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Awardee

Mala Murthy, Ph.D.

Investigator, Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain

SFARI Investigator

Affiliations
  • Karol and Marnie Marcin ’96 Professor of Neuroscience, Princeton University

Publications

Vocal Call Locator Benchmark (VCL) for localizing rodent vocalizations from multi-channel audio

The Thirty-eight Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems Datasets and Benchmarks Track, bioRxiv:2024.09.20.613758, 2024

R. Peterson, A. Tanelus, Christopher Ick, Bartul Mimica, Niegil Francis, Violet J Ivan, et al.

Neural network organization for courtship-song feature detection in Drosophila

Curr Biol, July 28, 2022

CA Baker, C McKellar, R Pang, A Nern, S Dorkenwald, DA Pacheco, et al.

SLEAP: A deep learning system for multi-animal pose tracking

Nat Methods, April 4, 2022

TD Pereira, N Tabris, A Matsliah, DM Turner, J Li, S Ravindranath, et al.

FlyWire: online community for whole-brain connectomics

Nat Methods, December 23, 2021

S Dorkenwald, CE McKellar, T Macrina, N Kemnitz, K Lee, R Lu, et al.

Projects

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Global Brain

Simons Collaboration
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Brainwide dynamics of a social interaction

Funded Work

Featuring Mala Murthy

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Announcing the Recipients of the 2024 Pilot and Pilot Progression Awards

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A New Era for the Neuroscience of Social Behavior

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New Efforts To Relate Brain Structure and Function Reveal Surprising Properties of Neural Circuits

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In Mapping Mistakes, a Window to the Inner Mind

Events

From Connectome to Computation: Linking Circuits and Behavior in the Fly

Lecture

October 8, 2025

6–7 p.m. ET

Speaker

Mala Murthy

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