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.
https://t.co/GRiLQR92qR
Three PhD positions open in our Lab, KMC Manipal, (2026–27).
Projects: social isolation & neurogenomics | wearable sensors & anxiety | neuro-immune regulation of behavior.
Tools: Drosophila genetics, transcriptomics, DANCE (eLife 2025).
See flyer for details.
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.
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.
https://t.co/GRiLQR92qR
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.
🧠🪰 Thrilled to host @PavanAgrawalLab at MIRM for a brilliant talk on decoding social stress in Drosophila using a low-cost ML toolkit!
Great insights into how fruit flies can model complex behaviors. Students loved it! @SvetaKotak#Neurobiology#FlyResearch#Drosophila
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.https://t.co/1u1yKG0S5G
🪰 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 https://t.co/dwqIHrlWas