Abhilasha Joshi, PhD
Neuroscientist studying interactions between cognition, action & timing
Lab website: neuroact.in
Group Leader | NeuroACTLab @NCBS_Bangalore | SCAgingBrain fellow ➡️ faculty | Previously: @Neuro_CF @UCSF @UniofOxford @IiserMohali
- Reposted by Abhilasha Joshi, PhD📆 updated for 2026! list of summer schools & short courses in the realm of (computational) neuroscience or data analysis of EEG / MEG / LFP: 🔗 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
- Reposted by Abhilasha Joshi, PhDTime Cells in the Human Brain Support Working Memory Maintenance www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
- Reposted by Abhilasha Joshi, PhDIn 2021, Sama Ahmed received our Fellows-to-Faculty Award to establish his lab at @uwpsychology.bsky.social, where he focuses on the neurobiology of multitasking: simonsfoundation.org/fellows-to-faculty-… #science #neuroscience
- Reposted by Abhilasha Joshi, PhDRecent review about long-range axons rdcu.be/eXeDG
- Reposted by Abhilasha Joshi, PhDThrilled this is out, led by former PD Cameron Ogg (now with her own lab at @rhodescollege.bsky.social!). It was a driven by a desire to see, in real-time, how LC activity/NE release influences downstream targets in behaving animals. SO hard to do, but Cameron did it! www.cell.com/cell-reports...
- Reposted by Abhilasha Joshi, PhDExcited to share our book chapter on method development advances in integrative structural modeling in Springer Handbooks now online! @shreyasarvindekar.bsky.social @kartikmajila.bsky.social doi.org/10.1007/978-...
- Reposted by Abhilasha Joshi, PhDFellows-to-Faculty awardee Abhilasha Joshi used her award establish her lab at the National Center for Biological Sciences. Read more about her work: simonsfoundation.org/fellows-to-faculty-… #neuroscience
- Reposted by Abhilasha Joshi, PhDThis month’s newsletter features the debut of “Frameshift,” a new series in which neuroscientists with careers outside the lab discuss their work and how they made the transition. Sign up for the newsletter: www.thetransmitter.org/newsletters-... #neuroskyence
- Reposted by Abhilasha Joshi, PhD🧠📢 New preprint alert Large-scale ephys is exploding but spike sorting remains the computational bottleneck. A 2-hr, 6-probe Neuropixels 2.0 Quad Base session can take over a week to sort on a single machine. Here's a better solution. 🧵 #neuroskyence #compneurosky
- Reposted by Abhilasha Joshi, PhDWhat the Frog's Eye Tells the Frog's Brain 🐸👁️🧠https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/4065609 - A little embarrassed to admit I've just read this classic paper for the first time and I'm glad I did! 😊
- Reposted by Abhilasha Joshi, PhDInterested in applying for our Fellows-to-Faculty Award? Watch the recording of our informational webinar for more details on the program: simonsfoundation.org/grant/fellows-to-fa… #science
- Enjoyed listening to Jee Hyun Kim from Deakin University, Australia share with us her research on #bipolardisorder #IAN2025 Love it when scientists bring their whole self to their work 👏🏽 experts.deakin.edu.au/53193-jee-hy... Also reminded us to join @network-alba.bsky.social — Do now 🙌🏽
- Beautiful work by #AbhishekBhattacharya at @ncbsbangalore.bsky.social on their discoveries led by graduate student Atal Vats. Impressive body of work 🦾 on structure, regulation and function of heterochannel electrical synapses. Check recently preprinted work ➡️ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🪱
- Great talk by @leenaibrahim.bsky.social from KAUST on her beautiful work characterising the L1 and L4 interneurons and how they differ based on sensory and other inputs and connections 👏🏽 Great to have her visit at #IndianAcademyofNeuroscinces meeting in Kovalum 😎 www.kaust.edu.sa/study/faculty
- Great talk by new faculty at NBRC #DhananjayHuligol on the role of progenitors in neural diversification. How impressive that they build an entire method to address this question 👏🏽 www.nbrc.ac.in/newweb/resea...
