Associate Prof. of Biology @ Emory studying animal behavior
Joined March 2011
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6 Jun 2024
New preprint on inferring time-varying couplings in dynamical systems, lead by @CalderonJosuan arxiv.org/abs/2406.03212
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14 Nov 2025
First paper from our lab! Led by Emory graduate student Calvin Riiska, we found that skin microtextures remain intact in museum-preserved reptiles. Using this result, we found a new instance of convergent evolution in sidewinding! royalsocietypublishing.org/dβ¦
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28 Oct 2025
Our newest preprint! Work led by Ben Dykstra (co-mentored by @gordonberman). Some of the first recordings from the iCA3 region during social behaviors. Ben found that iCA3 neurons more strongly represent social recognition information relative to iCA1 . biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shorβ¦
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19 Oct 2024
My lab is seeking a research technician to study neural circuits & behavior in Drosophila πͺ°π§ π§¬π¬
Great opportunity for anyone looking to gain more experience before a PhD. Our recent techs have had independent projects and 1st author papers β¨
Info here devinenilab.org/join-us
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7 Oct 2024
You know what they say, "save the best for the last". Come join us.
7 Oct 2024
Excited about our minisymposium at @SfNtweets ! Join us Wednesday afternoon to hear about the functional organization of lateral septum - from molecules to circuits and computations! Session details here: abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/2β¦
#sfn2024
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4 Oct 2024
If you are going to be at SFN and want to see what we have been up to, we have five posters and a talk. All unpublished data, so come give us feedback! Feel free to retweet! Thanks!
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Emory Biology @emorycollege is hiring! We invite applications for a tenure track Asst Prof position in the area of epigenetics, including chromatin biology, nuclear organization, cellular differentiation, development, and/or gene regulation. Please share!
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24 Sep 2024
Come join us at @emorycollege Biology! TT position in epigenetics/gene regulation apply.interfolio.com/155292
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13 Sep 2024
So excited to have this out on @NatureComms
nature.com/articles/s41467-0β¦ Excited to see this work from @muruganmalu lab out today! Includes @EmoryMSTP first author @jennisisaac and several other @neurophd_emory grad students! Including @sonia_karkare @jarildy @emorycollege
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5 Sep 2024
Check out the @BagotLab latest publication in @NatureNeuro featuring @esiyer and me! Here, we identify sex specific roles for nucleus accumbens afferents from the ventral hippocampus and medial prefrontal cortex in encoding aversive information. 1/12
nature.com/articles/s41593-0β¦
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31 Aug 2024
In memory of Tali.
Organisms make decisions based on intrinsic motivation rather than external rewards. This algorithm maximizes empowerment β the capacity for potential actions to influence future states β and shows how it can be linked to organism behavior.
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ALT Three graphs showing intrinsic motivation for three problems. Each has a white spiral with a black dot at a starting point outside on the left and a red dot in the center. Colors on the graph show the empowerment values in bits, with yellow indicatinging at or above 0.8 and dark black or purple indicating 0.5 or below. The left graph has six diagonal yellow-orange stripes. The middle has two small, short yellow stripes and the rest is black and purple. The right has two thicker yellow stripes.
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29 Aug 2024
So proud of @TanielWinner on her publication showing individual differences in gait dynamics signatures across walking speeds! A product of our collaboration with @gordonberman & @NeuromechanicsL catalyzed by a 'winning' #BME PhD student (now Doctor)!
nature.com/articles/s41598-0β¦
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10 Jul 2024
Register now for Year 3 of our 5-day course on Machine Learning for Behavior!
Pose estimation, supervised behavior classification, unsupervised clustering (MotionMapper/Moseq), and analysis of behavior dynamics. Bar Harbor in fall is not bad either.
jax.org/autobehavior
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20 Jun 2024
Thanks @Molas__S and @eLife for the great article highlighting our paper. elifesciences.org/articles/9β¦ @MahaRashidNeuro @jennisisaac @sonia_karkare
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20 May 2024
Check out our reviewed preprint on elife.
doi.org/10.7554/eLife.97259.β¦
Congratulations @MahaRashidNeuro , Sarah, @jennisisaac and @sonia_karkare.
1 Mar 2024
Checkout our exciting new preprint. A fantastic effort led by Dr. Maha Rashid @MahaRashidNeuro with important contributions from Sarah Thomas, @jennisisaac, @sonia_karkare and Hannah Klein. biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/β¦ (1/8)
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9 Apr 2024
Why are power laws and heavy-tailed distributions so widespread in animal behavior? We show how behavioral plasticity might be the minimal necessary ingredient w/ M Vergassola @LP_ENS_, Gautam Sridhar @wyartlab @ClaireWyart rb.gy/184fke (thread below) 1/12
As animals shift priorities, their decisions impact how they move. Using a time-varying #model, scientists show how slowly adjusting strategy due to external cues or internal needs explains long-term locomotion behavior seen in C. elegans and zebrafish.
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I think this was my final senior honors defense! Congrats to Michael on his impactful work in the Weiss lab! Bacterial tolerance and heteroresistance- impressive work @emorycollege Michael will pursue his PhD in Molecular Biology next year @Princeton
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27 Feb 2024
I am recruiting a postdoc in computational / systems neuroscience to study mechanisms of social communication and cognition in budgerigars. We are cracking this system wide open. Please share. youtu.be/0r7-QvwqVjM
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23 Feb 2024
1/ I am excited to introduce my PhD work with @twit_tats2, @greg_stephens, and @shaevitz, on the 3D tracking and analysis of pairwise zebrafish fights! How do zebrafish interact socially to establish dominance?
Check out the preprint!
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/β¦
Thread below!
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4 Jan 2024
Eric and I wrote a preview of the consortium paper by Sam Sober and colleagues on the Myomatrix array, a powerful new device for motor unit recordings. Check out the paper by Chung, Zia et al.!
elifesciences.org/articles/9β¦
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