Minel is presenting at the BIF 16th North America Meeting in Woods Hole!
/Minel presented at her final Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds North America Meeting as a current fellow. Her talk is titled “Mapping the Gut-Brain Neural Circuitry”.
Minel on DIBS Trainee Spotlight!
/Read Minel’s interview on her journey in neuroscience and all things puzzles on the latest Duke Institute for Brain Sciences Trainee Spotlight by Izzy Kjaerulff: https://dibs.duke.edu/news/minel-arinel/
Kaitlyn is volunteering at SciRen!
/Kaitlyn helped organize the SciRen Triangle networking event, where researchers develop and present K-12 lesson plans based on their research to educators. She served as the Logistics Coordinator to work with a team of graduate students from local universities to plan. The event is hosted annually in September at the NC Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh.
For more information on the SciRen Triangle: https://sciren.org/networking-events/sciren-triangle/
Naumann Lab at the Annual Neurobiology Retreat in Wrightsville Beach!
/Whit’s poster is titled “Predicting Functional Roles of Motion-Processing Neurons in the Optomotor Response in Larval Zebrafish”.
Karina’s poster is titled “Hunger alters neural responses to visual objects in the optic tectum of zebrafish”.
Kaitlyn’s poster is titled “All-optical approaches to perturb functionally identified neural circuits”.
Finally, Minel gave the closing talk titled “Mapping the Gut-Brain Neural Circuiry”. She also presented a poster titled “Mapping brain-wide responses to enteric nutritional stimuli in larval zebrafish”.
Minel is a Guest Lecturer at the Biological Bases of Behavior course!
/Minel gave a guest lecture on Animal Models in Neuroscience at the introductory undergraduate course NEUROSCI 102 Biological Bases of Behavior.
Kaitlyn is presenting at the Janelia Danionella Workshop!
/Kaitlyn’s talk is titled “Neural Circuits Underlying Optomotor Responses in Larval Danionella cerebrum“.
Elysia received the DiSTEM Award!
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Elysia is awarded the Duke Diversity in STEM (DiSTEM) Conference Award, which provides an opportunity for undergraduate students to attend and present their research at a conference aimed towards supporting the scientific development of students from marginalized groups. With the DiSTEM Award, Elysia will attend the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minoritized Scientists (ABRCMS), a meeting founded “to encourage minority, first-generation, veteran, and disabled students to pursue higher education in STEM”.
For more information on the DiSTEM Award: https://undergraduateresearch.duke.edu/duke-diversity-stem-distem-conference-award
For more information on ABRCMS: https://abrcms.org
Elysia and Sarah are presenting posters at the Duke Summer Research Showcase!
/Elysia’s poster is titled “Behavioral characterization and whole-brain activity mapping of psychedelics in zebrafish”. Sarah’s poster is titled “Optomotor Response in Larval Zebrafish vs. Danionella cerebrum, a New Comparative Fish Model”.
Owen joined our lab!
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Owen Traubert joined our lab as a graduate student from the Department of Biomedical Engineering. He is interested in optimizing two-photon stimulation using machine learning.
Shiyang joined our lab!
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Shiyang Pan joined our lab as a graduate student from the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering. She is interested in developing computational models and real-time methods to understand the activity of large-scale neural populations.
Minel is presenting a poster at the Gastronauts Symposium in the Galápagos Islands!
/Minel’s poster is titled “Mapping brain-wide responses to enteric nutritional stimuli in larval zebrafish“.
Lab celebration dinner at Motorco!
/Minel, Eva, Kaitlyn, Matt, and Whit mid-beer.
Naumann Lab bittersweet moments at Motorco with saying goodbye to Matt and celebrating Kaitlyn passing her prelim.
Kaitlyn passed her preliminary exam!
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Kaitlyn’s thesis project is titled “Neural Mechanisms of Visual Motion Transformation into Locomotion in Larval Teleost Fish”. She is studying how continuous visual stimuli are transformed into discrete bouts and continuous swimming in Danio rerio and Danionella cerebrum, respectively.
Kaitlyn and Minel are selected as OBGE Peer Mentors!
/Kaitlyn and Minel are selected to serve as one of the 2023-2024 OBGE Graduate Student Peer Mentors. They will be mentoring incoming School of Medicine graduate students, helping them acclimate to graduate school, address common questions, and build a professional network of colleagues.
Kaitlyn is at Caltech!
/Kaitlyn is working at the Dickinson Lab at the California Institute of Technology for her 3-week long MBL Post-Course Research Award. There, she is studying the asymmetrical activation of Drosophila power muscles during optomotor response through electrophysiological recordings.
Bowling night with the Dunn Lab!
/Naumann Lab and the Dunn Lab having their Friday happy hour at the bowling alley.
New publication alert 🚨🚨
/Check out our new paper Thomson et al.: “Gigapixel imaging with a novel multi-camera array microscope” on eLife!
Joint lab meeting with the Lovett-Barron Lab and Ahrens Lab!
/Lovett-Barron Lab hosted the Naumann and Ahrens labs at La Jolla. Each group’s members gave short presentations on their research and enjoyed snacks, coffee, and drinks by the beach.
Last day of SfN with our final poster session from Anne!
/Anne’s poster is titled “Adaptive Bayesian optimization of population-wide neural responses in real time”. This is Anne’s last poster presentation as a postdoc as she is starting her own lab at University of Michigan in January 2023!
Max and Kaitlyn are presenting their posters at SfN!
/Max’s poster is titled “Open-source modularity: Microscopes and general-purpose software (Module Conductor)“. Kaitlyn’s poster is titled “Using Gigapixel Multi-Camera Array Microscopy (MCAM) Imaging to Predict Zebrafish Visuomotor Performance“.
