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Praneel Sunkavalli

@praneelsunkavalli.bsky.social
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Aspiring Physician-Scientist Currently @ Andermann Lab

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Jonna Singh @jonnasingh.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
We're excited to present EASI-PASS! We can record the activity of many neurons, and separately, the expression of many genes. A natural next step for the field is to link these two types of information. 🧵👇 1/n
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Wei-Chung Allen Lee @darbly.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Now published - the #BANC! A full central nervous system (CNS) connectome of a limbed animal at single-synapse resolution, enabling us to follow sensory-motor arcs and understand how the CNS controls the body. rdcu.be/fncjS. #neuroscience. Video by @quorumetrix.bsky.social 1/18
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Carsen Stringer @computingnature.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
🚨🧠 Our paper is out! We introduce a simple computational model that generates macroscopic, long-timescale dynamics as seen in large-scale neural recordings. #neuroscience #dynamics @marius10p.bsky.social @zhong-lin.bsky.social @hhmijanelia.bsky.social Link: go.nature.com/4tRNjIu
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Carsen Stringer @computingnature.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
🔬🧠 Releasing the 1.0 version of #Suite2p and THE PAPER w/ @marius10p.bsky.social! Now with GPU acceleration. Want to use Suite2p but don’t have 100,000 neuron recordings? We show you how to get those with a standard 2p microscope #neuroscience #imaging #neuroAI www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Marta Porniece @martaapp.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
1️⃣ 🥳 Thrilled to share that my postdoc work has finally hit the press! www.nature.com/articles/s41... When we started, we didn’t really know what PVH-MC4R neurons do in obesity. Are they still signaling or “dead”? (e.g., does the chronically high leptin alter α-MSH–MC4R signaling?) 🧵👇
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Obesity dysregulates feeding-evoked response dynamics in hypothalamic satiety neurons - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Obesity dysregulates feeding-evoked response dynamics in hypothalamic satiety neurons
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Dionnet L Bhatti Mazo @victoryofflight.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Our new preprint: 𝐅𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞-𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐬𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐮𝐦 𝐠𝐮𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐬 𝐝𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧. We describe how the LS guides defensive responses by forming critical computations built from functionally and molecularly distinct cells and their afferent inputs. www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-6...
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Feature-specific threat coding in lateral septum guides defensive action
The ability to rapidly detect and evaluate potential threats is essential for survival and requires the integration of sensory information, with internal state and prior experience. The lateral septum...
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Tommaso Patriarchi @tpatriarchi.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Amazing work by the Andermann Lab showcasing a perfect use-case for FLIM imaging of dopamine sensors - looking at tonic [DA] changes and adaptations over days! Honored to be part of this effort.
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Jonna Singh @jonnasingh.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Featuring 2p FLIM to track DA levels over days, and a demonstration that a neurons molecular identity is pretty labile @stephen-zhang.bsky.social @markandermann.bsky.social P.S: Praneel will be applying to MD PhD and is an absolute beast. Systems neuro labs don’t miss out!!
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Mark Andermann @markandermann.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Wild! Stephen, Praneel and their team use fluorescence lifetime imaging and various manipulations to show that, in male mice, both mating drive and hypothalamic tonic dopamine release drop after a successful mating and gradually recover over the next week, paralleling the recovery in sperm count.
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Stephen Zhang @stephen-zhang.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Praneel's study shows that two temporally complementary mechanisms, neuronal excitability and neurotransmitter composition, jointly control dopamine release and mating drive over days. Praneel is a dedicated, mature, and wholesome student on his way to becoming a physician scientist.
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Praneel Sunkavalli @praneelsunkavalli.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
I am excited to share our preprint on how hypothalamic dopamine neurons govern slow changes in motivation over days! Below are our findings: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Slow-Timescale Regulation of Dopamine Release and Mating Drive over Days
The rise and fall of motivational states may take place over timescales as long as many days. We used mouse mating behavior to model how the brain orchestrates slow-timescale changes in motivation. Ma...
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PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · 01/05/2025
We've had advances in green genetically encoded Ca2+ indicators (GECIs), but what about red-shifted GECIs? @piatkevich.bsky.social &co present SomaFRCaMPi, a new soma-localized red #GECI that exhibits improved accuracy & sensitivity for in vivo neuronal imaging @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/3YnCqRW
Top left: Representative single plane confocal images showing fore-, mid-, and hindbrain regions of live zebrafish larva expressing jRGECO1a, FRCaMPi, and SomaFRCaMPi in neurons driven by the HuC promoter (n = 10 fish at 6 dpf for each). Bottom left: Schematics of looming stimulation set up in which black expanding circular shadows projected in front of the larval zebrafish embedded in agarose gel. Right: Representative single trial fluorescence traces of soma and neuropil region of red GECI-expressing neurons during looming stimulation shown as ticks.
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Catherine Dulac @dulaclab.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Our latest findings on social behavior circuits is out: how does the brain responds to social isolation? Terrific work by @dingliu.bsky.social et al. uncovering a circuit with similar neural architecture as physiological needs (hunger, thirst, sleep..). Detailed thread soon. rdcu.be/ebo63
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A hypothalamic circuit underlying the dynamic control of social homeostasis
Nature - New data on brain-wide circuits centred around two interconnected hypothalamic neuron populations provide significant mechanistic insights into the emergence of social need during social...
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Ardem Patapoutian @ardemp.bskyverified.social · 10/02/2025
Petition to Reverse the NIH Indirect Cost Cap initiated by Tom Maniatis. Please amplify Sign the Petition: chng.it/kK2HMP5pGk "Share with Leadership & Faculty. Reach out to professional societies, biotech and pharma leaders, and philanthropic organizations to raise awareness and mobilize support."
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Petition to Reverse the NIH Indirect Cost Cap (NOT-OD-25-068)
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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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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Very good, concise summary of the gut-brain axis of communication and interoception www.cell.com/current-biol... open-access
diagrams of gut-brain communication
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Denise J. Cai, Ph.D. @denisejcai.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
🌟 Cai Lab Nature (@natureportfolio.bsky.social) paper alert! In work led by Joe Zaki, we find that rest periods after learning not only stabilize new memories BUT ALSO integrate new memories with older ones from days past! (1/10) Read it here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Nature paper article with title and abstract
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Mark Andermann @markandermann.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Stephen Zhang and the team found that in vivo peptide release and signaling gradually enhances responses of satiety-promoting hypothalamic neurons to each bite of food. These consequences of each bite take minutes to manifest, and could help explain why slow eating enhances satiety. rdcu.be/dZlI3
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Stochastic neuropeptide signals compete to calibrate the rate of satiation
Nature - Release of hunger-promoting and satiety-promoting neuropeptides drives opposing changes in the second messenger cAMP in awake mouse paraventricular hypothalamic MC4R neurons, thereby...
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Carsen Stringer @computingnature.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
We wrote a review on analysis methods for large-scale neural recordings www.science.org/stoken/autho... @marius10p.bsky.social #neuroscience 🧪🧠 Anything we missed? Reply w/ your fav method!
large-scale neural recording of 50,000 neurons, showing many diverse activity patterns, and also what the cells look like at various zooms of the maximum projection image of the recording FOV
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