• Activation of the hypothalamic feeding centre upon visual prey detection 

      Muto, Akira; Lal, Pradeep; Ailani, Deepak; Abe, Gembu; Itoh, Mari; Kawakami, Koichi (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      The visual system plays a major role in food/prey recognition in diurnal animals, and food intake is regulated by the hypothalamus. However, whether and how visual information about prey is conveyed to the hypothalamic ...
    • Identification of a neuronal population in the telencephalon essential for fear conditioning in zebrafish 

      Lal, Pradeep; Tanabe, Hideyuki; Suster, Maximiliano L; Ailani, Deepak; Kotani, Yuri; Muto, Akira; Itoh, Mari; Iwasaki, Miki; Wada, Hironori; Yaksi, Emre; Kawakami, Koichi (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Background Fear conditioning is a form of learning essential for animal survival and used as a behavioral paradigm to study the mechanisms of learning and memory. In mammals, the amygdala plays a crucial role in fear ...
    • Interhemispheric connections between olfactory bulbs improve odor detection 

      Kermen, Florence; Lal, Pradeep; Faturos, Nicholas G.; Yaksi, Emre (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Interhemispheric connections enable interaction and integration of sensory information in bilaterian nervous systems and are thought to optimize sensory computations. However, the cellular and spatial organization of ...
    • Motile-Cilia-Mediated Flow Improves Sensitivity and Temporal Resolution of Olfactory Computations 

      Reiten, Ingrid; Uslu, Fazil Emre; Forè, Stèphanie; Pelgrims, Robbrecht; Ringers, Christa; Diaz Verdugo, Carmen; Hoffmann, Maximilian; Lal, Pradeep; Kawakami, Koichi; Pekkan, Kerem; Yaksi, Emre; Jurisch-Yaksi, Nathalie (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      Motile cilia are actively beating hair-like structures that cover the surface of multiple epithelia. The flow that ciliary beating generates is utilized for diverse functions and depends on the spatial location and biophysical ...