Vatsala Thirumalai @VatsalaT Twitter profile

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Vatsala Thirumalai

@VatsalaT

4 years

I want to talk about how I got here, as too often we take things for granted and forget the fights that made them possible. 1/n

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@VatsalaT

4 years

Thank you @CSIRIND for the 2020 SSB award in Biological Sciences! I feel honored and overwhelmed by all the wishes pouring in! Thanks to everyone who has sent messages and tweeted about this! This is beyond belief! 1/n

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Vatsala Thirumalai

@VatsalaT

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There may be several reasons why #WomenInSTEM are underrepresented. But there is only one reason why I am here: my parents set me free; let me choose what I wanted to do in my life; and supported those choices with all that they had.

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Vatsala Thirumalai

@VatsalaT

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My lab @NCBS_Bangalore now has positions available: PhD/JRF positions available for those with fellowship. One fully funded post-doctoral position is available. I am looking for recent PhDs with some experience in microscopy (or) zebrafish (or) any neuroscience. Email or DM

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Vatsala Thirumalai

@VatsalaT

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Thank you @dgcsirIndia for mailing my SSB award. It is an honor to be able to finally hold it. But guess this means no award ceremony? More than me, my family was looking forward to the awards function 😒

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@VatsalaT

4 years

Every human, regardless of gender, deserves to live the life they want, not one that is imposed upon them by social strictures.

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@VatsalaT

2 years

Today we minted another brand new PhD! Congratulations @SahanaSitaraman for a fantastic PhD Thesis defense! Here she is in a file picture when she finally 'saw the light'! (And yes it took a lot of pizza :-)

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Vatsala Thirumalai

@VatsalaT

3 years

First in person lab meet in 17 months!

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Vatsala Thirumalai

@VatsalaT

6 months

My very first PhD student Mohini Sengupta gives a fantastic talk @cshlmeetings #CSHLzebrafish meeting. Mohini is currently a newly minted faculty/PI @SLU_Official And she has positions open!

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Vatsala Thirumalai

@VatsalaT

2 years

Unpopular opinion: Editors, when you desk-reject a paper on the grounds that it is not novel "in the context of wider literature", can you please include at least one paper which you think makes essentially the same point?

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Vatsala Thirumalai

@VatsalaT

4 years

This Saturday I will present a public lecture on my research hosted by @CSIR_IND @dgcsirIndia @shekhar_mande . Do catch it online at the links given below! @India_Alliance @serbonline @TIFRScience @DBTIndia

CSIR, India

@CSIR_IND

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Exploring Science with Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Winners-2020 On 10 Oct 2020, 11.00 a.m., join us for the #PopularScience lectures by the two Prize Winners in #BiologicalSciences @VatsalaT @NCBS_Bangalore @Subhade68512667 @DBT_CDFD @GVRayasam @Shekhar_Mande @PrinSciAdvGoI

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Vatsala Thirumalai

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3 years

Delighted to learn that Poonam Mishra, post doctoral fellow in my lab, has been awarded the @India_Alliance #earlycareer fellowship! She is an @iiscbangalore and @Mbu_Iisc alumna. Looking forward to doing some great science @NCBS_Bangalore !

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@VatsalaT

2 years

Recent PhD graduate from my lab, @SahanaSitaraman talks about why #WomenInSTEM matters. Powerful.

Infosys Prize

@InfosysPrize

2 years

"Science has the ability to spark joy and curiosity in people of all ages. Participating in this process can teach young women to think for themselves and be innovative to fix problems they encounter." - @SahanaSitaraman , PhD Student, @NCBS_Bangalore #WomenInSTEM #WomenInScience

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Vatsala Thirumalai

@VatsalaT

9 months

Newly minted PhD from the Meen lab! Congratulations Dr. Aalok Varma @varmaalok22 What a fantastic thesis seminar and defense! Time to 🥳🎉🎈 @NCBS_Bangalore

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Vatsala Thirumalai

@VatsalaT

4 years

I am the first and until now, the only Ph.D degree holder in my family. When I was born, my grandmother told my father, “You are very unlucky!” as I was his third daughter. This was a commonly prevailing mindset in the Chennai of 1970’s.

