Pablo Oteiza, Dr.

Keywords:
Fish / Amphibians / Lateral Line / Behavior

Research methods:
Quantitative behavioral analyses Genetics Single Cell Transcriptomics Neuroanatomy

Brief research description:
Our work focuses on the molecular, behavioral, and neural mechanisms by which aquatic vertebrates sense and respond to their hydrodynamic environment.

Selected publications:

Odstrcil, I., Petkova, M. D., Haesemeyer, M., Boulanger-Weill, J., Nikitchenko, M., Gagnon, J. A., Oteiza, P., Schalek, R., Peleg, A.; Portugues, R., Lichtman, J. W. and Engert, F. Functional and ultrastructural analysis of reafferent mechanosensation in larval zebrafish. Current Biology 32 (1), 176 - 189.e5 (2022).

Toda, Y.; Ko, M.-C.; Liang, Q.; Miller, E. T.; Rico-Guevara, A.; Nakagita, T.; Sakakibara, A.; Uemura, K.; Sackton, T.; Hayakawa, T. ; Sin, S. Y. W.; Ishimaru, Y.; Misaka, T.; Oteiza, P.; Crall, J.; Edwards, S. V.; Buttemer, W.; Matsumura, S.; Baldwin, M. W.: Early origin of sweet perception in the songbird radiation. Science 373; 226 - 231 (2021).

Oteiza, P.*#, Odstrcil, I.*, Lauder, G., Portugues, R.# and Engert, F.#. A novel mechanism for mechanosensory based rheotaxis in larval zebrafish. Nature 547; 445-448 (2017).

Oteiza, P.*, Koeppen, M.*, Krieg, M., Pulgar, E., Farias, C., Melo, C., Preibisch, S., Mueller, D., Tada, M., Haertel, S., Heisenberg, C.P. and Concha, M.L. Planar cell polarity signaling regulates cell adhesion properties in progenitors of the zebrafish laterality organ. Development 137; 3459-3468 (2010).

Oteiza, P.*, Koeppen, M.*, Concha, M.L. and Heisenberg, C.P. Origins and shaping of the laterality organ in zebrafish. Development 135; 2807-2813 (2008). * equal contributions, # corresponding authors