Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP170102827

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP170102827

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Neural mechanisms of vestibular perception in zebrafish. This project aims to understand vestibular processing by removing physical movement. The vestibular system allows us to perceive gravity and movement, but it is not understood how the brain processes information from vestibular sensors in the inner ear. This project will exert forces on the zebrafish’s inner ear with a laser, stimulating the vestibular sense. This means that the animal will experience vestibular stimuli while stationary, allowing calcium imaging of neurons that respond to vestibular cues and optogenetics to stimulate or silence these neurons. This is expected to reveal which cells and circuits mediate vestibular perception, processing and behaviour.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2017

End Date: 31-12-2019

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $399,500.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Zoology | Animal Behaviour | Animal Neurobiology | Classical and Physical Optics

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Health not elsewhere classified |

Other Keywords

Animal Behaviour | Animal Neurobiology | Classical and Physical Optics | Health not elsewhere classified | Zoology

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