Their system is a great example of how you can add your own custom modules to OmniTrak and save yourself having to build an entire cage+controller+dispensers setup. We happily share specifications, software, and CAD files to help you build your own modules to fit OmniTrak standardized ports.

So if red work lights disturb our animals’ internal clocks, how can we work with them during their dark phase? Vulintus is prototyping goggles for working under infrared lights (which the Spencer Lab showed the rats and mice couldn’t detect). Not so stylish yet, but we're working on it!

This was a super fun collaboration! To test whether their rats could consciously detect red lights in the far red band, the Spencer Lab asked us to help them create a Go/NoGo nosepoke task in which rats would be rewarded for reacting to a quick flash of...lasers! Diffused, scattered lasers, that is.

Don't think we've forgotten about you, too, Bug Nerds! We've had a lot of you asking for much smaller spherical treadmills, and we're going to have something to show you very soon!

Just wrapped up new updates for our spherical treadmill-walking recording software including real-time displays of the 3D ball rotation and the animal's recent path and orientation. Think your mouse might be doing the Electric Slide while you're not looking?

#SphericalTreadmill #Ambulation

Our first new product for 2025: the OmniTrak Social Choice Module! This module can be combined with any of our other OmniTrak system components to create behavioral tasks measuring social behaviors. Whatever you're thinking of, we can help you build it!

#SocialChoice #SocialBehavior

Come see us at SfN 2024 exhibitor booth 118 today and pick up one of our new not-boring business cards! Let's talk about all the animal behavior testing that's taking up too much of your time! #sfn2024

Come visit us at exhibitor booth 118 tomorrow!
#sfn2024