Conferences and Workshops

Conferences

• Neurobiology of Psychedelics (Gordon Research Conference) 2025: Smithfield, Rhode Island, USA

  • Poster: Dose-Dependent Effects of Psilocybin on Acute and Post-Acute Behaviors in Sprague-Dawley Rats.

• International Society for Research on Psychedelics (ISRP) 2024: New Orleans, USA

  • Talk: Unveiling Cross-Species Psychedelic Potential through Neural Circuits of Anxiety, OCD and Learned Helplessness.

• Winter Conference on Brain Research (WCBR) 2024: Breckenridge, USA

  • Panel (Chair): Psychedelics for Neuropsychiatry: From Bench to Bedside
    Talk: Ventral Hippocampal Parvalbumin Interneurons Gate the Anxiolytic Action of the Serotonergic Psychedelic DOI.

• Society for Neuroscience (SfN) (2023): Washington D.C., USA

  • Poster: Ventral Hippocampal Parvalbumin Interneurons Gate the Anxiolytic Action of the Serotonergic Psychedelic DOI.

• American Psychology Association (APA) convention 2023: Washington D.C., USA

  • Invited panel (New Frontiers in Psychological Science: Psychedelic-assisted Treatments and Therapeutic Mechanisms) talk: Behavioral and pharmacological effects of psychedelics on rodent models of anxio-depressive disorders

• PhilaDelic Conference 2023: Philadelphia (UPenn), USA

  • Best poster award: Ventral Hippocampal Parvalbumin Interneurons Gate the Anxiolytic Action of the Serotonergic Psychedelic DOI.

• No Garland Neuroscience (NGN): IISER, Pune (2023)

  • Talk: Probing the neural circuit mediating the anxiolytic effects of a serotonergic psychedelic.

• Federation of European Neuroscience Societies 'FENS' Forum (2022): Paris, France

  • Poster: Probing the neural circuit mediating the anxiolytic effects of a serotonergic psychedelic.

• Cell Symposia: Biology of Neuropsychiatric Disorders (2022): Sitges, Spain

  • Poster: Probing the neural circuit mediating the anxiolytic effects of a serotonergic psychedelic.

• Global Young Scholars Summit (GYSS) (2022): Singapore - Attended (Virtual forum).

• Society for Neuroscience (SfN) (2021)

  • Poster: Chemogenetic activation of Gi signalling within excitatory neurons of the forebrain in postnatal or juvenile windows of life does not influence the emergence of anxiety or despair like behaviour in adulthood.

• International Society for Developmental Psychobiology (ISDP) (2021)

  • Poster: Chemogenetic activation of Gi signalling within excitatory neurons of the forebrain in postnatal or juvenile windows of life does not influence the emergence of anxiety or despair like behaviour in adulthood.

• Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS) (2020) – Attended (Virtual forum)

• Monsoon Brain Meeting (2020) - Attended (Virtual forum)

• Virtual Dopamine conference (ViDA, 2020)- Attended

• No Garland Neuroscience (NGN): IISER, Pune (2020)

  • Poster: Chronic chemogenetic activation of forebrain excitatory neurons in postnatal life evokes long lasting behavioral changes.

GRC- Neurobiology of Psychedelics 2025 at Smithfield, RI

ISRP 2024 at New Orleans, USA

WCBR 2024 at Breckenridge, USA

Poster presentation at SfN 2023 (Washington D.C., USA)

Poster presentation at FENS Forum 2022 (Paris, France)

The Hutment lab (almost) at FENS Forum 2022 (Paris, France)

Workshops

• NIH Psychedelics as Therapeutics Workshop [Virtual, 2022]

• Monsoon Workshop in Experimental neuroscience (MonsoonWEN) [IISc, July 2019]

Hands-on training in setting electrophysiological recording from scratch- from building different kinds of amplifiers to field recordings and tetrode recordings; Setting an operant based task using Arduino and bonsai to build the chamber as well as recording from animals during behavioural tasks.

• Computational Approaches to Memory and Plasticity (CAMP) [ NCBS, July 2017]

Involved training in addressing different scales of complexity in the brain with focus on memory and plasticity via computational and theoretical approaches.