Eva Aimable Naumann
Assistant Professor of Neurobiology
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Overview
The Naumann lab's goal is to understand how neural circuits across the entire brain guide behavior and how individuality manifests within these circuits. To dissect such circuits, we use the genetically accessible, translucent zebrafish to map, monitor, and manipulate neuronal activity. By combining whole-brain imaging, behavioral analysis, functional perturbations, neuroanatomy, we aim to generate brain-scale circuit models of simple behaviors in individual brains.
Selected Grants
Neurobiology Training Program awarded by National Institutes of Health (Mentor). 2019 to 2024
Dissection of the neural microcircuitry of the zebrafish pretectum awarded by Whitehall Foundation, Inc. (Principal Investigator). 2020 to 2023
Real-time, all-optical interrogation of neural microcircuitry in the pretectum awarded by National Institutes of Health (Principal Investigator). 2020 to 2022
High-Resolution, Parallelized Imaging of Freely Swimming Zebrafish with a Gigapixel Microscope awarded by Ramona Optics, Inc. (Principal Investigator). 2018 to 2020
Naumann, Eva A., et al. “From Whole-Brain Data to Functional Circuit Models: The Zebrafish Optomotor Response.” Cell, vol. 167, no. 4, Nov. 2016, pp. 947-960.e20. Pubmed, doi:10.1016/j.cell.2016.10.019. Full Text
Dunn, Timothy W., et al. “Brain-wide mapping of neural activity controlling zebrafish exploratory locomotion.” Elife, vol. 5, Mar. 2016, p. e12741. Pubmed, doi:10.7554/eLife.12741. Full Text Open Access Copy
Dunn, Timothy W., et al. “Neural Circuits Underlying Visually Evoked Escapes in Larval Zebrafish.” Neuron, vol. 89, no. 3, Feb. 2016, pp. 613–28. Pubmed, doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2015.12.021. Full Text
Randlett, Owen, et al. “Whole-brain activity mapping onto a zebrafish brain atlas.” Nat Methods, vol. 12, no. 11, Nov. 2015, pp. 1039–46. Pubmed, doi:10.1038/nmeth.3581. Full Text
Naumann, Eva A., et al. “Monitoring neural activity with bioluminescence during natural behavior.” Nat Neurosci, vol. 13, no. 4, Apr. 2010, pp. 513–20. Pubmed, doi:10.1038/nn.2518. Full Text
Harfouche, M., et al. “Imaging the behavior and neural activity of freely moving organisms with a gigapixel microscope.” Optics Infobase Conference Papers, vol. Part F169-BRAIN 2019, 2019. Scopus, doi:10.1364/BRAIN.2019.BT3A.3. Full Text