Meha Jadhav

Congrats to Philipp and Vincent supervised by our post-doc Margherita for each successfully and fantastically defending their bachelor's thesis today! Wishing them both the best of luck with their future endeavors 🎂🥳

Proud to share our new paper uncovering how Lrrn-mediated targeting of retinal ganglion cells assembles circuits for brightness and contrast detection — led by my outstanding PhD student Elena Putti and made possible through wonderful collaborations. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

My paper on the head direction neurons in the larval zebrafish is now published on Nature! Read it here:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Call for Symposia: Göttingen Meeting 2027
Time to take the opportunity and help to shape the Scientific Program 2027 by submitting your proposal until:

17 February 2026

Further information can be found here: web.nwg-info.de/de/conferenc...

💼 💔 Academia’s toxic love language is playing “hard to get”
🧪 💓 Science is the beautiful pursuit of building knowledge

I wrote an essay for Nature Human Behaviour on treating academia as “just a job” www.nature.com/articles/s41...

What ideas would you add? 💡

#HigherEd #PhDLife #DiversityInSTEM

Congratulations to the lab's first PhD student @maxcapelle.bsky.social for defending his PhD last week! Max not only helped shape the lab from day one, but also made outstanding scientific achievements, which have laid the foundation for future research. Wishing him all the best 🥳

It was a wonderful experience to present my work today with the community at @cbehav.bsky.social!!

Congratulations to Susanne (mentored by post-doc @mehaj.bsky.social) for successfully defending her master's thesis investigating neural dynamics in the larval zebrafish brain 🥳 Wishing you the best of luck with your #jobsearch for a PhD position!

PhD Thesis Writing Got You Down? Here’s How to Handle It. Some practical tips to survive the last and challenging part of the Ph.D. journey. The years of experiments, analysis, and working overtime have culminated in something meaningful. Congratulations! Yo...

How to survive the PhD thesis writing phase?
My latest blog post is a practical guide for PhD candidates facing the daunting writing stage.
shorturl.at/vfR8h
#PhD #Doctorate #AcademicChatter #Academia #PhDAdvice

Exciting news for #ASABWinter2025 !

🚨Abstract deadline extension for Sept 12 !!!!🚨

How do brains make decisions when faced with multiple, potentially conflicting cues? In our latest preprint, we show how #zebrafish use an additive strategy and process multiple visual features through anatomically distinct parallel pathways tinyurl.com/mvkn8em9 Thread 👇

We are still accepting applications for the #postdoc opportunity in the lab 🕵‍♀️ 🧠

More details 👇
Postdoctoral position: lnkd.in/g4TkRxpM
Research directions: lnkd.in/eV2iMKGf
Our team and philosophy: lnkd.in/eh3nnNgq

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Excited to be in the city of joy to present a part of my postdoctoral research with @bahllab.bsky.social sky.social
at @behaviour2025.bsky.social Come find me on Wednesday, 27th evening at my poster titled 'Collective sensing and decision-making in zebrafish groups under sensory uncertainty'

Amazing work by an even more amazing person Katja Slangewal from @bahllab.bsky.social Rea on to know how larval zebrafish integrate multiple features of the visual stimulus

We are proud to have @maxcapelle.bsky.social's paper out on bioRxiv! He found that phototactic behavior in #zebrafish switches during #ontogeny🐟🔆 Through elegant behavioral dissections, he identifies the navigational strategies related to this transition. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Thread 👇

The Behavioural Neurobiology Summer School in Kosovo is back for the 2nd year and after just a few days we already made it onto live TV! For anyone who speaks Albanian, you can check out the full broadcast here: shorturl.at/kpUzp 🎙️

I’m certainly not a superwoman but it’s so exciting to be featured in a comic that I grew up reading 🥳 😇

@ncbsbangalore.bsky.social
#TinkleMagazine

The International Society for Neuroethology has a grant for disadvantaged scientists investigating the mechanisms of animal behaviour. Apply for funds to help overcome any barriers you face!

Membership fees can be included in your application.

Details here: www.neuroethology.org/diversity-aw...

Tomorrow morning at 11:30, March 27th, Akhila Mudunuri @akhila1498.bsky.social is talking in Symposium 19 #NWG2025 @neurowissg.bsky.social about Multimodal social modulation of behavior in larval Drosophila. If you are interested, also check out our new preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Sledding from the Bahl lab retreat into #NWG2025! Come check out our posters and talks over the next few days. See you there!

On the way to Göttingen!
Tomorrow, check out the poster from my PhD student Hari Narayanan @hari-flies.bsky.social
We find that navigating odors is modulated by hunger and social context in fly larvae @modolfor.bsky.social

The first paper from the lab is out on biorxiv - enjoy reading! Social context and interactions influence our behavioral decisions - the same is true for the little fly larva!

Check out the latest preprint from our lab, led by Aytac Kadir Mutlu, on the role of topographically organized dorsal raphe (DRN) activity in regulating forebrain function and adaptive behaviors! 🧵👇
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Say hi to @nicobdgas.bsky.social! He successfully completed his bachelor’s thesis, working with @mehaj.bsky.social to standardize patch-clamping in the lab. He investigated spontaneous activity patterns in larval zebrafish Purkinje cells, which inspired him to continue his career in #Neuroscience.

📣🚨 Abstract submission deadline extended!!! 🚨📣

In response to continued interest from prospective contributors, we are pleased to announce that the deadline for abstract submission has been extended.

🗓New submission deadline: 15th February 2025.

🗒️Submission requirements: A 300-word abstract.

Announcing a new week-long program for young computational neuroscience/ behavior professors to talk about rigorous science, mentoring, lab management, and networking in a stunning retreat setting. Do great science as a community and have fun doing so.

Oxytocin-mediated social preference and socially reinforced reward learning in the miniature fish Danionella cerebrum Penalva-Tena et al. demonstrate that Danionella cerebrum, a miniature fish that is gaining popularity as a neuroscience model, seeks out conspecifics and that the resulting social interactions can sup...

Out in Current Biology, by Ari Penalva and the Douglass lab: "Oxytocin-mediated social preference and socially reinforced reward learning in [☝️]":
www.cell.com/current-biol...
With a preview by Florian Engert:
www.cell.com/current-biol...

Interested in understanding how things work? In particular the tools you use to study the brain? Join us at TENSS 2025 where we brainstorm ideas, build and debug microscopes, electrophysiology and behavior rigs amidst the picturesque Transylvanian hills! tenss.ro
Apply by: February 16th!

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