Ojasee Bapat

IMPRS PhD student @MPFNeuro | MSc. Neuroscience @dbt_nbrc |

[Ojasee Bapat @ojaseee]

I defended my Ph.D. Proposal today!! 🎉Excited to enter the second half of my Ph.D. journey! 🎊

Extremely grateful to my amazing mentor, Vidhya (@RangarajuVidhya ) for her unwavering support and guidance and to all my lab members for their feedback and encouragement!

[Vidhya Rangaraju, PhD @RangarajuVidhya]

✌️Our lab's second PhD student, Ojasee (@ojaseee), successfully defended her PhD proposal today.

Congratulations, Ojasee! We look forward to many more exciting results from your thesis (@ChanZuckerberg).

@MPFNeuro IMPRS PhD applications are now open: https://t.co/CEWVmCT1gI

[Xin Eric Wang @xwang_lk]

Congrats to @saa1605 for his LLM-Coordination paper being accepted to #NAACL2025 Findings! What a day for a new PhD student who just completed his first year! Two first-author papers being accepted at ICLR and NAACL, with hundreds of GitHub stars & citations already!

[Ojasee Bapat @ojaseee]

@RangarajuVidhya Thank you Vidhya for guiding me through this! 🙏 🫶🏻

[Salil S Bidaye @SalilBidaye]

My lab's first paper is now out @Nature https://t.co/6DTdzMUW5A Check out the cool new data since the preprint work I described a while back. Excited to have this alongside the other @FlyWireNews connectome papers. Grateful to the team! @NehaSapakal @DivyaSthanu @NinoMancini_

[Zidan Yang | 杨紫丹 @Zidan_Yang]

Excited to share my first paper from Inagaki Lab @MPFNeuro!

How does the “timer” in our brain control movement? We discovered specialized computational roles of the frontal cortex and striatum that implement such an action timer⏱️

https://t.co/qSUp6TRTbA

[Ojasee Bapat @ojaseee]

So glad to see our work in @TheScientistLLC 🎉💃

[Vidhya Rangaraju, PhD @RangarajuVidhya]

Thank you @TheScientistLLC, for covering our work! @MPFNeuro @ojaseee

[Vidhya Rangaraju, PhD @RangarajuVidhya]

Here is a fun video we made @MPFNeuro to talk about our recent publication @NatureComms.

Watch out for our IMPRS graduate student @ojaseee speaking about her experience working @MPFNeuro .

[Vidhya Rangaraju, PhD @RangarajuVidhya]

🎬Wrapping up the week with a new preprint from the lab!

In this collaboration spanning in vitro and in vivo models of rodents and flies, we show when mitochondria do not clear out calcium quickly, they enhance memory formation @JaimedeJuan @AmrapaliAnjali @rfan830831 @riyaneuro

[Vidhya Rangaraju, PhD @RangarajuVidhya]

✌️Our lab’s second paper is out in collaboration with the Lu Lab.

We provided our expertise in imaging presynaptic ATP to show that NMNAT2, a protein implicated in axonal neurodegeneration, provides the local energy required for moving synaptic vesicles along axons.@MPFNeuro

[Ojasee Bapat @ojaseee]

@AnupamD14629603 Thank you !!

[Ojasee Bapat @ojaseee]

A great start to 2024! I'm glad to announce that our research got published in @NatureComms .
Thanks to @RangarajuVidhya and the whole team! We found that VAP, a protein implicated in ALS, tethers dendritic mito to locally support synaptic plasticity! https://t.co/zECXILSd6r

[Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience @MPFNeuro]

New research from @RangarajuVidhya @ojaseee and team was published today in @NatureComms. Study identifies #ALS -linked protein VAP as a molecular anchor of mitochondria near dendritic spines to support memory formation. https://t.co/nibDWC8HYX

[Ojasee Bapat @ojaseee]

@OmikaWad Thanks Omika!

[Ojasee Bapat @ojaseee]

@nishasastry Thank you Nisha Di !

[Ojasee Bapat @ojaseee]

@vipendra89 Thanks bhaiyya!

[Ryohei りょうへー @Ryohei_Neuro]

Excited to share our work with @mlphillips17 about 9-color calcium imaging under a GRIN miniscope!

Functional imaging of nine distinct neuronal populations under a miniscope in freely behaving animals.
https://t.co/NnNsI808XD

[Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience @MPFNeuro]

Are you a Neuroscience PhD student ready to showcase your research? Max Planck NeuroMEETS invites you to apply for an all-expenses-paid visit to MPFI in Florida! 🏝️ Present your work, meet with our faculty, and grow your network. Apply by December 1st! https://t.co/rJvU8u6cAY

[Vidhya Rangaraju, PhD @RangarajuVidhya]

On this exciting note, we are hiring a Research Technician! Please apply or spread the news: https://t.co/kswQD72V9Z

[Vidhya Rangaraju, PhD @RangarajuVidhya]

Thank you @ChanZuckerberg for the Ben Barres Career Acceleration Award!

With this funding, my lab sets on a fresh new direction to tackle #ALS, a devastating motor neuron disease.

We are excited to make a difference in the fight against ALS 🧠
https://t.co/7RVAYOdtt5

[Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience @MPFNeuro]

Congratulations to @RangarajuVidhya, who was awarded the @cziscience Ben Barres Early Career Acceleration Award! This support will enable her lab to utilize novel approaches to uncover the causes of mitochondrial dysfunction in #ALS.
Learn more: https://t.co/F5ONyYSJ1X

[Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience @MPFNeuro]

#Astrocytes, #epigenetics, #olfaction all in one exciting talk by @debo_Astrocyte! What a great way to kick off our NeuroMEETS #postdoc seminar series.
We are still accepting applications for our #PhD student series this spring... https://t.co/rJvU8u6Kqw