- Next up is my colleague #HiyaaGosh at @ncbsbangalore.bsky.social talking about new observations in her lab about #memory #engrams. www.ncbs.res.in/faculty/hiyaa
- Next up is my colleague #HiyaaGosh at @ncbsbangalore.bsky.social talking about new observations in her lab about #memory #engrams. www.ncbs.res.in/faculty/hiyaa
- Finally get to see and hear @wormlockholmes.bsky.social for the first time. She’s speaking about cool results about interactions between #actin and #mitochondria. How nice to see the link all the way from cell and molecules to the behavioural implications! ➡️ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40994018/
- Finally get to see and hear @wormlockholmes.bsky.social for the first time. She’s speaking about cool results about interactions between #actin and #mitochondria. How nice to see the link all the way from cell and molecules to the behavioural implications! ➡️ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40994018/
- Nice talk by #GargiMandal (PhD student) in the CenSe lab (led by Dr Vini Gautam www.cense.iisc.ac.in/vini-gautam/). Cool #engineering work on fabricating PDMS micropillars. So beautiful to see hippocampal neurite alignment following the physical structure of the #fabricated pillars 😎
- Nice talk by #GargiMandal (PhD student) in the CenSe lab (led by Dr Vini Gautam www.cense.iisc.ac.in/vini-gautam/). Cool #engineering work on fabricating PDMS micropillars. So beautiful to see hippocampal neurite alignment following the physical structure of the #fabricated pillars 😎
- Next up is #AurnabGhose from IISER Pune talking about their labs latest work on #cytoskeletal mechanisms regulating #axon collateral branching. Check out his labs work here: neuronalconnectivity.wixsite.com/start
- Next up is #AurnabGhose from IISER Pune talking about their labs latest work on #cytoskeletal mechanisms regulating #axon collateral branching. Check out his labs work here: neuronalconnectivity.wixsite.com/start
- Here at #Indian academy of #neuroscience meeting in the beautiful city of Kovalam in Kerala share.google/EzLqUeTwCeDw... ♥️ @sbaulac.bsky.social is giving the opening talk on brain mosaicism in epilepsy and cortical malformations #epilepsy.
- Here at #Indian academy of #neuroscience meeting in the beautiful city of Kovalam in Kerala share.google/EzLqUeTwCeDw... ♥️ @sbaulac.bsky.social is giving the opening talk on brain mosaicism in epilepsy and cortical malformations #epilepsy.
- Schedule here: www.rgcb.res.in/IAN2025/
- Reposted by Abhilasha Joshi, PhDTravel awards are available for undergraduate students looking to attend #Cosyne25! The application is short, and the deadline is Nov 12. @cosynemeeting.bsky.social Application: shorturl.at/6NEyk More info: www.cosyne.org/travel-grants (1/2)
- Reposted by Abhilasha Joshi, PhDExcited to have 2 papers accepted at @neuripsconf.bsky.social 2025 - Reliable ML Workshop. Paper #1: openreview.net/forum?id=9Ue... Paper #2: openreview.net/forum?id=0MW... I’ll briefly summarize the work below. (Links above if you want to get right to the papers) THREAD 🧵 Please RT. (1/N)
- Check out this #incredible work on #stability and #control during movement across #humans, #mice, and #flies. Congratulations @nidhise.bsky.social and @antoinecomite.bsky.social 👏🏽⭐
- Excited that this work discovering cross-species signatures of stabilizing foot placement control is now out in PNAS! pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... @antoinecomite.bsky.social
- Reposted by Abhilasha Joshi, PhDWhat is plant nutation? What is a motif in science? What lessons does ecological psychology have for neuroscience? How does Vicente @diovicen.bsky.social enjoy the band Judas Priest yet still do good philosophy and science? Here are the answers: braininspired.co/podcast/223/
- Reposted by Abhilasha Joshi, PhDNew paper out today on hippocampus neuron morphology in homing and feral pigeons. 🧵 link.springer.com/article/10.1... #neuroskyence #neuroethology #anatomy
- Reposted by Abhilasha Joshi, PhDWe are really excited about what comes next in this system. We think it opens the door to ask, "why does neuron number matter?" i.e., - what does adding more neurons to a circuit do to affect behavior? And, shameless plug, I'm on the job market looking for the opportunity to do just that :)
- You have to read @kelseytea.bsky.social excellent work on dexterity in deer mice evolved in forest vs prairie habitats. A powerful example of cross species comparisons to study principles of motor control ✅
- Reposted by Abhilasha Joshi, PhDWe (I and @willenjoy.bsky.social) created a toolbox for simulations of EEG/MEG because we needed to simulate data. Our initial aim was to simulate connectivity. For this short clip, I simulated two sources with phase connectivity using our toolbox. #brainmovie meegsim.readthedocs.io/en/stable/in...
- Reposted by Abhilasha Joshi, PhDInterested in the brain, circuits, and behavior? Enjoy tinkering and asking bold questions in neuroscience? The Forli Lab (IIT, Genova, Italy) is hiring! 🧠 🔬 🟩◻️🟥->🍕🚫🍍 Check out our website for updates: sites.google.com/view/forli-lab
- Reposted by Abhilasha Joshi, PhD** We have up to TWO funded PhD positions available in our lab!! Apply below to find new ways to enhance memory👇 Pls retweet ** Deadline: 2nd December 1. Cross-species closed-loopTMR: tinyurl.com/bddu4tp6 2. TUS and TMR in humans: tinyurl.com/jjws5ctj Happy to chat to interested applicants.
- Reposted by Abhilasha Joshi, PhD📣 BIG NEWS EVERYONE. I am so excited to announce… 🎉 I’m moving to University College London @ucl.ac.uk to join the Experimental Psychology department in @uclpals.bsky.social! 🎉 The big move happens in spring/summer. So I’m already exploring recruiting staff & students at UCL for fall 2026!
- Reposted by Abhilasha Joshi, PhDLab’s 1st preprint! Menstruation is understudied due to societal taboos + a biological challenge: mice (a key system for research + drug discovery) don’t menstruate. @cagricevrim.bsky.social made menstruating mice + used them to discover early events in menstruation. He is on the job market!
