Timothy Dunn

VQ-MAP: a flexible, versatile framework for animal behavior understanding

VQ-MAP maps diverse pose data into common behavioral motifs, enabling cross-lab comparison and analysis of rodent behavior across developmental stages.

Cortex-Wide Substrates for Body Schema and Action Awareness

This study identifies how the cortex encodes body schema through action-specific neural ensembles and reference frames in mice.

Mapping the landscape of social behavior

This paper introduces a 3D tracking technique to analyze social behavior in rodents, revealing new insights into autism and amphetamine effects through high-resolution postural data.

Clustered VEGF Nanoparticles in Microporous Annealed Particle (MAP) Hydrogel Accelerates Functional Recovery and Brain Tissue Repair after Stroke

This study develops VEGF-coated heparin nanoparticles in MAP hydrogels to promote brain repair after stroke, showing improved tissue formation and functional recovery without free heparin.

Correcting for physical distortions in visual stimuli improves reproducibility in zebrafish neuroscience.

The paper introduces a computational tool to correct physical distortions in visual stimuli for larval zebrafish, improving reproducibility in neuroscience experiments.

Inferring Functional Neural Connectivity With Deep Residual Convolutional Networks

The paper improves a deep learning method for inferring functional neural connectivity from neural activity data, achieving high precision on synthetic datasets.