Haleh Fotowat
@halehf
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Neuroscientist @engertlab
Cambridge, MA
Joined June 2009
I am so excited to share this preprint, the work I did with @drmichaellevin and a great team on discovering how nervous systems self-organize in completely novel motile bodies. It has been such a beautiful scientific journey and I can’t wait for the next steps!
Ever wonder what the architecture of a neural network would look like, in a novel organism that had not been through selection for specific structure and function of an embodied nervous system? Here's our #preprint with morphological, behavioral, electrophysiological, and
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Thanks @MCB_Harvard for featuring my latest paper!
How Fish Learn to Ignore Inconsequential Events [Engert Lab] @halehf @EngertLab @faggabbiani
https://t.co/jSJwjXjyCS
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https://t.co/bbfxj39B1H
@eLife I am excited to share my latest paper from the work I did in the @EngertLab on habituation of looming-evoked escapes!
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A novel neural mechanism is proposed and validated in larval zebrafish to explain how animals habituate to repeated looming stimulation.
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Excited to share the preprint of the work I did @EngertLab investigating the neural circuits underlying habituation of visually evoked escape behaviors in larval zebrafish
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Larval zebrafish that are exposed repeatedly to dark looming stimuli will quickly habituate to these aversive signals and cease to respond with their stereotypical escape swims. A dark looming...
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"We're making history by building synthetic biological micro-robots, & finding ways to control their movement by understanding how cellular composition, ultrastructure, & activity contribute to generation of macro-scale behaviors." -Haleh Fotowat & Tiffany Lin #WomensHistoryMonth
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Awesome video featuring research from my former postdoc lab @EngertLab
Here is a fun Bloomberg "Hello World" Video that just got released. It's about the connectomics efforts of the Lichtman and Engert labs. https://t.co/yPvGKD7p1u
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Here is a fun Bloomberg "Hello World" Video that just got released. It's about the connectomics efforts of the Lichtman and Engert labs. https://t.co/yPvGKD7p1u
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Apply for this amazing fellowship!
Calling all early career neuroscientists 🧠 — Apply for a 2022 @GrassFoundation Fellowship at the MBL by Dec. 5, 2021! https://t.co/6KqTkAgvMS
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Dingal Lab on Biological Signal Processing will open on Jan 2022 at @UT_Dallas @bme_utd w/ fully funded positions for creative, motivated students to study the structure and function of signaling proteins in vitro and in vivo! Come to Diverse Dallas!
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Thanks so much @MCB_Harvard for the spotlight. I am so lucky to have been a member of such amazing, supportive department and the @EngertLab 😊
Postdoc Spotlight: Haleh Fotowat @halehf @EngertLab
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1) We just uploaded the results from our latest foray into social interactions in larval zebrafish to BioRxiv. https://t.co/CErQBAsNqd This is a story led by Roy Harpaz (@RoyHarpaz) and Minh Nguyen Nguyet, with critical assists from Armin Bahl (@zwitscherarmin).
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Complex schooling behaviors result from local interactions among individuals. Yet, how sensory signals from neighbors are analyzed in the visuomotor stream of animals is poorly understood. Here, we...
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Congratulations @IrisOdstrcil from our lab on her amazing paper on functional and ultrastructural analysis of reafferent mechanosensation in larval zebrafish!
1) It is with great joy that I announce the submission (finally :-)) of Iris Odstrcil’s (@IrisOdstrcil) masterpiece on the "Functional and ultrastructural analysis of reafferent mechanosensation in larval zebrafish." to BioRxiv https://t.co/VukFYdrciT
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Somehow this question is on our minds more than ever these days : knowledge vs understanding... Amazing lecture by Gilles Laurent at the MBL
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We have postdoc openings. Experimental & computational neuroscience, whole-brain imaging & analysis of distributed computations for behavior. Neuronal & astrocyte networks underlying brain states. Get in touch if interested & spread the word! https://t.co/7EnmwxgmcX
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Congratulations Yu Mu @muyuuyum, Davis Bennett @davisvbennett, Mika Rubinov @rubinovlab, Sujatha Narayan @SujNarayan, and collaborators. It has been a wonderful, exciting scientific journey.
Glia aren’t just support cells for neurons. New research from the lab of @MishaAhrens, published today in @CellCellPress, shows that glia can perform computations that tell frustrated fish when to give up.
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So happy to share our new work on modeling naturalistic larval zebrafish behavior! See our approach, data, and models in the videos in this thread. We capture multiple timescales of structure in our behavioral simulations, from prey responses to hunger-related behavioral changes.
New preprint from our lab! Probabilistic Models of Larval Zebrafish Behavior: Structure on Many Scales https://t.co/lRGvezE6L7 Thanks to @blobology, @scott_linderman, Thomas Panier, @carolineleiwee, Erin Song, @KJHerr23, and @_amiller_ for their great work! 1/5
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1/2 Excited to release a new study on what determines the outcome of ambush predation. We collected high speed video of dragonfly larvae with their somewhat terrifying labial mask, hunting larval zebrafish. https://t.co/Y9Je2B6V9u
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My latest article on characterizing activity in a hippocampus-like region of fish brain using wireless recordings in freely swimming electric fish! https://t.co/3U9YJzKklc
@eLife
elifesciences.org
Sparse firing in a hippocampus-like structure of the teleost telencephalon is linked to spatial navigation and active sensing.
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My latest work on characterizing neural responses in the pallium of freely swimming weakly electric fish!
Neural activity in a hippocampus-like region of the teleost pallium are associated with navigation and active sensing https://t.co/Rv6qsCEhvA
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#Grant #Applications requested by Dec5 from #graduate students, #postdocs, junior #Faculty (worldwide) for #Neuroscience #research @Grass_Fellows Independent research, equipment, travel, housing, dependents covered #SfN18 @FENSorg @IBRO @FalanIbroLarc
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