- I’m thrilled to share my postdoc work and the first paper from the McKinley Lab! 🎉 @karalmckinley.bsky.social We built the first transgenic model of menstruation in mice. We used it to uncover how the endometrium organizes and sheds during menstruation. 🧪 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵
- Reposted by Abhilasha Joshi, PhDInteresting new data on BTSP mechanisms from my old Janelia colleague @hiallen72.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by Abhilasha Joshi, PhDFor those interested in open neuroscience learning tools, check out the preprint for “RetINaBox: A hands-on tool for experimental neuroscience" that a couple students in my lab worked on in collaboration with the Trenholm lab: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧠📈 🧪
- Reposted by Abhilasha Joshi, PhDReally incredible work to tease apart the contributions of theta oscillations and hippocampal replay! Great evidence that theta is coordinating pairs and populations of neurons, which is necessary for learning
- 1/ 🚨 New preprint! 🚨 Excited and proud (& a little nervous 😅) to share our latest work on the importance of #theta-timescale spiking during #locomotion in #learning. If you care about how organisms learn, buckle up. 🧵👇 📄 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 💻 code + data 🔗 below 🤩 #neuroskyence
- Reposted by Abhilasha Joshi, PhDHow is valence computed in the brain? Check out our new preprint about a single cell that integrates excitatory and inhibitory input across modalities according to valence and impacts behavioral decisions. An exciting collaboration across many labs. Enjoy reading! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by Abhilasha Joshi, PhDNew paper in Nature Biomedical Engineering by @timonmerk.bsky.social ! We built a platform that unites AI-based brain signal decoding with connectomics across 123 hours of recordings from 73 patients. A step toward adaptive, network-level neurotechnology. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Abhilasha Joshi, PhDVery excited and proud to share my postdoctoral research with @neurrriot.bsky.social looking at the context-specific encoding of social behavior 💃🕺 in hormone-sensitive, large-scale brain networks in mice! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #neuroskyence #compneurosky 🧪 1/12
- Reposted by Abhilasha Joshi, PhD1/8 How can the brain create countless unique memories using a single, universal metric of space? We’ve been waiting for the answer to this for two decades! Read it here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- 1/5 How does the brain turn the low-dimensional, universal grid cell metric into the rich, diverse codes needed for memory in hippocampal place cells? 🧵 Preprint link 👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- What an excellent read ✅👏🏽 Highly recommend! I loved how the author (Evelyn Fox Keller) really dived deep into the concept of “understanding” or a feeling for the organism and on the role of “intuition” in making discoveries. A lot to think about too: few permanent positions, science in war …!
- 1/ Something surreal happened to me recently 🍀 I ordered “A Feeling for the Organism” — Evelyn Fox Keller’s biography of #BarbaraMcClintock, the 1983 Nobel prize winner who discovered “jumping genes.” 🧬
- Reposted by Abhilasha Joshi, PhDInteresting theta sequence-replay-learning relationships! Consistent with Winson's '78 work on theta disruption impairing learning and our (Farooq & Dragoi '19; DOI: 10.1126/science.aav0502) work on emergence of preplay and waking rest replay prior to theta sequences during rat postnatal development
- 1/ 🚨 New preprint! 🚨 Excited and proud (& a little nervous 😅) to share our latest work on the importance of #theta-timescale spiking during #locomotion in #learning. If you care about how organisms learn, buckle up. 🧵👇 📄 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 💻 code + data 🔗 below 🤩 #neuroskyence
- Reposted by Abhilasha Joshi, PhDNWB just turned 10 years old! Researchers worldwide have downloaded 1.9 PB of NWB data from @dandiarchive.org. This animation shows the reach of NWB, facilitating collaboration across the globe. What impact has open neurophysiology data had on your science? Share your stories! 🧠 @openscience
- Reposted by Abhilasha Joshi, PhDBeautiful work showing a link between hippocampal theta sequence and learning, but not subsequent replay.
- 1/ 🚨 New preprint! 🚨 Excited and proud (& a little nervous 😅) to share our latest work on the importance of #theta-timescale spiking during #locomotion in #learning. If you care about how organisms learn, buckle up. 🧵👇 📄 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 💻 code + data 🔗 below 🤩 #neuroskyence
- 1/ 🚨 New preprint! 🚨 Excited and proud (& a little nervous 😅) to share our latest work on the importance of #theta-timescale spiking during #locomotion in #learning. If you care about how organisms learn, buckle up. 🧵👇 📄 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 💻 code + data 🔗 below 🤩 #neuroskyence
- 2/ We started by asking a simple question 🤔 👉 Are neural activity patterns observed in the #hippocampus during #locomotion (like #theta & #theta #sequences) essential for learning spatial relationships in a novel environment?
- 3/ (aside) Why focus on #locomotion? 👀 We see gorgeous spatial sequences ('theta sequences') while animals move (data example below from Joshi et al., 2023). These are thought to support #learning, but disrupting them *specifically during locomotion* has been hard.
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