Dance your PhD 2019 WINNER - Social experiences in larval zebrafish and their brains

We all know that animals move in coordinated ways. We see it everywhere, from flocks of birds or trails of ants collecting food to humans commuters during rush hour. But how do animals learn the rules that govern such coordinated motion? Do they just know how it works or are they learned from experience? And most importantly, what happens in the brain? This PhD work explored these questions by studying the movement of Zebrafish larvae (think of them as baby fish!). There were two groups, those fish that ha