Publications

John D. Kirwan, Emelie A. Brodrick, Jacob Bartholin, Morten Bartholin, Julius Friis Petersen, Cameron Hird, Anders Garm (2025). Dancing in the dark: The annelid Platynereis dumerilii is re-envisioned for its climactic final night. Journal of Experimental Biology.

Adriel Sosa Marco, John D. Kirwan, Alexia Toumpa, Simos Gerasimou (2025). Uncertainty Quantification for Deep Regression using Contextualised Normalizing Flows. The Thirty-ninth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems.

Maria Cocurullo, John D. Kirwan, Maria Ina Arnone (2025). Phenotypic response to food availability in sea urchin larvae and impact of light during development and growth. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution.

Tianshu Li, John D. Kirwan, Maria Ina Arnone, Dan-Eric Nilsson, Giancarlo La Camera (2023). A Model of Decentralized Vision in the Sea Urchin Diadema africanum. iScience.

Lauren Sumner-Rooney, John D. Kirwan, Carsten Lüter, Esther Ullrich-Lüter (2021). Run and Hide: Visual Performance in a Brittle Star. Journal of Experimental Biology.

Lauren Sumner-Rooney, John D. Kirwan, Elijah Lowe, Esther Ullrich-Lüter (2020). Extraocular Vision in a Brittle Star Is Mediated by Chromatophore Movement in Response to Ambient Light. Current Biology.

Peter Olsson, Robin D. Johnsson, James J. Foster, John D. Kirwan, Olle Lind, Almut Kelber (2020). Chicken colour discrimination depends on background colour. Journal of Experimental Biology.

John D. Kirwan, Dan-E. Nilsson (2019). A millipede compound eye mediating low-resolution vision. Vision Research.

James J Foster, John D Kirwan, Basil El Jundi, Jochen Smolka, Lana Khaldy, Emily Baird, Marcus J Byrne, Dan-Eric Nilsson, Sönke Johnsen, Marie Dacke (2019). Orienting to polarized light at night - matching lunar skylight to performance in a nocturnal beetle. Journal of Experimental Biology.

John D. Kirwan, Michael J. Bok, Jochen Smolka, James J. Foster, José Carlos Hernández, Dan-Eric Nilsson (2018). The sea urchin Diadema africanum uses low resolution vision to find shelter and deter enemies. Journal of Experimental Biology.