Rob Johnson

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I grew up in Kansas City and studied biology and psychology as an undergrad at Washington University in Saint Louis. I then worked as a research tech in Daniel Kerschensteiner’s lab at the WUSTL School of Medicine and here became fascinated by retinal circuit assembly and function and visual information processing in general. As a neuroscience PhD student in Florian Engert’s lab at Harvard, I worked with engineers, experimental neuroscientists, and machine learning researchers to build new tools to measure and model naturalistic larval zebrafish behavior. I next had the opportunity to join Janelia as a Visiting Scientist and worked with the Dudman Lab to prototype cognitively demanding behavioral experiments with rodents. I started my group at Janelia in January 2021 and aim to collaborate with experimentalists, theorists, and Support Teams here to work toward improving our understanding of how rodent brains implement physics-based reasoning to predict the future and plan.

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