Benjamin Judkewitz from Charité, Berlin, will give a seminar entitled Imaging the smallest vertebrate brain in action on Tuesday March 3rd at 09h30 in the Pierre Cotton room at Institut Fresnel.
Abstract : In this talk I will describe our work on Danionella cerebrum, a tiny fish that is small and transparent even in adulthood, when neural circuits and behavior have matured. Despite having the smallest known adult vertebrate brain, Danionella displays a rich set of behaviors, including courtship, shoaling, schooling and – remarkably – acoustic communication. I will discuss recent insights into their vocalisation behavior, brain-wide processing of acoustic stimuli, and how these tiny fish solve a big problem posed by underwater acoustics: tell the direction of a sound source.
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Contact : Benjamin Judkewitz’s group website – benjamin.judkewitz@charite.de
