Jaycee Choi, PhD Candidate, recently attended the Computer Vision Pattern Recognition (CVPR) conference in Nashville, Tennessee. CVPR is one of the premier international conferences in computer science that brings together researchers in computer vision. Jaycee...

Vivek gave a remote keynote address for CV4Animals held in Nashville, TN. The talk can be found here.     

Vivek attended and presented at the 2025 AGE meeting in Anchorage, Alaska. Vivek was part of the Shock Center Director's Symposium. He presented on Gautam's frailty index work.  ...

Free link here! Nice job, Gautam. https://rdcu.be/edXnG

Vivek attended the ODIN symposium, sponsored by The Allen Institute for Neural Dynamics and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The 2025 Open Data in Neurophysiology (ODIN) Symposium group seeks to fill the pressing need to bridge scales and modalities in...

The talk was at the University of Maine, Orono hosted by Drs. Ben King and Joel Graber. Several members of the lab attended the lecture.

On April 2, 2025 Allentown and JAX installed the first Discovery Rack in the Kumar Lab. The lab has been working together with a large team on its development over the past 2+years. The system is based on the work that the Kumar Lab has done over the past 8 years....

Vivek attended the annual SFARI meeting hosted by the Simons Foundation in NYC. He presented a poster and had awesome pizza!...

Jake has been awarded the Paigen Fellowship. Paigen Endowed Fellowship recognizes promising postdoctoral talent at JAX. Congratulations, Jake! The award is well deserved....

Vivek was invited to present at the Synaptic Dysfunction in Neurodevelopmental Disorders symposium. It was part of the NWU Conte Center and a satellite meeting to SfN 2024....

Congratulations to Yehya on getting this award. They proposed to continue to study the Crichton mouse model of age dependent changes in behavior. The Out to Innovate™ Scholarships, established in 2011, are intended for LGBTQ+ undergraduate and graduate students...

Jaycee and Vivek published a commentary entitled, A new era in quantification of animal social behaviors, in the Journal of Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. Link to article: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38160721/

Vivek was invited to give a talk at The Herbert Wertheim UF Scripps Institute for Biomedical Innovation & Technology in February. Thank you for the invitation. I learned an incredible amount from my interactions with the faculty at Scripps Florida.  ...

Year 3 of the R13 course was a success! Thank you to all who attended. https://www.jax.org/education-and-learning/education-calendar/2023/10-October/impacts-of-sleep-and-circadian-biology-on-alzheimers-disease-and-aging 2023_CC_Impacts of Sleep flyer v4...

The second year of the course was a success. We had 20+ instructors and ~35 students attend the course from all over the world! Lots of good science and hiking. JC, Jake, and Anshul attended the course from the Kumar Lab. JC was also a TA with Brian....

Gautam, Brian, Jaycee, and Vivek gave oral presentations of their work at this year's CTC meeting in a session called "Machine learning for rodent behavior". https://complextrait.org/meetings/ctc-rg2023/program.html Talk Titles: A machine-vision-based frailty index...

The NIDA Genetics meeting was held on the main campus (Natcher Center). It was our first in person meeting in a couple of years. Jake presented a poster on the pain work. It was good to see many colleagues. ...

Vivek visited and gave a seminar in the Univeristy of Texas-Houston Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Dr. Seung Hee Yoo hosted Vivek. It was a fun visit to a great department. Houston was heavily affected by Hurricane Harvey. Here is a flood gate...

'The second year of the course was held at JAX on Oct 17-20 and brought together speakers and students ~40. [gallery columns="4"...

Vivek co-organized THE SHORT COURSE ON THE APPLICATION OF MACHINE LEARNING FOR AUTOMATED QUANTIFICATION OF BEHAVIOR at High Seas on Oct. 2022. Brian and Leinani ran a workshop and attended the course. [gallery columns="4"...

Vivek was invited by the graduate students of the UTHSC Neuroscience Program. He met with several colleagues and met new students. His talk focused on the use of computer vision for preclinical models of psychiatric disease.

Vivek attended the GRC on addiction at Newry, Maine. The conference consisted of ~200 neuroscientists.  

The International Brain and Neural Genetics Society organized its 23rd Annual Genes, Brain & Behavior Meeting on May 23rd-27th, 2022 in Memphis at the UTHSC. The meeting was hybrid with over 100 participants. Vivek organized a symposium titled Behavior...

Vivek attended the SFARI Investigator's meeting on April 11-13 in NYC. The meeting booklet is here. The meeting had ~200 investigators with a wide array of topics from human genetics to systems...

Press announcement here - the work will fund monitoring of ASD models using our long-term methods. We appreciate the support from SFARI (Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative) which is one of the most innovative funding agencies for biomedical research....

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      

Visual determination of sleep states is published in the journal Sleep. Congratulations to Brian and Mandy for leading this effort. The article can be found here. Standard link (you may share this link anywhere):...

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 leaders...

The mouse gait paper has been accepted. A preprint is here - the final version will be shorter due to space limitations from the Journal. Congratulations to Keith and Gautam on leading this effort.  The work was started by Justin Gardin, a stellar postdoc in the...

Leinani's and Gautam's paper is online as a preprint. It is currently under review at Nature Aging.

Visual determination of sleep states is accepted in the journal Sleep. Congratulations to Brian and Mandy for leading this effort.

We received two new grants. The press release is here. We are looking for additional lab members. https://www.jax.org/news-and-insights/2021/september/untangling-the-biology-of-addiction  

An updated version of Gait analysis paper is on Biorxiv. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.12.29.424780v2 It has new analysis from Keith Sheppard and Gautam Sabnis including several new figures in the supplement. We look forward to getting reviews...

Paper link is here https://elifesciences.org/articles/63207 Data associated with the paper is here with video data uploaded to Zenodo https://zenodo.org/record/4646088 We also share some videos of our network in action:...

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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...

Vivek and Arojit attended the NIDA genetics meeting in Bethesda, MD. They presented two posters. Vivek presented our work on cloning of a mutation that regulates cocaine responses. This is a new gene that has not been linked to cocaine responses.  Abstract from the...

Vivek was invited to give a seminar at Dartmouth University by Dr. Gio Bosco and his postdoctoral fellow Shiva Sathyanarayana. Vivek spoke about the lab's work on Cyfip2 (work of postdoctoral Arojit Mitra, Kyungin Kim, and others). He also spoke about the lab's...

The Kumar Lab attended the 2019 Gordon Research Conference on Neuroethology - Multimodal Strategies for Behavioral Control: Molecules, Neurons, Circuits, and Behavior in West Dover, Vermont from July 28 - August 2. Arojit presented the following poster - Enhanced...

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...

Brian's paper on robust mouse tracking is published. This paper describes how to track mice in complicated environments. Sean and others contributed to this paper. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-019-0362-1 Data from the paper is here. [button...

Vivek spoke about addiction genetics and neuroscience to high schools students from across the state of Maine. Over 200 students competed in over a dozen categories in this year's science fair.  More information about the event is here. Arojit Mitra was...

Vivek presents the keynote address at the Maine Engineering Expo. Approximately 150 people attended the banquet. National Engineers Week was initiated to publicly promote the work and contributions of our nation's engineers. During this week, engineering...

Visual examples of some of the compression tests. Original sub-panel of video and differences between original and compressed frames. Difference previews are amplified 2x to enhance visibility. Video Acquisition Imaging Hardware All data was acquired using the same...