Publications
Energy Efficiency and Neural Control of Continuous versus Intermittent Swimming in a Fish-like Robot
Xiangxiao Liu, François A. Longchamp, Luca Zunino, Selina I. Bothner, Lisa R. Schneider, André
Guignard, Alessandro Crespi, Guillaume Bellegarda, Alexandre Bernardino, Eva A. Naumann, & Auke J. Ijspeert
[ACCEPTED Science Robotics, December 2025]
improv: A software platform for real-time and adaptive neuroscience experiments
Draelos A, Loring MD, Nikitchenko M, Sriworarat C, Gupta P., Sprague D, Pnevmatikakis E, Giovannucci A, Benster T, Deisseroth K, Pearson J* & Naumann EA.*
bioRxiv preprint bioRxiv 10.1101/2021.02.22.432006 February 2021, updated July 2024
Nat Commun 16, 9909 (2025) https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-64856-3
Artificial Embodied Circuits Uncover Neural Architectures of Vertebrate Visuomotor Behaviors
Xiangxiao Liu*, Matthew D. Loring*, Luca Zunino1 Kaitlyn E. Fouke, François A. Longchamp, Alexandre Bernardino3, Auke J. Ijspeert, & Eva A. Naumann*
bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.12.19.629427
Science Robotics 10, October 15, 2025, eadv4408(2025). DOI:10.1126/scirobotics.adv4408 https://www.science.org/stoken/author-tokens/ST-2970/full
Spotlight: A tiny vertebrate reveals brain-scale network functions
He, Zichen, Jacob J. Morra, & Eva A. Naumann
Trends in Neurosciences, Volume 0, Issue 0 DOI: 10.1016/j.tins.2025.10.002
Gut distension evokes rapid neural dynamics in vagal and hindbrain populations of larval zebrafish
Arinel M, Atkinson JA, Matos-Fernández KM, Drage EP, Hawkyard M, Naumann EA
bioRxiv preprint, July 2025, 2025.07. 21.665834 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.21.665834v1
NLP4Neuro: Sequence-to-sequence learning for neural population decoding
JJ Morra, KE Fouke, K Hang, Z He, O Traubert, TW Dunn, EA Naumann
arXiv preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02264
Neural circuits underlying divergent visuomotor strategies of zebrafish and Danionella cerebrum
Kaitlyn E. Fouke, Zichen He, Matthew D. Loring, and Eva A. Naumann
Curr. Biol., May 2025. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2025.04.027
Compressive streak microscopy for fast sampling of fluorescent reporters of neural activity
Changjia Cai, Owen Traubert, Jovan Tormes-Vaquerano, M.Hossein Eybposh, Srinivas C.
Turaga, Jose Rodriguez-Romaguera, Eva A. Naumann, & Nicolas C. Pégard
Neurophotonics, 2025 May 22;12(2):025013. doi: 10.1117/1.NPh.12.2.025013
Connectomes inform function: from time-varying dynamics to animal behaviour
Jacob J. Morra, Kaitlyn E. Fouke, Eva A. Naumann, Mark J. Daley
Natural Computing 24, 511–528 (2025).
Imaging across multiple spatial scales with the multi-camera array microscope
Mark Harfouche, Kanghyun Kim, Kevin C. Zhou, Pavan Chandra Konda, Sunanda Sharma, Eric E. Thomson, Colin Cooke, Shiqi Xu, Lucas Kreiss, Amey Chaware, Xi Yang, Xing Yao, Vinayak Pathak, Martin Bohlen, Ron Appel, Aurélien Bègue, Clare Cook, Jed Doman, John Efromson, Gregor Horstmeyer, Jaehee Park, Paul Reamey, Veton Saliu, Eva Naumann, and Roarke Horstmeyer
Optica, vol. 10, no. 4, p. 471, Apr. 2023. doi: https://doi.org/10.1364/OPTICA.478010
Gigapixel imaging with a novel multi-camera array microscope
Eric Thomson, Mark Harfouche, Kanghyun Kim, Pavan Konda, Catherine W. Seitz, Colin Cooke, Shiqi Xu, Whitney S. Jacobs, Robin Blazing, Yang Chen, Sunanda Sharma, Timothy W. Dunn, Jaehee Park, Roarke W. Horstmeyer*, & Eva A. Naumann*
eLife (2022), doi: https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.74988
improv: A flexible software platform for adaptive neuroscience experiments
Anne Draelos, Maxim Nikitchenko, Chaichontat Sriworarat, Daniel Sprague, Matthew D. Loring, Eftychios Pnevmatikakis, Andrea Giovannucci, Eva A. Naumann*, & John M. Pearson*
bioarXiv preprint. 2021 February, doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.02.22.432006
Whole-brain interactions underlying zebrafish behavior
Matthew D. Loring, Eric E. Thomson, & Eva A. Naumann
Current Opinion in Neurobiology (2020) doi:10.1016/j.conb.2020.09.011
Online neural connectivity estimation with ensemble stimulation
Anne Draelos, Eva A. Naumann, & John M. Pearson
arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.13911v2. 2020 July/ NeurIPS 2020
Imaging the behavior and neural activity of freely moving organisms with a gigapixel microscope
Mark Harfouche, Timothy W. Dunn, Eva A. Naumann, & Roarke Horstmeyer
Optics in the Life Sciences Congress 2019, Optical Society of America, 2019, paper BT3A.3. doi: https://doi.org/10.1364/BRAIN.2019.BT3A.3
From whole-brain data to functional circuit models: the zebrafish optomotor response
Eva A. Naumann, James E. Fitzgerald, Timothy W. Dunn, Jason Rihel, Haim Sompolinsky, & Florian Engert
Cell (2016) doi:10.1016/j.cell.2016.10.019
Brain-wide mapping of neural activity controlling zebrafish exploratory locomotion
Timothy W. Dunn*, Yu Mu*, Sujatha Narayan, Owen Randlett, Eva A. Naumann, Chao-Tsung Yang, Alexander F. Schier, Jeremy Freeman, Florian Engert, & Misha B. Ahrens
eLife (2016) doi:10.7554/eLife.12741
Neural circuits underlying visually evoked escapes in larval zebrafish
Timothy W. Dunn, Christoph Gebhardt, Eva A. Naumann, Misha B. Ahrens, Florian Engert, & Filippo Del Bene
Neuron (2016) doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2015.12.021
Whole-brain activity mapping onto a zebrafish brain atlas
Owen Randlett, Caroline L. Wee, Eva A. Naumann, Onyeka Nnaemeka, David Schoppik, James E Fitzgerald, Ruben Portugues, Alix M B Lacoste, Clemens Riegler, Florian Engert, & Alexander F Schier
Nature Methods (2015) doi:10.1038/nmeth.3581
Monitoring neural activity with bioluminescence during natural behavior
Eva A. Naumann*, Adam R. Kampff*, David A. Prober, Alexander F. Schier, & Florian Engert
Nature Neuroscience (2010) doi:10.1038/nn.2518