Minel Arinel
@minelarinel.bsky.social
PhD candidate in the Naumann Lab at Duke Neurobiology | Gut-brain & Psychedelics | BIF Fellow | #BiInSci | she/her 🇹🇷🌈🧠
I’m officially Dr. Minel Arinel!! Grateful for every person who got me here, family, friends, mentors, and the zebrafish who made it all possible 🐟✨
November 15, 2025 at 5:44 PM
I’m officially Dr. Minel Arinel!! Grateful for every person who got me here, family, friends, mentors, and the zebrafish who made it all possible 🐟✨
I'm excited (and a little emotional) to be giving my PhD dissertation seminar as I wrap up my time in the Duke Neurobiology program 🧠🐟
📅 Monday, Nov 10 at 12:00 PM Eastern Time
📍 Bryan Research Building, Room 103
If you'd like to attend virtually, please feel free to DM me for the Zoom link! ✨
📅 Monday, Nov 10 at 12:00 PM Eastern Time
📍 Bryan Research Building, Room 103
If you'd like to attend virtually, please feel free to DM me for the Zoom link! ✨
November 3, 2025 at 3:12 PM
I'm excited (and a little emotional) to be giving my PhD dissertation seminar as I wrap up my time in the Duke Neurobiology program 🧠🐟
📅 Monday, Nov 10 at 12:00 PM Eastern Time
📍 Bryan Research Building, Room 103
If you'd like to attend virtually, please feel free to DM me for the Zoom link! ✨
📅 Monday, Nov 10 at 12:00 PM Eastern Time
📍 Bryan Research Building, Room 103
If you'd like to attend virtually, please feel free to DM me for the Zoom link! ✨
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@natrevneuro.nature.com just published a beautiful cover for the issue that includes the recent review on analogies in the visual system of vertebrates and invertebrates (@ryosuketanaka.bsky.social). Read it here doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Science and Art, what could be better?
Science and Art, what could be better?
July 23, 2025 at 4:43 PM
@natrevneuro.nature.com just published a beautiful cover for the issue that includes the recent review on analogies in the visual system of vertebrates and invertebrates (@ryosuketanaka.bsky.social). Read it here doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Science and Art, what could be better?
Science and Art, what could be better?
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Gut stretch evokes rapid neural dynamics in vagal and hindbrain populations of larval zebrafish https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.21.665834v1
July 22, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Gut stretch evokes rapid neural dynamics in vagal and hindbrain populations of larval zebrafish https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.21.665834v1
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These AWIS members have learned that listening is a crucial skill for leaders. Read their stories and be inspired to truly hear those around you. buff.ly/zvPhbEX #WomenInSTEM
July 17, 2025 at 4:06 PM
These AWIS members have learned that listening is a crucial skill for leaders. Read their stories and be inspired to truly hear those around you. buff.ly/zvPhbEX #WomenInSTEM
Grateful to be featured in the @awisnational.bsky.social Member Spotlight and their recent piece on Listening and Leadership. Honored to share space with so many brilliant women in STEM 💙
🔗 Member Spotlight: awis.org/project/awis...
🔗 Listening and Leadership feature: awis.org/resource/lis...
🔗 Member Spotlight: awis.org/project/awis...
🔗 Listening and Leadership feature: awis.org/resource/lis...
AWIS Member Spotlight: Minel Arinel
Minel Arinel is a sixth-year PhD student in Neurobiology at Duke University, passionate about developing alternative therapeutics for psychiatric disorders.
awis.org
July 17, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Grateful to be featured in the @awisnational.bsky.social Member Spotlight and their recent piece on Listening and Leadership. Honored to share space with so many brilliant women in STEM 💙
🔗 Member Spotlight: awis.org/project/awis...
🔗 Listening and Leadership feature: awis.org/resource/lis...
🔗 Member Spotlight: awis.org/project/awis...
🔗 Listening and Leadership feature: awis.org/resource/lis...
✨ New publication! ✨
Our mini-review on the #gut-brain and #heart-brain axes in #reward processing is out in Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience! 🧠
We dig into how body-to-brain signals shape emotion and motivation and why it matters for mental health.
Read it here:
🔗 doi.org/10.3389/fnin...
Our mini-review on the #gut-brain and #heart-brain axes in #reward processing is out in Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience! 🧠
We dig into how body-to-brain signals shape emotion and motivation and why it matters for mental health.
Read it here:
🔗 doi.org/10.3389/fnin...
