Curriculum Vitae
Anzal KS First name: Anzal, Last name: Kannamkulath Shahul Hameed Name on publications: Anzal K Shahul |
Phone: +91 7907112288 ORCID: 0009-0006-9932-7944 GitHub: anzalks |
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Research interests Neural computation, Information encoding, Learning and behavior, Circuit neuroscience |
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| Lab techniques | Programming and Designing | Other tools | |
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Current positions Postdoctoral Researcher |
July-2025- | ||
| Neuroscience R&D Consultant and
Generalist Dognosis (Developing the multimodal hardware and ML platform for behaviour analytics and behaviour pattern inference for dog behaviour) |
Apr 2025— | ||
Education Graduate student (PhD) |
2018-25 | ||
| BS-MS Dual degree Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Thiruvananthapuram (IISER-TVM) |
2012–17 | ||
| Publications | ||||
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A subset of mouse hippocampus CA1 pyramidal neurons learns sparse synaptic input patterns. Anzal K. Shahul, Upinder S. Bhalla bioRxiv 2024.12.05.626959; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.12.05.626959 |
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Mechanisms and implications of high depolarization baseline offsets in conductance-based neuronal models. Anal Kumar, Anzal K. Shahul, Upinder S. Bhalla bioRxiv 2024.01.11.575308; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.01.11.575308 (accepted in JNeurophysiology) |
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| Achievements, grants, and awards | ||||
The Sarojini Damodaran International Student Travel Fellowship To visit Prof. Philippe Isope’s lab at the Institute of Cellular and Integrative Neuroscience (INCI) - UPR 3212 CNRS. Strasbourg, France to develop SynaptiPy. |
2024 | |||
| DBT-CTEP Govt. of India, travel award | 2024 | |||
| Mightex travel award | 2024 | |||
| The Carl Storm International Diversity Fellowship (CSID) | 2024 | |||
| Mightex research excellence prize (Honourable Mentions) | 2023 | |||
| Science and Engineering Research Board Core Research Grant (SERB-CRG) Pattern learning in individual neurons. Submitted by Prof. Upinder S Bhalla. | 2023 | |||
| Infosys-NCBS Intramural Travel Grant | 2022 | |||
| CSIR-NET (LS) (Life science) | 2017,2018 | |||
| JGEEBILS | 2017, 2018 | |||
| GATE (Life science) | 2017 | |||
| DST INSPIRE SHE fellow | 2012-17 | |||
| Multimedia Presentation-1st Prize State School IT Fest 2008-09, Kerala Govt |
2009 | |||
| Researcher roles | |||
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| Research Associate Prof. Upinder S Bhalla’s lab, National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS-TIFR), Bangalore, India |
Feb 2025- July 2025 | ||
Junior Research fellow Dr. Shamik DasGupta’s lab (DBS, TIFR, Mumbai) |
Jul 2017 - Jun 2018 | ||
| Research Internships | |||
| NUS: Prof. Winkler’s lab (DBS) | May-Jul 2016 | ||
| NCBS: Prof. Sane’s lab | May-Jul 2015 | ||
| IISER-TVM: Dr. Varghese’s lab (SoB) | Dec 2014 | ||
| WWF project: Under Mr. Ajay Desai | May-Jun 2014 | ||
| IISER-TVM: Dr. Maruthachalam’s lab (SoB) | Dec 2013 | ||
| Teaching Experience | |||
| Tutor: Neuroscience Summer camp at NCBS for school children. | May 2024 | ||
| Teaching Assistant: CAMP (Computational Approaches to Memory and Plasticity) | Jul - Aug 2022 | ||
| Teaching Assistant: Basic neurobiology (@NCBS-TIFR) |
Aug - Dec 2019 |
| Summer Schools | |||
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| Transylvanian Experimental Neuroscience Summer School (TENSS) |
May-Jun 2022 |
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| Monsoon Workshop on Experimental Neuroscience (MonssonWEN ) |
Jul 2019 |
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| Conferences | |||
Optogenetic Approaches to Understanding Neural Circuits and Behavior Biological Insights Derived from Optogenetic Approaches (GRC), Lucca, Italy Poster: Pattern learning in CA1 pyramidal cells of mouse hippocampus |
2024 | ||
Neuroscience 2023 (SFN): Washington DC, USA Poster: Pattern learning in CA1 pyramidal cells of mouse hippocampus |
2023 | ||
No Garland Neuroscience: IISER Pune, India Talk: How neurons learn patterns |
2023 | ||
No Garland Neuroscience: IISER Pune, India Attendee |
2020 | ||
EMBO Conference on Bacterial Morphogenesis, Survival, and Virulence: Regulation in 4D: Poovar, Kerala, India. Volunteer |
2016 | ||
All India Cell Biology Conference: Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India Volunteer |
2015 | ||
| Workshops | |||
