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Arkarup Banerjee

@arkarupbanerjee.bsky.social
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Associate Professor at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Neuroscientist. Loves explaining. Bibliophile. Amateur singer. Eternal optimist. Writes the occasional paper. Lab website - www.arkabanerjeelab.com

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Stories of WiN @storiesofwin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Our next profile is here! Dr. Katie Tschida (@katietschida.bsky.social) studies the neural circuitry underlying vocalizations. Follow the link below to listen and learn more! #StoriesOfWiN #WomenInNeuroscience www.storiesofwin.org/profiles/202...
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Arkarup Banerjee @arkarupbanerjee.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Sounds right up my alley. Excited to read it!
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Arkarup Banerjee @arkarupbanerjee.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Really interesting article by @aatishb.com on how LLMs work!
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Arkarup Banerjee @arkarupbanerjee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Congratulations Catherine. Very well deserved!
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Cedric Boeckx @cedricboeckx.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Excellent preprint from @justuskebschull.bsky.social’s lab showing how new cerebellar nuclei arise by excitatory progenitor diversification in the early rhombic lip 🧪🧠🧬 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Evolution of new cerebellar nuclei by excitatory progenitor diversification in the early rhombic lip
The cerebellar nuclei, the output regions of the cerebellum, have evolved via repeated duplication of a conserved cell type set to produce different numbers of nuclei across species. Here, we investig...
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Cedric Boeckx @cedricboeckx.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Amazing work led by @nickjourjine.bsky.social showing how the species-specific temporal structure of neonatal vocalizations in deer mice can be traced back to cerebellar anatomy & maybe even to a genomic locus containing plausible gene candidates [e.g ASTN2, well studied by @mbhatten.bsky.social ]🧪
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The Genetic Architecture of Neonatal Deer Mouse Cries Implicates the Cerebellum in the Temporal Control of an Infant Social Behavior
Vocal communication is a conserved vertebrate social behavior that begins at birth with the cries of infants. These neonatal vocal signals vary across contexts to elicit parental care that matches inf...
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Arkarup Banerjee @arkarupbanerjee.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Congratulations. Glad to see this out. Very interesting! 👇🏽
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Leslie B Vosshall PhD @leslievosshall.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Transformative opportunity for early career faculty @hhmi-science.bsky.social #FreemanHrabowski Scholars competition opens 11/3/2026 but you can get started NOW: view application components, establish eligibility, and unlock example applications and other resources www.hhmi.org/programs/fre...
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Early Career Faculty Program | Freeman Hrabowski Scholars | HHMI
The Freeman Hrabowski Scholars Program offers comprehensive support to outstanding early career faculty committed to scientific excellence in their own research, and to fostering labs that expand the ...
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Venki Murthy @neurovenki.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Faculty Job Alert 📣! The Life Sciences Departments in Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences seek to recruit a tenure-track professor whose research is at the interface of AI and life sciences, from methodological developments to AI-enabled discovery. Please spread the word!
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Tenure-Track Professor in Life Science and AI
The Life Sciences Departments in Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences seek to recruit a tenure-track professor whose research is at the interface of AI and life sciences, from methodological developme...
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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Deeply saddened to learn of the death of my colleague Terri Grodzicker. She was an amazing molecular biologist who did fundamental work on adenovirus. Many will know her as the charismatic long-time editor of Genes & Development and organizer of CSHL meetings 1/2 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terri_G...
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Terri Grodzicker - Wikipedia
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Arkarup Banerjee @arkarupbanerjee.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
A few years ago, I congratulated someone who looked pregnant but wasn’t. It was the most embarrassing moment (almost) of my life. Until today. I was reading something a colleague sent me. I commented that chatGPT did a really poor job. Turns out, it was entirely written by the colleague. 🤦🏽‍♂️
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Arkarup Banerjee @arkarupbanerjee.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Apply to be our colleague 👇🏽
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Arkarup Banerjee @arkarupbanerjee.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Removing the fallopian tubes can reduce the risk of “ovarian” cancers by 80%! My mom died of ovarian cancer a few years ago that went undetected until it was too late. I wish I knew. Please read and share widely👇🏽 www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/h...
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Most ‘Ovarian Cancer’ Isn’t. And That Fact Can Save Lives.
The vast majority of cases begin in the fallopian tubes — and removing them can reduce the risk by nearly 80 percent.
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Del Mármol lab @delmarmollab.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Can we design molecules that rewrite how organisms interact with the environment? I'm delighted to share our lab's latest work, where we use structural biology and chemistry to modulate insect behavior in a clade of destructive agricultural pests. Congrats Steve and team!
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Arkarup Banerjee @arkarupbanerjee.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
This is a remarkable story. Well worth the read/listen! 👇🏽
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Herbert Wu @herbertwu.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
First study out! Using a new cooperative paradigm and multi-agent inverse RL, we show that mice spontaneously adopt leader/follower roles, and the prefrontal cortex encodes these role dynamics and an egocentric social value map of the partner’s position. (1/3) www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Asymmetric prefrontal representations for leader–follower dynamics - Nature
Mice spontaneously form leader and follower roles during cooperation, and the medial prefrontal cortex encodes these role dynamics and an egocentric social value map of the partner’s position.
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Selmaan Chettih @selmaan.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
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Arkarup Banerjee @arkarupbanerjee.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Congrats @katietschida.bsky.social and team on this nice study. 👇🏽
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Arkarup Banerjee @arkarupbanerjee.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Excellent advice on scientific writing. I just forwarded this to my lab.👇
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Arkarup Banerjee @arkarupbanerjee.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Got it! thanks
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Arkarup Banerjee @arkarupbanerjee.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Hi Jessie, this looks very interesting and relevant. Could you please send me the manuscript to read?
