Carl VL Olson, BSc, BMus

Junior Researcher

carl.oslon@lfmotol.cuni.cz 

Laboratory of Neural Circuit Optophysiology

Department of Physiology, Second Faculty of Medicine, Charles University

Scientific background

I received my Bachelors’ degrees from the University of California–Irvine in Exercise Sciences and Violin Performance. I am currently finishing my Master’s in Health Informatics at National University in La Jolla, CA and plan to begin a PhD in Neurosciences in the future.

Research interests

I am currently a laboratory researcher focused on the development of an AAV-RHEBmut mouse model for epileptogenesis. My areas of focus include animal surgery, 2-photon microscopy, data processing and analytics, and CAD part design.

Selected publications

Olson CVL, Kachlík D, Al-Redouan A. Calculating curvature through gradient descent and nonlinear regression: A novel mathematical approach to digital anatomical morphometry. Inform Med Unlocked. 2023;43(101383):101383. doi:10.1016/j.imu.2023.101383

Abdelfattah AS, Zheng J, Singh A, et al. Sensitivity optimization of a rhodopsin-based fluorescent voltage indicator. Neuron. 2023;111(10):1547-1563.e9. doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2023.03.009

Lutz SE, Smith JR, Kim DH, et al. Caveolin1 is required for Th1 cell infiltration, but not tight junction remodeling, at the blood-brain barrier in autoimmune neuroinflammation. Cell Rep. 2017;21(8):2104-2117. doi:10.1016/j.celrep.2017.10.094