Navneet

Huge thanks to @biopatrika.bsky.social for featuring our work through #researcherspotlight 😊

We talked about the “why” behind the science, the lab’s aha moments, and what lies ahead. 👩🏻‍🔬

Brains, neurons, and a lot of curious minds in one place. ✨

Scenes from Babu lab, Centre for Neuroscience - Open day 2026.

Come to IISc for open day, when all departments showcase fun demos!

Starved yet social: Why worms aggregate when food is just next door? In this study, we investigate a striking collective behavior in tiny worms (C. elegans) in which animals gather into dense groups and continue feeding together, even when dispersing would allow them t...

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A swarm on the plate, a ripple beyond it! 🌊

Thanks Niveditha S for framing it so beautifully!

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Worming out molecular secrets behind collective behavior The disruption of a single conserved synaptic gene leads to worms showing an unusual type of swarming behaviour, researchers find

From molecular imbalance to media balance: my worms clearly understand networking! ☺️

Worming out molecular secrets behind collective behavior | EurekAlert! www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

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Thank you Indian IISc and Souptika Das for highlighting this work. All credit to Navneet for leading this work with Nisha, Sharveri, Dimple and collaborators' Egemen and Askin. Funding thanks: DBT/WT India Alliance, ANRF and DBT. #CNSIISc iisc.ac.in/events/wormi...