Maurizio Porfiri, New York University Polytechnic School of Engineering (IMAGE)
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A team of researchers from the NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering led by Maurizio Porfiri, associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, overturned the traditional experimental paradigm for alcohol-related studies, in which all subjects are exposed and their behavior and movements analyzed. Instead, the researchers devised an original method that would allow for detailed tracking of a single, alcohol-exposed zebrafish amid a school of "sober" peers. Their method included a custom algorithm that allowed each fish to be tracked separately.
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