavioral differences between larvae. December 16th, 2011. Visitor Program Proposal. Can wiring economy explain the structure of microcircuits? November 8th, 2010. Institute of neuroinformatics UNI-ETH. Zurich, Switzerland. Can wiring economy explain the structure of microcircuits? November 9th, 2010. Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology. Tu bingen, Germany. 3D reconstruction of the Drosophila lamina. January 25th, 2010. Fly-EM Team meeting. Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Ashburn, VA. USA. FELLOWSHIPS Janelia Teaching Fellowship. To participate as a Faculty member of the 5 th TReND School on Neurobiology of Drosophila. Dar Es Salam, Tanzania. 24 th -29 th August 2014. Janelia Teaching Fellowship. To participate as a Faculty member of the 3 rd IBRO School on Neurobiology of Drosophila. Dar Es Salam, Tanzania. 25 th -30 th August 2014. Janelia Visiting Postdoctoral Scientist. Janelia Research Campus. HHMI. USA February-July 2012. Janelia Visiting Postdoctoral Scientist. Janelia Research Campus. HHMI. USA November-December 2011. Postdoctoral Contract. Instituto Cajal. CSIC. Madrid, Spain. September-October 2011. Janelia Visiting Scientist. Janelia Research Campus. HHMI. USA April 2008- March 2011 in different periods of time up to 10.35 months. 5 P a g e
FPI grant (Researcher Formation). Spanish Science Ministry. Instituto Cajal. CSIC. Madrid, Spain. July 2007-June 2011. Postgraduated Fellowship. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain. September 2006-June 2007. Erasmus Grant. Spanish Education Ministry. Università degli Studi di Firenze, Florence, Italy. September 2005-July 2006. Caja Madrid Erasmus Grant. Caja Madrid. Università degli Studi di Firenze, Florence, Italy. September 2005-July 2006. Fellowship for undergrad mobility. Spanish Education Ministry. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. September 2001-June 2005, (4 consecutive courses). PARTICIPATION IN PROJECTS Wiring and connectivity principles in Drosophila melanogaster and Danio Rerio. Spanish Science Ministry. 2010-2012 Main researcher: Gonzalo G. de Polavieja. Participation as PhD Student. Understanding decision-making from the dynamics of large neuronal networks, (Eranet Systems Biology 2010) Spanish Science Ministry (Euroinvestigation Program). 2010-2012 Main researcher: Gonzalo G. de Polavieja. Participation as PhD Student. Visual attention in Drosophila. Spanish Science Ministry. 2007-2010. Main researcher: Gonzalo G. de Polavieja. Participation as PhD Student. SCIENCE FOR EVERYBODY Cerebro y Magia. (Brain and Magic) March 19th, 2010. International brain week. Instituto Cajal, CSIC. Madrid. Spain. Qué es el cerebro? (What is the brain?) February 27th, 2009. Entre Dos Rios Public School. Cabezuela and Sebúlcor (Segovia). Spain. 6 P a g e