Behavioral and circuit principles of temperature gradient navigation
Balakrishnan, K.A., Haesemeyer, M. (Nov 2025)
Current Biology 35(22), 5395-5410
Dispatch about the paper: Thermoregulation: Tactics for navigating thermal gradients

Sensorimotor integration enhances temperature stimulus processing.
Anderson, L.S., Costabile, J.D., Schwinn, S., Calderon, D., & Haesemeyer, M. (Jun 2025)
PLOS Computational Biology 21(6): e1013134.

Vertebrate behavioral thermoregulation: knowledge and future directions.
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Neurophotonics, 11, 033409.

The preoptic area and dorsal habenula jointly support homeostatic navigation in larval zebrafish.
Palieri, V., Paoli, E., Wu, Y. K., Haesemeyer, M., Grunwald Kadow, I. C., & Portugues, R. (Feb 2024)
Current Biology, 34(3), 489–504

Model discovery to link neural activity to behavioral tasks.
Costabile, J. D., Balakrishnan, K. A., Schwinn, S., & Haesemeyer, M. (Jun 2023).
eLife, 12, e83289.

SciTube Video of Model Explanation: https://youtu.be/ex2zu4moncg?feature=shared

Thermoregulation in fish.
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Convergent Temperature Representations in Artificial and Biological Neural Networks.
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A Brain-wide Circuit Model of Heat-Evoked Swimming Behavior in Larval Zebrafish.
Haesemeyer, M., Robson, D. N., Li, J. M., Schier, A. F., & Engert, F. (May 2018).
Neuron, 98(4), 817–831.e6.

The structure and timescales of heat perception in larval zebrafish.
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Cell systems, 1(5), 338–348.