This Wednesday we shared our work at U of T Undergraduate Engineering Research Day (UnERD). Michelle gave an outstanding presentation on the virtual reality setup. Ambrose and Will discussed their idea of applying RNN in VR and won the best poster! Congratulations to everyone on your fantastic work! This marks our fruitful summer.

In the news: https://connaught.research.utoronto.ca/researchers https://csb.utoronto.ca/connaught-award-for-aquatic-vr-to-understand-neural-dynamics/ https://www.linkedin.com/posts/university-of-toronto-cell-and-systems-biology_connaught-award-for-aquatic-vr-to-understand-activity-7135341806447194112-6jKB/

More details are here: https://csb.utoronto.ca/csb-researchers-earn-multiple-nserc-awards/

Congratulations to Bohan Yao for receiving his U of T Excellence Award (UTEA) which funds him to conduct research in Lin’s lab over the summer of 2023! He is a year-3 undergraduate in Cell and Molecular Biology at UofT, and he will be conducting research on the effects of fasting versus fed conditions on the…

Our incoming summer student Michelle Sun has been awarded an ESROP fellowship and a CSB Undergraduate Research Award! She is a year-2 undergraduate in Engineering Science at UofT, and she will be developing a virtual reality platform for neural imaging of behaving zebrafish by working closely with other lab members. Congratulations and welcome!

Neural computation of cognitive behaviors by whole-brain single-neuron recording of zebrafish behaving in virtual reality The central question of Lin Lab is – how does the brain produce adaptive, flexible behavior? We take a multi-disciplinary and holistic (systems) approach to answer this question. We combine whole-brain neural imaging and computational tools on behaving animal models…

This is my favorite incubator to house baby zebrafish. Small and handy.

We are happy to learn that our CFI just got approved! Thank you for everyone who helped us during this process!

Recycle, reuse… Thank you for the kind donations from my colleagues!

We look forward to building more fun behavioral devices for zebrafish!