Varun Sreenivasan

Neuroscientist @marinlab @dev_neuro

[Varun Sreenivasan @varunsreeni]

Interested in interneurons and/or the striatum? Look no further. Here's our latest preprint from the @MarinLab on @biorxivpreprint

Input-specific control of interneuron numbers in nascent striatal networks https://t.co/gmItth9IOS

[Manasi Kelkar @manasikelkar09]

Super happy to see our paper on spindle orientation and cortical mechanics finally out! Thank you to all authors Pierre Bohec, Matt Smith, Emma Ferber, @varunsreeni @ana_lisica @BaumBuzz @GSalbreux and @G_Charras
See more here 👇
https://t.co/FlCNheULox
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[Vahid Esmaeili @Esmaeili_V]

🔥🥳Our work is now published in #PLOSBiology: Learning-related congruent and incongruent changes of excitation and inhibition in distinct cortical areas https://t.co/qrsfmQEp9D 🥳🔥

[Juan Burrone Lab @jbneuro]

Our latest collaborative preprint is out! We find a surprisingly large number of multi-synaptic boutons in the hippocampus (~ half of all synapses!) with interesting morphological properties and potential roles in network synchrony. Check it out! #MSBs https://t.co/GCJI7l9opW

[Varun Sreenivasan @varunsreeni]

@ZoltanMolnar64 @PharmOxford @OxNeuro @ZoltanMolnar64 Great meeting you and the rest of the lab

[CDN | King's College @dev_neuro]

New paper from @varunsreeni @MarinLab and others out now in @PNASNews! Input-specific control of interneuron numbers in nascent striatal networks https://t.co/PdS91Yggvc

[Danielle Thomas @justifyjusticee]

I personally believe that academic twitter is very toxic & negative for incoming PhD students. Let us enjoy this excitement, we are nervous enough as is. Telling us how difficult it is is not helping & surely is not great advice.
#AcademicChatter

[Varun Sreenivasan @varunsreeni]

@RL_Stine Spent some time revisiting my teenage years by browsing through some of my favourite Goosebumps books @blossombookhous

[Varun Sreenivasan @varunsreeni]

An accurate representation of my thoughts and feelings while using the plot function on MATLAB!

[Manasi Kelkar @manasikelkar09]

Super happy to share our latest preprint and my post-doctoral work from @G_Charras lab! In collaboration with Pierre Bohec, Matthew Smith, Ana Lisica, Emma Ferber, @varunsreeni, @lab_baum and @GSalbreux.

https://t.co/DC1ubuPe2s

[Varun Sreenivasan @varunsreeni]

@dav_robbe @FrederikeWinkel @MarinLab These are 32 channel Neuronexus probes.

[Varun Sreenivasan @varunsreeni]

Nothing better than seeing spikes on (almost) all of your channels! Striatal recordings with @FrederikeWinkel from @MarinLab

[Seok Heo @seokheo1]

I think I can get some paper out in this journal this year!! :))

[Jess Thompson @tsonj]

My Neurocene essay is out now! Philosophers of science have given us lots of theories of scientific understanding and explanation. Let's build on that rather than trying to reinvent the wheel.

[Varun Sreenivasan @varunsreeni]

While the final numbers of striatal parvalbumin (PV+) expressing GABAergic interneurons is established by long-range inputs from the neocortex, the final number of cholinergic (ChAT+) interneurons is controlled by local inputs from the striatal medium spiny neurons (3/n)

[Varun Sreenivasan @varunsreeni]

Interested in interneurons and/or the striatum? Look no further. Here's our latest preprint from the @MarinLab on @biorxivpreprint

Input-specific control of interneuron numbers in nascent striatal networks https://t.co/gmItth9IOS

[Varun Sreenivasan @varunsreeni]

Here, we found that two prominent subtypes of striatal interneurons undergo susbstantial post-natal programmed cell death and the final numbers of these two interneurons are established by two distinct mechanisms (2/n)

[Varun Sreenivasan @varunsreeni]

Brain function requires appropriate numbers of different neuronal subtypes. This involves a strategy where the brain overproduces neurons and then eliminates a fraction of them to make the final network. But the underlying mechanisms are poorly understood (1/n)