Karina received the NSF GRFP award!

Karina is awarded the prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program, which “recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students who have demonstrated the potential to be high achieving scientists early in their careers”. Her graduate thesis project is focused on “Gut mediated control of state-dependent sensory processing”, investigating how enteric signals modulate visual processing in larval zebrafish.

For more information on the NSF GRFP: https://www.nsfgrfp.org

Whit is presenting a poster at COSYNE in Portugal!

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Whit (right) is presenting his poster at COSYNE.

Whit’s poster is titled “Predicting connectivity of motion-processing neurons with recurrent neural networks”.

Eva on SoM Magnify!

Read the latest on our research in the Naumann Lab, “A Small Fish in a Big Question“ by Karl Leif Bates: https://medschool.duke.edu/stories/small-fish-big-question

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Minel received the BIF PhD Fellowship!

Minel is awarded the Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds PhD fellowship for “outstanding junior scientists who pursue an ambitious PhD project in basic biomedical research in an internationally leading laboratory”. She received the fellowship to accomplish her PhD project on “All-optical decoding of the gut-brain neural circuitry”, investigating the functional connectivity of the gut-brain axis in larval zebrafish.

For more information on the BIF PhD Fellowship: https://www.bifonds.de/fellowships-grants/phd-fellowships.html

Minel passed her preliminary exam!

Minel’s thesis project is titled “Whole-Brain Activity Mapping of Gut-Brain Neural Circuitry”. She is interested in investigating the sensory and topographic mapping across the entire gut-brain circuitry, from enteroendocrine cells to vagal sensory neurons to central brain regions.

Whit passed his preliminary exam!

Whit’s thesis project is titled “Examination of Pretectal Circuitry and Its Role in Differences in Sensory Evoked Turn Bias”. He is studying the neural correlates of individual differences in turning preference using recurrent neural networks.

New publication alert 🚨🚨

Check out our new review paper Loring et al.: “Whole-brain interactions underlying zebrafish behavior” on Current Opinion in Neurobiology!

Matt passed his preliminary exam!

Matt’s thesis project is titled “Functional integration mechanisms underlying neural circuit assembly for visual motion perception”. He is studying how neurons are integrated to generate stable circuits throughout development, by characterizing the functional maturation of motion sensitive circuits involved in the optomotor response.

Anne is presenting a dynamic poster at SfN in Chicago!

Anne’s poster is titled “Adaptive platform for online characterization of neural data”.

Max is presenting a poster at SfN in Chicago!

Max’s poster is titled “A modular open-source framework for two-photon and light sheet microscopy”.