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January 22, 2025

DMCBH graduate student creates an innovative open source tool to study microglia form and function

When faced with a daunting challenge early in her PhD, Jennifer Kim, a graduate student in the Ciernia lab, turned a roadblock into an innovative solution. Tasked with characterizing microglia morphology changes across multiple brain regions from large cohorts of samples, she encountered limitations in existing tools. “I was discouraged to find that the most commonly used analysis methods at…

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Dr. Florian Engert: Focus versus Competence: Attentional Switching in Larval Zebrafish

January 24

2215 Wesbrook Mall
Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z3 Canada

Zoom option if unable to attend in person: Zoom link here (click on “Join a meeting”) Meeting ID: 91512 289258 Passcode: 289258 Decision making strategies in the face of conflicting or uncertain sensory input have been successfully described in many different species.  Here we analyze large behavioral datasets of larval zebrafish engaged in a ‘coherent dot’ optomotor assay. We find that animal…

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