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Minel Arinel, Ph.D.

@minelarinel.bsky.social
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Postdoctoral Fellow in the Tye Lab at Salk Institute | #BiInSci | she/her 🇹🇷🌈🧠

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Duke Institute for Brain Sciences @dukebrain.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Congratulations Minel Arinel @minelarinel.bsky.social and the Naumann lab at Duke for this epic work on development of gut-brain communication!
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Zebrafish Rock! @zebrafishrock.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Fintastic thread on cool paper 😎
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Minel Arinel, Ph.D. @minelarinel.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
My PhD paper (and my first research article👀) is out in @cp-iscience.bsky.social!🎉 Is gut-brain communication present in early development, and if so, how are these signals encoded in the brain? We tackled this question using larval zebrafish 🐟 www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
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Gut distension evokes rapid neural dynamics in vagal and hindbrain populations of larval zebrafish
Interoception; Gut-brain; Calcium imaging; Zebrafish
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Matt Perich @mattperich.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
New paper hot off the (pre-)press! We dig into the evolutionary origins of neural computations for behavioral control across mice, monkeys, and humans: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6.... As our lab's first foray into comparative analysis of neural dynamics, I’m super excited about this work! 1/18
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Minel Arinel, Ph.D. @minelarinel.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
one last PhD poster in the city where my next adventure starts… see you soon SD 🌊💙 #SfN25 @sfn.org
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Zebrafish Rock! @zebrafishrock.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Wonderful news! Congrats, Dr. Arinel 🎉 #PhDone
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Minel Arinel, Ph.D. @minelarinel.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
I’m officially Dr. Minel Arinel!! Grateful for every person who got me here, family, friends, mentors, and the zebrafish who made it all possible 🐟✨
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Minel Arinel, Ph.D. @minelarinel.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
I'm excited (and a little emotional) to be giving my PhD dissertation seminar as I wrap up my time in the Duke Neurobiology program 🧠🐟 📅 Monday, Nov 10 at 12:00 PM Eastern Time 📍 Bryan Research Building, Room 103 If you'd like to attend virtually, please feel free to DM me for the Zoom link! ✨
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Minel Arinel, Ph.D. @minelarinel.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Just found out I received the @sfn.org #TPDA Trainee Professional Development Award FOR THE SECOND TIME!! 🧠🎉 Grateful for the continued support and excited to connect with the neuroscience community at #SfN25!
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Minel Arinel, Ph.D. @minelarinel.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
oh wow 🥹 @hhmijanelia.bsky.social
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Portugues Lab @portugueslab.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
@natrevneuro.nature.com just published a beautiful cover for the issue that includes the recent review on analogies in the visual system of vertebrates and invertebrates (@ryosuketanaka.bsky.social). Read it here doi.org/10.1038/s415... Science and Art, what could be better?
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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Gut stretch evokes rapid neural dynamics in vagal and hindbrain populations of larval zebrafish www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Association for Women in Science @awisnational.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
These AWIS members have learned that listening is a crucial skill for leaders. Read their stories and be inspired to truly hear those around you. buff.ly/zvPhbEX #WomenInSTEM
Collage of AWIS members Minel Arinel, Kiley McLean, Porscha M Whiteside, and Sree Vishmaya V.. framed by a blue background with the text ‘Listening and Leadership’ and AWIS logo.
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Minel Arinel, Ph.D. @minelarinel.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Grateful to be featured in the @awisnational.bsky.social Member Spotlight and their recent piece on Listening and Leadership. Honored to share space with so many brilliant women in STEM 💙 🔗 Member Spotlight: awis.org/project/awis... 🔗 Listening and Leadership feature: awis.org/resource/lis...
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AWIS Member Spotlight: Minel Arinel
Minel Arinel is a sixth-year PhD student in Neurobiology at Duke University, passionate about developing alternative therapeutics for psychiatric disorders.
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Minel Arinel, Ph.D. @minelarinel.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
✨ New publication! ✨ Our mini-review on the #gut-brain and #heart-brain axes in #reward processing is out in Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience! 🧠 We dig into how body-to-brain signals shape emotion and motivation and why it matters for mental health. Read it here: 🔗 doi.org/10.3389/fnin...