Frontiers | The gut and heart’s role in reward processing
Reward processing, which ensures survival, has evolved to also shape emotions, learning, and overall well-being. While traditional models of reward have focu...
doi.org
July 16, 2025 at 2:15 PM
✨ New publication! ✨
Our mini-review on the #gut-brain and #heart-brain axes in #reward processing is out in Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience! 🧠
We dig into how body-to-brain signals shape emotion and motivation and why it matters for mental health.
Read it here:
🔗 doi.org/10.3389/fnin...
Our mini-review on the #gut-brain and #heart-brain axes in #reward processing is out in Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience! 🧠
We dig into how body-to-brain signals shape emotion and motivation and why it matters for mental health.
Read it here:
🔗 doi.org/10.3389/fnin...
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Whole-brain, all-optical interrogation of neuronal dynamics underlying gut interoception in zebrafish https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.26.645305v1
March 31, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Whole-brain, all-optical interrogation of neuronal dynamics underlying gut interoception in zebrafish https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.26.645305v1
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Research is investigating the medicinal applications of #psilocybin, with studies showing how #psychedelics can promote neuronal plasticity.
This ‘fundamental’ study into the effects of #psilocin on human neurons: buff.ly/f7cNemV
This ‘fundamental’ study into the effects of #psilocin on human neurons: buff.ly/f7cNemV
March 23, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Research is investigating the medicinal applications of #psilocybin, with studies showing how #psychedelics can promote neuronal plasticity.
This ‘fundamental’ study into the effects of #psilocin on human neurons: buff.ly/f7cNemV
This ‘fundamental’ study into the effects of #psilocin on human neurons: buff.ly/f7cNemV
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Scripps Research scientists have created a diAcCA, a stabilized form of carnosic acid—an antioxidant in rosemary and sage—potentially improving memory, fortifying neuronal connections & reducing brain inflammation— a promising therapeutic for Alzheimer’s.
Compound found in common herbs inspires potential anti-inflammatory drug for Alzheimer’s disease
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March 18, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Scripps Research scientists have created a diAcCA, a stabilized form of carnosic acid—an antioxidant in rosemary and sage—potentially improving memory, fortifying neuronal connections & reducing brain inflammation— a promising therapeutic for Alzheimer’s.
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Danio derives from the Bengali word “Dhani,” which translates to “of the rice fields.” #ZebrafishFunFacts 🧪
March 15, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Danio derives from the Bengali word “Dhani,” which translates to “of the rice fields.” #ZebrafishFunFacts 🧪
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Proud to have contributed to @jiaxuanqi.bsky.social's masterpiece out @nature.com! She shows that dopamine transients track the learned quality of song during juvenile learning and that dopamine release is driven not just by VTA firing, but by a local cholinergic mechanism! (1/x)
Dual neuromodulatory dynamics underlie birdsong learning - Nature
Dopamine release in the basal ganglia of the zebra finch is driven by neurons associated with reinforcement learning and by cholinergic signalling, and tracks performance quality during long-term lear...
www.nature.com
March 12, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Proud to have contributed to @jiaxuanqi.bsky.social's masterpiece out @nature.com! She shows that dopamine transients track the learned quality of song during juvenile learning and that dopamine release is driven not just by VTA firing, but by a local cholinergic mechanism! (1/x)
Super excited to share that my abstract got selected for a short talk at the @keystonesymposia.bsky.social on Interoception! Can't wait to visit Seattle and the @alleninstitute.bsky.social for the first time! #KSInteroception25
March 8, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Super excited to share that my abstract got selected for a short talk at the @keystonesymposia.bsky.social on Interoception! Can't wait to visit Seattle and the @alleninstitute.bsky.social for the first time! #KSInteroception25
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From octopuses to snails, the complicated molluscan family tree has now been mapped in unprecedented detail, researchers report in Science.
This includes sequences for 13 new complete genomes from across the phylum. scim.ag/3DrGAkg
This includes sequences for 13 new complete genomes from across the phylum. scim.ag/3DrGAkg
A genome-based phylogeny for Mollusca is concordant with fossils and morphology
Extreme morphological disparity within Mollusca has long confounded efforts to reconstruct a stable backbone phylogeny for the phylum. Familiar molluscan groups—gastropods, bivalves, and cephalopods—e...
scim.ag
March 5, 2025 at 4:11 PM
From octopuses to snails, the complicated molluscan family tree has now been mapped in unprecedented detail, researchers report in Science.
