Arkarup Banerjee
Assistant Professor at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Neuroscientist. Loves explaining. Bibliophile. Amateur singer. Eternal optimist. Writes the occasional paper. Lab website - www.arkabanerjeelab.com
- This year's Neural Mechanisms of Acoustic Communication (NMAC) GRC is looking great! Fantastic lineup already. More talks will be selected based on abstracts. Please apply. 👇 #bioacoustics #neuroskyence
- We are excited to announce that registration is open for the 2026 Neural Mechanisms of Acoustic Communication Gordon Research Conference. The preliminary program is now live: www.grc.org/neural-mecha... We invite everyone to apply! See you @ Sunday River, Maine, May 31-June 5, 2026.
- Very clever use of unnatural playback stimuli to reveal the hierarchical logic of acoustic production in nightingales! Congratulations @danielavallentin.bsky.social and team.
- Nightingales are masters of imitation! New research shows: During territorial contests, a male matches a rival’s song in real time by tracking and imitating both, pitch and syllable duration. This shows a remarkable precision in hearing and vocal control. 🔗More: www.bi.mpg.de/news/2026-01-vallentin
- Reposted by Arkarup BanerjeeAdam Kampff prioritized spreading knowledge over publishing flashy papers in prestigious journals, but colleagues say his mark on neuroscience was undeniable. The researcher and educator passed away on 9 December. By Lauren Schneider www.thetransmitter.org/systems-neur...
- Seriously, who comes up with these idiotic tests? Also, wait, is there anyone who doesn’t put water on toothbrush before paste?
- AGI may arrive soon --- not because machines are getting smarter but because the bar set by humans keeps dropping!
- Elon Musk Predicts AGI by 2026 (He Predicted AGI by 2025 Last Year) gizmodo.com/elon-musk-pr...
- Reposted by Arkarup BanerjeeAdam Kampff’s passion for understanding and explaining the world was unmatched. Living by example and not ever compromising on his dreams, Adam was uncanny in making people realize they can learn and understand anything and everything. Keep his dream alive! In his own words: tinyurl.com/ye29csw3
- Reposted by Arkarup BanerjeeThis is tough. Adam Kampff was one of the most brilliant people that I have had the privilege to know. He was a wonderful and generous friend and colleague, a remarkable teacher and a visionary who inspired hundreds of others. He was a shining example to us all, and we will miss him very much.
- Reposted by Arkarup BanerjeeThe final version of the clonal raider ant reference brain is now out OA in @currentbiology.bsky.social: 🐜 🧠 🐜 🧠 🐜 🧠 🐜 🧠 🐜 🧠 🐜 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- New preprint from the lab: A reference brain for the clonal raider ant. With this resource, which is based on 40 individual brains, you can register and compare all kinds of samples in a common space. It comes with lots of detailed protocols and a user-friendly GUI. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by Arkarup BanerjeeThank you for having me on BrainInspired, Paul @braininspired.bsky.social! It was such an honor to be on my favorite show—a rare place where we can leisurely talk about manifolds, latent circuits, power laws, and other esoteric ideas, and still be taken seriously in knowing they are all real.
- Are manifolds real? Are latent circuits real? Tatiana @engeltatiana.bsky.social uses one, infers the other, and says yes to both. Also, how timescales are different and the same across the entire brain... braininspired.co/podcast/226/
- Reposted by Arkarup BanerjeeEver see a mouse stand on its hind legs and belt out a song?@xmikezheng20.bsky.social, @cliffscience.bsky.social, and @arkarupbanerjee.bsky.social track this behavior in Alston’s singing mice. See what it might say about the origins of communication. cshl.edu/singing-mice-speak-volumes/
- Reposted by Arkarup BanerjeeJoin us for Fall 2026. In our group, you can run studies from human behavior and neuroimaging, to large-scale NHP ephys, and join them up with a robust computational foundation. Bonus: you can help build the reading list.
- The Sensorimotor Superlab with @gribblelab.org and @andpru.bsky.social is a unique place to work and learn. We are now accepting MSc and PhD applications for Fall 2026. Join our awesome team at Western University... For application instructions see diedrichsenlab.org and gribblelab.org/join.html!
- Good point and certainly helps! Instead of a linear progression from left to right which is clearly erroneous, now all I see is a gaussian with humans having the highest complexity, which is still erroneous! #EvolutionIsHard
- New post by me on #MITPressReader @mitpress.bsky.social On the 100th anniversary of the #ScopesMonkeyTrial the ways we depict #evolution can still give an erroneous progressive view (that evolution leads to humans or ‘increased complexity’). thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/is-our-pictu...
- Reposted by Arkarup Banerjee(If you have no idea what we're talking about, you should read the paper anyways. And also you should join us at @braincoustics.bsky.social seminars) bsky.app/profile/brai...
