Pavan Agrawal

Our paper is out in eLife: DANCE. We combine machine learning with accessible hardware to quantify Drosophila social behaviors. Low-cost behavioral rigs are not a compromise, they are a design philosophy. Accessibility changes the questions we can ask. elifesciences.org/articles/105465

In behavioral neuroscience, more assays do not always clarify a question. Clearer experimental structure often does. In behavioral work, design choices upstream shape everything downstream.

@Amanjsingh1996 Thanks Aman!

@PavanAgrawalLab Congratulations Pavan and team!

Our paper is out in eLife: DANCE. We combine machine learning with accessible hardware to quantify Drosophila social behaviors. Low-cost behavioral rigs are not a compromise, they are a design philosophy. Accessibility changes the questions we can ask. elifesciences.org/articles/105465

All code, hardware schematics, and analysis pipelines are open-source and available on GitHub: github.com/agrawallab/DAN…

We thank the funding support by @DBTIndia and @ANRFIndia and @kmc_manipal @MAHE_Manipal for infrastructural support. We acknowledge the co-authors for the sustained effort in validating the pipeline across various environments.

Tool building often moves the field faster than incremental experiments. I learned this from @LoogerL whose approach to designing new tools shaped how I think about neuroscience.

Monalisa Ghosh, PhD student in Groschner Lab, University of Graz, NavinChandra Puppala, PhD student, & Paulami Dey, research intern, at the Sillies Lab, University of Mainz and co first author on our eLife paper. Always good to see students progressing well.

Good to meet 3 former trainees who were visiting Manipal. All of them have been in their current labs for over a year now and it was nice to hear how they are doing.

More than a decade in and I still love how a tiny behavioral shift can open up an entire genetic mechanism. That moment when a puzzle suddenly falls into place never gets old. Glad to have students who chase those moments with the same curiosity!

Closing soon, 🎓 Calling #Masters graduates in Biological Sciences with National Fellowships! Join us at @ManipalUni to study aggression, sleep & neurodegeneration in Drosophila.

🚀 We’re hiring! Two fully funded PhD positions in Neuroscience & Behavior at the Agrawal Lab, Centre for Molecular Neurosciences, @MAHE_Manipal . 🧬🐛 National Fellowship holders encouraged. 🔬 #PhDOpening #Neuroscience #Drosophila #AcademicTwitter

Huge thanks to @MIRM_blr & @SvetaKotak for organizing & hosting me! Loved the audience’s engaging questions, interdisciplinary discussions like these drive innovation! #RegenerativeMedicine #ML #Neuroscience

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Excited to share the first preprint of our lab. Here we created a robust mouse model of #Parkinsons by injecting AAV6-α-synuclein & PFFs into the substantia nigra. This model recapitulates key features of PD, enabling mechanistic & therapeutic studies.biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

@AnjuShukla21 Thank you 🙂

@PavanAgrawalLab Congratulations Pavan 💐💐

🪰 We're thrilled to kick off the year ✨with a new preprint from our lab: 'DANCE – An Open-Source Analysis Pipeline and Low-Cost Hardware to Quantify Aggression and Courtship in Drosophila.' Let’s dive in! 🧵 #DANCE #innovation #ScienceTwitter #AIML #ML biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

@PCReddyMouli1 Thanks Mouli

Congratulations..!

@deeptrivedivyas Thanks Deepti!

@PavanAgrawalLab So cool. Congratulations 🎊

@SheebaVasu Thanks Sheeba, that would be great! Let us know how you like it.

Congrats @PavanAgrawalLab team for your efforts in getting this together and out. Looking forward to trying it out soon

@ViditaVaidya Thanks Vidita for the encouraging comments during the EMBO conference.

Congratulations -@PavanAgrawalLab - wonderful to see this out

@baskarb11 Thanks Baskar!

@PavanAgrawalLab Wonderful behaviour setup. Congratulations to you and your team!