Freely chasing mammals, collab with David Fitzpatrick, we show how eye movements enable ferrets to simultaneously navigate and chase fleeing objects Eye saccades align optic flow with retinal specializations during object pursuit in freely moving ferrets: cell.com/current-biology/ful…

In reconstructed eye-views saccades directed the retinal specialization (area centralis) to point in the animals intended direction of movement, which was also the area of least motion blur. Saccades were independent of the target, as they also occurred during target absence.

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Presenting our new 2 gram three-photon head-mounted microscope with a z-drive to image all cortical layers in the freely moving mouse. This microscope can be used in a fully lit environment, in the dark or in between, depending on your thing. nature.com/articles/s41592-0…

We are excited to present our new 3-photon, 2g head-mounted microscope for imaging all cortical layers in the freely moving mouse on Saturday @sfn2022. abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/1… Thanks to @TvanKerkoerle & @Prakash3Photon for organizing!

As the brain and spinal cord drive muscles and muscles move bones, we are using this method to read out the summation of complex neural processes as animals estimate gap distances and jump (or not).

Motion kinematics of bones and joints can be accurately inferred as the animal freely behaves and performs complex behaviors. This approach gets around the problem of tracking joint kinetics when the bones are covered by fur and surface tissue.