Vidhya Rangaraju, PhD
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Vidhya Rangaraju, PhD
@rangarajuvidhya.bsky.social
Research Group Leader @MPFNeuro | Investigating neuronal energy use and synaptic plasticity #StayCurious
https://www.mpfi.org/science/our-labs/rangaraju-lab/
New preprint alert! 🚀

We show that mitochondria dynamically remodel near synapses during brain plasticity for learning 🧠🧪

Led by Monil Shah, MPFI IMPRS PhD student, (@mpfneuro.bsky.social) using advanced microscopy & new algorithms, revealing stunning neuronal beauty! 🔬

Thanks to the whole team!
August 28, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Bittersweet goodbyes to some talented trainees from my lab. Congrats to 🎉

Deva Bhuyan: Off to a Biology PhD at UAB 🎓 🧪
Rasya Bhat: Master's student, established our first human models 🧠
Luca Pishos: High school student, off to a BE at UF 🎓. Watch out for his preprint!

Wishing them all the best! ✨
August 18, 2025 at 8:33 PM
📢 New preprint alert!

We watch ATP, the energy currency, in tiny compartments of brain synapses to show that synapses talk to their local mitochondria to produce energy right when needed during plasticity, required for memory formation: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
April 10, 2025 at 5:10 PM
🎉 Kicking off 2025 with a celebration: our lab turns 5!

💰 2 major grants @NIH @cziscience.bsky.social
📜 5 publications + 1 preprint
🏆 Lab members winning big awards
🎓 Alumni off to top-tier schools
Grateful for my brilliant team @mpfneuro.bsky.social—here’s to the next 5 years of discovery! 🚀🙌
January 8, 2025 at 3:53 PM