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IMPRS PhD student @MPFNeuro | MSc. Neuroscience @dbt_nbrc |

Jupiter, FL
Joined May 2020
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I defended my Ph.D. Proposal today!! 🎉Excited to enter the second half of my Ph.D. journey! 🎊 Extremely grateful to my amazing mentor, Vidhya (@RangarajuVidhya ) for her unwavering support and guidance and to all my lab members for their feedback and encouragement!
✌️Our lab's second PhD student, Ojasee (@ojaseee), successfully defended her PhD proposal today. Congratulations, Ojasee! We look forward to many more exciting results from your thesis (@ChanZuckerberg). @MPFNeuro IMPRS PhD applications are now open: mpfi.org/training/imprs-sc/#…
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Congrats to @saa1605 for his LLM-Coordination paper being accepted to #NAACL2025 Findings! What a day for a new PhD student who just completed his first year! Two first-author papers being accepted at ICLR and NAACL, with hundreds of GitHub stars & citations already!
🔮Demystifying Coordination in #LLMs: We are excited to announce LLM-Coordination, a new benchmark for the evaluation and analysis of #LLMs in Multi-agent coordination tasks. Our benchmark studies two task settings: 1. 🤖 Agentic Coordination, where LLMs act as proactive participants for cooperation in 4 pure coordination games; 2. ❓Coordination Question Answering (CoordQA), where LLMs are prompted to answer questions from coordination games for evaluation of three key reasoning abilities: Environment Comprehension, #ToM Reasoning, and Joint Planning. Interestingly, we find that LLM agents excel at coordination games where the primary challenge is common-sense reasoning about the environment 🌎 and following the rules of the game. However, they struggle at games requiring an advanced Theory Of Mind🤔 #ToM, which is the ability to reason about the beliefs and intentions of their partners! Keep Reading 🧵 for the details and discoveries! Website: eric-ai-lab.github.io/llm_co… 📜paper: arxiv.org/abs/2310.03903 🔗data & code: github.com/eric-ai-lab/llm_c…
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My lab's first paper is now out @Nature nature.com/articles/s41586-0… Check out the cool new data since the preprint work I described a while back. Excited to have this alongside the other @FlyWireNews connectome papers. Grateful to the team! @NehaSapakal @DivyaSthanu @NinoMancini_
Excited to share the first preprint from my lab. A connectome guided effort spanning modeling, behavior and functional imaging that led to uncovering fundamental circuit mechanisms for implementing halting in flies. doi.org/10.1101/2023.09.25.5…
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Excited to share my first paper from Inagaki Lab @MPFNeuro! How does the “timer” in our brain control movement? We discovered specialized computational roles of the frontal cortex and striatum that implement such an action timer⏱️ biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Here is a fun video we made @MPFNeuro to talk about our recent publication @NatureComms. Watch out for our IMPRS graduate student @ojaseee speaking about her experience working @MPFNeuro .
Dr. Vidhya Rangaraju explains her team’s latest discovery into how memories are powered and what this means for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (#ALS) research. Hear more from Dr. Rangaraju at our free Science Meets Music event on February 21. mpfi.org/events/science-meet…
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🎬Wrapping up the week with a new preprint from the lab! In this collaboration spanning in vitro and in vivo models of rodents and flies, we show when mitochondria do not clear out calcium quickly, they enhance memory formation @JaimedeJuan @AmrapaliAnjali @rfan830831 @riyaneuro
Can we get smarter??? Here we show that enhancing mitochondrial metabolism in neurons of memory circuits of flies and mice boosts long-term memories! Amazing work by @AmrapaliAnjali with inestimable collaborations of @EnergyMemoryLab @RangarajuVidhya @BGarcialab @TPVogels
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✌️Our lab’s second paper is out in collaboration with the Lu Lab. We provided our expertise in imaging presynaptic ATP to show that NMNAT2, a protein implicated in axonal neurodegeneration, provides the local energy required for moving synaptic vesicles along axons.@MPFNeuro
'NMNAT2 supports vesicular #glycolysis via NAD homeostasis to fuel fast #axonal transport' Sen Yang, Zhen-Xian Niou... Hui-Chen Lu @IndianaUniv @IU_GillCenter #GlutamatergicNeurons molecularneurodegeneration.b…
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A great start to 2024! I'm glad to announce that our research got published in @NatureComms . Thanks to @RangarajuVidhya and the whole team! We found that VAP, a protein implicated in ALS, tethers dendritic mito to locally support synaptic plasticity! nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
New research from @RangarajuVidhya @ojaseee and team was published today in @NatureComms. Study identifies #ALS -linked protein VAP as a molecular anchor of mitochondria near dendritic spines to support memory formation. mpfi.org/a-molecular-anchor/
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Excited to share our work with @mlphillips17 about 9-color calcium imaging under a GRIN miniscope! Functional imaging of nine distinct neuronal populations under a miniscope in freely behaving animals. biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Are you a Neuroscience PhD student ready to showcase your research? Max Planck NeuroMEETS invites you to apply for an all-expenses-paid visit to MPFI in Florida! 🏝️ Present your work, meet with our faculty, and grow your network. Apply by December 1st! mpfi.org/science/max-planck-…
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Thank you @ChanZuckerberg for the Ben Barres Career Acceleration Award! With this funding, my lab sets on a fresh new direction to tackle #ALS, a devastating motor neuron disease. We are excited to make a difference in the fight against ALS 🧠 chanzuckerberg.com/science/p…
Congratulations to @RangarajuVidhya, who was awarded the @cziscience Ben Barres Early Career Acceleration Award! This support will enable her lab to utilize novel approaches to uncover the causes of mitochondrial dysfunction in #ALS. Learn more: mpfi.org/mpfi-researcher-awa…
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Congratulations to @RangarajuVidhya, who was awarded the @cziscience Ben Barres Early Career Acceleration Award! This support will enable her lab to utilize novel approaches to uncover the causes of mitochondrial dysfunction in #ALS. Learn more: mpfi.org/mpfi-researcher-awa…
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#Astrocytes, #epigenetics, #olfaction all in one exciting talk by @debo_Astrocyte! What a great way to kick off our NeuroMEETS #postdoc seminar series. We are still accepting applications for our #PhD student series this spring... mpfi.org/science/max-planck-…
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Our lab's first graduate student, Monil, successfully defended his PhD proposal today. Congratulations, Monil! I look forward to many more exciting results from your thesis. Monil is also an IMPRS PhD student, and applications are now open to the program: mpfi.org/training/imprs-sc/
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Applications are now OPEN for the IMPRS for Synapses and Circuits #PhD program. Pursue your passion through innovative #neuroscience research with our world-class faculty in a collaborative and supportive environment. Apply by Dec. 1. Learn more at imprssc.org
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Attention postdocs! Only one week left to apply for the Max Planck NeuroMEETS series! Don't miss out on this opportunity to visit MPFI to present your research, receive feedback, and network with our scientists. Apply by July 14th! Mpfi.org/neuromeets
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Had so much fun presenting a poster at #sunposium23 !! 3 amazing days of listening to science from the pioneers in the neuroscience field. Thank you @MPFNeuro for the opportunity! ♥️ Can't wait for the one in 2025! :)
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Hey everyone, I am super excited to share my first ever preprint! A big thank you to @RangarajuVidhya for her unwavering support and also to the whole team. Thank you @MPFNeuro. It has definitely been a great start to 2023! :) biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
New year, New preprint (no. 1) from the lab: Based on a proteome screen, we fished out a protein called VAP, which serves as a molecular glue and sticks mitochondria near synapses to fuel them during memory formation. biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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