What an honor to be recognized as one of @thetransmitter.bsky.social Rising Stars of Neuroscience 2025! Check out this year's award winners and their contributions to neuroscience at www.thetransmitter.org/early-career...

My brilliant 4 year old daughter did not realize it but she painted the myenteric plexus, submucosal plexus, and mucosal glia

And here is the story after peer review. This work highlights our current approach, which is to use Piezo channels to uncover new areas of biology that are shaped by mechanical forces: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

What if inflammation doesn’t just bring in immune cells, but changes the entire neighborhood? Our new preprint led by brilliant MD/PhD student @kateletai.bsky.social in collaboration with the Cominelli lab and @biancaislam.bsky.social explores this question: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

People might not realize - this wasn’t just one problematic person. He was (and is) influential. And this has real consequences. “Female scientists who have kids can’t be taken seriously” and many other jabs at women have been directly said to me, within the last decade, by other scientists.

THIS WEEKEND! Register to hear from me and two of my lab members! We will talk about: -our journey in science -what we study in the lab -the importance of investing in science -how supporting international scholars and scientists from diverse backgrounds benefits everyone

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

The Leading Edge Fellows gathered this week to celebrate Zara Weinberg, a beloved member of our community. Our 7th cohort of Leading Edge Fellows (2026) will be named in her honor. The Zara Weinberg Leading Edge Cohort application is now open! Due Feb 2. www.leadingedgesymposium.org/apply/

IMAX scientific talk (39 feet by 10 feet). So much fun at #TGS2025!

The Allen Institute is a premier scientific powerhouse that upholds values - open science, team science, and collaboration - that promote the progress of science rather than individual advancement. Past NGLs are leaders in their fields. To be a part of this group is a huge honor!

Meet our 2025 cohort of Next Generation Leaders! For the next 3 years, they will network with other rising stars, participate in professional development, and share their ideas for future research directions.

I shouldn’t have to share this. I’m so sad and angry at what the American healthcare system forces people to go through My uncle is in critical condition and stuck in an out-of-network ICU. Please share, donate, and VOTE TOMORROW. It is one small way to push for something better gofund.me/9d9648949

👉 We generated a starter pack for #neurogastroenterology and enteric #neuroscience! Let's connect and bring gut-brain research and clinical neurogastroenterology to the next level! 🌐 go.bsky.app/3Z82PbH

Next weekend, members of our lab are hosting a Teach-In! Open to everyone, in person and virtual. Come learn about the brain inside your gut and what happens when misinformation and defunding threaten research

Paul Nurse describing the main job of a PI (From ‘The Thinking Game’, 2024)

boo from the @glialsciences.bsky.social 2nd annual Halloween rager congrats to @kateletai.bsky.social for winning the spooky data contest with some truly frightening datasets and to Yuka for winning the costume contest as the cutest grinch in town (sorry @tesarlab.bsky.social)

Tissue and cellular spatiotemporal dynamics in colon aging - @nygenome.org @flatironinstitute.org @broadinstitute.org @cancerdynamics.bsky.social go.nature.com/47I1RBF

Keynote alert! Lorenz Studer, MD (MSKCC), will speak at #TGS2025 on Nov 4 at the Sheila and Eric Samson Pavilion, Health Ed Campus of CWRU & Cleveland Clinic. 🔗 Learn more and register for free: case.edu/medicine/gli...

Fall in Cleveland 🍁

#postdoc position in #Toulouse, #France to decipher cellular and microenvironment alterations in #IBD using patient-derived #organoid and #fibroblasts cultures in human-based #gut-on-chip. Still some days to apply. Don't wait! #inserm #cnrs #cea #organ-on-chip #stemcells #ooc

Powerful sign at No Kings in Cleveland

Very excited for Jeannette Tenthorey! @packardfdn.bsky.social @ucsfhealth.bsky.social

Great Job - Great Colleagues - Great Science👍 Help us pick the next generation of @hhmi.org Investigators, Freeman Hrabowski Scholars, Hanna Gray Fellows, Gilliam Fellows Relocation to DC is required, perfect for academic PIs looking for their next chapter hhmi.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job...

