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Behavioral setup in the lab
We have the setup to test the adhesion behavior (cavefish are attracted to a vibrating object at 30-40 Hz and stick with it, similar to autism patients who adhere to a particular stimulus and/or ob...
Cavefish facility
We house over 2,000 surface fish and cavefish, and we routinely let them spawn every other week. A pair of our fish (Astyanax mexicanus) generate ~300 embryos/ spawning, which is the one of the the...
Lab setup
We have our own RNAase free bench and shared qPCR machine sitting nearby our bench... Currently intensively used for qPCR.
Blog about autism research
I started a blog and will provide update for this project as well as others.http://www.acavefinfan.com/Also, this research was in the newshttp://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/06/antisocial-cave-fish...
ASD-T (autism sepctrum disorder-team)
Nicolas Cetraro (Postbac, left): was my student of the class, Developmental Biology (2015), and has a strong interest in sustainable (less-side effect) medicine. He has an excellent skill in molecu...
The latest movie for social behavior
This movie shows that the ground childrens from surface fish mother and cavefish father (F2 hybrids) recover the shoaling ability. Shoaling is categolized as a social behavior and cavefish had lost...