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Brandeis Bio/Neuro. We study multiple aspects of sensory biology. Mostly in worms. Lab appears to be powered by vast quantities of junk food. Opinions mine. senguptalab.org
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This. This is why we invest in biomedical research and development in this country. A bespoke gene-editing treatment for a baby born with a life-threatening disorder : Shots - Health News www.npr.org/sections/sho...

submitted 7 hours ago • 2 comments

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submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

I know you all know this, but apparently it needs to be said that basic science is a NECESSARY PRECURSOR to translational science

submitted 6 days ago • 6 comments

Maps are everywhere in the brain...and finally we've discovered one in the nose! Led by @davidhbrann.bsky.social, we uncovered the logic that specifies the positions of each of the 1,000 sensory neuron subtypes in the nose and aligns their projections to the brain.👇👃see more details below👃👇

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

We are happy to see folks in Congress stepping up, but we need more than sternly worded letters. We need action. The US scientific enterprise is at stake #resist

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Each worm lab selects a 2-3 letter allele designation. I was coming to Brandeis so I picked 'oy'. I finally have a worm colleague in my Dept - Josh Meisel - who is fabulous btw. I just convinced him to pick 'vey'. Now we need to make a double mutant. (Yes - I am very pleased with myself).

submitted 7 days ago • 16 comments

Hot off the press: The excellent Maheva Andriatsilavo and colleagues show how a temporal sequence of stochastic molecular mechanisms allow the emergence of stereotyped individualised neuronal circuits. Just published in Nature Neuroscience: rdcu.be/ek010

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

Friends - what resources do your places use for formal faculty mentor training? Keeping in mind the new 'priorities' of the NIH....Please feel free to email or DM. Thanks.

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

I know Kara as an excellent scientist and here she does a wonderful presentation laying out the history and contributions of basic research in an entertaining, informative, and personal way to non-scientists. I am not as articulate as her but am inspired to try to do this. So important right now. 👏👏

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

I've had the privilege & luck of having NSF funding for >25 yrs. #WithoutNSF we would not have discovered new mechanisms of chemosensation, described how gut bacteria influence neuronal function, trained many who are now scientists & educators, & appreciated the joys & rewards of science outreach.

submitted 12 days ago • 5 comments

FYI: The Spencer Foundation, Kapor Foundation, The William T. Grant Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation have collaborated to offer $25K rapid response grants. "This rapid response bridge funding opportunity is for scholars and teams whose grants have recently been cancelled by NSF."

submitted 13 days ago • 6 comments

Has been an absolute pleasure and privilege to have had Maya Katz in the lab since her sophomore year. Here she is with her mentor Anjali Pandey (PhD student) and presenting her fantastic work in her senior honors thesis defense talk. We will miss you Maya!

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Welp, it begins. Sigma Aldrich.

submitted 13 days ago • 14 comments

WTAF. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

New NIH Guide Notice about foreign subawards grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

submitted 14 days ago • 7 comments

Isolationism. Unfortunately, science has no boundaries. Just wondering how many more creative ideas there are going to be to destroy the US scientific enterprise.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Trying to finish papers started by people who have since left the lab is a really painful exercise.

submitted 19 days ago • 11 comments

Excited to share our new study: "Cold memories control whole-body thermoregulatory responses" by @andreamunozz.bsky.social, @aaron-douglas.bsky.social & team at @tcddublin.bsky.social, in collaboration with @lydialynch.bsky.social & @drchristineannd.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 21 days ago • 5 comments

Pretty amazing graphic to go with the @financialtimes.com article about the cost of Trump's attack on US science NIH is HUGE! www.ft.com/content/67fd...

submitted 22 days ago • 5 comments

🎈Our latest 🪅 We know that in addition to exteroceptive mechanisms, interoceptive chemosensation is also critical for regulating physiology/behavior. We find that an enteric neuron in worms senses ingested salts via a variant ionotropic receptor (IR like the fly IRs) to regulate salt stress. 1/n

submitted 27 days ago • 7 comments