by Vivek | Jan 12, 2022 | Lab News, Science, TrackingPaper
A tour de force from Keith and Gautam. This is beautiful work. Full text is available here. https://www.cell.com/cell-reports/fulltext/S2211-1247(21)01740-X
by Vivek | Oct 25, 2021 | Lab News, Public Outreach, Science
Vivek was a co-organizer of the Impacts of Sleep and Circadian Biology on Alzheimer’s Disease and Aging from Oct 16-22, 2021 at Highseas Conference Center. The short course had 25 residential students and over 100 virtual students. The instructors included...
by Leinani | Feb 24, 2021 | Science
Cross Validation In cross validation, the classifier is trained on a set of labels (training set), then tested on a set of labels held-out of the training set (testing set). This is used to estimate the accuracy of the classifier. In Rotta, we use a 10-fold cross...
by Vivek | Feb 15, 2021 | Science
Definition of Behavior Turn behavior is when a mouse changes directions. It can happen when the mouse is moving or when it starts from no movement. It can also occur after rearing on wall. The change in direction varies in amount. Sometimes a mouse can carry out a...
by Vivek | Jul 29, 2020 | Lab Blog, Lab News, Lab Press, Science
The Kumar Lab received a grant from NIDA to build new models of addiction. The press release is here https://www.jax.org/news-and-insights/2020/july/building-better-mouse-models-for-addiction-research The project summary is available here: PROJECT SUMMARY Addiction is...
by Vivek | Jun 8, 2019 | Lab News, Science
Vivek attended and presented at the CTC meeting in UCSD. The CTC meeting is an annual meeting of complex trait geneticists who use model organisms. Vivek spoke on the use of computer vision to extract heritable ethological endophenotypes from mice. The meeting has...
