Topic: Microfluidic system

All living beings face the universal challenge of foraging (i.e. finding and consuming energy sources while balancing overall energy expenditure). Impressively, in precocial animals such as larval zebrafish, evolutionarily embedded innate neural programs are able to overcome this challenge with no parental guidance and limited learning ability. Previous studies have highlighted the internally driven spontaneous alternation between long-lasting exploration or exploitation states (Flavell et al., 2013; Martin, Ernst, & Heisenberg, 1999, Marques et al., 2020). We aim to understand how these i