Shivangi Verma

#PhDone! 🎓 Congratulations Dr Shivangi Verma! 🎊
@shivangiv10.bsky.social from Prof Vatsala Thirumalai's lab successfully defended her thesis!

🧵👇Check out the thread to learn more about her work on understanding how neuronal networks are sculpted in the cerebellum during development 🧠

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Applications are still open for NS&B 2025! We will run from June 8- July 21. Applications are due FEB 1st. Financial assistance is available an applications are need blind. For more info see mbl.edu/nsb.

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In Conversation with Dr. Abhilasha Joshi As part of Manthan’s Alumni series, we bring to you an interview with Dr. Abhilasha Joshi who is currently an Assistant Professor (Reader F) at the National Center for Biological Sciences. Dr…

Current students at IISER Mohali interviewed our alumnus @rhythmicspikes.bsky.social . Lovely interview and a good example of how serendipity can lead to discoveries and a fun career.

manthanmagazine.wordpress.com/2025/01/06/i...

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Check out @shivangiv10.bsky.social latest insights on how synaptic pruning relates to finessing the sensory-motor mismatch and why it’s important for #behavior.

Loved the experimental design and approach 👏🏽

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Sensation is dispensable for the maturation of the vestibulo-ocular reflex Vertebrates stabilize gaze using a neural circuit that transforms sensed instability into compensatory counterrotation of the eyes. Sensory feedback tunes this vestibulo-ocular reflex throughout life....

Big paper from @paigel.bsky.social in our lab:

Sensory feedback is always crucial for proper development, right? Wrong!

Crazier still, the motor system is the slowest part of a developing reflex circuit!

Surprises abound in this bluetorial c’mon along….

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Developmental synaptic pruning in the olivo-cerebellar circuit sculpts predictive processing https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.01.630979v1

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Excited to share the preprint of my PhD work in Vatsala's lab at NCBS_Bangalore!

Find more about why removing synaptic connections during development is just as important as making new ones!!🧠✂️

#zebrafish #cerebellum #Neuroscience

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