Shrestha Lab

Neuroscience lab at Stony Brook University @SBUneurobiology investigating the regulation of protein dynamics in innate and learned emotional behaviors.

[Dr. Prerana Shrestha @prerana123]

How does the brain decide what’s dangerous — and what’s safe - after just one experience? 🧠
In our latest study, we developed a single-episode Differential Signaled Active Avoidance (DSAA) paradigm to separate acquisition, consolidation, and retrieval of avoidance memory.

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Gorgeous pink sky, moments ago in Stony Brook!

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Five years strong 🧠✨
Celebrating our lab’s fifth anniversary!!

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Emotional memories persist because the prefrontal cortex engages distinct protein synthesis programs to store memories and to update them during retrieval. Read more in our latest work:
https://t.co/lDsI52VQFG

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We @ShresthaLab enjoyed a hearty home-cooked meal (plus Secret Santa, ping-pong, and Bingo to add to the fun) to celebrate the holiday season, especially as we near our lab’s 5-year birthday! 🎉 Wishing you and your (lab) families a joyful holiday break.

[Dr. Prerana Shrestha @prerana123]

I’m excited to share our latest work examining why stress-related anxiety is so common in Tuberous Sclerosis Complex (TSC), a neurodevelopmental disorder affecting ~1 in 6,000 individuals worldwide.

https://t.co/ZUr4BxE7vw

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Here are some specifics about our posters at SfN:

Early career posters:
Saturday, November 15, 6:45 to 8:45 PM
Hall E

Javed - #A31
Saheed - #U1

General poster presentation:
Monday, November 17, 8 AM to 12 PM
SDCC Halls B-H

Sandra - #HH8
Saheed - #HH9
Javed - #HH10

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Hello San Diego! Three of our lab members - Sandra Albanna, Javed Iqbal, and Saheed Lawal (@Lawdex01) - are presenting their research at SfN across multiple sessions this week. Come support them and check out their exciting work! @SfNtweets @MCCStweets

[Molecular & Cellular Cognition Society @MCCStweets]

Don't miss talks from our selected speakers at #MCCS25!

Come hear exciting research updates about all things neuroscience 🧠

There's still time to register! https://t.co/MG06VRier2

[Molecular & Cellular Cognition Society @MCCStweets]

📣 #MCCS25 starts TOMORROW! Check out our poster session tomorrow & our symposium on Friday to hear from the best and brightest in molecular and cellular cognition.

More information here: https://t.co/MG06VRier2

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We had a great time trying golf for our Fall Lab Outing yesterday!

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It was my pleasure to host our NBB seminar speaker, Dr Dayu Lin @moccalin last Thursday. What a genuinely remarkable scientist, speaker and science communicator! Her seminar on Neuroplasticity underlying parenthood was exemplarily lucid and appreciated by all. 🙌

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And a warm welcome to our incoming MS students as well - including Lily Corrice who is joining @ShresthaLab for her MS thesis!

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Warm welcome to our incoming PhD students—especially our former lab manager, Andrew Gallagher, and rotation student, Pat Wertimer! Until this summer, Pat was a lab technician in the Heintz lab @RockefellerUniv, where I completed my PhD. In a way, a full circle moment. :)

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Our talented undergraduate RA, Amber Wilson, was awarded the Frances Velay Women in Science Fellowship this summer to investigate the neural mechanisms of avoidance learning and memory in the medial prefrontal cortex. Check out her interview here! https://t.co/JoQIjBZAvZ

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Another fantastic news: Our postdoc, Javed Iqbal, has also been awarded the TPDA travel award from SfN. Please look out for their posters at @SfNtweets this November!! 🎇

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We have updated the News section of our lab website to highlight recent developments since June 2024. Updates include new publications, awards, presentations, and other accomplishments by our team. Check them out! https://t.co/I27qjVpe1b

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Congratulations to our PhD student, Saheed Lawal, on receiving the Trainee Professional Development Award (TPDA) from the Society for Neuroscience (SfN)! 🎉 Way to go, @@Lawdex01! 🙌✨

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Holiday greetings from our lab!! 🎆🎄

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Such a pleasure to host @RangarajuVidhya, who gave a *terrific* talk today on molecular mechanisms that provide spatially-restricted energy supply to fuel local synaptic plasticity!