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Meha Jadhav
Meha Jadhav
Postdoctoral Researcher
M1124 +49-7531-88-2102

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Behaviour setup for collectives: We have larger versions of our high throughput behaviour setups to study large groups of juvenile zebrafish

Many animals, including fish, prefer to live in groups. Being part of a collective offers many benefits — from better protection against predators to easier access to food and shared information. I’m interested in how animals use and share this information when making decisions together. To study this, I look at the optomotor response in juvenile zebrafish and introduce controlled noise to test whether groups perform better than individuals. To better control their social interactions, I use virtual reality. This setup lets me create situations of conflict — for example, showing motion in opposite directions — and observe when fish choose to follow visual motion versus another fish’s movement.

More broadly, I aim to understand how zebrafish combine sensory input from their environment with social cues from others to drive collective decisions.

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Fishtime: A schmematic of Fishtime where two fish are virtually coupled. The trajectories show fish happily swimming together

Another focus of my work is understanding how slow dynamics arise in the brain. I study a small region in the fish brain called the Torus Longitudinalis, which shows remarkably slow activity patterns. I want to find out what roles these “slow” cells play, how they’re connected, and what gives rise to their unusually slow dynamics.

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Fish Brain: A larval fish brain under the two photon microscope. The neurons express GCAMP, a fluorescent calcium indicator.

In addition to science I am also passionate about food, books, board games. When the weather allows, I like to bike and run.

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Me with the behaviour setups in progress

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Positions

Since 2024 Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Konstanz
2017–2023 Researcher, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, India

Education

2024 PhD in Neuroscience, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, India
2015–2017 Master in Biotechnology, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune, India
2012–2015 Bachelor in Chemistry and Zoology, University of Mumbai, Mumbai, India

Fellowships

2015–2017 Fellowship for Master’s Degree, Department of Biotechnology, Government of India
2012–2015 INSPIRE Scholarship for Higher Education, Department of Science and Technology, Government of India

Awards

2022 Foreign Travel Award, Department of Science and Technology, Government of India
2023 Trainee Professional Development Award, Society for Neuroscience

Publications
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2025

  • Jadhav M. P., Verma S., Thirumalai V. (2025) Ionic conductances driving tonic firing in Purkinje neurons of larval zebrafish. The Journal of Physiology. https://doi.org/10.1113/JP286063

2021

  • Sitaraman S., Yadav G., Agarwal V., Jabeen S., Verma S., Jadhav M., Thirumalai V. (2021) Gjd2b-mediated gap junctions promote glutamatergic synapse formation and dendritic elaboration in Purkinje neurons. eLife. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.68124

2020

  • Balasubramanian N., Sagarkar S., Jadhav M. P., Shahi N., Sirmaur R., Sakharkar A. J. (2020) Role for histone deacetylation in traumatic brain injury-induced deficits in neuropeptide Y in arcuate nucleus: Possible implications in feeding behaviour.. Neuroendocrinology. https://doi.org/10.1159/000513638