The auditory brainstem response (ABR) is a neural (brain 🧠) signal that is generated by an area of the brain that processes sound location information. The McCullagh lab is relatively new to working with frogs 🐸, setting up a new system for neural recordings, and are in the middle of a pandemic 😷. SO it was with great pleasure that we celebrate some wins when things actually work! We were able to get some (really great) recordings today using our set up and it was all run by two masters students in the lab Rachael Brodsky and Courtney Byrd (co-advised with Dr. Michael Reichert (https://reichertlab.com/, @FrogListener)). We would not have been able to get the recordings (or it certainly would have taken a lot longer) without the help of a Zoom call from experts Dr. Megan Gall and Dr. Mark Bee. Thank you both for helping out with the fix!! Stay tuned for some really cool data from Rachael Brodsky’s masters thesis in collaboration with Dr. Matt Bolek.

Cheers 🥂 to science!