- The next Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics seminar is happening in 2 weeks! Join us to learn all about the neuroscience and ecology of acoustic communication in mice from @cliffscience.bsky.social and @leo-perrier.bsky.social 🗓️ October 23rd @ 10:00 EST ✅ Register here: braincoustics.com
- Reposted by Arkarup BanerjeeHow do you build a brain that lets mice sing? 🎤🐭 If you enjoyed @cliffscience.bsky.social's talk @braincoustics.bsky.social on this work, now you can read it in @currentbiology.bsky.social! (w / 1st author @xmikezheng20.bsky.social, @arkarupbanerjee.bsky.social group) #prattle 💬 #neurosky
- Great @currentbiology.bsky.social study by @xmikezheng20.bsky.social @cliffscience.bsky.social @arkarupbanerjee.bsky.social 🧪🧠🐭🎶 Vocal repertoire expansion in singing mice by co-opting a conserved midbrain circuit node www.cell.com/current-biol...
- Reposted by Arkarup BanerjeeI am recruiting graduate students for the experimental side of my lab @mcgill.ca for admission in Fall 2026! Get in touch if you're interested in how brain circuits implement distributed computation, including dopamine-based distributed RL and probabilistic representations.
- As a longtime fan of cool papers in @currentbiology.bsky.social, I am really thrilled to see this out! This study sets the stage for understanding the origins of novel (vocal) behaviors. Big shout out to the main architects of this work @xmikezheng20.bsky.social and @cliffscience.bsky.social
- Great @currentbiology.bsky.social study by @xmikezheng20.bsky.social @cliffscience.bsky.social @arkarupbanerjee.bsky.social 🧪🧠🐭🎶 Vocal repertoire expansion in singing mice by co-opting a conserved midbrain circuit node www.cell.com/current-biol...
- Almost everyone from my lab is at #SfN25. Check out what we have been up to! Unfortunately I have to miss it due to a recent ankle surgery. #FOMO
- Reposted by Arkarup BanerjeeIf you are at #SfN2025, don't miss Huihui's poster tomorrow (Sunday) morning at MM6 (PSTR095.13)! He has developed methods for barcoded connectomics across many vertebrates, from frogs to NHPs, and is comparing the single-cell anatomy of the song systems of zebra finches and parrots!
- Reposted by Arkarup BanerjeeExcited to share that I received #Sfn2025 ‘s Professional Trainee Development Award! Check out my poster M9 “Dopamine dynamics in the nucleus accumbens during maternal behavior in postpartum and virgin CBA/CaJ mice” tonight at the Early Career Development Session, 6:45–8:45 p.m.
- Reposted by Arkarup BanerjeeDo flies feel pain? Spooky new preprint from our lab on the cells and circuits that mediate nociceptive behaviors in adult Drosophila, led by graduate student (and newly minted PhD!) @jonesjes.bsky.social. 🪰⚡👻🎃 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by Arkarup BanerjeeThe Tschida Lab is recruiting a new PhD student this cycle! We have ongoing projects related to (1) neural circuits that regulate vocal communication across behavioral contexts and/or development and (2) motor control of different vocalization types. Please RT! Strong neuro background a plus.
- Reposted by Arkarup BanerjeeOne week until this fantastic seminar with speakers @cliffscience.bsky.social and @leo-perrier.bsky.social Register here for the link! braincoustics.com #bioacoustics #neuroskyence
- The next Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics seminar is happening in 2 weeks! Join us to learn all about the neuroscience and ecology of acoustic communication in mice from @cliffscience.bsky.social and @leo-perrier.bsky.social 🗓️ October 23rd @ 10:00 EST ✅ Register here: braincoustics.com
- Reposted by Arkarup BanerjeeOur latest study on the neurobiology of collective behavior is now posted as a preprint, led by UCSD PhD student Jo-Hsien Yu @anitajhyu.bsky.social @ucsandiego.bsky.social @danionella.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Thanks Anne for sharing! This seems like a fantastic resource 👇🏽
- Wanna better understand what society has gained from research? This website crowd-sources societal benefits that stem from US government-funded research publicusaresearchbenefits.com
- Reposted by Arkarup BanerjeeDo you plot transcriptomic data, coloring each cell by its cell type? ~ Don't use a default colormap! ~ Instead, use colormaps that capture biological meaning. If two cell types are very similar, their colors should be similar too. Read on 🧵 🧬💻
- Congrats Felix @mollfw.bsky.social and team. Really interesting behavioral study setting the stage for subsequent neurobiological investigations! 👇🏽
- New paper on precise tool use learning in carrion crows @currentbiology.bsky.social. We show that—like New Caledonian crows—expert carrion crows pay close attention to the working end of their tool, suggesting tool integration into their peripersonal space. 🧵 & vids! 👇 www.cell.com/current-biol...
