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The Necessity of Animal Models in Stress Research
Johannes Bohacek, in an article for ETH animal welfare, discusses the importance of animal models in understanding stress-related diseases and shares insights into his team's research with laboratory mice.
The Art of Leadership Award (ALEA)
Johannes Bohacek was nominated as one of the finalists for this year’s ALEA awards. We congratulate all the nominees and the winners, the co-lead duo Olga Schubert and Martin Ackermann!
Our work in the news
Our recent work published in Nature Methods is featured in an article on the ETH Zurich News platform: “Behavioural analysis in mice: more precise results despite fewer animals”.
Nature Methods publication
Our paper “Analysis of behavioral flow resolves latent phenotypes” has been published in Nature Methods. It introduces BehaviorFlow, a pipeline for analyzing rodent behavior from video recordings. BehaviorFlow yields more power for group comparisons, it can reveal hidden treatment effects, and it allows for the comparison of complex behavioral patterns across experiments.
Nature Neuroscience publication
Our study “Tonic and burst-like locus coeruleus stimulation distinctly shift network activity across the cortical hierarchy” has been published in Nature Neuroscience. By combining optogenetics with functional brain imaging, we find that during moderate tonic locus coeruleus activation in mice, noradrenaline release engages cortical regions related to associative processing. In contrast, burst-like stimulation biases the brain toward sensory processing.