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@VatsalaT

4 years

In our patriarchal society, it is unthinkable not to save up for your daughters’ weddings (especially when there are three!) but instead send them to good schools and colleges.

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@VatsalaT

4 years

Where I am today as a #WomanInSTEM who is enjoying her passion and getting recognized for it, was unthinkable for most women less than half a century ago and continues to be a distant dream for many girls in our country. 2/n

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Vatsala Thirumalai

@VatsalaT

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We are at it again! Proud of @SriramRN1 who became Dr. Sriram Narayanan! Congratulations Sriram! Expecting great things from you! @NCBS_Bangalore

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Vatsala Thirumalai

@VatsalaT

3 years

This tweet is a bit late: Ms. Urvashi Jha to Dr. Urvashi Jha yesterday on International Women's Day! Congratulations Urvashi! @SastraUniv @NCBS_Bangalore

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Vatsala Thirumalai

@VatsalaT

4 years

Perhaps because of such experiences, my parents spared no efforts in making sure that their children are well educated. But this was not financially or socially easy.

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Vatsala Thirumalai

@VatsalaT

4 years

In the Government Hospital where I was born, “visitor fees” were 1.5X for boy babies compared to girl babies ☺. But, lucky for me, my parents are very progressive and did not share this worldview.

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Vatsala Thirumalai

@VatsalaT

4 years

Proud moment: PhD student Urvashi Jha delivers a stunning talk at #cshlzebrafish . Thanks to organizers @MarthaBagnall , Michael Granato @GranatoLab , Mark Masino and Ethan Scott for making this a trainee-driven conference!

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Vatsala Thirumalai

@VatsalaT

4 years

My mother had to fight hard with her parents so that they would let her to at least complete her schooling. College was out of the question for girls in their family.

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Vatsala Thirumalai

@VatsalaT

3 years

Word of the day: Sthitaprajna (sanskrit) meaning to be calm and composed, unruffled. As in - being Sthitaprajna when trying to write a fair and balanced peer review on a day when one's own manuscript is rejected after months of extensive experiments and revision 😓

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Vatsala Thirumalai

@VatsalaT

4 years

Neither my father nor my mother went to college. After finishing high school, my father had to take up a job as his family could not afford to send him to college.

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Vatsala Thirumalai

@VatsalaT

2 years

Congratulations @shivaprasad_pv on being elected a fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI). This is fantastic news! @NCBS_Bangalore @TIFRScience

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Vatsala Thirumalai

@VatsalaT

3 years

Incredibly proud to announce this new preprint from the lab featuring the work of @SriramRN1 and @varmaalok22 . Adaptable internal representations drive cerebellum-mediated predictive control of an innate behavior Paper digest follows

Adaptable internal representations drive cerebellum-mediated predictive control of an innate...

The brain uses internal models to estimate future states of the environment based on current inputs and to predict consequences of planned actions. Neural mechanisms that underlie the acquisition and...

www.biorxiv.org

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Vatsala Thirumalai

@VatsalaT

3 years

My very first PhD student Dr. Mohini Sengupta is now @LeadingEdgeSymp fellow! Congratulations Mohini!

WashU Office of Postdoctoral Affairs

@WashUOPA

3 years

Congratulations to #WUSTLPostdoc Mohini Sengupta, 2021 Leading Edge Fellow! Dr. Sengupta is a postdoc in the @MarthaBagnall lab and the @WashuWups President.

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Vatsala Thirumalai

@VatsalaT

4 years

Now published! :-) @NCBS_Bangalore @India_Alliance @serbonline @DBTIndia

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@VatsalaT

4 years

Join me on Friday to celebrate Founder's Day!

HBCSE

@HBCSE_TIFR

4 years

On the occasion of Founder's day TIFR is going to conduct #PublicLecture on "Fishing Expeditions in the Brain" by Prof. Vatsala Thirumalai. Join us on 30th October, 2020 from 2:00 pm on this link: @VatsalaT

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@VatsalaT

4 years

New pre-print from the lab, where we show that gap junctions are important for forming synaptic connections in the brain. Gjd2b-mediated gap junctions promote glutamatergic synapse formation and dendritic elaboration in Purkinje neurons

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Vatsala Thirumalai

@VatsalaT

6 months

Excited to be e-present at #CSHLzebrafish 2023. Fantastic line up of talks! Also excited that the abstract book cover page features image collected by our lab at CIFF @NCBS_Bangalore !