This includes sequences for 13 new complete genomes from across the phylum. scim.ag/3DrGAkg
This includes sequences for 13 new complete genomes from across the phylum. scim.ag/3DrGAkg
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PRESS RELEASE @ericjnestler.bsky.social @yizhoudonglab.bsky.social et al. have developed a lipid nanoparticle system capable of delivering mRNA to brain via intravenous injection, a challenge that has long been limited by the protective nature of the #BloodBrainBarrier mountsinai.org/about/newsro...
February 19, 2025 at 12:17 AM
PRESS RELEASE @ericjnestler.bsky.social @yizhoudonglab.bsky.social et al. have developed a lipid nanoparticle system capable of delivering mRNA to brain via intravenous injection, a challenge that has long been limited by the protective nature of the #BloodBrainBarrier mountsinai.org/about/newsro...
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A paper in Nature Methods presents Segment Anything for Microscopy, a tool for segmentation and tracking in multidimensional microscopy data. https://go.nature.com/3QiRonW
February 16, 2025 at 8:43 PM
A paper in Nature Methods presents Segment Anything for Microscopy, a tool for segmentation and tracking in multidimensional microscopy data. https://go.nature.com/3QiRonW
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🧠🍽️ Satiety neurons that make you crave sugar? 🍬 New research shows that POMC neurons, typically linked to appetite suppression, release opioids in the thalamus, flipping the switch to increase sugar intake.
#neuroskyence 🧪 #appetite
#neuroskyence 🧪 #appetite
Thalamic opioids from POMC satiety neurons switch on sugar appetite
High sugar–containing foods are readily consumed, even after meals and beyond fullness sensation (e.g., as desserts). Although reward-driven processing of palatable foods can promote overeating, the n...
www.science.org
February 16, 2025 at 7:20 AM
🧠🍽️ Satiety neurons that make you crave sugar? 🍬 New research shows that POMC neurons, typically linked to appetite suppression, release opioids in the thalamus, flipping the switch to increase sugar intake.
#neuroskyence 🧪 #appetite
#neuroskyence 🧪 #appetite
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Loggerhead turtles have an uncontrollable urge to dance whenever they anticipate food—a trait scientists used to test whether the reptiles can memorize their favorite feeding sites based on Earth’s magnetic fields.
Learn more: https://scim.ag/42VqsSz
Learn more: https://scim.ag/42VqsSz
February 16, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Loggerhead turtles have an uncontrollable urge to dance whenever they anticipate food—a trait scientists used to test whether the reptiles can memorize their favorite feeding sites based on Earth’s magnetic fields.
Learn more: https://scim.ag/42VqsSz
Learn more: https://scim.ag/42VqsSz
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Vasculature in the blood-brain barrier of a zebrafish larva. Credit to @natashaobrown.bsky.social. #ZebrafishZunday 🧪
February 16, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Vasculature in the blood-brain barrier of a zebrafish larva. Credit to @natashaobrown.bsky.social. #ZebrafishZunday 🧪
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A zebrafish circuit for behavioral credit assignment https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.13.638047v1
February 14, 2025 at 4:15 PM
A zebrafish circuit for behavioral credit assignment https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.13.638047v1
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The self-driving multiscale microscope from @daetwylerstephan.bsky.social is out.
It can image an entire zebrafish embryo longitudinally and follow a volume of interest over time with high resolution.
We used it to study cancer-immune cell interactions.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
It can image an entire zebrafish embryo longitudinally and follow a volume of interest over time with high resolution.
We used it to study cancer-immune cell interactions.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Imaging of cellular dynamics from a whole organism to subcellular scale with self-driving, multiscale microscopy
Nature Methods - A self-driving multiresolution light-sheet microscope enables the simultaneous observation and quantification of cellular and subcellular dynamics in the context of intact and...
www.nature.com
February 12, 2025 at 1:45 PM
The self-driving multiscale microscope from @daetwylerstephan.bsky.social is out.
It can image an entire zebrafish embryo longitudinally and follow a volume of interest over time with high resolution.
We used it to study cancer-immune cell interactions.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
It can image an entire zebrafish embryo longitudinally and follow a volume of interest over time with high resolution.
We used it to study cancer-immune cell interactions.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! 🧪 Celebrating the brilliant minds, past and present, who have pushed boundaries and shaped our understanding of the world. Here’s to the next generation of scientists who will take us even further!
February 11, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! 🧪 Celebrating the brilliant minds, past and present, who have pushed boundaries and shaped our understanding of the world. Here’s to the next generation of scientists who will take us even further!