E-Scope

E-Scope

A collaboration of multiple labs in the Neurology and Neurobiology departments at UCLA published a paper regarding their open-source electrophysiology-integrated mini scope in an eLife paper in April 2023. E-Scope is an open source mini scope that simultaneously...
HERBs: head-fixed environment for rodent behaviors

HERBs: head-fixed environment for rodent behaviors

Ali Ogzur and colleagues designed a flexible and easily accessible tool for head fixation in mice. Considering the financial strain, time obligation, and level of experience necessary for head fixation experiments, the group provided a solution that includes both...
Markerless Mouse Tracking for Social Experiments

Markerless Mouse Tracking for Social Experiments

Kartikeya Murari and colleagues at the University of Calgary published their video-based tool, Markerless Mouse Tracking, in an eNeuro publication in February 2024. Behavior quantification of multiple interacting animals is often done by tools that are not accurate...
SEB3R

SEB3R

Gabriele Chelini and colleagues at The University of Trento, under the mentorship of Yuri Bozzi, introduce SEB3R, an automated method for tracking mouse body language and studying emotional behaviors. SEB3R quickly identifies different postures of mice and associates...
FASTMAP

FASTMAP

Dylan Terstege, Daniela O. Oboh, and Jonathan R. Epp, a team of researchers in the Epp Lab at the Hotchkiss Brain Institute in the University of Calgary’s Cumming School of Medicine, have created the open source software FASTMAP (Flexible Atlas Segmentation Tool...