Logan Townsend (@logantownsend86) 's Twitter Profile
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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Muscle Health (@mhrc_yorku) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Please join us Friday (3pm Toronto time) for the MHRC Seminar featuring Dr. Irena Rebalka (McMaster U) who will speak on "Muscle metabolism and the effects of exercise in type 1 diabetes". Get the link: yorku.zoom.us/j/99136515291?… Passcode: 936832

Please join us Friday (3pm Toronto time) for the MHRC Seminar featuring Dr. Irena Rebalka (McMaster U) who will speak on "Muscle metabolism and the effects of exercise in type 1 diabetes". Get the link: yorku.zoom.us/j/99136515291?…
Passcode: 936832
Logan Townsend (@logantownsend86) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Another important, and necessary, piece Human brown adipose tissue is not enough to combat cardiometabolic diseases DenisPBlondin @carmichellek jci.org/articles/view/…

Katie Langin (@k_langin) 's Twitter Profile Photo

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…

Matthew Watt (@mattwattunimelb) 's Twitter Profile Photo

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…

Logan Townsend (@logantownsend86) 's Twitter Profile Photo

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…

Marcelo A. Mori (@morilabe) 's Twitter Profile Photo

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…

Erik A. Richter (@proferikrichter) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Exploratory physiological experiments are not clinical trials. Letter to the Editor at Cell Metabolism authors.elsevier.com/a/1i%7EWj5WXUl…

Eric Topol (@erictopol) 's Twitter Profile Photo

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

The brain-adipose tissue axis: discovery of a new pathway for potential mitigation of stress-induced anxiety
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More fascinating Promethion-powered science from Greg_Steinberg & colleagues @MacMODR - providing molecular insights into the mechanisms linking metabolism & behavior, & suggesting that inhibition of GDF15–GFRAL signalling might reduce acute anxiety. nature.com/articles/s4225…

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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…

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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…