So happy to see the PhD work of our amazing stephane leon finally out Nature Communications. We describe subpopulations of 'ghost' POMC neurons characterised by atypical identity and recruited in obesity.
Check out here👇
nature.com/articles/s4146…

Stress can trigger willful seeking of a starvation-like state in certain female mice predisposed to higher anxiety. Now published and downloadable here: authors.elsevier.com/a/1iyP-3BtfH9A…

Congrats to lead-author Hakan Kucukdereli, Oren Amsalem, Andrew Lutas, and the whole team.

Feedback welcome!

Our system neuro approach to model willful seeking of a starvation state in mice, which is a hallmark of anorexia nervosa . Now published Neuron

cell.com/neuron/abstrac…

Big thanks to Mark Andermann and Oren Amsalem Andrew Lutas and Trent Pottala

Ozempic: 5 Reasons People Don’t Lose Weight on GLP-1 Drugs healthline.com/health-news/oz…

Looking forward to sharing my lab's research directions with my colleagues in UTSW Ophthalmology !!

Ishmail Abdus-Saboor researches how the sensation of touch happens in the skin and in the brain. In an interview with Quanta, the molecular biologist discusses his journey to this work and his hopes for its future. quantamagazine.org/pleasure-or-pa…

#DropAndGiveMe20
Ok, you all have inspired me to post! Always good to break up sitting in mtgs with some exercise. My mini-me and I get it in with John Coltrane’s “Love Supreme 🎶” wailing in the background. #GoodVibes to all!

Our lab is saying goodbye to our talented Green Fellow and undergrad researcher Mahima Bhaskar. She will embark on an exciting new journey as a graduate student. Congratulations Mahima!

Congratulations🥂, too, to Coleen Murphy, Professor of Molecular Biology and the Lewis-Sigler Institute (LSI) for Integrative Genomics and Director, LSI, on her election into the 2023 class of #AAASFellows in the section on biological sciences! The Murphy lab studies aging👵👴.

Excited for the launch of the National Black Postdoctoral Association (NBPA) #NBPAFLEXmentorship initiative! FLEX provides Black trainees a la carte guidance for only as long as needed❤️‍🔥 Sign up & take what you need to succeed!✨
Scan the QR code below to be a mentee/mentor
🙏🏾 Dayna Valene Garr Barry, PhD

Apply for a University of Michigan UM Biointerfaces Biointerfaces Institute fellowship for those embedded within the BI research & translational ecosystem to explore research commercialization!
Salary:$60K with benefits!
Professional development:$10K!
🔗biointerfaces.umich.edu/fellowship/
Deadline: 4/30

Sharing on behalf of UM Biointerfaces: a unique fellowship opportunity offering Fellows to be embedded within the BI research and translational ecosystem to explore research commercialization! Salary: $60K with benefits! Professional development: $10K! See link for more info!

TAAAS is partnering w/ the Department of Neuroscience to host Dr. Tirin Moore, an HHMI Investigstor and Professor from Stanford University. After his talk, he will have lunch with trainees. If you are interested in meeting with him, check your email for the sign up sheet!

📢'The World Is Your Oyster' is for those who are born in global north countries--don't experience visa bureaucracy & emotional burden that non-white global south scholars do. Citizenship is a privilege that we need to recognize in the academe. 1/n

nature.com/articles/d4158…

Join the NBPA for our Research Showcase & Social Club Wed, April 24th at 6:00 PM ET, feat. Junior W (on Faculty Market)!🤩
Please register for the Zoom link: forms.gle/1AYc7ku1ZSegcY…✨
6:00-6:20 PM ET: 1 short 15-minute research talk (all welcome)
6:20-7:00 PM ET: Member social🫶🏾

Mentoring is sharing.

Sharing knowledge, resources, network, and space for our mentees to take control of their careers and shine their unique lights.

More great work from Hinton Laboratory at Vanderbilt lab has led to the front cover & inside cover. Thank you E. Dale Abel for your mentorship! Thank you Prasanna Katti for being my co-first & thank you, Drs. Brian Glancy & Renata Pereira
Thank you Wiley Press & the Journal of Cell Physiology

Are you an early career faculty doing first-rate, cutting-edge science? If so, we invite you to apply to the Freeman Hrabowski Scholars Program.

'Here's a real opportunity to go bold.' –Ishmail Abdus-Saboor

Deadline to apply 5/15: hhmi.news/4aTKZaZ 📆

Our paper on 'The graduate school guide: How to prepare for the qualifying exam and assemble a thesis/graduate committee' is now published in the Journal of Cellular Physiology!

Thanks Antentor Othrell Hinton, Jr PhD (A.J. Hinton) for including me on this!

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jc…

Frankie D Heyward, Ph.D. This is awesome! Thanks for sharing! A similar-ish thing that I do for new lab members is give them the list of all the viruses we store in our -80 and ask them to fill out a chart of what each virus does.