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Vatsala Thirumalai

@VatsalaT

3 years

Inspired by a corporate buzzword generator I saw on twitter, I made an academic buzzword generator. Do you like it?

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@VatsalaT

4 years

My day is made! My amazing student @shivangiv10 has been accepted to not one, but two prestigious summer courses @MBLScience !!! Beyond proud!!!

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Vatsala Thirumalai

@VatsalaT

5 years

Review accepted in Current Opinions in Physiology! Funded by @NCBS_Bangalore @India_Alliance @serbonline @DBTIndia @TIFRScience Read it here:

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Vatsala Thirumalai

@VatsalaT

4 years

Our recent work on speed control is covered by @the_hindu . Image to be corrected soon. @NCBS_Bangalore @India_Alliance @jha_urvashi

The Hindu

@the_hindu

4 years

The tiny freshwater zebrafish has now helped researchers, from the National Centre for Biological Sciences in Bengaluru, understand the neural mechanism involved in fast movement.

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Vatsala Thirumalai

@VatsalaT

5 years

First lab preprint posted on biorxiv addresses an interesting question: What makes animals move faster or slower? "Neuromodulatory selection of motor neuron recruitment patterns in a visuomotor behavior increases speed "

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Vatsala Thirumalai

@VatsalaT

2 years

Feel honored to be featured alongside @GaitiHasan in this collection of women achievers. Thanks to @AditaJoshi and to @FollowCII for this wonderful opportunity to share my story!

National Centre for Biological Sciences

@NCBS_Bangalore

2 years

Read about the inspiring journeys of @GaitiHasan & @VatsalaT in the special compendium, 'Women in STEM: Vanguards of India @75 ,' by @FollowCII ! More here: & 1/4 @BLiSC_India @serbonline @India_Alliance

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Vatsala Thirumalai

@VatsalaT

4 years

Our work on speed control is now published in print in the March 9th issue of @CurrentBiology . @ElsevierConnect is providing free full access until 28th April: The article will also be available on @EuropePMC soon.

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Vatsala Thirumalai

@VatsalaT

2 years

Thank you @SomdattaKarak and Garima Joshi for this beautiful piece capturing our research! It was fun working with you and thinking about ways to make science more accessible. @India_Alliance @DBTIndia @serbonline

CSIR, India

@CSIR_IND

2 years

In an illustrated zine "Fishing Expeditions in the Brain", @SomdattaKarak and Garima Joshi capture Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Winner Dr Vatsala Thirumalai's research on the #brain Available at: @VatsalaT @NCBS_Bangalore @ccmb_csir #SciComm

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Vatsala Thirumalai

@VatsalaT

4 years

One more step towards transparent publishing: Peer review for our preprint on gap junctions and synaptogenesis can now be found on @biorxiv_neursci : Thank you @eLife for piloting this!

Gjd2b-mediated gap junctions promote glutamatergic synapse formation and dendritic elaboration in...

Gap junctions between neurons serve as electrical synapses, in addition to conducting metabolites and signaling molecules. These functions of gap junctions have led to the idea that during developm...

www.biorxiv.org

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Vatsala Thirumalai

@VatsalaT

5 months

New preprint from our lab! Very nice tweetorial by @jadhavmeha . Do read this manuscript with beautiful voltage clamp recordings from larval zebrafish Purkinje neurons!

Meha Jadhav

@jadhavmeha

5 months

My PhD. work at @VatsalaT lab and my first, first-author work is up as a preprint! What makes cerebellar Purkinje neurons in zebrafish fire spontaneously at high frequency? We investigated which ionic conductances allow tonic firing (1/5) @ZebrafishRock

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Vatsala Thirumalai

@VatsalaT

6 years

Lots of you requested video of my talk in Tamil. Here it is! Thanks @MandramOrg and @NCBS_Bangalore for making it possible. @India_Alliance

மன்றம்

@MandramOrg

6 years

If you ever thought speaking science in your mother tongue is difficult, here is a great video to break that myth. In fact, Dr. @VatsalaT breaks two myths with one talk - #Neuroscience is easy - #Sciencetalk in #Tamil is easier! @NCBS_Bangalore

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Vatsala Thirumalai

@VatsalaT

4 years

Thank you, Akhil Kadidal for writing about our work!

