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Ricky Patel

@RickeshNPatel

A scientist interested in how an animal's sensory experience influences its behavior. Mainly investigating animal navigation- so far in mantis shrimp and bees.

 Lund, Sweden
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Joined March 2020
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Excited to share our new paper with @StanleyHeinze and Julian Kempenaers @LundVision in @CurrentBiology showing path integration in walking bumblebees in the lab! This vector navigation behavior is highly amenable and remarkably stable to anesthetization and surgery. @MSCActions
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Fresh off the press! Our new study @PNAS shows that bees memorize spatial vectors and can flexibly recall them at a familiar place to navigate home. The work provides a plausible foundation for how bees might achieve complex navigation by utilizing vectors to form a web-like map
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Parallel vector memories in the brain of a bee as foundation for flexible navigation | PNAS

Parallel vector memories in the brain of a bee as foundation for flexible navigation | PNAS

Insects rely on path integration (vector-based navigation) and landmark guidance to perform sophisticated navigational feats, rivaling those seen i...

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Super excited to share my new preprint with you. We found goal direction neurons in the monarch butterfly. 🧵🦋 biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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IT HAPPENED: my PhD manuscript is out on @bioRxiv!! Read about mantis shrimp brains here: biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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New paper from @RickeshNPatel and @stanley_heinze in @CurrentBiology on path integration in walking bumblebees! cell.com/current-biology/ful…
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Vector navigation in walking bumblebees

Bees perform impressive vector navigation feats while foraging over long distances. Patel et al. show that bumblebees also use path integration over short distances while walking in the laboratory....

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Are you interested in studying weird and wonderful animal eyes? I'm on the lookout for 1-2 PhD students to join my new lab @mfnberlin and I would love to hear from you! Several funding streams are available, including this one 👉 humboldt-graduate-school.de/… closing 25 March! Pls RT!
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For those UK nationals sad not to be able to apply to our recently advertised PhD position, here's one for you. Cotutelle project with us and @pipilika_aj to compare mantis shrimp and bull ant navigation strategies. 50% in @BristolBioSci, 50% in @Macquarie_Uni. PM for details.
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Very happy to share our new preprint showing that bumblebees path integrate over short distances in the lab while walking! Work with Julian Kempenaers and @stanley_heinze @LundVision @MSCActions biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
Bumblebees navigate using path integration while walking

Bumblebees navigate using path integration while walking

Path integration is a computational strategy that allows an animal to maintain an internal estimate of its position relative to a point of origin. Many species use path integration to navigate back...

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I am happy to share our recent publication @CurrentBiology. We show a state-dependent remapping of the head-direction system in monarch butterflies. At flight onset a sun compass is generated. @Uni_WUE @tamumonarchlab @LundVision cell.com/current-biology/ful…
Flight-induced compass representation in the monarch butterfly heading network

Flight-induced compass representation in the monarch butterfly heading network

The insect central complex houses a heading-direction network. Beetz et al. show that this network remaps in a state-dependent manner in monarch butterflies. It switches from a sun-bearing coding in...

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🚨 Abstract Submission Deadline Extension 🚨 The new deadline for #ABS2021 is May 14th! Get your abstract submitted to participate in world-class research sharing and networking!
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Hi everyone! I will be hosting today’s #ABStakeover. I am @RickeshNPatel, a Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow @LundVision @LundUniversity.
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Sensory ecology/neuro postdoc available in my supervisor Daniel Robert's lab @BristolBioSci on electroreception in insects and other arthropods - a new and exciting field and it would be great to expand the team. DM me for more info or email Daniel. Feel free to share/RT😃🐝🕷️⚡️
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Mantis shrimp rely on vision to detect landmarks and other animals, among other tasks. What do mantis shrimp pay attention to when recognizing an object? Now in JEB, eight @UMBCBiology undergrads and I investigated if mantis shrimp recognize objects by their colors and/or shapes!
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Join us on May 3rd for our next #ABStakeover led by @RickeshNPatel! Ricky Patel is a Marie Curie fellow @LundVision, formerly a PhD student @UMBCBiology. Tune in to learn about how #mantisshrimp navigate the sea floor and hear a bit about Ricky’s current #research and his #art!
Ricky Patel will be leading the next #ABStakeover.

ALT Ricky Patel will be leading the next #ABStakeover.

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Very excited to share our new preprint!! a comprehensive map of all major neural projections in the bumblebee central complex - a navigational hub in the insect brain. biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
A projectome of the bumblebee central complex

A projectome of the bumblebee central complex

Insects have evolved diverse and remarkable strategies for navigating in various ecologies all over the world. Regardless of species, insects share the presence of a group of morphologically conser...

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now with video! the neural subnetworks you see in this behaving animal are a new discovery and a big clue about how these distributed, growing nerve nets wire up and function. Powerful transgenic neuroscience tools open the door for lots of new biology! congrats to Brady et al.!
Jase Gehring (@JaseGehring) profile pictureJase Gehring@JaseGehring23 Feb 2021
my brilliant collaborator Brady Weissbourd just posted this. they made GCaMP jellyfish and can now image neural activity across entire, live animals in response to stimuli. we always wonder, "what's that jelly thinking rn?" and Brady's gonna find out! biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Fascinating research by our very own @_StephanieLKing and @DrMartinJohnHow features in a new @BBCTwo wildlife series this Sunday 28 February! Find out more at the link below: bristol.ac.uk/news/2021/febr…
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