| Climate Change In Your Classroom: A Workshop For Teachers Of All Disciplines (by TROP ICSU) | 2nd and 3rd May 2024 | ||
| Images of Learning: Visualising Constructivist
Principles (led by Dr. Vetti Giri from Azim Premji University) |
1st to 2nd July 2024 | ||
| Research projects | |||
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| 2020 | |||
| Supervisors: Prof. U S Bhalla, Prof. Sanjay Sane | |||
| Institute: NCBS-TIFR, Duration: January 2020 to July 2020 | |||
| Description: As a COVID-19 initiative, we investigated developing an Olfactory prescreening for asymptomatic COVID cases. The project was called off due to issues synthesizing the encapsulated odorants for making scratch and sniff test pamphlets. | |||
| 2018 | |||
| Supervisor: Dr. Shamik DasGupta | |||
| Institute: TIFR-Mumbai (Currently at University of Bristol), Duration: July 2017 to June 2018 | |||
| Description: We identified potential neurons in the Ventral Nerve Cord (VNC) of adult D. melanogaster involved in path integration. We designed and developed behavior setups for different behavior assays. We also developed a Labview-based acquisition script for the data acquisition. | |||
| 2017 | |||
| Supervisor: Dr. Jishy Varghese | |||
| Institute: IISER Thiruvananthapuram, Duration: August 2016 to April 2017 | |||
| Description:
We predicted miRNAs responsible for aging and neuronal maintenance with
the help of in-silico tools, behavior assays, and molecular biology
techniques in D. melanogaster. Created a database with miRNA targets in D.melanogaster for all the miRNAs conserved in bilaterally symmetric animals and manually curated all target sequences of bilaterally conserved miRNAs in D.melanogaster. A Java-based interface was developed to access the manually curated Gene Ontology (GO) associated with each such genes. Conducted behavior assays to assess aging. qPCR to account for different RNA levels. |
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| 2016 | |||
| Supervisor: Dr. Alagiri Kaliyamoorty | |||
| Institute: IISER Thiruvananthapuram, Duration: January to April | |||
| Description: We synthesized diazabutadiene derivative of 2,4,6-trimethylaniline, 2,6- Diisopropylphenylamine,1,3-bis-(2,4,6-trimethylphenyl)imidazol-2-ylidene.HCl (IMesHCl),1,3-bis-(2,6-diisopropylphenyl)imidazol-2-yli-dene.HCl(IPrHCl) was tested from commercially available reagents, and purity was tested using different spectroscopic measures, including NMR. | |||
| 2016 | |||
| Supervisor: Prof. Christoph Winkler | |||
| Institute: National University of Singapore, Singapore, Duration: May to July | |||
| Description: A screening was conducted to make Zebrafish lines of development mutants of SMA (Spinal Muscular Atrophy) using CRISPR. | |||
| 2015 | |||
| Supervisor: Prof. Sanjay P Sane | |||
| Institute: NCBS-TIFR, India, Duration: May to July | |||
| Description: We tried to standardize an immuno-staining protocol for visualizing the synapses in the antennal lobe of hawkmoth (Daphnis nerium). | |||
| 2014 | |||
| Supervisor: Dr. Jishy Varghese | |||
| Institute: IISER Thiruvananthapuram, India, Duration: December | |||
| Description: Acquired core competencies on the Drosophila model system. |
| Leadership & Team Experience | |||
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| Creative lead for the 6th National Postdoctoral
Symposium (Science & Society: Vision to Transition, Ashoka University, Sonipat) |
Oct 2023 |
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| Neurobiology Journal Club Coordinator(NBJC), NCBS-TIFR, Weekly journal club Organized by the NCBS community for neurobiology enthusiasts. |
2019-2020 |
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| President Anvesha, the science club of IISER-TVM, currently Science And Technology Council IISER TVM |
2016-17 |
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| Team lead, Pedagogy development for “The Workshop” Onsite one-day outreach workshop for high school students across the state of Kerala by Anvesha, the science club of IISER-TVM. |
2016 |
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| Secretary, Anvesha, the science club of IISER-TVM |
2015-16 |
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| Core team member Anvesha 2015, science fest of IISER TVM during 2015 | 2015 | ||
| Co-founding member, IISER-T Bikers Club Informal cycling group of IISER TVM |
2014 |
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| Evaluator roles | |||
| Evaluator(Judge), KVS -Regional Children's Science Congress | 2023-24 | ||
| Evaluator(Judge), KVS- National Children's Science Congress | 2022-23 |