@princetonneuro.bsky.social first-years out in full force!🐯🧠 #sfn25

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My thesis work is out! 🪰

We often link pain to mammals—sometimes exclusively humans—but what about flies?

Thanks to @tuthill.bsky.social for supporting a funky, fun project, and to @NIH & @hhmi.org for funding over the past half decade!

Do 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.

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www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

We had a nice CS & Behavioral Neurosci student workshop yesterday given by @alleninstitute.org scientists and @wwu.edu alums! Thanks to @sejdevries.bsky.social and Su-Yee and Feng for organizing

The Agrawal lab is moving! This January we will be setting up shop at #UBC in Vancouver, in the department of #Zoology! We are actively recruiting at all levels, especially masters and PhD students. These position are #funded! Please send anyone interested my way!

Now out in @nature.com: Our study discovering a neural circuit in Drosophila that predictively inhibits proprioceptor axons during voluntary leg movements, such as walking and grooming. www.nature.com/articles/s41...