Tiny fish lights up potential paralysis cure

A small tropical water fish has helped unlock a potential new therapy to address paralysis in humans

www.deccanherald.com

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Vatsala Thirumalai

@VatsalaT

6 months

Double ka Meetha! Current PhD student @shivangiv10 amazes with her presentation on synaptic pruning in the cerebellum @cshlmeetings #cshlzebrafish . Absolutely proud! @NCBS_Bangalore @India_Alliance

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Vatsala Thirumalai

@VatsalaT

2 years

Time for our @NCBS_Bangalore annual talks! Looking forward to the rest of the talks.

National Centre for Biological Sciences

@NCBS_Bangalore

2 years

Let’s boogie to the beats! In the session on Neurons, Circuits, and Behavior, @VatsalaT shares the lab's latest results on how the brain learns time intervals. Larval zebrafish can learn 'visual beats' and swim along! Find out more here:

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@VatsalaT

1 year

Congratulations Vidita! Richly deserved and I'm so proud to be your colleague! @ViditaVaidya @TIFRScience

Infosys Prize

@InfosysPrize

1 year

#InfosysPrize2022 in Life Sciences is awarded to Vidita Vaidya, @TIFRScience , for her fundamental contributions to understanding brain mechanisms that underlie mood disorders such as anxiety and depression, including signals engaged by the neurotransmitter serotonin... (1/2)

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Vatsala Thirumalai

@VatsalaT

3 years

So happy to announce that this preprint is now online @eLife ! Culmination of years of hard work by @SahanaSitaraman @15gnaneshwar @shivangiv10 @jadhavmeha @shaista1286imb and Vandana Agarwal. First expts started in 2014! First draft ready in Sep 2019!

Gjd2b-mediated gap junctions promote glutamatergic synapse formation and dendritic elaboration in...

A protein that is a building block of intercellular bridges between neurons promotes their ability to grow dendrites and make synapses.

elifesciences.org

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Vatsala Thirumalai

@VatsalaT

4 years

Thank you @MarderLab and @BrandeisScience Former Marder Student Receives Prestigious Award -

Science at Brandeis

News and Events from and for the Division of Science at Brandeis University

brandeisscience.wordpress.com

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@VatsalaT

2 years

As always beautiful and eloquent writing by my mentor @MarderLab . Must read for everyone in science.

Living Science: Maintaining the joy of discovery

Changes in science over the past 50 years have reduced the chances of trainees experiencing the joy of discovery.

elifesciences.org

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Vatsala Thirumalai

@VatsalaT

1 year

What a memorable day! Celebrating Eve, her science, and all the wonderful things that have come from her trainees! Happy Birthday Eve and may you continue to inspire and educate many more neuroscientists! @MarderLab

Brandeis Neuroscience

@BrandeisNeuro

1 year

@VatsalaT talking about "Essential Essence of Eve" in neuroscience at #EveFest2023 @BrandeisScience

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@VatsalaT

5 years

Pretty cool, eh? But on the sad side, writing a good abstract lies at the very heart of scientific training and this could very well be the beginning of the end!

Catherine Olsson

@catherineols

5 years

Wow, what a plot twist in the abstract! ( @sandsubramanian et al)

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@VatsalaT

4 years

Thank you past and present members of my lab - the award is yours as much as mine. Hope you continue to keep me on my toes!

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@VatsalaT

5 years

Exciting session at the @jnplanetarium speaking to students who were part of the summer programme ‘From the web of life to the universe’. Q and A session lasted an hour! Highly recommend doing this! @India_Alliance , @NCBS_Bangalore

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@VatsalaT

3 years

Mohini, my first grad student has a poster at #SfNConnectome21 . Do stop by!

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@VatsalaT

6 years

Our review highlighted by @JNeurophysiol - Thanks @India_Alliance , @NCBS_Bangalore , @DBTIndia , @TIFRScience and @serbonline for funding.

