Are you interested in the connection between serotonin in the gut, the vagus nerve, the gut-brain axis and depression and mental health? A major new mechanism uncovered here today for gut-brain communication. Check out these new findings online, rdcu.be/dzhKP

Ever wondered how and why your gut changes behaviour between day and night. Then check out this cool review frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

Very excited to announce we are looking for a Director of the new Flinders Health and Medical Research Institute (FHMRI) & Dean (Research), College of Medicine and Public Health. This is a unique opportunity.
Applications can be made here:
candidates.perrettlaver.com/vacancies/3519…

It was a great honour to host the 3rd Optogenetics Australia meeting at Flinders University. Thank you to all outstanding speakers, registrants and sponsors. Special thanks to the Flinders Foundation. Look forward to the next meeting.

The 3rd Annual Optogenetics Australia meeting commences tomorrow!
We're so excited to welcome our delegates.
Check in for updates throughout the meeting!
Thanks to Flinders Foundation and ANGMA for sponsoring our meeting.

It’s not too late to register for our 3rd Annual Optogenetics Australia Meeting!
Register and access our full program here: optogeneticsaustralia.com/meeting/
We’re excited to share our program and look forward to welcoming our speakers and delegates to Adelaide, Feb 23rd-24th.

📢Down to the top 2 articles from 2022 based on #altmetric scores for #ajpgi
📖The gut-brain axis: spatial relationship between spinal afferent nerves & 5-HT-containing #EnterochromaffinCells in mucosa of mouse colon
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Kelsi Dodds Lauren Jones Nick Spencer

How should we define a nociceptor in the gut - brain axis ? This article may help ?
Comments welcome !!
frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

Check out this paper - Piezo2 channels underlie activation of mechanical pain in the gut-brain axis authors.elsevier.com/c/1gIGZ3BtfH1Z…

A team from Washington University in St. Louis and @FlindersHmri inc Nick Spencer has found targeting a receptor responsible for our sense of touch and temperature found inside our gut could provide a new avenue for treating chronic pain in our internal organs. Read more: news.flinders.edu.au/blog/2022/12/2…

I’m very excited to be part of Optogenetics Australia - it’s going to be a blast! Optogenetics Australia February 23-24, 2023. Join us! 🦘🦘🦘

Register now to attend in person the 3rd Optogenetics Australia meeting, to hear leaders in optogenetics and chemogenetics? Optogenetics Australia
optogeneticsaustralia.com/meeting/

@oferyizhar, FlindersHMRI, HongLab, @ChandraTucker7, ANGMA, Society for Neuroscience (SfN), Australasian Neuroscience Society (ANS), #optogenetics

Very excited to announce the 3rd Annual Optogenetics Australia (in person) scientific meeting will take place from Feb 23rd - 24th 2023 at Flinders University, South Australia.
Abstract submission and registration open 15th October 2022.
REGISTER HERE: optogeneticsaustralia.com/meeting/

Are you interested in hearing the latest in Optogenetics ? Would you like to come to Australia in February, in summer? Then register here for the 3rd Optogenetics Australia meeting, to be held at Flinders University. Check out the great program optogeneticsaustralia.com/meeting/

How can we tell which nerve pathways detect #periodpain or other types of #pelvicpain from the uterus?
Our team have developed a new surgical technique in mice that can tease apart the different uterine sensory nerve populations to find this out 👇 frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

Are you interested in how the gut communicates with the brain ? Just published is a very exciting new technique to disengage sensory nerve communication between the gut and brain. See: doi.org/10.1038/s42003…

New research in #ajpgi

Mechanisms underlying initiation of propulsion in guinea pig distal colon (Timothy J. Hibberd, et al)
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Nick Spencer #Peristalsis #EntericNervousSystem #Colon

Can't wait to see everyone in Melbourne!!! 😆😆😆 Save the date!

Are you interested in Optogenetics? Would you like to come to Australia next summer to the Optogenetics Australia meeting in Adelaide?
Join Optogenetics Australia now (its free and takes one email) - then keep updated on this exciting event. Email [email protected]

Very proud to see the first Australian (Jai Hindley) today win the famous Giro d'Italia cycling in Italy