Vivek Venkatachalam received his PhD in Physics from Harvard University. His research seeks to understand how neurons communicate within the brain to process sensory information and shape behavior in the nematode C. elegans. His group develops tools to measure and quantify whole-brain activity at cellular resolution across diverse sensory and behavioral contexts, across sexes, and throughout development.
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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.