JNP

@JNeurophysiol

6 years

In this new #review , authors "discuss recent studies that shed light on the formation and developmental interactions of chemical and electrical synapses." "The interplay between electrical and chemical synaptogenesis"

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@VatsalaT

4 years

Pleasure was mine Deepak! What a wonderful way to celebrate Navratri!

Deepak Modi

@DeepakNModi

4 years

Lab celebrates Navratri by talking about Indian Women in Science. Vatsala Thirumalai @VatsalaT joins us live to talk to my studnets. Thank you so much

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@VatsalaT

6 years

Thanks @MandramOrg @NCBS_Bangalore for a wonderful opportunity to talk about my science in Tamil!

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@VatsalaT

9 months

A moment of great pride for all Indians!

ISRO

@isro

9 months

Chandrayaan-3 Mission: 'India🇮🇳, I reached my destination and you too!' : Chandrayaan-3 Chandrayaan-3 has successfully soft-landed on the moon 🌖!. Congratulations, India🇮🇳! #Chandrayaan_3 #Ch3

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Vatsala Thirumalai

@VatsalaT

5 years

Our Insight piece on the brilliant work from Avinash Pujala and Minoru Koyama is now online:

Thiago Carvalho

@CyrilPedia

5 years

'Now, in eLife, Avinash Pujala and Minoru Koyama of the Janelia Research Campus report that, in the hindbrain of zebrafish larvae, the birthdate of neurons determines in which type of movements these cells participate'

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Vatsala Thirumalai

@VatsalaT

2 years

So excited to be part of it (again)!

Rishikesh Narayanan

@cnl_mbu_iisc

2 years

We're back after a two-year hiatus! Inviting applications for CAMP (Computational Approaches to Memory and Plasticity), an international computational neuroscience school, in-person @NCBS_Bangalore , India. 23 Jul–7 Aug 2022. Details: Please retweet!

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Vatsala Thirumalai

@VatsalaT

6 years

Excited to be talking about control issues and the brain at @Dialoguescafe JP nagar in about 30 minutes. Do come if you are in the area.

National Centre for Biological Sciences

@NCBS_Bangalore

6 years

The BLiSc Science Cafe October edition is here! This month we have the intriguing @VatsalaT of @NCBS_Bangalore , talking about the human brain and the "control freak" hidden within. Event details in the poster and everyone’s welcome! #BLiScScienceCafe #scicpmm #scienceoutreach

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Vatsala Thirumalai

@VatsalaT

2 years

Want to take a tour of everyday science in our lab? For #NationalScienceDay , Sonal Katyal from the @NCBS_Bangalore comms office did a live streaming of experiments being done in our lab. Do take a look at the pretty little fishies:

NCBS Live from Lab - This time it's neuroscience! | By National...

NCBS Live from Lab - This time it's neuroscience!

www.facebook.com

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@VatsalaT

4 years

Wow, beautiful art and a very informative thread to boot! From my student @SahanaSitaraman

Sahana Sitaraman

@SahanaSitaraman

4 years

#inktober2020 Day 13, Dune #Camels , both one and two humped, can go days in the scorching #desert heat without water. But it's a #myth that they survive by storing water in their humps. So how exactly do they walk miles without sustenance? 🧵 #scicomm #zentangle @bliscsciart

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@VatsalaT

4 years

Thanks @NCBS_Bangalore @TIFRScience @DAEIndia for a fantastic and fun place to work in, with wonderful colleagues, staff, students and post-docs!

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@VatsalaT

4 years

Thanks @India_Alliance @DBTIndia @serbonline for funding our work all these years

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Vatsala Thirumalai

@VatsalaT

6 years

Happy independence day to all!

PMO India

@PMOIndia

6 years

India is proud of our scientists, who are excelling in their research and are at the forefront of innovation: PM @narendramodi

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@VatsalaT

1 year

Latest preprint from our lab covering the exciting work of @varmaalok22 and twitterless Dr. Mohini Sengupta, along with IISc collaborators @SathvikUdupa and @SPIRE_Lab . More on this soon!

National Centre for Biological Sciences

@NCBS_Bangalore

1 year

Researchers from NCBS ( @VatsalaT lab) & @iiscbangalore have developed a first-of-its-kind machine learning tool for converting calcium imaging signals to maps of cellular state in bistable neurons! Link to the preprint:

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@VatsalaT

6 years

Pleasure was mine!

