Excited to share that our lab’s first preprint is now available! This work reflects a huge effort from graduate student Abeera Mehmood and coauthors! If you are interested in what B cells make all antibodies against norovirus take a look! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
🚨 Applications are now open for the 2027 Neuroimmune Communication in Health & Disease GRC & GRS!!!
📅 January 23–29, 2027
📍 Ventura Beach Marriott, Ventura, California, USA
💻 Apply by: October 18th, 2026
grc.org/neuroimmune-co…
Mammals have hundreds of joints and muscles. Controlling them individually would be nearly impossible.
How does the nervous system organize such complexity into coherent actions?
Our new study explores this question through a natural behavior: jumping.
Congrats Fabricio!! looking forward to read it!
The Buck Institute for Research on Aging invites applications for a faculty position honoring the scientific legacy of Dr. Judith Campisi, a pioneer in the field of cellular senescence and its roles in aging and age-related disease. Job Link:
buckinstitute.applytojob.com/apply/lpV3rx... #sciencejobs
Your gut has a sex, and it matters! 🔥
In females, the ovary sends a relaxin hormone signal to enteric neurons, switching on gut enlargement and increased feeding after mating.
So excited my postdoc work is finally out as a preprint 🥳
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
🧠⚡️💊New @nature.com publication !
Mimicking opioid analgesia in cortical pain circuits
We built a brain-behavior framework to decode spontaneous chronic pain in mice—and to biologically mimic morphine with a synthetic opioid gene therapy
nature.com/articles/s41...
@pennmedicine.bsky.social
Cartoon transparent human with skeleton showing, red glowing points on joints to indicate pain
Do YOU live with joint pain?
Do YOU experience poor pain management?
Have you got 2-minutes to tell pain researchers about it?
If yes 👉 forms.gle/7NTwma2gnVN1...
We hope to gain insight into lived experience for those with joint pain & involve people in our #PainResearch 😃
🚨New paper from the NIH PRECISION Human Pain Network! We built a human DRG reference atlas: >500K cells from 126 donors to reveal 22 neuronal & 10 non-neuronal cell types. New insights into human sensory biology!
Paper: biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Data: humandrg.painseq.com
🧠🌟🐭 Excited to share some of my postdoc work on the evolution of dexterity!
We compared deer mice evolved in forest vs prairie habitats. We found that forest mice have:
(1) more corticospinal neurons (CSNs)
(2) better hand dexterity
(3) more dexterous climbing, which is linked to CSN number🧵
Coming to SD 🌴 for #SfN25 🧠?! Join @storiesofwin.bsky.social for our first in-person event 🤩. We’ll have a keynote, panels, & time for networking! Won’t be in SD? You can still register to receive a recording! Speaker/panelist announcements coming soon 👀
Register by Nov 1: forms.gle/CJPcKZNZY7uU...
Labelled axons of calb1+ spinal projection neurons innervate multiple brain targets associated with cold sensation and thermoregulation. Darkfield images of different brain areas including the postal parabrachial and periaqueductal grey are shown with axons of ascending cells in yellow.
New preprint from the spinal cord group at Glasgow. Anatomical and functional characterisation of spinal circuits for cold, from sensory neurons to the brain…..www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10....
We’re hiring!
My new Gut–Brain Axis Lab at Northwestern is looking for a Research Technologist 2 to help build the lab and explore how the nervous system shapes gut health and disease.
🔬 Apply here: myhr.northwestern.edu/psp/hrnu/EMP...
Great collaboration with Abel Torres Espín that arose from our work on SCI. Congrats to all involved, including @jsebajara.bsky.social , Amanda Bernstein, Marwa Soliman, and Yunuen Moreno López!
www.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Does anyone have favorite colors for color blind friendly fluorescence images on a black background where the overlap combinations of 3 colors are important?
Magenta/cyan/yellow overlaps are difficult to distinguish (lots of white)
Thank you!
Big congrats to Alejandra @thepenkpanther.bsky.social on her new SI paper! Kicking off the Mendoza Lab’s work on sensory neuron-immune interactions. Glad to see our image highlighted on their website too!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Preprint -
Excited to present WHOLISTIC, which extends the concept of whole-brain functional imaging to the entire body. Pioneering work by incredibly talented Virginia Ruetten @vmsruetten.bsky.social, this platform reveals whole-organism cellular dynamics in vivo.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
After many years of work I’m so happy to share our work on #scienceimmunology on how Treg cells modulate nociception to dampen skin inflammation! My handle will make a lot more sense now!🕵🏻♀️
Very proud that our human PNS atlas is finally published in @natcomms.nature.com We found perineurial hyperplasia and lipid-associated nerve macrophages in #polyneuropathies.
Explore: pns-atlas.mzhlab.com
A tweetorial 1/13
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
This work is finally online as in-press preview!
JCI - Cell and molecular profiles in peripheral nerves shift toward inflammatory phenotypes in diabetic peripheral neuropathy www.jci.org/articles/vie...
In this month’s “Liftoff,” @janetsong.bsky.social shares how she plans to expose trainees to new ideas during lab meetings and Rachel Parkinson emphasizes the importance of taking a step back and reminding yourself about the joys of science.
By @franciscorr25.bsky.social
bit.ly/4mFNGCQ
As Requested - A Starter Pack of PIs in Biology (or adjacent) fields who are recruiting POSTDOCS! Please don't hesitate to reach out if you wish to be added! go.bsky.app/4gbXXR3
The Salk Institute seeks a Full Professor in Neuroimmunology to lead innovative research on nervous and immune system interactions within a collaborative, world-class setting. Closing date: 7th September
www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/job/professo...
Our newest paper studying immunosuppressive astrocyte-GBM interactions using RABID-seq is out in @nature.com today! Congrats to Brian Andersen and Camilo Faust Akl!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
New paper from the lab 🚨: Expansion microscopy reveals nano-scale insights into the human neuromuscular junction: Cell Reports Methods www.cell.com/cell-reports...
Calling all Neuroscience postdocs! 🧠 Share your research through SPiNES (Seminars from Postdocs in Neuroscience: Extramural Series) from the NYUGSoM Department of Neuroscience. Applications close 08/20/25. Apply today! 👉 nyumc.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
#Neuroscience #Postdoc #ResearchOpportunity
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Interested in a quick / reliable / reproducible tool to quantify your fluoresently-tagged axons ?
Check out AxoDen, a no-coding-needed web app and downloadable GUI ...
Designed + developed entriely by the amazing Raquel Adaia Sandoval Ortega
www.eneuro.org/content/12/6...
Happy to share my first publication with @patrikernfors.bsky.social Lab - all about the DRG: Chromatin accessibility, single cell and spatial RNA sequencing - a great source for everyone interested in sensory neurons and non-neuronal cell of the DRG 😊
Led by @scienceyael.bsky.social & out today in @natneuro.nature.com: the brain's fluid-secreting organ — the choroid plexus — can reshape neural development through a powerful, little-known process. & it can be hijacked by serotonergic drugs like LSD. 🧠👇 A thread
rdcu.be/eoaSY
Heatmap from the linked paper in figure 2, of hDRG and nerve proteomics showing the detection of TRP- and SCN- channels across samples, with higher levels of myelin-related proteins in the nerve and higher levels of TRPV1 and SCN10a in the ganglia
We set out to map a detailed proteome of the human DRG and nerve using DIA-MS as a reference to the field, and I think we've succeeded! Lots of proteins (& lots of ion channels), with the data is fully searchable. It's also available on @sparc.science
sensoryomics.shinyapps.io/Proteomics/
