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Pavan Agrawal

@brainonwings.bsky.social

Neuroscience, behavior, genomics Stress, sleep, neurodegeneration Drosophila and computational approaches, AI and computer vision tools for behavior Associate Professor@ KMC, Manipal, India

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Pavan Agrawal @brainonwings.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Hiring 3 research staff at KMC Manipal: new ICMR project on wearable sleep biomarkers for depression, from Drosophila to patients to machine learning. 1 Project Research Scientist-I 2 Project Technical Support-III Apply by 21 Sept 2026 jobs.research@manipal.edu #neuroskyence #Drosophila #scijobs

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Pavan Agrawal @brainonwings.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Three PhD positions open in our Lab, KMC Manipal, (2026–27). Projects: social isolation & neurogenomics | wearable sensors & anxiety | neuro-immune regulation of behavior. Tools: Drosophila genetics, transcriptomics, DANCE (eLife 2025). See flyer for details.

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Pavan Agrawal @brainonwings.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

More assays do not always clarify a question. Clearer experimental structure often does. In behavioral work, design choices upstream shape everything downstream!

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Pavan Agrawal @brainonwings.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Paper out now in eLife: DANCE. We combine machine learning with accessible hardware to quantify Drosophila social behaviors. Low-cost behavioral rigs are not a compromise, they are a design philosophy. Accessibility changes the questions we can ask. elifesciences.org/articles/105...

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Pavan Agrawal @brainonwings.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Tool building often moves the field faster than incremental experiments. I learned this from my mentor Loren Looger and his approach to designing new tools for neuroscience.

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Pavan Agrawal @brainonwings.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

I work on behavior, stress biology, and genomics using Drosophila and complementary systems. I am interested in simple tools, circuit principles, and training early researchers. Posting occasionally about methods and research observations.

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Pavan Agrawal @brainonwings.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

🚀 We’re hiring! Two fully funded PhD positions in Neuroscience & Behavior at the Agrawal Lab, Centre for Molecular Neurosciences, KMC, MAHE. 🧬🐛 See the advert & apply. 🔬 #PhDOpening #Neuroscience #Drosophila

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Neuroscience of Sleep @sleepneuroscience.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Pavan Agrawal described some ingenious low-cost assays and analysis techniques to study fly behaviour. His talk explored the effects of social isolation on sleep and how silencing/activating different neuronal subgroups rescued these effects. #EMBOneuroSleep

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Horst Obenhaus @octoscience.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Amazing time indeed. Thank you so much, everybody, and @melnattur.bsky.social particularly! 🐙

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