Chapters 1 and 2 of #TheGhrelinMurders are now posted. Stay tuned in the upcoming days to learn what happens next.... #ghrelin #ghrelinmurders UT Southwestern Internal Medicine @SSIB The Obesity Society 🇨🇦 Alfie Abizaid 🇨🇦 UTSW Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences

1/3 New serotonin (5-HT) GRAB sensors! We developed largely-improved green and all-new red genetically encoded fluorescent 5-HT sensors for dual-color imaging in vivo. Using these new 5-HT sensors, we are able to simultaneously monitor 5-HT and other neurochemicals.

Thanks Alex Caron for spreading this. These unexpected observations are the results of hard work of my grad student Jing Cai and Dr. Cheng Zhan lab at USTC. Hope this could be repeated by others and the concept on a necessary role of AgRP neurons can be cleared up 🩷🤝🤝!

Thanks to Student Committee in Neurometabolism for the opportunity and Looking forward to it!💪💪

I’m over the moon to share my postdoc work nature, where we provide an answer to the longstanding question: how is the body’s stress response system (the HPA axis) activated during starvation? nature.com/articles/s4158…

Our latest paper in nature explores a network connecting the lateral hypothalamus with the dorsolateral hippocampus that specifically responds to anticipation of sweet-fat food cues. This network exhibits dysregulation in obesity. Penn Neurosurgery Penn Medicine

CADA HH is BACK! Want to know why you keep eating more and getting more frustrated? Join us on Friday 9/15, for the 1st 2023-2024 CADA Happy Hour! A lecture by Dr. Yong Xu, a pioneer on this intriguing topic.

Thank you Dr. Tong, my advisory committee, all lab members, and GSBS neuroscience program! Enjoying my remaining time in Tong lab and looking forward to the next journey 😀 !

Rutgers Metabolic Health Cluster Hiring Initiative: 4 tenure-track assistant professor positions. Apply to Rutgers University, and be colleagues with Tracy Anthony Troy🌈A🦄Roepke🤓, Sue Shapses, Harini Sampath, Joshua Miller, Paul Breslin, and many others. sebs.rutgers.edu/faculty-positi…

Happy to share our review published today Science Magazine. We provided our 2 cents regarding how hypothalamus controls social behaviors. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

A new study reveals cats have nearly 300 facial expressions—which may be due to their co-evolution with humans. Learn more: scim.ag/52f News from Science

1/3 It's important to note that most mApple-based biosensors exhibit blue light-illuminated photoactivation, and proper controls (e.g. mutant-sensor or biosensor-only controls) should be included in combined use with blue-light optogenetics or dual-color recording.

Glad to share a new paper appearing in Cell today reporting the functions of TRPC5 on several innate behaviors (feeding, sleep, anxiety, depression and maternal care) in humans and mice. The second collaborative paper with @farooqi_lab within a week! cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

We are now accepting applications for 2025 Connexins! This is an in person symposium for senior graduate students to share their works with the NYU neuroscience community. Please RT!!! wp.nyu.edu/connexins/

🚨Postdoc and Postbac positions available in my group at the @NIEHS /NIH ! Interested in investigating the neural mechanisms for social behaviors across development in a supportive environment? Make sure to apply! Job ads in🧵Feel free to DM/email w/ questions, please RT

Antipsychotics are often prescribed to suppress hyperaggression. Do they really suppress aggression or just cause sedation? Antipsychotics target dopamine receptors. Our new study, published today nature, uncovered the role of dopamine in aggression. nature.com/articles/s4158…

It's clear that many do not understand what NIH-funded research does to improve health. It's time to revive a study published 10 years ago that provides incredible information about this. link in the comment Every single new drug approved by the FDA from 2010–2016 was built on