Mala Murthy

Mala Murthy is an American neuroscientist who serves as the Director of the Princeton Neuroscience Institute, and is the Karol and Marnie Marcin ’96 Professor of Neuroscience at Princeton University.[1] Her work centers around how the brain extracts important information from the sensory world and utilises that information to modulate behavior in a social context.[2][3][4] She is most known for her work in acoustic communication and song production in courting Drosophila fruit flies.[5][6][7][8] Murthy and colleagues have also published an automated system (LEAP and SLEAP) for measuring animal pose in movies with one or more animal.[9][10]

Mala Murthy
Born1975 (age 47–48)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materMassachusetts Institute of Technology
Stanford University
Scientific career
InstitutionsCalifornia Institute of Technology
Princeton University
Doctoral advisorThomas Schwarz
Richard Scheller
Websitehttps://mala-murthy.squarespace.com

Education

Prof. Murthy received her B.S. in Biology from MIT. She was a Burchards scholar in the humanities and won the John L. Asinari prize for outstanding undergraduate research in the life sciences. She then received her PhD in Neuroscience from Stanford University, working with Thomas Schwarz and Richard Scheller. Her thesis research centered on mechanisms of vesicle trafficking to cell membranes. She did postdoctoral work in systems neuroscience with Gilles Laurent at Caltech as a Helen Hay Whitney fellow stereotypy in the central brain of Drosophila, in a region of the brain important for learning in memory.[11]

Awards and recognition

References
  1. "Mala Murthy named PNI Director | Neuroscience". pni.princeton.edu. Retrieved 2023-05-15.
  2. "Mala Murthy one of five Princeton professors among inaugural HHMI-Simons Faculty Scholars | Neuroscience". pni.princeton.edu. Retrieved 2020-02-27.
  3. "Mala Murthy | Neuroscience". pni.princeton.edu. Retrieved 2020-02-27.
  4. "Mala Murthy | National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke". www.ninds.nih.gov. Retrieved 2020-02-27.
  5. Coen, Philip; Clemens, Jan; Weinstein, Andrew J.; Pacheco, Diego A.; Deng, Yi; Murthy, Mala (2014-03-13). "Dynamic sensory cues shape song structure in Drosophila". Nature. 507 (7491): 233–237. Bibcode:2014Natur.507..233C. doi:10.1038/nature13131. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 24598544. S2CID 4406563.
  6. Clemens, Jan; Girardin, Cyrille C.; Coen, Philip; Guan, Xiao-Juan; Dickson, Barry J.; Murthy, Mala (2015-09-23). "Connecting Neural Codes with Behavior in the Auditory System of Drosophila". Neuron. 87 (6): 1332–1343. doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2015.08.014. ISSN 0896-6273. PMC 4629847. PMID 26365767. S2CID 13264373.
  7. Clemens, Jan; Coen, Philip; Roemschied, Frederic A.; Pereira, Talmo D.; Mazumder, David; Aldarondo, Diego E.; Pacheco, Diego A.; Murthy, Mala (2018-08-06). "Discovery of a New Song Mode in Drosophila Reveals Hidden Structure in the Sensory and Neural Drivers of Behavior". Current Biology. 28 (15): 2400–2412.e6. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2018.06.011. PMC 6830513. PMID 30057309.
  8. Calhoun, Adam J.; Pillow, Jonathan W.; Murthy, Mala (December 2019). "Unsupervised identification of the internal states that shape natural behavior". Nature Neuroscience. 22 (12): 2040–2049. doi:10.1038/s41593-019-0533-x. ISSN 1546-1726. PMC 7819718. PMID 31768056. S2CID 208279147.
  9. Pereira, Talmo D.; Aldarondo, Diego E.; Willmore, Lindsay; Kislin, Mikhail; Wang, Samuel S.-H.; Murthy, Mala; Shaevitz, Joshua W. (January 2019). "Fast animal pose estimation using deep neural networks". Nature Methods. 16 (1): 117–125. doi:10.1038/s41592-018-0234-5. ISSN 1548-7105. PMC 6899221. PMID 30573820.
  10. Pereira, Talmo D.; Tabris, Nathaniel; Li, Junyu; Ravindranath, Shruthi; Papadoyannis, Eleni S.; Wang, Z. Yan; Turner, David M.; McKenzie-Smith, Grace; Kocher, Sarah D.; Falkner, Annegret L.; Shaevitz, Joshua W. (2020-09-02). "SLEAP: Multi-animal pose tracking". bioRxiv: 2020.08.31.276246. doi:10.1101/2020.08.31.276246. S2CID 221510569.
  11. Murthy, Mala; Fiete, Ila; Laurent, Gilles (2008-09-25). "Testing odor response stereotypy in the Drosophila mushroom body". Neuron. 59 (6): 1009–1023. doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2008.07.040. ISSN 1097-4199. PMC 2654402. PMID 18817738.
  12. "NIH Director's New Innovator Award Program - 2014 Award Recipients | NIH Common Fund". commonfund.nih.gov. 18 September 2018. Retrieved 2020-02-27.
  13. "Past Fellows". sloan.org. Retrieved 2020-10-16.
  14. "The Esther A. & and Joseph Klingenstein Fund, Inc". www.klingfund.org. Retrieved 2020-10-16.
  15. "Awardees". McKnight Foundation. Retrieved 2020-10-16.
  16. "2016 Faculty Scholars". 2016 Faculty Scholars. Retrieved 2020-02-27.
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