About Vivek Venkatachalam
Professor Venkatachalam’s group develops tools to measure and manipulate whole-brain activity in freely-behaving animals.
Institutes, Labs & Research Centers
Chemical Imaging of Living Systems Institute
Biology
Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Biochemistry
The Institute develops imaging tools to highlight chemical processes – enabling clinicians to better diagnose and treat disease.
Venkatachalam Lab
Physics
Biochemistry
Studies of the neurophysiology of C. elegans from its birth to adulthood, which reveals the detailed relationship between the developing nervous system and the animal behavior. Advanced neurotechnology and microscopy techniques are used to measure large populations of neurons in freely behaving animals, while simultaneously recording their movements and motor decisions.
Faculty
Vivek Venkatachalam in the news
March 17, 2022
Student-led collaboration explains how worms navigate a world of food and toxins
A new study from a Northeastern-led collaboration, looking into the C. elegans worms’ interactions with their microbiome, found that the worms are willing to leave a bacterial food source when they’re exposed to one of their deadliest toxins and identified the driving neurological mechanism behind it.
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