From Prof. Pavan Agrawal:
"We are recruiting three PhD students for the 2026–27 Health Sciences intake at the Agrawal Lab, Centre for Molecular Neurosciences, KMC Manipal, MAHE."
"The lab studies how social experience and environmental stress reshape brain function and behavior using Drosophila genetics, functional genomics, behavioral neuroscience, and open-source tool development. Current projects span:
1. Cell-type specific molecular responses to social isolation
2. Wearable sensors, spatial behavior, and anxiety biology
3. Neuro-immune regulation of behavior under social stress
"Our work combines neurogenetics, transcriptomics, quantitative behavior, and machine-vision approaches, including DANCE, our open-source behavioral analysis platform recently published in eLife."