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Frontiers | The gut and heart’s role in reward processing
Reward processing, which ensures survival, has evolved to also shape emotions, learning, and overall well-being. While traditional models of reward have focu...
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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Whole-brain, all-optical interrogation of neuronal dynamics underlying gut interoception in zebrafish www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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eLife @elife.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Research is investigating the medicinal applications of #psilocybin, with studies showing how #psychedelics can promote neuronal plasticity. This ‘fundamental’ study into the effects of #psilocin on human neurons: buff.ly/f7cNemV
Cortical neurons imaged by immunofluorescence
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Scripps Research @scripps.edu · 18/03/2025
Scripps Research scientists have created a diAcCA, a stabilized form of carnosic acid—an antioxidant in rosemary and sage—potentially improving memory, fortifying neuronal connections & reducing brain inflammation— a promising therapeutic for Alzheimer’s.
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Compound found in common herbs inspires potential anti-inflammatory drug for Alzheimer’s disease
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Zebrafish Rock! @zebrafishrock.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Danio derives from the Bengali word “Dhani,” which translates to “of the rice fields.” #ZebrafishFunFacts 🧪
Image of a paddy field with mature rice in Bengal. CC BY-SA 4.0
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Drew Schreiner @schreinerdrew.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Proud to have contributed to @jiaxuanqi.bsky.social's masterpiece out @nature.com! She shows that dopamine transients track the learned quality of song during juvenile learning and that dopamine release is driven not just by VTA firing, but by a local cholinergic mechanism! (1/x)
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Dual neuromodulatory dynamics underlie birdsong learning - Nature
Dopamine release in the basal ganglia of the zebra finch is driven by neurons associated with reinforcement learning and by cholinergic signalling, and tracks performance quality during long-term lear...
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Minel Arinel, Ph.D. @minelarinel.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Super excited to share that my abstract got selected for a short talk at the @keystonesymposia.bsky.social on Interoception! Can't wait to visit Seattle and the @alleninstitute.bsky.social for the first time! #KSInteroception25
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Science Magazine @science.org · 05/03/2025
From octopuses to snails, the complicated molluscan family tree has now been mapped in unprecedented detail, researchers report in Science. This includes sequences for 13 new complete genomes from across the phylum. scim.ag/3DrGAkg
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A genome-based phylogeny for Mollusca is concordant with fossils and morphology
Extreme morphological disparity within Mollusca has long confounded efforts to reconstruct a stable backbone phylogeny for the phylum. Familiar molluscan groups—gastropods, bivalves, and cephalopods—e...
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The Friedman Brain Institute @sinaibrain.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
PRESS RELEASE @ericjnestler.bsky.social @yizhoudonglab.bsky.social et al. have developed a lipid nanoparticle system capable of delivering mRNA to brain via intravenous injection, a challenge that has long been limited by the protective nature of the #BloodBrainBarrier mountsinai.org/about/newsro...
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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 16/02/2025
A paper in Nature Methods presents Segment Anything for Microscopy, a tool for segmentation and tracking in multidimensional microscopy data. go.nature.com/3QiRonW
This is figure 1, which gives an overview of Segment Anything for Microscopy.
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Stina Börchers, PhD @stinaborchers.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
🧠🍽️ Satiety neurons that make you crave sugar? 🍬 New research shows that POMC neurons, typically linked to appetite suppression, release opioids in the thalamus, flipping the switch to increase sugar intake. #neuroskyence 🧪 #appetite
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Thalamic opioids from POMC satiety neurons switch on sugar appetite
High sugar–containing foods are readily consumed, even after meals and beyond fullness sensation (e.g., as desserts). Although reward-driven processing of palatable foods can promote overeating, the n...
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Science Magazine @science.org · 16/02/2025
Loggerhead turtles have an uncontrollable urge to dance whenever they anticipate food—a trait scientists used to test whether the reptiles can memorize their favorite feeding sites based on Earth’s magnetic fields. Learn more: scim.ag/42VqsSz
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Zebrafish Rock! @zebrafishrock.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Vasculature in the blood-brain barrier of a zebrafish larva. Credit to @natashaobrown.bsky.social. #ZebrafishZunday 🧪
Dorsal view of a zebrafish larva with blood vessels in magenta. Anterior to the left.
