Note the recommended diet to prevent stroke is < 5 g/day sodium while the American Heart Association is < 1.5 g/day (which is = to eating cardboard) thelancet.com/journals/lance… and recent Na+ vs. life-expectancy data: thelancet.com/journals/lance…

Clinically relevant finding: PIEZO2 is responsible for mechanical allodynia (when touch is painful) in mice and men. Side-by-side papers from Alexander Chesler lab and Swetha Murthy at al. from my lab: stm.sciencemag.org/content/10/462… & stm.sciencemag.org/content/10/462…

Scientists can infer a cuttlefish’s brain activity by tracking the ever-changing patterns on its skin. go.nature.com/2J4HHG6

Interested to be a postdoc with a fantastic young PI doing exciting research in sensory coding and circuitry? Consider my first graduate student Lindsey Macpherson who recently started her own lab: utsa.edu/biology/facult… She is at @Neurosci2018. please retweet!

Great movie from Alex Tsui in Mark Sansom lab

Dropped our latest #cryoem structures of #protonchannel #Otopetrin putative #taste_receptor bioRxiv doi.org/10.1101/542308. Only 25 refs PubMed getting in on ground floor! Great collab with Emily Liman and Mark Sansom labs. Scripps Research #sciencechanginglife

First independent publication of my trainee Zhaozhu Qiu now running his own lab at Hopkins. "Glutamate-Releasing SWELL1 Channel in Astrocytes Modulates Synaptic Transmission and Promotes Brain Damage in Stroke" Incredible story! So proud! cell.com/neuron/fulltex…

Me (Pointing to empty hole on frozen grid): See, that's where my hopes and dreams go. Staff scientist (Who happens to be a dad to three kids): You mean hopes and beams? I hate everything. #CryoEM

Congrats to Javi and colleagues! Check out their paper about how vanadium oxide nanodevices retain a "memory" of a previous voltage pulse. nature.com/articles/s4158…

“I think the best part was the broad array of not just expertise, but also perspective and philosophy.” In our latest Q&A, Doctor-to-be Jennifer Kefauver reflects on her graduate school education at Scripps Research. #classof2019 #sciencechangingeducation ow.ly/JRrp50ubVF2

Congratulations to my super postdoc Swetha Murthy for accepting a faculty position at Vollum Institute. What a great fit! I am thrilled for her and expect wonderful science. Go Swetha! Trainees: this is an amazing opportunity to join a fantastic young lab studying mechanosensation.

BREAKING NEWS: The 2021 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded jointly to David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian “for their discoveries of receptors for temperature and touch.”

New profile up!! Dr. Kara Marshall (@KaraLMarshall) discusses interoception and how a lab can be more than the sum of its parts Read the profile below 👇 and listen to the full interview on our podcast! 🎙 #WomenInNeuroscience #WomenInSTEM storiesofwin.org/profiles/2021/…

Excited to share our preprint! Using cryoEM to visualize details of the lipid organization within a plasma membrane microdomain. Plus, how that organization changes upon stretch!

Nature research paper: Cryo-EM architecture of a near-native stretch-sensitive membrane microdomain go.nature.com/4fjB4ya

🧪Today, we kick off with our first introduction: Jennifer Kefauver!🇺🇸 Originally from the U.S., her research career has taken her to Virginia, California, Geneva, and Oviedo, where she has developed extensive expertise in fields such as structural biology and epigenetics.

¡Feliz Día Internacional de la Mujer y la Niña en la Ciencia! Gracias mily cimadevilla y TPA Noticias por la entrevista sobre mi decisión de desarrollar mi carrera investigadora en la bella Asturias. rtpa.es/noticias-cienc…