Nishant Jana
+41 21 693 56 35
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Website: https://lsym.epfl.ch
As a neuroscientist, I'm interested in neural circuits for emotion, how emotional states guide decision making, how information across time scales and memory/experiences are integrated to make decisions, physiological clocks and the processes and computations required for cognition.
Outside of the lab, I love to travel, learn about art, history, culture, languages with their syntax and etymologies and video games, fabricating tools and devices (and also how I can make these interests a part of my work!)
Outside of the lab, I love to travel, learn about art, history, culture, languages with their syntax and etymologies and video games, fabricating tools and devices (and also how I can make these interests a part of my work!)
Professionals experiences
Research Fellow
Designed and built closed-loop behavior tracking setups for fly aggression, courtship, social crowding, risk-taking, gait and limb movement.
Studied the role of Dsk-expressing neurons in the control of inter-fly aggression
Studied the role of Dsk-expressing neurons in the control of inter-fly aggression
Collaborator
DigitalRhythmsProject: Built methods to track a proxy of wake and sleep cycles using phone activity metrics
Visiting Student
Designed methods to study rhythms in redox state across an ex-vivo fly brain for multiple days
Education
B.Tech Biotechnology
| Studied the role of social crowding on individual fly behavior2017 – 2021 SRM Institute of Science and Technology, India
Research
Current Research Fields
Amygdalar circuits for territorial aggression control in mice
Teaching & PhD
BIO-499 Neural circuits of motivated behaviors
Prof. Ralf Schneggenburger and Dr. Olexiy Kochubey
BIO-482 Neuroscience: cellular and circuit mechanisms
Prof. Carl Petersen and Dr. Sylvain Crochet
Neuromatch Computational Neuroscience Summer School
TA for NMA CN in July 2021