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Lab News

November 1st 2021

Congratulations Isabelle for successfully defending her Master's thesis. Great work!

April 14th, 2021

BonZeb is published today in Scientific Reports! Read it here

March 2nd 2021

The first release of our BonZeb toolkit for zebrafish tracking and stimulation in Bonsai is online! Find our paper on bioRxiv

December 18th 2020

Congratulations Rida on winning the Dr. Jonathan Dostrovsky CPIN award - awesome work! Find the link to the announcement here

December 18th 2020

Michael gave a great presentation today at CPIN day - superb job!

December 17th 2020

Congratulations Nick on winning the CSB Vietnamese-Canadian Community Graduate Award in Zoology! Way to go!

December 14th 2020

Our lab was highlighted in UofT Magazine! Check out the article at this link.

Publications

Carbo-Tano M, Lapoix M, Jia X, Thouvenin O, Pascucci M, Auclair F, Quan FB, Albadri S, Aguda V, Farouj Y, Hillman EMC, Portugues R, Del Bene F, Thiele TR, Dubuc R, Wyart C. The mesencephalic locomotor region recruits V2a reticulospinal neurons to drive forward locomotion in larval zebrafish. Nat Neurosci. 2023 Sep 4.

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Cai LT, Krishna VS, Hladnik TC, Guilbeault NC, Vijayakumar C, Arunachalam M, Juntti SA, Arrenberg AB, Thiele TR, Cooper EA. Spatiotemporal visual statistics of aquatic environments in the natural habitats of zebrafish. Sci Rep. 2023 Jul 25.

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Alexander E, Cai LT, Fuchs S, Hladnik TC, Zhang Y, Subramanian V, Guilbeault NC, Vijayakumar C, Arunachalam M, Juntti SA, Thiele TR, Arrenberg AB, Cooper EA. Optic flow in the natural habitats of zebrafish supports spatial biases in visual self-motion estimation. Curr Biol. 2022 Nov 22.

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Li CY, Steighner JR, Sweatt G, Thiele TR, Juntti SA. Manipulation of the Tyrosinase gene permits improved CRISPR/Cas editing and neural imaging in cichlid fish. Sci Rep. 2021 July 23;11(1):15138.

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Guilbeault NC, Guerguiev J, Martin M, Tate I, Thiele TR. BonZeb: Open-source, modular software tools for high-resolution zebrafish tracking and analysis. Sci Rep. 2021 Apr 14;11(1):8148.

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Wang K, Hinz J, Zhang Y, Thiele TR, Arrenberg AB. Parallel channels for motion feature extraction in the pretectum and tectum of larval zebrafish. Cell Rep. 2020 Jan 14;30(2):442-453.

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Förster D, Arnold-Ammer I, Laurell E, Barker AJ, Fernandes AM, Finger-Baier K, Filosa A, Helmbrecht TO, Kölsch Y, Kühn E, Robles E, Slanchev K, Thiele TR, Baier H, Kubo F. Genetic targeting and anatomical registration of neuronal populations in the zebrafish brain with a new set of BAC transgenic tools. Sci Rep. 2017 Jul 12;7(1):5230.

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Roberts WM, Augustine SB, Lawton KJ, Lindsay TH, Thiele TR, Izquierdo EJ, Faumont S, Lindsay RA, Britton MC, Pokala N, Bargmann CI, Lockery SR. A stochastic neuronal model predicts random search behaviors at multiple spatial scales in C. elegans. Elife. 2016 Jan 29;5. pii: e12572.

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Semmelhack JL, Donovan JC, Thiele TR, Kuehn E, Laurell E, Baier H. A dedicated visual pathway for prey detection in larval zebrafish. Elife. 2014 Dec 9;3.

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Thiele TR, Donovan JC, Baier H. Descending control of swim posture by a midbrain nucleus in zebrafish. Neuron. 2014 Aug 6;83(3):679-91.

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Faumont S, Rondeau G, Thiele TR, Lawton KJ, McCormick KE, Sottile M, Griesbeck O, Heckscher ES, Roberts WM, Doe CQ, Lockery SR. An image-free opto-mechanical system for creating virtual environments and imaging neuronal activity in freely moving Caenorhabditis elegans. PLoS One. 2011;6(9):e24666.

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Lindsay TH, Thiele TR, Lockery SR. Optogenetic analysis of synaptic transmission in the central nervous system of the nematode Caenorhabditiselegans. Nat Commun. 2011;2:306.

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Thiele TR, Faumont S, Lockery SR. The neural network for chemotaxis to tastants in Caenorhabditis elegans is specialized for temporal differentiation. J Neurosci. 2009 Sep 23;29(38):11904-11.

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Suzuki H, Thiele TR, Faumont S, Ezcurra M, Lockery SR, Schafer WR. Functional asymmetry in Caenorhabditis elegans taste neurons and its computational role in chemotaxis. Nature. 2008 Jul 3;454(7200):114-7.

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Lockery SR, Lawton KJ, Doll JC, Faumont S, Coulthard SM, Thiele TR, Chronis N,McCormick KE, Goodman MB, Pruitt BL. Artificial dirt: Microfluidic substrates for nematode neurobiology and behavior. J Neurophysiol. 2008 Jun;99(6):3136-43.

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Miller AC, Thiele TR, Faumont S, Moravec ML, Lockery SR. Step-response analysis of chemotaxis in Caenorhabditis elegans. J Neurosci. 2005 Mar 30;25(13):3369-78.

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Davies AG, Bettinger JC, Thiele TR, Judy ME, McIntire SL. Natural variation in the npr-1 gene modifies ethanol responses of wild strains of C. elegans. Neuron. 2004 Jun 10;42(5):731-43.

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Davies AG, Pierce-Shimomura JT, Kim H, VanHoven MK, Thiele TR, Bonci A, Bargmann CI, McIntire SL. A central role of the BK potassium channel in behavioral responses to ethanol in C. elegans. Cell. 2003 Dec 12;115(6):655-66.

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