First review from the lab on nausea and area postrema: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S09…

🧵 Can memory influence what and how much we eat? Short answer is yes! Memory is often overlooked as a key driver of food intake, but a research team at Monell just uncovered neurons that encode memories of sugar and fat, shaping feeding behavior and metabolic health.

Chemogenetic excitation of NGOxtr creates patterns of brain activity associated with augmented hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis activity and behavioural indices of vigilance. nature.com/articles/s4225…

Excited by our latest joint production discovering body-to-brain communication that controls whole body metabolism. It was a journey and I'm thankful for the support of Guillaume de Lartigue , Javier Stern, and the twitterless Annette de Kloet and Karen Scott. nature.com/articles/s4225…

📢 SSIB 2025 Annual Meeting 📍 Oxford, UK | 🗓 July 28–Aug 1 🌟 5 Days of Science, Networking, & Fun! Keynotes: Sadaf Farooqi, John Glendinning, Marion Hetherington, & many more! 🗓 Abstracts due: March 14 💡 Early Reg: June 18 🔗 ssib.org/2025/ #SSIB2025

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…

Very nice work providing direct evidence that microbiota in the gut talk with the host via the vagus nerve.

New in Journal of Clinical Investigation We identified GLP-1 receptor therapy as a promising Bardet-Biedl Syndrome #BBS treatment. 🔬 We uncover new mechanisms driving metabolic dysfunction in BBS & point to new therapy targets. 🔗jci.org/articles/view/… 🧠🧬💉 #GLP1 #RareDisease #Science