- Reposted by Arkarup Banerjee🚨 We’re hiring a postdoc! 🚨 Excited for our new NiCE grant with @lauerlab.bsky.social @batwoman123.bsky.social 🎉We use a comparative approach, two-photon imaging & optogenetics to identify why bats🦇 and deer mice resist noise but lab mice don't. If you're interested, please DM or e-mail me!
- The Kavli Foundation & #NSF announce four new NiCE grants to study how brains adapt to a changing world - linking genes, cells, behavior, and ecosystems. From bees to bats to jellyfish, check out the 2025 awardees. Learn more here: bit.ly/4fYz8vK #KavliNeuro #Neuroscience
- Nice thread! I also use AI for coding on a regular basis. It increases efficiency only if you are already an expert. On the other hand, unlike grad students, it never gets tired and is always polite!
- Reposted by Arkarup BanerjeeDo you know an outstanding early career researcher in the NCM Community? Nominate them for the Early Career Award! Deadline for nominations is Sept 8 and more details can be found on the website - ncm-society.org/awards/
- Reposted by Arkarup Banerjee1/ Mapping synaptic connectivity between individual neurons is extremely laborious. We developed BRISC, a new method that makes it possible to map inputs onto 100s of neurons in the same animal in a matter of weeks! Led by Alex Becalick and @antblot.bsky.social. 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Very interesting thread! I really like “Principles of Neural Design” by Sterling and Laughlin. It doesn’t shy away from biological details but presents it in a form that is appearing to engineers and physicists.
- Silly typo.. *appealing
- Reposted by Arkarup BanerjeeIf you're into math and music, you'll probably love this in-depth video by my friend Henry! www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCsl... And it features an interactive about dissonance that I put together years ago: aatishb.com/dissonance/
- Really enjoyed this summer’s lab trip to fire island, NY!
- Couldn’t agree more! Evolutionary perspective is a guiding principle for most projects in our lab.👇🏽
- To identify fundamental neuroscientific principles that generalize across species, systems and circuits, neuroscientists must embrace an evolutionary perspective, argue Karl Farrow and @katjareinhard.bsky.social. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/systems-neur...
- Reposted by Arkarup BanerjeeMechanisms and control of a novel vocalization: The Alston singing mouse song is a whistle that depends on the inflation of the ventral pouch –an enlarged intralaryngeal air sac– laryngeal airflow, and cricothyroid muscle action By @evolbrain.bsky.social et al. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by Arkarup BanerjeeCome visit Calcutta in the last week of August and see some amazing neuroscientists talk about the neural basis of behaviour at @behaviour2025.bsky.social With @neuroetho.bsky.social @danielavallentin.bsky.social @selmaan.bsky.social @arkarupbanerjee.bsky.social and Michael Brecht!
- Next-generation of barcoded projection mapping techniques: MAPseq2 and POINTseq! Congratulations @justuskebschull.bsky.social and team.
- Excited to share the first 2(!) preprints from the Kebschull Lab. The amazing @hyopilkim.bsky.social developed MAPseq2 & POINTseq and used them to map the dopaminergic cells of VTA and SNc. tl;dr MAPseq2=10x cheaper, 4x better; POINTseq=easy cell type specific barcoding; DA neurons=very cool.
- Delighted to receive the McKnight Scholar Award! Great to see many friends and colleagues on this year's list. It's a real privilege to be able to pursue an academic life probing nature's mysteries—huge thanks to my lab members and @cshlnews.bsky.social for making it all possible.
- CSHL Assistant Professor Arkarup Banerjee has been named a 2025 McKnight Scholar, one of neuroscience’s most prestigious early-career honors. www.cshl.edu/arkarup-bane...
- The Roland Garros final — Sinner vs. Alcaraz — is turning out to be real special!
- What a comeback by Carlos Alcaraz! The pure joy of first-rate sports is something to savor in these troubled times.
- Reposted by Arkarup Banerjeeongoing...a new edition of TENSS (www.tenss.ro). thanks to the wonderful people that make it happen yet again!
- Reposted by Arkarup BanerjeeOur work with Pablo Tano, @hyunggoo-kim.bsky.social Athar Malik, Alexandre Pouget and @naoshigeuchida.bsky.social exploring how dopamine neurons could enable multi-timescale reinforcement learning in the brain is out in @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Arkarup BanerjeeHere is the collective effort of 12 labs, lead by my own at the Broad to target the range of cortical interneuron subtypes! These tools should be a game changer for all of you using NHP and other less genetically amenable species! Have at it! urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=htt...
