Flavell Lab Research Featured on Picower Institute’s LinkedIn
A simple animal’s response to sickness highlights the nervous system’s surprising degrees of flexibility
Simple nematodes can produce a wide variety of behaviors
Simple nematodes can produce a wide variety of behaviors. In a new review, Steven Flavell and co-authors describe how sex, individuality and internal states add up to produce their vast [...]
Flavell lab in MIT News
https://news.mit.edu/2025/modeling-complex-behavior-steven-flavell-0121
C. Elegans Makes the New York Times
These Tiny Worms Account for at Least 4 Nobel Prizes A staple in laboratories worldwide, C. elegans is “an experimental dream,” said one scientist.
Flavell Lab Postdoc Sreeparna Pradhan Profiled as 2022-2024 K. Lisa Yang Brain-Body Fellow
The Flavell lab is proud of the accomplishments of lab member Sreeparna Pradhan, who is a K. Lisa Yang Brain-Body Fellow for 2022-2024. Read more about Dr. Pradhan’s work here, as profiled [...]
As the worm turns
🪱As the worm turns: A new pre-print study from the Flavell lab uses calcium imaging to track how neurons in a navigating C. elegans nematode encode its navigation strategies, incorporate sensory [...]
The latest Flavell lab @MIT_Picower preprint is live on bioRxiv
🚀Our latest Flavell lab @MIT_Picower preprint is live on bioRxiv! Aligning and annotating diverse cell types in complex tissues is a major challenge. We introduce 3 deep neural nets to automate [...]
HHMI Announces 26 new HHMI Investigators from 19 US institutions, Including the Flavell Lab
⭐️ Big news! HHMI is investing $300+ million in 26 new #HHMIInvestigators from 19 US institutions. These top scientists will drive groundbreaking research in diverse fields, from neuroscience to [...]
Congratulations to Associate Professor Steve Flavell on Achieving Tenure!
🎉We're excited and proud to share that Associate Professor Steve Flavell has earned tenure effective July 1! We also note that he's recruiting postdocs. https://t.co/TRAjHHVGQI [...]
Exploring the Brain’s Blueprint
"I'm really drawn to research questions that have a larger picture to them, and I think neuroscience research has the ability to address some really fundamental questions." Meet [...]