Shivangi Verma, Sriram Narayanan, Vatsala Thirumalai (2025) Developmental synaptic pruning in the olivo-cerebellar circuit sculpts predictive processing. bioRxiv 

Vandana Agarwal, Sriram Narayanan, Mohini Sengupta, Aalok Varma, Sudeepta Sarkar, Suma Chinta, Vatsala Thirumalai (2024) Highly synchronized inhibition from Purkinje cells entrains cerebellar output in zebrafish. bioRxiv

Sriram Narayanan, Aalok Varma and Vatsala Thirumalai (2024) Predictive neural computations in the cerebellum contribute to motor planning and faster behavioral responses in larval zebrafish. ScienceAdvances

Aalok Varma, Sathvik Udupa, Mohini Sengupta, Prasanta Kumar Ghosh, Vatsala Thirumalai (2024) A machine-learning tool to identify bistable states from calcium imaging data. The Journal of Physiology

Meha P. Jadhav, Shivangi Verma and Vatsala Thirumalai (2023) Ionic conductances driving tonic firing in Purkinje neurons of larval zebrafish. BioRxiv

Urvashi Jha, Igor Kondrychyn, Vladimir Korzh and Vatsala Thirumalai (2021) High Behavioral Variability Mediated by Altered Neuronal Excitability in auts2 Mutant Zebrafish. eNeuro

Sahana Sitaraman, Gnaneshwar Yadav, Vandana Agarwal, Shaista Jabeen, Shivangi Verma, Meha Jadhav, Vatsala Thirumalai (2021) Gjd2b-mediated gap junctions promote glutamatergic synapse formation and dendritic elaboration in Purkinje neurons. elife

Sriram Narayanan, Aalok Varma, Vatsala Thirumalai (2021) Adaptable internal representations drive cerebellum-mediated predictive control of an innate behavior. bioRxiv

Urvashi Jha & VatsalaThirumalai (2020) Neuromodulatory Selection of Motor Neuron Recruitment Patterns in a Visuomotor Behavior Increases Speed. Current Biology

Sahana Sitaraman, Gnaneshwar Yadav, Shaista Jabeen, Vandana Agarwal, Vatsala Thirumalai (2020) Gjd2b-mediated gap junctions promote glutamatergic synapse formation and dendritic elaboration in Purkinje neurons. bioRxiv

Claire Wyart  and Vatsala Thirumalai (2019) Locomotion: Building behaviors, one layer at a time. eLife

Narayanan S and V Thirumalai V (2019) Contributions of the Cerebellum for Predictive and Instructional Control of Movement. Current opinion in physiology

Jabeen S and Thirumalai V (2018) The interplay between electrical and chemical synaptogenesis. J Neurophysiol 

Kondrychyn I, Robra L and Thirumalai V. (2017) Transcriptional Complexity and Distinct Expression Patterns of auts2 Paralogs in Danio rerio. G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics

Charlotte Lupton, Mohini Sengupta, Ruey-Kuang Cheng, Joanne Chia, Vatsala Thirumalai and Suresh Jesuthasan (2017) Loss of the Habenula Intrinsic Neuromodulator Kisspeptin1 Affects Learning in Larval Zebrafish. eNeuro

Robra L and Thirumalai V (2016) The intracellular signaling molecule Darpp-32 is a marker for principal neurons in the cerebellum and cerebellum-like circuits of zebrafish. Front. Neuroanat.

Sengupta M and Thirumalai V (2015) AMPA receptor mediated synaptic excitation drives state-dependent bursting in Purkinje neurons of zebrafish larvae. eLife 

Subha Bakthavatsalam, Shreya Das Sharma, Mahendra Sonawane, Vatsala Thirumalai, Ankona Datta (2014) A zebrafish model of manganism reveals reversible and treatable symptoms that are independent of neurotoxicity. Disease Models & Mechanisms 

Jabeen S and Thirumalai V. (2013) Distribution of the gap junction protein Connexin-35 in the central nervous system of developing zebrafish larvae. Front. Neural Circuits

Thirumalai V, Behrend RM, Birineni S, Liu WF, Blivis D and O’Donovan MJ (2012) Preservation of VGLUT1 synapses on ventral calbindin-immunoreactive interneurons and normal locomotor function in a mouse model of spinal muscular atrophy. J. Neurophysiol.

Thirumalai V (2012) Assembling neural circuits for generating movement. J. Ind. Inst. Sci.

Thirumalai V and Cline HT (2008) Endogenous dopamine suppresses initiation of swimming in pre-feeding zebrafish larvae. J. Neurophysiol.

Thirumalai V and Cline HT (2008) A commanding control of behavior. Nat Neurosci

Thirumalai V, Prinz AA, Johnson, CD and Marder E (2006) Red Pigment Concentrating Hormone Strongly Enhances the Strength of the Feedback to the Pyloric Rhythm Oscillator but Has Little Effect on Pyloric Rhythm Period. J. Neurophysiol.

Bucher D, Thirumalai V, and Marder E (2003) Axonal dopamine receptors activate peripheral spike initiation in a stomatogastric motor neuron. J Neurosci.

Pulver SR, Thirumalai V, Richards KS and Marder E (2003) Dopamine and histamine in the developing stomatogastric system of the lobster Homarus americanus. J. Comp. Neurol. 

Prinz AA, Thirumalai V and Marder E (2003) The functional consequences of changes in the strength and duration of synaptic inputs to oscillatory neurons. J Neurosci. 

Oprisan SA, Thirumalai V and Canavier CC (2003) Dynamics from a time series: Can we extract the phase resetting curve from a time series? Biophys J. 

Abbott LF, Thoroughman K, Prinz AA, Thirumalai V and Marder E (2003) Activity-dependent modification of intrinsic and synaptic conductances in neurons and rhythmic networks.  Modeling Neural Development (Van Ooyen A., ed.) MIT Press p151-166

Thirumalai V and Marder E (2002) Colocalized neuropeptides activate a central pattern generator by acting on different circuit targets. J Neurosci.

Marder E and Thirumalai V (2002) Cellular, synaptic and network effects of neuromodulation. Neural Networks 

Valerie Kilman, Valérie S. Fénelon, Kathryn S. Richards, Vatsala Thirumalai, Pierre Meyrand, Eve Marder (1999) Sequential developmental acquisition of cotransmitters in identified sensory neurons of stomatogastric nervous system of lobsters.J.Comp Neurol