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Elias T Lunsford, PhD

@etlunsford.bsky.social

HFSP postdoc fellow in Claire Wyart's lab at the Paris Brain Institute researching the transformation of a sensory stimulus to movement. Here to just promote cool science! lunsfordlab.squarespace.com

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Claire Wyart @clairewyart.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

🧿 Excited about molecular biology & genetics 🧬🧬🧬? Wanna live in Paris? Join our team as a lab manager under the supervision of @kevinfidelin.bsky.social & myself! Personal development in professional environment is our mission. Inclusive space where proactive and playing collective people flourish 🧿

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Wyart Lab @wyartlab.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Let's share @etlunsford.bsky.social's work : to survive, animals avoid drifting involuntarily in their environment. While humans rely on visual & vestibular cues, birds & fish need to sense complex flow changes of the external fluid (air/water) around them to select motor actions. How do they do?(1)

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Wyart Lab @wyartlab.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Hola, Hello, Bonjour, Bonjourno, Guten tag BlueSky oasis! Loving art, music, cinema, we are a group of scientists found of animal behavior & physiology, using optical tricks in transparent fish to decipher dynamic neuronal codes underlying sensorimotor integration during navigation & morphogenesis!

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Elias T Lunsford, PhD @etlunsford.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

How do broadly distributed sensors along the entire body compactly organize within the brain? Check out my preprint which is the latest from @clairewyart.bsky.social 's lab to see how the lateral line organizes positional and directional cues in an egocentric framework!

Schematic of larval zebrafish with with bicolor dots representing the position of NMs along the head, trunk, and tail. The bicolor dots are color coded to the directional sensitivity where cyan represents flow detection towards the center-of-mass and magenta represents flow detection away from the center-of-mass. Correspondingly color coded fibers extend toward the medial octavolateralis nuclei (MON) represented by four circles colored either cyan (rostral) or magenta (caudal). The rostral MON subnuclei receives inputs from flow towards the center-of-mass and the caudal MON subnuclei receives inputs away from the center-of-mass.

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