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Happy to have contributed to this line of research investigating the role of the peripheral immune system, brain functionality and the gut microbiome in #Alzheimersdisease. Huge congratulations @RuthIban et al. Check it out! 👉🏾 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

The neuroscientist and part-time fashion model, Aya Osman, PhD opens up about the people who inspire her; her interest in science communication; and how she once ended up on a stage with Channing Tatum. By Angie Voyles Askham thetransmitter.org/neurodevelopme…

It was so fun to talk with Aya Osman, PhD about her work outside of the lab, which includes science communication, community building and even modeling!

Also want to plug my interview w Aya Osman, PhD. She’s a stellar communicator, & her passion for sci & supporting her community thru scicomm is so tangible! Deeply appreciate her openness abt racism in academia/healthcare. Idk how she has time for all she does! storiesofwin.org/profiles/2021/…

New in JPET (ASPET): We show endogenous and small molecules like CBD act as chaperones modulating levels of Cannabinoid, Delta Opioid receptors and their interacting complexes with therapeutic implications for pathologies involving these receptors tinyurl.com/mv7duj6w

New lab paper alert! Work by Kelsey Lucerne, PhD and colleagues finds the cytokine CSF2 is increased by cocaine in a microbiome dependent manner. Increased CSF2 signaling leads to decreased cocaine preference and altered transcriptional response to cocaine. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39098439/

Thanks to all fabulous co-authors who helped identify this exciting gut-immune-brain axis (and who wouldn't fit in the first tweet)! Aya Osman, PhD Katherine R. Meckel, PhD Yesha Dave Ava Shipman Flurin Cathomas Becca Hofford, Ph.D. Dannis Cazarez & apparently Twitterless Calista Dean

New work from Devi lab shows #Ketamine and its major metabolites synergize with endogenous opioid peptides to enhance opioid receptor signalling indicating #PositiveAllostericModulation contributes to ketamine’s fast and long lasting therapeutic effects: tinyurl.com/37xs4pmr

Biology Seminar Thursday, 12/12, 3PM, D'Ambra Auditorium: Aya Osman, Asst. Prof. Dept of Pharmacological Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine, Topic "Regulating the Opioid System: Insights from the Gut Microbiome and Ketamine"

Very glad to see this trend finally reversing

Brief disruption of the microbiome has age-dependent effects on morphine reward and gene expression in the medial prefrontal cortex ... biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_neursci

Delighted to highlight new work by Kelly Jameson and colleagues showing that select microbial metabolites in the small intestinal lumen regulate vagal activity cell.com/iscience/fullt…

On Thursday, the US Food and Drug Administration approved suzetrigine for short-term pain management, making it the first non-opioid pain drug given a regulatory nod in more than 20 years. go.nature.com/4jB2LVz

Amid everything happening against science, it’s humbling to share our understanding of the world comes through science itself! Kicking off #BrainAwarenessWeek with these incredible minds! Our lab is always excited to share the importance of #brainbody interactions. Friedman Brain Institute

Another year of a fantastic night filled with stories of science — stories that inspired, connected, and reminded us of the human spirit! Thank you, Eric J. Nestler, MD, PhD, Paul Kenny, PhD, Friedman Brain Institute, Aya Osman, PhD, Denise Croote, The Story Collider , and all the storytellers!

📢Hot off the press! Excited to share our new paper in molecularpsychiatry on the role of ERβ in stress vulnerability. Thanks to all of the authors involved Panos Zanos Brian N. Mathur Kirmizis Lab Michael Patton nature.com/articles/s4138… A thread🧵

It was a great honor to be selected to be the PhD oath reader by the 2025 MD, PhD dual degree graduating class this past May. Congratulations to you all, and looking forward to seeing the impact you’ll make in science and medicine!