Neuroethology, collective behavior, and adaptation

We seek to discover fundamental principles of neural function, by investigating the brains of animals behaving in their natural social and ecological contexts. We focus our studies on small translucent species of fishes, whose optical accessibility allows us to non-invasively image brain-wide neural activity.

We currently study collective behaviors in Danionella fish, internal state regulation in zebrafish, and ecological adaptation in wild-derived stickleback.