Postdoc @UCLA studying chemosensory behaviors in C. elegans and parasitic worms | PhD alumni @UMassMedical
Los Angeles, CA
Joined June 2018
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Excited to see this paper finally out @PNASNews! 🥳 We show that a chemosensory cue (CO2) of the same valence state (attraction) evokes distinct neural activities and motor outputs across two different life stages in C. elegans. 1/n pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.22…
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Our paper with @EricJDeeds is now up on PLoS Comp Bio. Some new goodies since the preprint including an implementation of a generalized form of the branch distance!
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Many thanks to @planapalooza @zamanian_ @Mak_Mitreva for organizing such a wonderful meeting #molhelm23 and giving me the opportunity to share my work!
Thanks to all of the participants for making #molhelm23 such a great experience for all! @planapalooza had a pleasure hosting you all in Madison and @Morgridge_Inst!
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Many thanks to my PI Elissa Hallem, undergraduate author Elisa Rojas Palato and our collaborators @wormraiser and @peinguin2. 6/n
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To start off Day 1 of Assistant Professor-ing, could I have everyone still here tell everyone they know that I'm hiring! The position mixes lab admin and research and would be perfect for a recent college grad. Here's a link to the job ad: uwhires.admin.washington.edu…
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Thrilled to share the news that in Jan 2023 I’m joining the Department of Physiology and Biophysics at @UW as a tenure-track assistant professor. @UW_PBIO #GoHuskies bit.ly/3Jqms0v
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Apply to join us this summer for a comprehensive course on C. elegans research methods, a perfect opportunity for anyone new to the worm to kickstart your work!
Deadline extension💥! You have one more week to get your applications in for our EMBO Practical Course 'C. elegans: from genome editing to imaging'. 🔬 No prior experience needed! #EMBOCelegans
📩 Apply by 1 May
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Later part of my grad work is out!🎉 A neuropeptide system regulates basal movement and local search behavior by conditionally engaging distinct GPCR combinations across circuits.
Thanks to @FrancisLab4 and all my coauthors for taking this to the end.
We are excited to share our latest manuscript now out on @eLife!! Amazing work from current and past postdocs @sramac2, @NavonilBanerjee, and Raja Bhattacharya asking how neuromodulators function to regulate neural circuits?
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Thanks @neuroecology for the share and the thought-provoking analysis of the findings! 👇
When an animal goes through two different life histories (starvation early in life vs hunger later in life), different neural pathways are used to produce the same behavior
[@NavonilBanerjee, Paul Sternberg, Elissa Hallem]
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Excited to share this work where we show that C. elegans dauers and adults use different mechanisms to establish the same chemosensory behavior.
Thanks to my PI Elissa Hallem, all my co-authors and our collaborators @wormraiser and @peinguin2
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In this hypothesis piece, we propose that nuclear hormone receptors act as integrators of sensory information in free-living nematodes:
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Awesome work by labmate @astrab on neural basis of heat seeking in a human parasitic worm. The highlight is how thermal information is encoded differently at the sensory level in a parasitic vs an elegant free-living nematode that may provide clues into host seeking!
I'm thrilled that our work on the neural basis of thermosensation in a skin-penetrating parasitic nematode is out in the world.
All thanks to my co-authors, @felifelz1780 and Joon Ha Lee, and my indefatigable PI Elissa Hallem.
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#worm21 Fabulous talk by former labmate @alison_marie1 on how cilia structure may shape olfaction. Cool calcium imaging data! Very insightful Alison!!!
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Interested in development? Neural circuits? Behavior? Microscopy and image analysis? Get in touch! We're recruiting a postdoc to explore the development of behavior with us using the C. elegans embryo as a model!
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Check out our newest preprint! Our talented @devblair3 investigates how developing synapses assemble in vivo! @FrancisLab4 #synapses #dendriticspines #neurexin #neuroscience #celegans
Kinesin-3 mediated delivery of presynaptic neurexin stabilizes growing dendritic spines and postsynaptic components in vivo biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #bioRxiv