Abhilasha Joshi, PhD

Why is a cross-species spinal cord taxonomy important? 🧠📈

Join us on March 11 for an interactive webinar on this collaborative effort.

RSVP for link: https://alleninstitute.org/events/neuroscience-cell-types-webinars/

#ApplicationsOpen
13th Undergraduate Lecture Series

Theme: Dynamical Biology- how processes operate at different scales

📆 Sundays, 03 May - 28 June 2026
📍 NCBS, Bengaluru

🔗Application Link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

⌛Deadline: 23 March 2026

Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For

Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes!

"Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."

YouTube video by NCBS Communications International Day of Women and Girls in Science: Part 1

🧑‍🔬For International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we asked some of our early-career researchers what it means to them, to be a woman in STEM.
👇Check out what they have to say!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrbA...

(Part 1/3)
#InternationalDayofWomenAndGirlsInScience

If anyone would like to mess around with such cool activity bumps then the full dataset is here:)
dandiarchive.org/dandiset/000...

We're hiring! This is a unique opportunity to translate our understanding of neural computation - from circuit-level mechanisms to computational principles - into the human brain, through the establishment of cutting-edge human neural recording capabilities with collaborators in London and abroad.

We’re hiring a Group Leader!

Join us to lead a transformative initiative in human systems neuroscience.

Find out more and apply ⤵️

www.sainsburywellcome.org/content/curr...

New paper alert! 🚨

We found that the brain's compass is remarkably stable at two scales

1️⃣ the system maintains its internal organization for weeks
2️⃣ It "remembers" its orientation for weeks, even after a single visit

This may be key to how the brain aligns its other maps.

Paper: rdcu.be/e3waP

various computational neuroscience / MEEG / LFP short courses and summer schools

📆 updated for 2026!

list of summer schools & short courses in the realm of (computational) neuroscience or data analysis of EEG / MEG / LFP: 🔗 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Time Cells in the Human Brain Support Working Memory Maintenance Working memory (WM), the active retention of information over short periods, is a fundamental cognitive function, yet its underlying neural mechanisms remain unclear. In rodents, cue-selective "time c...

Time Cells in the Human Brain Support Working Memory Maintenance
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Fellows-to-Faculty Awardee Sama Ahmed Studies the Neuroscience of Multitasking Simons Foundation Fellows-to-Faculty alumnus Sama Ahmed spoke with the foundation about his experiences with the fellowship.

In 2021, Sama Ahmed received our Fellows-to-Faculty Award to establish his lab at @uwpsychology.bsky.social, where he focuses on the neurobiology of multitasking: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/fellows-to-faculty-awardee-sama-ahmed-studies-the-neuroscience-of-multitasking/ #science #neuroscience

Long-range axon branching: contributions to brain network plasticity and repair Nature Reviews Neuroscience - Connectome reconstructions across multiple species reveal that the morphology of axonal projections is highly variable, even between neurons of the same location or...

Recent review about long-range axons rdcu.be/eXeDG

Locus coeruleus norepinephrine neurons facilitate orbitofrontal cortex remapping and behavioral flexibility Ogg et al. use in vivo imaging techniques to record activity in the locus coeruleus (LC) and the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) during a reversal learning task in freely moving rodents. They show that man...

Thrilled this is out, led by former PD Cameron Ogg (now with her own lab at @rhodescollege.bsky.social!). It was a driven by a desire to see, in real-time, how LC activity/NE release influences downstream targets in behaving animals. SO hard to do, but Cameron did it! www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Recent Methods from Statistical Inference for Integrative Structural Modeling Integrative modeling of macromolecular assemblies allows for structural characterization of large assemblies that are recalcitrant to direct experimental observation. A Bayesian inference approach fac...

Excited to share our book chapter on method development advances in integrative structural modeling in Springer Handbooks now online! @shreyasarvindekar.bsky.social @kartikmajila.bsky.social doi.org/10.1007/978-...

Fellows-to-Faculty Awardee Abhilasha Joshi Maps Cognitive-Motor Flexibility Across the Aging Brain Fellows-to-Faculty Awardee Abhilasha Joshi Maps Cognitive-Motor Flexibility Across the Aging Brain on Simons Foundation

Fellows-to-Faculty awardee Abhilasha Joshi used her award establish her lab at the National Center for Biological Sciences. Read more about her work: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/fellows-to-faculty-awardee-abhilasha-joshi-maps-cognitive-motor-flexibility-across-the-aging-brain/ #neuroscience

Newsletters and alerts The latest news and perspectives on the neuroscience topics that interest you most, direct to your inbox

This month’s newsletter features the debut of “Frameshift,” a new series in which neuroscientists with careers outside the lab discuss their work and how they made the transition. Sign up for the newsletter: www.thetransmitter.org/newsletters-... #neuroskyence

🧠📢 New preprint alert

Large-scale ephys is exploding but spike sorting remains the computational bottleneck. A 2-hr, 6-probe Neuropixels 2.0 Quad Base session can take over a week to sort on a single machine. Here's a better solution. 🧵

#neuroskyence #compneurosky

What the Frog's Eye Tells the Frog's Brain 🐸👁️🧠https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/4065609 - A little embarrassed to admit I've just read this classic paper for the first time and I'm glad I did! 😊

Fellows-to-Faculty Award The Fellows-to-Faculty Award is a new iteration of the previously offered Simons Foundation Independence Awards.

Interested in applying for our Fellows-to-Faculty Award? Watch the recording of our informational webinar for more details on the program: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/fellows-to-faculty-award/#:~:text=Brain%20(SCPAB).-,Informational%20Webinar,-An%20informational%20webinar #science

😭 Rest in power and peace Zara 🤍

🥺 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.