@PavanAgrawalLab

Associate Professor @kmc_manipal. Studying lonely flies, aggression, neuroepigenetics. Alumnus @HHMIJanelia @ccmb_csir. Bluesky handle @brainonwings.bsky.social

 Manipal, India
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Joined October 2008
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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. elifesciences.org/articles/1…
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We are hiring 3 research staff at KMC Manipal: new ICMR project on wearable sleep biomarkers for depression, from Drosophila to patients. 1 Project Research Scientist-I
2 Project Technical Support-III Apply by 21 Sept 2026
jobs.research@manipal.edu #Drosophila #SciJobs
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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.
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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.
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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.
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All code, hardware schematics, and analysis pipelines are open-source and available on GitHub: github.com/agrawallab/DANCE

GitHub - agrawallab/DANCE: Codes and Classifiers for the DANCE Manuscript

Codes and Classifiers for the DANCE Manuscript. Contribute to agrawallab/DANCE development by creating an account on GitHub.

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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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Closing soon, 🎓 Calling #Masters graduates in Biological Sciences with National Fellowships! Join us at @ManipalUni to study aggression, sleep & neurodegeneration in Drosophila.
Pavan Agrawal@PavanAgrawalLab17 May 2025
🚀 We’re hiring! Two fully funded PhD positions in Neuroscience & Behavior at the Agrawal Lab, Centre for Molecular Neurosciences, @MAHE_Manipal . 🧬🐛 National Fellowship holders encouraged. 🔬 #PhDOpening #Neuroscience #Drosophila #AcademicTwitter
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🚀 We’re hiring! Two fully funded PhD positions in Neuroscience & Behavior at the Agrawal Lab, Centre for Molecular Neurosciences, @MAHE_Manipal . 🧬🐛 National Fellowship holders encouraged. 🔬 #PhDOpening #Neuroscience #Drosophila #AcademicTwitter
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Huge thanks to @MIRM_blr & @SvetaKotak for organizing & hosting me! Loved the audience’s engaging questions, interdisciplinary discussions like these drive innovation! #RegenerativeMedicine #ML #Neuroscience
Manipal Institute of Regenerative Medicine@MIRM_blr13 May 2025
🧠🪰 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
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One frame. A Christian journalist. A Muslim soldier. A Hindu pilot. No slogans. No hate. Just India. Different faiths. One flag. One mission. This is India 🇮🇳 where diversity speaks, defends and soars. #IncredibleIndia #UnityInDiversity #IndiaForPeace #IndiaPakistan #IndiaPakistanConflict #IndiaPakistan @adgpi @IAF_MCC @SudarshanNewsTV
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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.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…

A Novel Mouse Model of Parkinson’s Disease for Investigating Progressive Pathology and Neuroprote...

Developing animal models that successfully recapitulate the features of progressive Parkinson’s disease (PD) is crucial for understanding disease progression mechanisms and creating effective...

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🪰 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 biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…

DANCE: An open-source analysis pipeline and low-cost hardware to quantify aggression and courtship...

Quantifying animal behaviors is pivotal for identifying the underlying neuronal and genetic mechanisms. Computational approaches have enabled automated analysis of complex behaviors such as aggress...

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We welcome your feedback! 🪰👏 A huge shoutout to the incredible team including first authors @r_saiprathap @neurodey and coauthors @AnsariFaizah @TvainK @manohar_nani @PallaviPra54881 and others!
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We are grateful for the funding support from @DBTIndia to make this work possible. Huge thanks to the support from our institution @KMC_manipal @KMC_Socialmedia @MAHE_Manipal
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