Florian Engert

This study shows that larval zebrafish actively modulate their coasting mechanics between swim bouts, which predicts swim timing and suggests active control of post-propulsion movement.

This study shows that larval zebrafish adjust their group behavior based on past experiences with population density, using a state-space model to predict these changes.

The paper identifies a neuron-glia circuit in zebrafish that anticipates hypoxia by integrating behavioral intent and physiological state to prevent internal oxygen depletion.

This study uses Carbadiazocine to modulate optomotor responses in zebrafish larvae, showing reduced accuracy and altered movement patterns when activated by light.

The paper shows that the eigengene, the principal component of gene expression, maintains an invariant global spatial pattern across mouse and zebrafish brain development, suggesting evolutionary conservation and a lineage-based explanation.

This study compares how zebrafish and medaka larvae integrate visual motion using different spatiotemporal strategies, revealing species-specific differences in motion processing.

The paper introduces WHOLISTIC, a method to image cellular activity across all organs of a vertebrate, revealing body-wide circuits and responses to stimuli.

This study identifies three kinematic states in Medaka fish swimming and shows how social information processing varies across these states, leading to coordinated group behavior.

FishExplorer integrates multimodal brain data from larval zebrafish to enable circuit analysis and hypothesis generation.

The paper presents a connectomic dataset of a larval zebrafish brain, enabling circuit analysis through synaptic and neuronal annotations.

The paper identifies a spinal motor circuit in zebrafish larvae that mediates hypoxia-evoked pectoral fin movements by linking hypoxia detection to motor output through cholinergic spinal motor neurons.

The paper identifies a brightness and contrast processing circuit in zebrafish and shows Lrrn CAMs are essential for its assembly and function.

The paper shows that heart rate changes influence behavior and brain activity in larval zebrafish, with specific brain regions encoding heart rate signals.

The paper develops an all-optical system to study whole-brain neuronal dynamics during gut interoception in zebrafish, revealing how nutrient delivery and sensory stimuli are encoded across brain regions.

The paper uses correlative light and electron microscopy to identify synaptic motifs in larval zebrafish that support visual motion processing.

This study shows that swimming motions in larval zebrafish trigger Ca2+ events in vascular endothelial cells through mechanical activation of Piezo1, independent of neural activity or blood flow.

The paper characterizes ionocyte subtypes in zebrafish olfactory epithelium, identifying three types with distinct functions and distributions.

This study shows that sleep disruption improves performance in visual and olfactory decision-making tasks in larval zebrafish by increasing reaction times and correct decisions.

The paper shows norepinephrine induces astroglial purinergic signaling that suppresses behavior through adenosine receptor activation in zebrafish.

The paper develops a multi-species brain atlas platform for comparative neuroscience in teleost fish, revealing species-specific neural structures and enabling gene expression and activity comparisons.

This study investigates visual habituation in larval zebrafish using Ca2+ imaging and pharmacological screens, revealing complex, distributed neural mechanisms without a simple pharmacological relationship to behavior.

The paper identifies three distinct neural pathways in larval zebrafish that mediate habituation to dark looming stimuli, with one pathway specifically inhibiting escape responses.

The paper shows ketamine suppresses futility-induced passivity in zebrafish by modulating astroglial calcium through norepinephrine signaling.

This study shows that visual experience and neuronal activity are not required for the development of visually guided swimming behavior in larval zebrafish.

The paper uses voltage imaging to identify spinal circuits in zebrafish that modulate locomotor adaptation by characterizing a novel sub-population of V3 neurons.

This study investigates how zebrafish larvae distinguish self-generated reafferent mechanosensory signals from exafferent stimuli using lateral line hair cells and neural circuits.

The paper studies how larval zebrafish transform visual inputs from neighbors into movement decisions during schooling behavior, finding that young larvae use averaging and winner-take-all strategies, while mature fish incorporate attraction to low retinal clutter.

The paper identifies two enhancers critical for TAAR gene expression in olfactory sensory neurons and shows they operate in cis to regulate gene choice.

This study shows larval zebrafish use a homeostatic algorithm to adjust their phototactic behavior based on luminance history and environmental changes.

This study shows zebrafish larvae detect salt gradients using olfactory receptor neurons that sense monovalent ions, avoiding high salinity environments.