National Centre for Biological Sciences

@NCBS_Bangalore

6 years

Dr. Thirumalai’s talk was intelligently and humourously delivered with attention to detail by including Tamil language slides.

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@VatsalaT

6 years

My talk @Dialoguescafe jp Nagar.

National Centre for Biological Sciences

@NCBS_Bangalore

6 years

Our most recent BLiSc Science Cafe talk is up on YouTube - a fascinating look at just how much in control your brain is, with Dr Vatsala Thirumalai: #BLiScScienceCafe #neuroscience

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@VatsalaT

3 years

This was an awesome session. Had so many wonderful questions from the audience. #inStemScienceSetu rocks!

DBT-inStem

@DBT_inStem

3 years

📌Happening now! Vatsala Thirumalai speaks on "Fishing expeditions in the Brain." #inStemScienceSetu #Webinar 📺Live: With @VatsalaT @DBTIndia @BLiSC_India @NCBS_Bangalore @wisrindia @SciComm_India @SciFor_All

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Vatsala Thirumalai

@VatsalaT

3 years

Join me this Saturday 21st November (tomorrow) at 6PM for a conversation on "The Inner Puppeteer".

Bugbears_NCBS

@NcbsBugbears

3 years

Excited to host @VatsalaT for an amazing session coming up this Saturday, November 21 at 6 PM (IST) as a part of #outreach series #WCwR #ResearchatHome . Live stream link: Let's work together in this outreach initiative. Feel free to share!!!

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Vatsala Thirumalai

@VatsalaT

2 years

Looking forward to this exciting meeting organized by graduate students. Hopefully I'll be able to travel and be there in person 🤞

Neurizons

@Neurizons

2 years

Ever wondered how neural circuits generate movement? In the computational neuroscience segment of #neurizons2022 , we’re delighted to have Dr. Vatsala Thirumalai ( @VatsalaT @NCBS_Bangalore ) speak on neural control of movement during development and adulthood.

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@VatsalaT

2 years

My student @varmaalok22 writes about how an opportunity to engage in peer review made him feel like a member of the research community. It's a win-win for early career reviewers and the peer review process. I couldn't have put it better.

eLife - the journal

@eLife

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"I had entered graduate school with brazen self-assurance; [...] that confidence has morphed into self-doubt, overthinking and imposter syndrome." @varmaalok22 writes about how participating in peer review finally helped him feel like a 'real' scientist.

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Vatsala Thirumalai

@VatsalaT

4 years

@CSIR_IND @dgcsirIndia

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@VatsalaT

6 years

This is truly awesome! #WomenInSTEM

Amit Paranjape

@aparanjape

6 years

"V R Lalithambika has broken the glass ceiling as @ISRO has picked her to head the office of human space flight program. This soft-spoken specialist in control systems of rockets, will liaise with various organisations...." (via @DeccanChronicle )

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Vatsala Thirumalai

@VatsalaT

3 years

Join us at this exciting event next Thursday, especially designed for ECRs from India!

Journal of Physiology

@JPhysiol

3 years

We will be hosting a Publishing for Beginners webinar for #EarlyCareerResearchers in India on 11 March at 17:30 IST and it will feature @jphysiol_eic @VatsalaT and Rishikesh Narayanan! Find out more about the webinar and register now 👉

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Vatsala Thirumalai

@VatsalaT

5 years

Almost all of this also applies to writing in science!!!

Nipun Mehra

@nipunmehra

5 years

One of the best things about starting your career at Amazon is grooming in some fantastic values in early years of life. One of those is writing pithy, powerful documents. (Credit: On LinkedIn by Abe Diaz)

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Vatsala Thirumalai

@VatsalaT

4 years

Is there a gender bias in citing scientific work? Data seems to suggest so: Insightful news and views article by Adrienne Fairhall @alfairhall and Eve Marder @MarderLab . Read: Also read the paper by Dworkin et al here:

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Vatsala Thirumalai

@VatsalaT

3 years

Do see this very nice comparative review on resilience in motor networks now available @JPhysiol

Dr. Kristen Severi

@KristenSeveri

3 years

Happy to share this interdisciplinary review on resilience in zebrafish, worms, and lampreys! Enjoyed the opportunity to write with fantastic people, and hope you enjoy reading it! :)

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Vatsala Thirumalai

@VatsalaT

3 years

Congratulations @varmaalok22 ! Look forward to your stint at the ECAG of @eLife and more empowerment of early career researchers!

