Laura Burnett, Ph.D.

Research Data Scientist

Contributing author
Nature 2025 · Cell 2026
Drosophila connectomics analysis

Built & public
Cell Type Explorer
11,751 cell types, open access

First author
PLOS Biology, 2024
Visual decision-making in autism mouse models

Recent Projects

3D rendering of Drosophila optic lobe neurons.

Making sense of a fruit fly's neural wiring diagram

Visual system connectivity analysis and 3D visualisation of >50,000 neurons

The landing page of the Cell Type Explorer, the web resource we built, showing its counts of 11,751 neuron types, 164,838 neurons and 171,898,782 synapses above a quick-search box.

Connectome Cell Type Explorer

Python CLI to generate an interactive web resource from a connectome dataset

Illustration of a loose group of fruit flies walking in the same direction.

Experiments Data Analysis Pipeline

Characterisation of collective fruit fly behaviour to moving patterns

End-to-end pipeline for a high-throughput behavioural screen

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