Roy Harpaz
Publications
*R. Harpaz, M. Philips, R. Goel, F. Engert, Experience-dependent modulation of collective behavior in larval zebrafish. preprint. In revision.
R. Malik, H. S. Singh, S. Johnson-Yu, N. Wu, *R. Harpaz, F. Engert, K. Rajan. Dissecting Larval Zebrafish Hunting Behavior using Deep Reinforcement Learning trained RNNs. Preprint. In revision.
S. Ben-Ezra, *R. Harpaz, M. Ohavia, F. Engert, L. Appelbaum, O. Levy, Chronic Artificial Light Pollution Disrupts Sleep and Neuronal Genomic Stability in Wild Reef Fish (2026). Preprint. Accepted for publication in Current Biology.
*R. Harpaz, P. Piquet, Y. Isoe, F. Engert , Social interactions in medaka fish depend on discrete kinematic states of swimming behavior (2026). Current Biology 36, 1300-1309.e5. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2026.01.039
A. Kraus, B. Garcia, J. Ma, K. J. Herrera, H. Zwaka, *R. Harpaz, R. Y. Wong, F. Engert, I. Salinas, Olfactory detection of viruses shapes brain immunity and behavior in zebrafish. eLife 12 (2023). https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.88271.1
*R. Harpaz, M.N. Nguyen, A. Bahl, F. Engert, Precise visuomotor transformations underlying collective behavior in larval zebrafish. Nat Commun 12, 6578 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-26748-0
Featured in: 'Nature Communications’ - ‘From brain to behavior’ editors’ collection.
*R. Harpaz, A. C. Aspiras, S. Chambule, S. Tseng, M-A, Bind, F. Engert, M. C. Fishman, A. Bahl, Collective behavior emerges from genetically controlled simple behavioral motifs in zebrafish. Science Advances 7, eabi7460. (2021) https://www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.1126/sciadv.abi7460
*R. Harpaz, E. Schneidman, Social interactions drive efficient foraging and income equality in groups of fish. Elife. 9 (2020), doi:10.7554/eLife.56196.: https://elifesciences.org/articles/56196#s4
Featured in: https://elifesciences.org/for-the-press/ad514ae4/how-zebrafish-maintain-efficient-and-fair-foraging-behaviours
S. Grossman, E. M. Yeagle, M. Harel, E. Espinal, *R. Harpaz, N. Noy, P. Mégevand, D. M. Groppe, A. D. Mehta, R. Malach, The Noisy Brain: Power of Resting-State Fluctuations Predicts Individual Recognition Performance. Cell Reports 29, 3775-3784.e4 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2019.11.081
K. Bod’ová, G. J. Mitchell, *R. Harpaz, E. Schneidman, G. Tkačik, Probabilistic models of individual and collective animal behavior. PLOS ONE 13, e0193049 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0193049
*R. Harpaz, G. Tkačik, E. Schneidman, Discrete modes of social information processing predict individual behavior of fish in a group. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114, 10149–10154 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1703817114
Coming soon
R*. Harpaz , M.N. Nguyen , M. Philips , R. Goel ,F. Engert, Neural mechanisms of visual occupancy integration controlling collective social behavior. In preparation.
R. Harpaz, and F. Engert, The neurobiology of collective animal behavior. In preparation.