Jess Kanwal
@BrainExplorer
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Neurobiology Postdoc @Caltech studying beetles, brains, behavior | PhD @PiN_Harvard | chemical sensing, flavor, evolution, neuroethology, neurodance
Pasadena, CA
Joined June 2013
Too many summer conference options? Let me help: our Spatiotemporal Communication + Movement group (@zapkapow @HokeCSU @BrainExplorer @TaliaMuadDib @2fliesforward) is offering travel fellowships to attend GRS / GRC Neuroethology (8/5-8/11)! Specifically aimed at URM! R/T pls!
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An ant-imated discussion on how diverse perspectives like from the world of art can inform scientific passion and research in animal communication! Another addition as part of our #SICB2022 @SICB_ extravaganza
We all have secrets. Movie animator John Truong had one he kept from his friends and family. It wasn't until recently he shared what he'd been hiding since age 11. The latest #podcast from Ask A Biologist has the story. https://t.co/4OoH5OVrgT
@IRiS__UC @SICB_ @Caltech
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@TaliaMuadDib is up on Ask-a-Biologist giving great insight to "jumping" between fields with bio-inspired robotics! A theme she brought to life in our @SICB_ workshop which was recorded for SICB+ too:
Take 2- What do robot animals and jumping jerboas have in common? Better yet, what’s a jerboa? Find out in our latest podcast with guest Talia Yuki Moore. Listen to the full episode- https://t.co/Hyh50nKvff
@taliamuaddib @SICB_ #SICB2022 @NSF #podcast
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At #SICB2022, besides our workshops, @Drbiology was capturing some of our ideas/work on spatiotemporal dynamics of communication for a podcast audience. My episode is up with many more to follow! And just in time for SICB+! @zapkapow @HokeCSU @BrainExplorer @TaliaMuadDib @SICB_
Tweet It is amazing what lengths some biologists will go to learn about their subject in the wild. Try scuba diving at night when it is pitch black, no moon, and you can't even use a light. @niko_hensley tells his story. https://t.co/WLYBuE8IoQ
#bioluminescence #Biology #podcasts
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Reminder -- please preregister for these two (free) training workshops at #SICB2022! You'll receive an email with necessary information. Let any of our organizing team know if you preregistered and can no longer attend (@zapkapow @niko_hensley @BrainExplorer me or Sara Wasserman)
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Attending #SICB2022? If not, it's not too late to book your flights. The Spatio-temporal Dynamics in Animal Communication team is back with an incredible program of events. @zapkapow @BrainExplorer @niko_hensley Sara Wasserman & I enjoy laughing together. Here is the consequence:
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New #preprint from lab! Surprising and (we think) cool. We find an unexpected mechanism by which the valence of an odorant is switched from attractive to aversive. We know a lot about how assoc conditioning, internal state etc switches odorant valence.1/10 https://t.co/XawBWSWZ4D
biorxiv.org
The valence and salience of individual odorants are modulated by an animal’s innate preferences, learned associations, and internal state, as well as by the context of odorant presentation. The...
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Read this special issue on Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Communication! Then sign up for SICB2022, where the team plans to develop and extend the concepts from the symposium. Thanks to all the co-organizers and authors for sharing all these cross-disciplinary ideas.
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As part of an amazing mentorship course for faculty by @yael_niv and @CollegeInMind, I drafted a "Statement on lab culture and expectations". Higher-level than a lab manual. https://t.co/W4kNgSMk5L Would love comments (here or in the document). And feel free to use anything!
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What is behavior? Does your definition agree with your friends' definition? We found that people combined six categories of behaviors into seven different types. Not everyone agrees, but each individual has their own consistent definition. 👉 https://t.co/VRfgiEXPa1
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Highly recommend organizing a symposium! @zapkapow @niko_hensley @BrainExplorer Sara Wasserman & I had such a great experience over the past two years for our 2021 symposium that we still meet regularly to plan follow-up events for #SICB2022. {it doesn't need to be so long term}
Have an idea for a symposium at #SICB2022? Submit a proposal! We invite proposals from people of ALL career stages. Due on August 30. Contact me or your division program officer if you want to talk. Submit here: https://t.co/OMuNDoFdzF
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How do animals avoid getting lost when exploring an environment in complete darkness? By combining computational modeling and experiments in a specialized arena, we found that fruit flies perform local search by carefully measuring how far they walk.
biorxiv.org
The ability to keep track of one ’ s location in space is a critical behavior for animals navigating to and from a salient location, but its computational basis remains unknown. Here, we tracked...
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Check out the #AChemSXLII symposia! We have a diverse line up of presenters and topics; from #Octopi to #COVID19, #chemosensory research affects important aspects of many organisms' lives and well-being! https://t.co/g5PIPHYTvQ
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So excited for our #SICB2021 symposium tomorrow on Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Animal Communication. The best organizational team ever (@zapkapow @niko_hensley @BrainExplorer and Sara Wasserman) means it's already been fantastic, and now we get to see the amazing talks! Join us.
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Being an octopus might be roughly akin to exploring the world with eight giant, sucker-studded tongues
nytimes.com
Octopuses can taste what their arms touch, and scientists have figured out how.
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Hear ye, Hear ye! The time has come to sign up for the Fall Semester of @SkypeScientist!! Scientists willing to chat with groups about science, Sign up here: https://t.co/59SZqcHqlN Want your group to chat with a scientist? LET'S GO!
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Have you ever wondered why primary sensory neurons are grouped together in taste buds, olfactory sensilla, and other sensory hairs? Or how their structures affect function? We discuss these intriguing questions in our latest BioEssays review: https://t.co/an37c4bP5c
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Excited to share the the dispatch @neurojeanne and I wrote. Out now in @CurrentBiology ! We highlight 3 recent tour de force Drosophila connectomics papers from many of the groups @flyconnectome
https://t.co/91jHbkEht3
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