KL Nikhil
@circatwenty4.bsky.social
Exploring how our bodies tell time | McDonnell Fellow | Humboldt Fellow | INSA Young Scientist Medal | Herzog Lab | JNCASR 🇮🇳 - Charité 🇩🇪 - WashU 🇺🇸 | klnikhil.wordpress.com
Babies synchronize their daily rhythms to mom before birth! Work by @circatwenty4.bsky.social and colleagues. source.washu.edu/2026/04/when...
When does the body clock begin to synchronize with local time?
New research from Washington University in St. Louis shows that a mother helps to set the biological clock for her babies while they are still in the womb.
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Our work on #circadian clocks during #pregnancy is now out. We developed a way to track daily rhythms in the developing fetus and show that mother's clock helps the baby synchronize to local time even before birth!
Erik Herzog@erikherzog.bsky.social · 6mo agoEver wonder if a baby knows what time it is? This work by @circatwenty4.bsky.social and collaborators says that the fetus synchronizes its daily rhythms to mom before birth. tinyurl.com/yk3m8fx3 #SRBRa #circadian #chronomedicine
Check out the summary of our recent work on mapping brain communication.
Erik Herzog@erikherzog.bsky.social · 9mo agoHere's a nice #WashU summary of @circatwenty4.bsky.social recent @pnas.org paper where he introduces MITE to infer functional connections among neurons. source.washu.edu/2025/12/mapp...
*The architecture of living systems* Ambitious treatment of the physics of living systems Some quibbles but impressive! iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1... #complexsystems
Congrats KL Nikhil and collaborators on inventing MITE to map functional brain connections! Surprising take home: MITE reveals 5 cell types (based on their connectivity) in the mouse circadian clock which underlie the daily wave of gene expression. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
The inferred functional connectome underlying circadian synchronization in the mouse suprachiasmatic nucleus | PNAS
Circadian rhythms in mammals arise from the spatiotemporal synchronization of ~20,000 neuronal clocks in the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN). Althoug...
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Excited to be a part of this work with Bharat Singhal! Is your data good enough to reveal true cell-cell connectivity? We developed a statistical method to find out — tested on simulations and real-world #networks. shorturl.at/I3KfB #NetworkScience #ComplexSystems #IEEEXplore
Big news: we are setting up a new non-profit organization to run bioRxiv and medRxiv. It's called openRxiv [no it's not a new preprint server; it's dedicated organization to oversee the servers] openrxiv.org 1/n
Homepage - openRxiv
openRxiv is an independent non-profit, the new organizational home for bioRxiv and medRxiv, enabling researchers to instantly share groundbreaking findings with the global scientific community.
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Excited to share my new #preprint with @erikherzog.bsky.social! By mapping the functional #connectome of the #SCN using 3000+ hours of recordings from 9000+ cells in 17 mice, we explored how mammalian clock neurons synchronize to produce #circadian rhythms. (1/n)
