Arkarup Banerjee

Looks really interesting. Congrats!

Our latest study on the neurobiology of collective behavior is now posted as a preprint, led by UCSD PhD student Jo-Hsien Yu @anitajhyu.bsky.social @ucsandiego.bsky.social @danionella.bsky.social

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Thanks Anne for sharing! This seems like a fantastic resource 👇🏽

Do you plot transcriptomic data, coloring each cell by its cell type? ~ Don't use a default colormap! ~

Instead, use colormaps that capture biological meaning. If two cell types are very similar, their colors should be similar too. Read on 🧵

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Congrats Felix @mollfw.bsky.social and team. Really interesting behavioral study setting the stage for subsequent neurobiological investigations! 👇🏽

Congrats Herbert! Very interesting.

🚨 We’re hiring a postdoc! 🚨

Excited for our new NiCE grant with @lauerlab.bsky.social @batwoman123.bsky.social 🎉We use a comparative approach, two-photon imaging & optogenetics to identify why bats🦇 and deer mice resist noise but lab mice don't.

If you're interested, please DM or e-mail me!

Nice thread! I also use AI for coding on a regular basis. It increases efficiency only if you are already an expert. On the other hand, unlike grad students, it never gets tired and is always polite!

Do you know an outstanding early career researcher in the NCM Community? Nominate them for the Early Career Award!

Deadline for nominations is Sept 8 and more details can be found on the website - ncm-society.org/awards/

Congrats Drew. Well deserved!

Congrats Petr! Glad to see this out. I will read it carefully.

Barcoded Rabies In Situ Connectomics for high-throughput reconstruction of neural circuits Sequencing of oligonucleotide barcodes holds promise as a high-throughput approach for reconstructing synaptic connectivity at scale. Rabies viruses can act as a vehicle for barcode transmission, than...

1/ Mapping synaptic connectivity between individual neurons is extremely laborious. We developed BRISC, a new method that makes it possible to map inputs onto 100s of neurons in the same animal in a matter of weeks! Led by Alex Becalick and @antblot.bsky.social. 🧵

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Silly typo.. *appealing

Very interesting thread! I really like “Principles of Neural Design” by Sterling and Laughlin. It doesn’t shy away from biological details but presents it in a form that is appearing to engineers and physicists.

YouTube video by minutephysics The Physics Of Dissonance

If you're into math and music, you'll probably love this in-depth video by my friend Henry! www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCsl... And it features an interactive about dissonance that I put together years ago: aatishb.com/dissonance/

Really enjoyed this summer’s lab trip to fire island, NY!

Couldn’t agree more! Evolutionary perspective is a guiding principle for most projects in our lab.👇🏽

Mechanisms and control of a novel vocalization: The Alston singing mouse song is a whistle that depends on the inflation of the ventral pouch –an enlarged intralaryngeal air sac– laryngeal airflow, and cricothyroid muscle action
By ⁦ @evolbrain.bsky.social et al.
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Congratulations Ish! Well-deserved.

Come visit Calcutta in the last week of August and see some amazing neuroscientists talk about the neural basis of behaviour at @behaviour2025.bsky.social

With @neuroetho.bsky.social @danielavallentin.bsky.social @selmaan.bsky.social @arkarupbanerjee.bsky.social and Michael Brecht!

Next-generation of barcoded projection mapping techniques: MAPseq2 and POINTseq! Congratulations @justuskebschull.bsky.social and team.

You are most welcome to stop by!

Excellent news and congratulations, Dan!

Delighted to receive the McKnight Scholar Award! Great to see many friends and colleagues on this year's list.

It's a real privilege to be able to pursue an academic life probing nature's mysteries—huge thanks to my lab members and @cshlnews.bsky.social for making it all possible.

Lovely!

What a comeback by Carlos Alcaraz! The pure joy of first-rate sports is something to savor in these troubled times.

The Roland Garros final — Sinner vs. Alcaraz — is turning out to be real special!

ongoing...a new edition of TENSS (www.tenss.ro). thanks to the wonderful people that make it happen yet again!

Multi-timescale reinforcement learning in the brain - Nature Individual dopaminergic neurons encode future rewards over distinct temporal horizons.

Our work with Pablo Tano, @hyunggoo-kim.bsky.social Athar Malik, Alexandre Pouget and @naoshigeuchida.bsky.social exploring how dopamine neurons could enable multi-timescale reinforcement learning in the brain is out in @nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Here is the collective effort of 12 labs, lead by my own at the Broad to target the range of cortical interneuron subtypes! These tools should be a game changer for all of you using NHP and other less genetically amenable species! Have at it!
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