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Social interactions in medaka fish depend on discrete kinematic states of swimming behavior

Harpaz R., Piquet P., Isoe Y., Fishman MC., and Engert F. Current Biology

Synchronization of behavioral and cardiac dynamics in larval zebrafish

Herrera KJ, Zarghani-Shiraz A, Ahrens MB,  Engert F, Fishman MC (2026). Cell Reports

Attentional switching in larval zebrafish

Krishnan K, Muthukumar A, Sterrett S, Pflitsch P, Fairhall AL, Fishman M, Bahl A, Zwaka H, Engert F (2025). Science Advances. 

Norepinephrine changes behavioral state through astroglial purinergic signaling

Chen AB, Duque M, Rymbek A, Dhanasekar M, Wang VM, Mi X, Tocquer L, Narayan S, Legorreta EM, Eddison E, Yu G, Wyart C, Prober DA, Engert F, and Ahrens MB Science  (2025).

Ketamine induces plasticity in a norepinephrine-astroglial circuit to promote behavioral perseverance

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Duque M, Chen AB, Hsu E, Narayan S, Rymbek A, Begum S, Saher G, Cohen AE, Olson DE, Li Y, Prober DA, Bergles DE, Fishman MC, Engert F, Ahrens MB

Neuron (2024)

Functional neuronal circuits emerge in the absence of developmental activity

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Barabasi D, Schuhknecht G, & Engert F.

Nature Communications (2024)

Neural circuits underlying habituation of visually evoked escape behaviors in larval zebrafish

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Fotowat H & Engert F

Elife (2023)

Visual object detection biases escape trajectories following acoustic startle in larval zebrafish

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Zwaka H, McGinnis OJ, Pflitsch P, Prabha S, Mansinghka V, Engert F, & Bolton AD.

Current Biology (2022)

Social isolation modulates appetite and avoidance behavior via a common oxytocinergic circuit in larval zebrafish

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Wee CL, Song E, Nikitchenko M, Herrera KJ, Wong S, Engert F, & Kunes S 

Nature Communications (2022)

Voltage imaging identifies spinal circuits that modulate locomotor adaptation in zebrafish

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Bohm UL, Kumra Y, Kawashima T, Ahrens MB, Higashijima SI, Engert F, & Cohen AE 

Neuron (2022)

Functional and ultrastructural analysis of reafferent mechanosensation in larval zebrafish. Current Biology.

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Odstrcil I, Petkova MD, Haesemeyer M, Boulanger-Weill J, Nikitchenko M, Gagnon JA, Oteiza P, Schalek R, Peleg A, Portugues R, Lichtman JW, Engert F (2021).

Precise visuomotor transformations underlying collective behavior in larval zebrafish. Nature Communications.

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Harpaz R, Nguyen MN, Bahl A, and Engert F. (2021)

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