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Adam W. Lester

University of British ColumbiaORCID 0000-0002-4598-7908Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Approach:experimental assay· 3 Organism:mouse· 3 Assay:behavioral assay· 1 Organism:rat· 1 Research Focus:synaptic & neural circuits· 1 Approach:wet-lab / biochemical assay· 1

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NC4touch: An open-source networked touchscreen apparatus for rodent behavioral testing

Gelareh Modara, Adam W. Lester, Matthew Brandon Cooke, Isaac Schwein, Vanesse Li, Jocelyn Zhang, Amy Wong, Leticia Cid, Jason S. Snyder, Manu Sasidharan Madhav

NC4Touch is an open-source rodent touchscreen apparatus that enables affordable, customizable, and high-throughput behavioral testing in mice and rats.

bioRxiv · Aug 4, 2026 · PreprintAnimal Behavior & Cognition

The Omniroute maze: a novel rodent navigation apparatus that integrates dynamically configurable routes, sensory cues and automated reward delivery

Adam W. Lester, Afsoon G. Mombeini, Manu Sasidharan Madhav

The paper introduces the Omniroute maze, a high-throughput rodent navigation system that automates route configuration, sensory cues, and reward delivery for behavioral experiments.

bioRxiv · Sep 1, 2025 · PreprintAnimal Behavior & Cognition

A modular gate system for autonomous control of rodent behavior

Adam W. Lester, Gurnoor Kaur, Nadira Djafri, Manu Sasidharan Madhav

The paper introduces an open-source rodent gate system for customizable maze tasks, enabling affordable and robust behavior control.

bioRxiv · Nov 22, 2024 · PreprintAnimal Behavior & Cognition