Abhilasha Joshi, PhD

🥺 whut?!

So sad to hear this 💔 Zara was such a beautiful and special person. She embodied power and purpose like few others can. My thoughts are with her friends and loved ones :(

Enjoyed listening to Jee Hyun Kim from Deakin University, Australia share with us her research on #bipolardisorder #IAN2025

Love it when scientists bring their whole self to their work 👏🏽

experts.deakin.edu.au/53193-jee-hy...

Also reminded us to join @network-alba.bsky.social — Do now 🙌🏽

Beautiful work by #AbhishekBhattacharya at @ncbsbangalore.bsky.social on their discoveries led by graduate student Atal Vats. Impressive body of work 🦾 on structure, regulation and function of heterochannel electrical synapses.

Check recently preprinted work ➡️ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Great talk by @leenaibrahim.bsky.social from KAUST on her beautiful work characterising the L1 and L4 interneurons and how they differ based on sensory and other inputs and connections 👏🏽

Great to have her visit at #IndianAcademyofNeuroscinces meeting in Kovalum 😎

www.kaust.edu.sa/study/faculty

Great talk by new faculty at NBRC #DhananjayHuligol on the role of progenitors in neural diversification.
How impressive that they build an entire method to address this question 👏🏽

www.nbrc.ac.in/newweb/resea...

Next up is my colleague #HiyaaGosh at @ncbsbangalore.bsky.social talking about new observations in her lab about #memory #engrams.

www.ncbs.res.in/faculty/hiyaa

Finally get to see and hear @wormlockholmes.bsky.social for the first time. She’s speaking about cool results about interactions between #actin and #mitochondria. How nice to see the link all the way from cell and molecules to the behavioural implications!

➡️ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40994018/

Nice talk by #GargiMandal (PhD student) in the CenSe lab (led by Dr Vini Gautam www.cense.iisc.ac.in/vini-gautam/). Cool #engineering work on fabricating PDMS micropillars.

So beautiful to see hippocampal neurite alignment following the physical structure of the #fabricated pillars 😎

Next up is #AurnabGhose from IISER Pune talking about their labs latest work on #cytoskeletal mechanisms regulating #axon collateral branching.

Check out his labs work here:
neuronalconnectivity.wixsite.com/start

Schedule here: www.rgcb.res.in/IAN2025/

Here at #Indian academy of #neuroscience meeting in the beautiful city of Kovalam in Kerala share.google/EzLqUeTwCeDw... ♥️

@sbaulac.bsky.social is giving the opening talk on brain mosaicism in epilepsy and cortical malformations #epilepsy.

Travel awards are available for undergraduate students looking to attend #Cosyne25! The application is short, and the deadline is Nov 12. @cosynemeeting.bsky.social

Application: shorturl.at/6NEyk

More info: www.cosyne.org/travel-grants

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Excited to have 2 papers accepted at @neuripsconf.bsky.social 2025 - Reliable ML Workshop.

Paper #1: openreview.net/forum?id=9Ue...
Paper #2: openreview.net/forum?id=0MW...

I’ll briefly summarize the work below.
(Links above if you want to get right to the papers)

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I know. Dream work 😻

Check out this #incredible work on #stability and #control during movement across #humans, #mice, and #flies.
Congratulations @nidhise.bsky.social and @antoinecomite.bsky.social 👏🏽⭐

What is plant nutation?
What is a motif in science?
What lessons does ecological psychology have for neuroscience?
How does Vicente @diovicen.bsky.social enjoy the band Judas Priest yet still do good philosophy and science?

Here are the answers:
braininspired.co/podcast/223/

Homing and feral pigeons differ in hippocampal formation neuron size: a Golgi study - Brain Structure and Function Artificial selection for behavioural traits can significantly affect the anatomy of brain regions related to the behaviour under selection. The homing pigeon (Columba livia) is a prime example of how ...

New paper out today on hippocampus neuron morphology in homing and feral pigeons. 🧵

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

#neuroskyence #neuroethology #anatomy

We are really excited about what comes next in this system. We think it opens the door to ask, "why does neuron number matter?" i.e., - what does adding more neurons to a circuit do to affect behavior?

And, shameless plug, I'm on the job market looking for the opportunity to do just that :)

Congratulations 🥳 @kelseytea.bsky.social
So happy to see the work in this format 🦾

Is there a bodysize difference between the two mice?

You have to read @kelseytea.bsky.social excellent work on dexterity in deer mice evolved in forest vs prairie habitats. A powerful example of cross species comparisons to study principles of motor control ✅

We (I and @willenjoy.bsky.social) created a toolbox for simulations of EEG/MEG because we needed to simulate data. Our initial aim was to simulate connectivity. For this short clip, I simulated two sources with phase connectivity using our toolbox.
#brainmovie
meegsim.readthedocs.io/en/stable/in...

Interested in the brain, circuits, and behavior?
Enjoy tinkering and asking bold questions in neuroscience?

The Forli Lab (IIT, Genova, Italy) is hiring!

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Check out our website for updates:
sites.google.com/view/forli-lab

** We have up to TWO funded PhD positions available in our lab!! Apply below to find new ways to enhance memory👇 Pls retweet **

Deadline: 2nd December

1. Cross-species closed-loopTMR: tinyurl.com/bddu4tp6

2. TUS and TMR in humans:
tinyurl.com/jjws5ctj

Happy to chat to interested applicants.

📣 BIG NEWS EVERYONE. I am so excited to announce…

🎉 I’m moving to University College London @ucl.ac.uk to join the Experimental Psychology department in @uclpals.bsky.social! 🎉

The big move happens in spring/summer. So I’m already exploring recruiting staff & students at UCL for fall 2026!

Gotcha - thanks!

Looks so nice ⛰️ — just curious, where can I find more about this meeting and who were the organizers. Thanks!

Lab’s 1st preprint!

Menstruation is understudied due to societal taboos + a biological challenge: mice (a key system for research + drug discovery) don’t menstruate.

@cagricevrim.bsky.social made menstruating mice + used them to discover early events in menstruation.

He is on the job market!

Ca2+ Plateau Potentials Reflect Cross-Theta Cortico-Hippocampal Input Dynamics and Acetylcholine for Rapid Formation of Efficient Place-Cell Code A central tenet of Systems Neuroscience lies in an understanding of memory and behavior through learning rules, but synaptic plasticity has rarely been shown to create functional single-neuron code in...

Interesting new data on BTSP mechanisms from my old Janelia colleague @hiallen72.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

RetINaBox: A hands-on learning tool for experimental neuroscience An exciting aspect of neuroscience research is developing and testing hypotheses via experimentation. However, due to logistical and financial hurdles, this compelling part of neuroscience research is...

For those interested in open neuroscience learning tools, check out the preprint for “RetINaBox: A hands-on tool for experimental neuroscience" that a couple students in my lab worked on in collaboration with the Trenholm lab:

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

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Really incredible work to tease apart the contributions of theta oscillations and hippocampal replay! Great evidence that theta is coordinating pairs and populations of neurons, which is necessary for learning