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Arkarup Banerjee @arkarupbanerjee.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Who says religion doesn’t change with the times? Light a “candle”with a credit card! Credit goes to @sancharighosh.bsky.social for spotting
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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
I thought I'd repost this piece quoting the first sentence. Then I thought, no, the first paragraph. No, the first three. And I went on doing that until the final word. www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...
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‘I hate what AI is doing to the minds and happiness of the young’: Katherine Rundell on the view from the classroom
Education is at a crossroads, argues the author and academic. Should we embrace new technology in the name of efficiency, or is it time to fight back?
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Klingenstein Philanthropies @klingensteinorg.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Thank you Arkarup Banerjee, Ph.D. for presenting his talk, "Neural Basis for a Behavioral Innovation: Insights from a Singing Mouse" at the recent Klingenstein Fellowship Awards in Neuroscience Conference. @arkarupbanerjee.bsky.social
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Arkarup Banerjee @arkarupbanerjee.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Literally a bird’s eye view of the evolution of advertisement signals! Interesting preprint 👇🏽
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Arkarup Banerjee @arkarupbanerjee.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Perhaps that a basic fallacy is assuming a molecule — even one as famous as dopamine — has a unified function. Context first. Dopamine does different things in different neural circuits, and something else entirely (motility) in the gut.
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Arkarup Banerjee @arkarupbanerjee.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Meeting only after ALL the data has been collected.
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Arkarup Banerjee @arkarupbanerjee.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Wonderful! Congrats Patryk and @katietschida.bsky.social!
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Arkarup Banerjee @arkarupbanerjee.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
“the (GRC chair) appointment marks the definitive apex of a trajectory that will now, according to sources, “flatten out and then just kind of trail off.” Uh oh, I am chairing the NMAC GRC in 2028. It seems I have two years and it’s all downhill from there! Attention @katietschida.bsky.social
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Brian DePasquale @briandepasquale.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Thanks to everyone for contributing their comments! I really enjoyed seeing the diversity of takes — an important conversation at a critical moment!
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Annie Roth @annieroth.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
I’m looking for soon to be published animal studies! Hit me up!
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Arkarup Banerjee @arkarupbanerjee.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Very nice profile. When I was a PhD student working on olfactory circuits in mice, Rachel’s papers on fly olfaction were such a delight to read!
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Arkarup Banerjee @arkarupbanerjee.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Well done!
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Drew Schreiner @schreinerdrew.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Made a starter pack for attendees of the Neural Mechanisms of Acoustic Communication Gordon Conference. I'm sure I've missed people so let me know! go.bsky.app/57Ln8Bk
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Arkarup Banerjee @arkarupbanerjee.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Congrats Justus!!
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Arkarup Banerjee @arkarupbanerjee.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Congrats Talmo!
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Arkarup Banerjee @arkarupbanerjee.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Do you record multimodal data? For our experiments with the singing mice, @cshlnews.bsky.social graduate student @xmikezheng20.bsky.social set up a fantastic acquisition pipeline, which has now become THE standard for all rigs in my lab. He published a detailed protocol today! Check it out. 👇
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Justus Kebschull @justuskebschull.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
New from the lab: BARseq3! Barcodes + high efficiency spatial transcriptomics and translatomics in the same cells, or just a nice spatial transcriptomics assay. All in a modular, expandable system to enable truly multimodal measurements. Check it out: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Arkarup Banerjee @arkarupbanerjee.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Congratulations!!
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Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory @cshlnews.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
At CSHL, Gabrielle Pouchelon and Dimitri Dumontier reveal how Fragile X disrupts brain wiring, offering hope for autism. bioRxivpreprint #AutismAcceptanceMonth #FragileX #InspiringDiscovery #ScienceMakesLifeBetter
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Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory @cshlnews.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
What did the brain say to the face? Say cheese—Cheese3D that is! See the new discovery platform from CSHL’s Helen Hou, Kyle Daruwalla, and Irene Nozal Martin.  www.cshl.edu/say-cheese3d-a-new-mod…
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Arkarup Banerjee @arkarupbanerjee.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Thanks Felix!
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Arkarup Banerjee @arkarupbanerjee.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Thanks Bence!
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Arkarup Banerjee @arkarupbanerjee.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Thanks Cedric! You consistently beat me in posting papers from my lab! I love it. Thank you. 😊
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Arkarup Banerjee @arkarupbanerjee.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Thank you very much.
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Arkarup Banerjee @arkarupbanerjee.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Thanks Britton!
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Arkarup Banerjee @arkarupbanerjee.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
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What can singing mice say about human speech? | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Speech is a crowning achievement of human evolution, the skill that separates us from every other animal. So, it would stand to reason that evolving this capability required some enormous leap in brai...
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Arkarup Banerjee @arkarupbanerjee.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
And some popular science coverage about our manuscript. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/s...
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A Mutation Gave Humans the Gift of Speech. These Mice Have It, Too.
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Arkarup Banerjee @arkarupbanerjee.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
On central circuit control from my lab, in collaboration with @tonyzador.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Specific expansion of motor cortical projections in a singing mouse - Nature
High-throughput barcoded neuroanatomy of two closely related rodent species with divergent vocalizations reveals differences in long-range projection motifs in the brain that may s...
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Arkarup Banerjee @arkarupbanerjee.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Latest on the sound production mechanism and laryngeal adaptions from @evolbrain.bsky.social, Michael Long, Coen Elemans, Sam Smith and others. royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
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Mechanisms and control of a novel vocalization: the singing mouse song is a whistle that depends on air sac inflation
Abstract. Vocalizations are ancient behaviours that require the complex coordination of breath and display. Understanding how laryngeal anatomy shapes voca
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