 We have a discovery award that is looking at brain asymmetry, that is the differences between the left and the right sides of the brain. The brain is probably the most complicated object in the universe. And I think questions about how this sort of remarkable organ that's responsible for all of our thoughts and feelings and cognition, how it functions is really fascinating. The zebrafish as a vertebrate has become a very prominent model system for looking at asymmetries. The zebrafish have a tiny and optically transparent brain and this allows us to use advanced light microscopy techniques to look at the structure of the brain but also its activity in behaving animals. The first step of the project is to try to understand the developmental mechanisms that give rise to the differences between left and right sides. Second part of the project is to ask, what is the asymmetry good for? Suppose asymmetry is lost, what's the consequences of that? And so our work addresses understanding the organisation, the structure and the function of the brain.