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Sreeparna Pradhan

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K. Lisa Yang Brain-Body Center Postdoctoral Fellow at Steve Flavell's Lab @Picower Inst, MIT | PhD from Michael Hendricks' Lab @IPN, McGill Univ | Animal behavior | Neuroscience | Open science

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Sreeparna Pradhan @sreeparnap.bsky.social · Apr 7

Thrilled to share this in its final, published form! Huge thanks to the reviewers for their insightful feedback—it truly opened up exciting new directions!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Steven Cook @dumpyunc.bsky.social · 1d

Our group at the Allen Institute is recruiting a technician and postdoc to work on light microscopy-based connectomics. Please DM me or share with anyone you think may be interested in this NIH BRAIN CONNECTS funded project.

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Alex Nelson @alxnelson.bsky.social · 4d

Roseate spoonbills will splash their wings through the water as part of their beauty routine. Here's one doing so mid-splash, facing straight ahead towards the camera. I really love this shot. #birds

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Sreeparna Pradhan @sreeparnap.bsky.social · 8d

Congratulations! Very cool work!

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Kyle Horton @kyle-horton.bsky.social · 14d

Truly impressive number of birds migrating tonight. More than 800 MILLION birds up in the air right now❗ #BirdMigration

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Matt Rockman @wormsrock.bsky.social · 14d

C. elegans is a real animal and we set out to understand how it comes to have its distinctive biogeography. Its ancestral center of diversity is in the higher elevation forests of Hawaii. Its closest relatives are spread across east Asia. Did they travel from Asia? [Preprint 🧵]

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Sreeparna Pradhan @sreeparnap.bsky.social · 14d

Congratulations Surojit! Looking forward to reading this 😊

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Surojit Sural @surojitsural.bsky.social · 14d

Very excited to share this finding from my postdoctoral work that is now published in #ScienceAdvances. We show how the gut’s epithelium modifies enteric behaviors during nutritional adversity via distinct peptidergic signaling axes.

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Gut epithelium modifies enteric behaviors during nutritional adversity via distinct peptidergic signaling axes

Gut epithelium modulates output from distinct enteric circuits by altering secretion of insulin and noninsulin peptides.

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Sreeparna Pradhan @sreeparnap.bsky.social · 22d

Such a "cheesy" story!

Benjamin Wolfe @benwolfe.bsky.social · 22d

Such a delight to share our work on the evolution of a cheese rind fungus in @currentbiology.bsky.social.

This is the fantastic PhD work of @nicolasleonlouw.bsky.social and resulted from amazing collaborations, a wedding proposal(!), an undergrad course, & more!

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Long-term monitoring of a North American cheese cave reveals mechanisms and consequences of fungal adaptation

Using a unique longitudinal sampling approach, Louw et al. demonstrate how a cheese-associated Penicillium population has adapted in an artisan cheese production facility in Vermont, USA. Adaptation i...

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Sreeparna Pradhan @sreeparnap.bsky.social · 29d

So happy for you! This is truly a special office 😊

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Miriam B. Goodman, PhD @wormsense.bsky.social · Sep 6

Please help me to celebrate Mei Zhen, an innovator and tremendous collaborator, named to the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science on September 4, 2025

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Ann Kennedy @antihebbiann.bsky.social · Aug 22

Can't wait to read this preprint from Misha Ahrens and team. Calcium imaging in larval zebrafish, in every cell in the body! Amazing.

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

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Greg Jefferis @jefferis.bsky.social · Aug 21

Neuronal diversity is written in transcriptional codes 🧬. But what is the logic of these codes that define cell types and wiring patterns?
To find out we built a #scRNAseq developmental atlas of the Drosophila nerve cord and linked it to the #connectome 🪰🧠
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ALT text: A UMAP representation of a single cell RNAseq dataset from the Drosophila ventral nerve cord as well as images of the Drosophila nerve cord connectome and different stages of fly development.

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Philipp Brand @pbrand.bsky.social · Aug 21

Exciting new Ruta lab preprint by @annaryba.bsky.social et al. on the neural underpinnings of intraspecific behavioral variation: Strain variation identifies a neural substrate for behavioral evolution Drosophila

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Strain variation identifies a neural substrate for behavioral evolution in Drosophila

Sexual selection acts on heritable differences within species, driving the parallel diversification of signal production in one sex and behavioral responses in the other. This coevolution implies that...

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Sreeparna Pradhan @sreeparnap.bsky.social · Aug 21

Looking forward to reading! Congrats Anna, Philipp, and other authors 🎉

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Michael Hendricks 🇨🇦 @michaelhendricks.bsky.social · Aug 20

New preprint: Scientists, how many times has this happened to you? You collect all kinds of data from a camera or microscope. But then you are faced with an analysis pipeline that threatens to take 100x longer than collecting the data did!

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Michael Hendricks 🇨🇦 @michaelhendricks.bsky.social · Aug 20

The pipeline is hardware-agnostic, scales to system capabilities, and will improve along with the underlying foundation models. Very little fine tuning is required to tailor it to a large range of use cases.

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Large vision model framework for automated C. elegans analysis: From static morphometry to dynamic neural activity

Quantitative phenotyping of Caenorhabditis elegans is essential across numerous fields, yet data extraction remains a significant analytical bottleneck. Traditional segmentation methods, typically rel...

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Sreeparna Pradhan @sreeparnap.bsky.social · Aug 20

Amazing! Looking forward to reading this.
Congratulations Lilly!🥳🎉

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Javier Apfeld @javierapfeld.bsky.social · Aug 13

The funds are approved! We're hiring a postdoc to build a CRISPRa toolkit to identify new aging mechanisms in C. elegans.

Email or DM me to find out more. Please share & repost!

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Sreeparna Pradhan @sreeparnap.bsky.social · Aug 12

Congratulations!🎉

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Steven Cook @dumpyunc.bsky.social · Jul 31

Happy to share our publication - Comparative connectomics of two distantly related nematode species reveals patterns of nervous system evolution www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Comparative connectomics of two distantly related nematode species reveals patterns of nervous system evolution

Understanding the evolution of the bilaterian brain requires a detailed exploration of the precise nature of cellular and subcellular differences between related species. We undertook an electron micr...

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Sreeparna Pradhan @sreeparnap.bsky.social · Jul 30

Congrats Drew!🎉

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Sreeparna Pradhan @sreeparnap.bsky.social · Jul 28

Congratulations Anjali and Piali 🎉

Sreeparna Pradhan @sreeparnap.bsky.social · Jul 23

Congrats Felix!🎉

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Le Neuro (Institut-Hôpital neurologique de Montréal) @theneuro.bsky.social · Jul 15

Happy 107th Birthday, Brenda Milner! Her contributions to neuropsychology shaped the way we understand the human brain. From surviving two world wars and two pandemics, to paving the way for future generations of researchers, Milner’s legacy continues. @mcgill.ca @cusm-muhc.bsky.social

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Sreeparna Pradhan @sreeparnap.bsky.social · Jul 6

May all the good memories bring you comfort today.