Lab’s 1st preprint! Menstruation is understudied due to societal taboos + a biological challenge: mice (a key system for research + drug discovery) don’t menstruate. @cagricevrim.bsky.social made menstruating mice + used them to discover early events in menstruation. He is on the job market!

Congratulations @karalmckinley.bsky.social & lab on their groundbreaking recent preprint establishing + characterizing a chemically inducible model of menstruation in mouse: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... My jaw dropped when I heard this presented earlier this year. Incredible.

Neuroscience faculty job Alert! We are hiring at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine! Apply at apply.interfolio.com/171533. Please repost.

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...

Meet the lab! Aaliyah Staples-West is a second year PhD student studying how the nervous system in the human gut develops. Aaliyah says that being in the PhD program at CWRU has sharpened her critical and analytical thinking.

Thrilled to share our paper that just came out in PNAS! We asked a deceptively simple question: What happens when S. aureus adapts to vancomycin, a critical first-line antibiotic? 1/5

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

A Nature Careers feature explores the ways scientific societies, journals, editors and researchers are pushing back against mean-spirited peer reviews. #Academicsky 🧪

Interested in how our bodies sense the world around us, how these systems develop, or how we consciously control internal reflexes? Come join our team - we're hiring! Excited to recruit technicians, post-docs, and Stanford graduate students in any program! Please email me. #WeAreHiring #Stanford

Cleveland actually does rock

So cool!!!

Tomorrow, former Scavuzzo lab undergrad Jeyashri Rameshbabu will get her white coat - tune in to support her! www.youtube.com/live/a0F2GP8...

Aaliyah’s first xenograft as lead surgeon. First of many!

Today in the @nytimes.com, one of the most important stories of our time. Between the months of February and July, 319,000 Black women exited the workforce. In the same period, White men saw the largest increase in jobs- 365,000. This is #TheDoubleTax. Pre-order: annagifty.com. #blacksky

Now online! Transient gene melting governs the timing of oligodendrocyte maturation

Is anyone in continental Europe looking for a lab manager? I have a fabulous candidate - let me know and please RT!

Congrats Kevin Allan, Jesse Zhan, @tymillerlab.bsky.social, @tesarlab.bsky.social, et al It was fun to do some super-resolution microscopy to help look into how a cell matures, all while sending a lot of spooky faces to Paul and Kevin since, unlike these Sox6 ko cells, I have yet to mature 😱😱😱😱😱

End of summer lab lunch at Banana Blossom!

🎉 Help us congratulate our second group of Rise Up Scholars this summer! 🎉 These incredible students spent their summer internships at Case Western Reserve University, working side-by-side with research scientists.

Undergrad Martina Torello-Viera made @hhmi.org themed cookies to celebrate new Gilliam Fellow @raniaziar.bsky.social!

@glialsciences.bsky.social runs more than experiments! Two brilliant medical student researchers, Alka Tomar (Scavuzzo lab) and Aritra Nag (Bazarek lab) from the IGS at the finish line. Huge congratulations to both of them!

Meet Nadia Mukasine! Nadia is a rising sophomore from Kenyon College, spending her summer working full time in the lab.

Well this is depressing

Thrilled to share that Dr. Marissa Scavuzzo, IGS faculty at CWRU, has been awarded a 2024 Hartwell Award. Her innovative work explores how glial cells in the gut may influence autism—using stem cell–based “mini-guts” to reveal new insights. 🔗 Read more: bit.ly/46M8uUA

In a time as this— I am deeply thankful to be blessed with this honor. As a scientist and educator, the NSF CAREER award allows me to integrate the very core of who I am as a scientist and educator. Forever grateful to past and present members of my lab for helping me accomplish this dream.

Meet the lab! Haley Aharoni is a second year PhD student studying lipid metabolism in glial cells. She fell in love with science in high school, wanting to find solutions to difficult questions.