co-founder of CurioSci. A Neuroscientist passionate about hands-on science education
Joined September 2016
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When you are in love with astrocytes you see them everywhere!! #astrocytes #reactive #musingsofagliafan #ilovethebrain
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17 Oct 2025
The transcription factor LHX2 suppresses astrocyte proliferation in the postnatal mammalian cerebral cortex
Read this #LifelongDevSI #OA Research Report by Archana Iyer @Arch_eee, Shubha Tole @shubhatole and colleagues @TIFR_Bio
journals.biologists.com/dev/…
ALT Figure 2 - Differential proliferation of upper layer (UL) and deep layer (DL) astrocytes, panels B (left) and C (right). Left: At P5, KI67 immunostaining shows increased proliferation of Ai9 cells in the control UL (10%±1.61) versus the control DL (3%±1.2, **P=0.0054). Right: This is further increased in the mutant UL (17%±1.52, **P=0.002) but not in the mutant DL (3%±1.07, P=0.8).
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25 Sep 2025
🚨 We’re hiring! 🚨
A postdoc position is open in my lab at the Dept. of Biological Sciences, TIFR Mumbai
🧠 Focus: #zebrafish #imaging #interdisciplinary
📅 Deadline: October 10, 2025
🔗 More details: symmetry-lab.com/contact/
Please share widely!
@TIFRScience @TIFR_Bio
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29 Sep 2025
Postdoc position available in a TIFR-IGIB collaborative project to investigate the development of the choroid plexus in the brain using brain organoids. For details see devneurolab.org/open-positio…. Application deadline October 15th 2025
@arpan_parichha
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Archana I retweeted
23 Jun 2025
The transcription factor LHX2 suppresses astrocyte proliferation in the postnatal mammalian cerebral cortex
Read this #LifelongDevSI Research Report by Archana Iyer @Arch_eee, @shubhatole @TIFRScience and colleagues:
journals.biologists.com/dev/…
ALT Figure 4 Long-term consequences of LHX2 loss in astrocytes.
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I had the privilege of witnessing an awe-inspiring session on resilience, courage and determination from young people who as children had battled with cancer. This post is about a home that enabled their survival and nurtured hope. open.substack.com/pub/archy0…
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29 Oct 2023
This is not just an update. This is also an appeal. 🆘
We stepped out of our comfort zone & conducted sessions in *two* tribal schools (आदिवासी शाळा) in जवाहर, Maharashtra. It reinforced why we must do this. Read on to know about our experience & how u can help.👇@IndiaBioscience
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Omg! This is a gem! So apt
15 Jul 2023
I was watching Lord of the Rings last night and realized there are many parallels with academia!
A thread 🧵👇
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16 Apr 2023
Hidden sugar, salt & fat, but especially sugar is killing us! The rates of rise of #diabetesmellitus in low income families is terrifying. We need to change our #diets, #foodsystems to deliver for people’s health. Behaviour change also key, along with policy levers
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Super impressive and impactful
24 Mar 2023
MD, MMRC @AshwiniBhide delivered a lecture @aset_tifr on "Achieving ease of travel through mega infrastructure projects in Mumbai" at Homi Bhabha Auditorium, TIFR today. link of Lecture - tinyurl.com/AshwiniBhide
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19 Mar 2023
A novel test of honeybees’ waggle dancing shows that they can learn to do it better. sciencenews.org/article/bee-…
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14 Mar 2023
I will be talking about atypical astrocytes this Tursday! Join me to have a fun discussion about what happens to astrocytes when the BBB is disrupted.
Reminder: the US changed to summer time, but Europe hasn't yet. That means that it will be at 11 am EST, 10 CST and 8 PST.
14 Mar 2023
We meeting on Thursday the 16th of March @AstrocyteCafe. Looking forward to the presentations of Matthew Broadhead and Carmen Munoz-Ballester. @MatthewBroadhe6 @Canxuki 🤩🤩🤩
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14 Mar 2023
We meeting on Thursday the 16th of March @AstrocyteCafe. Looking forward to the presentations of Matthew Broadhead and Carmen Munoz-Ballester. @MatthewBroadhe6 @Canxuki 🤩🤩🤩
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Looking forward!
14 Mar 2023
Don't miss it! @AstrocyteCafe will be on Thursday the 16th March. @CarmenFalcone6 @Canxuki @MatthewBroadhe6
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24 Feb 2023
Your brain could be controlling how sick you get — and how you recover nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
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18 Feb 2023
My main conclusion from yesterday (kind of sad in my opinion): A significant percentage of the scientific community doesn't think ideas are a real thing that should be credited and value ideas less than hard work*
*based on hundreds of replies to our commentary
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7 Feb 2023
Acting Out Dreams Predicts Parkinson's and Other Brain Diseases scientificamerican.com/artic… via @sciam
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Chuckling at my 4yr old asking “is that an ASTO CITE??”(looking at my image analysis pane) I had told her that it sits inside the brain & helps her think. Funny she knows about astrocytes before neurons! Would be cool to write a non pedantic fun book for kids on these 🧠 cells
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1 Feb 2023
We got the cover!
Two male isopods' fight to gain access to the female residing in that burrow under them is now on the cover of the latest @ESAEcology issue. Some fights make it big 🙂
Photo clicked by Dror Hawlena!
1 Feb 2023
Our February issue has many papers & subject areas to peruse!
With #opendata from @figshare @zenodo_org @datadryad @EDIgotdata @GBIF @4TUResearchData @IllinoisLibrary @BorealisData @NEON_sci @NCBI's #GenBank @NOAANCEI @RecNParks @ONenvironment & more!
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ALT Ecology Volume 104, Issue 2 (February 2023) journal cover featuring male desert isopods fighting for access to a female residing inside a burrow in Yeruham, Israel.
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