
Logan Townsend
@logantownsend86
CIHR Post-Doc at McMaster @MacMODR. Liver & adipose metabolism in health and obesity. Flames, Chiefs, and Mavericks fan.
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25-03-2020 16:13:48
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Another important, and necessary, piece Human brown adipose tissue is not enough to combat cardiometabolic diseases DenisPBlondin @carmichellek jci.org/articles/view/…



An NIH advisory group announced today that they're recommending the agency boost its minimum #postdoc salary to $70,000, up from the current $56,484. Many postdocs feel "underpaid and overworked," a co-chair said. My latest for ScienceInsider: science.org/content/articl…

New work from the lab describing a mechanism whereby liver extracellular vesicles signal to pancreas and muscle via endocrine signalling to restore euglycaemia in the postprandial state #diabetes Nature Metabolism Paula Miotto nature.com/articles/s4225… nature.com/articles/s4225…

It took a while but my MASTERS project is finally published. Thanks Tom Hazell for pushing it along for a decade. Differential changes in appetite hormones post-prandially based on menstrual cycle phase and oral contraceptive use sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Check out the revised version of our paper "IF1 is a cold-regulated switch of ATP synthase to support thermogenesis in brown fat" by Henver Brunetta et al. that I have the pleasure to co-sign with Alexander Bartelt biorxiv.org/content/10.110…




GDF15 links adipose tissue lipolysis with anxiety Nature Metabolism nature.com/articles/s4225…

The brain-adipose tissue axis: discovery of a new pathway for potential mitigation of stress-induced anxiety Nature Metabolism nature.com/articles/s4225…





Signalling from adipose tissue to the brain is not just about leptin nature.com/articles/s4225… Nature Metabolism


RESEARCH | Logan Townsend, Greg_Steinberg et. al. (@MacMODR) #Anxiety -like behaviour in mice, as a result of psychological #stress, is shown to be mediated by #GDF15 release in response to adipose tissue #lipolysis 🐭 nature.com/articles/s4225…

NEWS&VIEWS | Peter Arner (Karolinska Institutet) Under acute #stress, adipose tissue #lipolysis causes release of #GDF15 from local macrophages, which, in turn, binds to the receptor GFRAL in the #brain, evoking #anxiety 🐭 nature.com/articles/s4225…