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How do fish make decisions? How much their choices are influenced by the behavior of their peers?
I study how fish within a group make decisions by looking at how they integrate information from the environment with cues from conspecifics during collective escape responses. For this purpose, I use a combination of virtual reality and optogenetic techniques to manipulate the behavior of single individuals within a freely swimming group.
Of course I am not only interested in the behavior, but also in where and how the integration of predator and social cues happens in the brain. For this purpose, I make head-fixed fish swim in a virtual reality environment under a lightfield or a two-photon microscope.
When I am not in the lab, I enjoy reading, cooking, and taking long walks in nature.
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2024
- Zaupa M., Nagaraj N., Sylenko A., Baier H., Sawamiphak S., Filosa A. (2024) The Calmodulin-interacting peptide Pcp4a regulates feeding state-dependent behavioral choice in zebrafish. Neuron. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2024.01.001
2022
- Corradi L., Zaupa M., Sawamiphak S., Filosa A. (2022) Using pERK immunostaining to quantify neuronal activity induced by stress in zebrafish larvae. STAR Protocols. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xpro.2022.101731
2021
- Zaupa M., Naini S. M. A., Younes M. A., Bullier E., Duboué E. R., Corronc H. L., Soula H., Wolf S., Candelier R., Legendre P., Halpern M. E., Mangin J., Hong E. (2021) Trans-inhibition of axon terminals underlies competition in the habenulo-interpeduncular pathway. Current Biology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2021.08.051