National Centre for Biological Sciences

@NCBS_Bangalore

3 years

Congratulations to the newest members of the Early-Career Advisory Group at @eLife including Aalok Varma @varmaalok22 from @VatsalaT 's group at NCBS! #research

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Vatsala Thirumalai

@VatsalaT

2 years

This entire thread is food for so much thought...

Luiz Pessoa

@PessoaBrain

2 years

Eve Marder wowing all of us with degeneracy at the neuronal and circuit levels. At the Nencki School of Ideas in Neuroscience, Warsaw.

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Vatsala Thirumalai

@VatsalaT

4 years

My favorite wildlife dancers!

Sahana Sitaraman

@SahanaSitaraman

4 years

#inktober2020 , Day 29, Shoes The #Gal ápagos is a haven for #wildlife enthusiasts! This island houses some of the most unique animals and plants, most found nowhere else in the world. Among these is the clumsy on land, graceful in water, 'Blue footed booby' #bird 🧵 #scicomm

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Vatsala Thirumalai

@VatsalaT

3 years

Looking forward to this event:

DBT-inStem

@DBT_inStem

3 years

🔉Three days left for the #NationalScienceDay2021 #webinar on ' #Future of #science , #technology & #innovation : Impact on #education , skills, and work'. ⏰: 3.30PM | 27 February, Saturday 🔗: With @DBTIndia @VatsalaT @pkvemula @SymphonyTBx @BLiSC_India

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Vatsala Thirumalai

@VatsalaT

3 years

Awesome outreach initiative, @NcbsBugbears ! Keep it going strong!

Bugbears_NCBS

@NcbsBugbears

3 years

That was an amazing session by @VatsalaT !!! Really enjoyed ! Got to learn a lot ! And we hope our viewers also got excited about the field. The video is still available online: Feel free to share among science enthusiasts. See you all in the next session!

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Vatsala Thirumalai

@VatsalaT

1 year

Congratulations @MarderLab !

The Kavli Prize

@KavliPrize

1 year

#KavliPrize Laureate Eve Marder changed the field of neuroscience, and how people think about nervous systems.

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Vatsala Thirumalai

@VatsalaT

1 year

Congrats Shivangi! Congrats all awardees!

IGNITE LIFE SCIENCE FOUNDATION

@ignitelsf

1 year

The next set of Ekalavya - Ignite travel awardees are: 1. Shivangi Verma, NCBS 2. Shivani Yadav, IISER Pune 3. Roshmi Biswas, Univ of Burdwan 4. Nilam Malankar, IISER Pune Congratulations!

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Vatsala Thirumalai

@VatsalaT

3 years

This video gives a brief intro about graduate programs in our campus and our selection criteria. Tune in to find out more. Thanks Anzal for thinking this up and for great execution!

buffering scientist

@bufferingsci

3 years

You all might be wondering how to get your grad-school started in India! Let’s hear from @VatsalaT how selection happens on @BLiSC_India campus for @NCBS_Bangalore & @DBT_inStem #PhDPosition #research #gradschool #ncbs #tifr #instem #STEM

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Vatsala Thirumalai

@VatsalaT

3 years

@aidangcw "If you get data that don't fit your hypothesis, it means the prep is talking to you. Listen" - among many other memorable quotes from @MarderLab

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Vatsala Thirumalai

@VatsalaT

2 years

Gave an interview to @stefanosandrone as part of an initiative to popularize #WomenInSTEM - now online at Funded by the Policy Support Fund @imperialcollege .

Funded by the Policy Support Fund, Imperial College London

STEM Mentor: career choices and tips from inspiring women in science

stem-mentor.com

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Vatsala Thirumalai

@VatsalaT

2 years

@GaitiHasan @DBTIndia @NCBS_Bangalore Congratulations Gaiti and Dhanya! Very happy to see my lab's 2p scope put to great use!

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