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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
A zebrafish circuit for behavioral credit assignment www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Reto Fiolka @retof.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
The self-driving multiscale microscope from @daetwylerstephan.bsky.social is out. It can image an entire zebrafish embryo longitudinally and follow a volume of interest over time with high resolution. We used it to study cancer-immune cell interactions. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Imaging of cellular dynamics from a whole organism to subcellular scale with self-driving, multiscale microscopy
Nature Methods - A self-driving multiresolution light-sheet microscope enables the simultaneous observation and quantification of cellular and subcellular dynamics in the context of intact and...
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Ardem Patapoutian @ardemp.bskyverified.social · 11/02/2025
Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! 🧪 Celebrating the brilliant minds, past and present, who have pushed boundaries and shaped our understanding of the world. Here’s to the next generation of scientists who will take us even further!
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Mark Andermann @markandermann.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Come explore emerging research in brain-body communication @KeystoneSymp Interoception: Neural Sensing and Control of Organ Function, this April in Seattle! keysym.us/KSInterocept... #KSInteroception25 pic.x.com/gWsgQgcAJh
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Interoception: Neural Sensing and Control of Organ Function | Keystone Symposia
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allen institute @alleninstitute.org · 10/02/2025
March 4 is the early registration deadline for the @keystonesymposia.bsky.social on Interoception: Neural Sensing and Control of Organ Function. If you're interested in attending, don't miss this opportunity to get $200 off! More at: www.keystonesymposia.org/conferences/... #KSInteroception25
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Zebrafish Rock! @zebrafishrock.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Toughest fish on Earth? Mummichogs are a euryhaline species, which means they can survive a range of salinities from freshwater to water that has 110g salt/L. Heralded as the first fish species in outer space, they even evolved resistance to toxic chemicals that would kill other fish. #TeleostTalk 🧪
Image of a mummichog (Fundulus heteroclitus). Image credit to Julia Wood at NCFishes.com
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Scripps Research @scripps.edu · 07/02/2025
It’s more than a gut feeling. Your gut and brain are always talking–shaping your mood, energy, and hunger. But when that dialogue stops, your body feels the impact. Could understanding this help scientists create new treatments for aging, obesity and other diseases?
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piatkevich.bsky.social @piatkevich.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
A Sensitive Soma-localized Red Fluorescent Calcium Indicator for Multi-Modality Imaging of Neuronal Populations In Vivo. It works well with wide-field imaging, two-photon microscopy, and fiber photometry biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Gut-Brain Hydraulics: Brain motion and CSF circulation is driven by mechanical coupling with the abdomen www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Daniel Gonzales @dgonzales1990.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Really proud to see my postdoc work out!! We used flexible, semi-transparent NeuroGrids to record traveling waves while simultaneously mapping cellular and subcellular dynamics with two-photon imaging www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Touch-evoked traveling waves establish a translaminar spacetime code
Translaminar spacetime patterns organized by feedback-dependent cortical circuits support sparse traveling waves.
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Science Magazine @science.org · 01/02/2025
This disc coral rolls, slides, and pulses its dome-shaped body to “walk” in the direction of a light source. Learn more: scim.ag/40YcOvx
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Nature @nature.com · 28/01/2025
Behavioural experiments in shell-dwelling cichlid fish reveal evolutionary adaptations in parents and offspring that control the timing of emergence from the nest go.nature.com/3EaV3Bp
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No parent–child conflicts about when young cichlid fish leave home
Parents and offspring have synchronised schedule for nest emergence.
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Michael Freeman @afreeparticle.com · 26/01/2025
🎢 ⚛️ New form of matter just dropped Video Description: demonstrations and explanations of the newly created Polycatenated Architected Materials, which respond to some stresses as a fluid would and to others like a solid. Source: www.caltech.edu/about/news/r...
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Meghan Azad, PhD @meghanazad.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Fascinating new study: how human milk (vs. cow milk or baby formula) uniquely affects gut permeability - and how this could inspire new oral drug delivery approaches. Could #breastmilk hold the key to treating IBS, diabetes, sepsis, cancer & more? 🧪 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Harnessing the Potential of Human Breast Milk to Boost Intestinal Permeability for Nanoparticles and Macromolecules
The intricate interplay between human breast milk, nanoparticles, and macromolecules holds promise for innovative nutritional delivery strategies. Com…
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