📣 Join us for the next CCMN Lecture as we welcome Dr. Frank Duca for an insightful talk on: 🧠 Impact of the diet-gut microbiome interactions on gut-brain axis regulation of metabolic disease 📅 Monday 15th June ⏰ 1:00 PM 📍 G01 Lankester Lecture Theatre, Medawar Building, UCL

Some new fun read about brainstem PPG neurons and their function. 🧠Happy to be part of this, with main work of @wanqingjiang.bsky.social

Postdoc job alert! Come work with me on my MRC-funded fellowship on stress and appetite 🧠🌭 at @warwicklifesci.bsky.social 5 years of behaviour, circuit manipulations, neuroanatomy, electrophysiology and transcriptomics👨‍🔬🤓 Oh and Warwick is beautiful😍 Info here: tinyurl.com/yzmf24r3 Please share.

We would like to share our findings of the physiological importance of brainstem GLP-1 neurons (also known as PPG or GCG neurons) and invite thoughts on this. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Happy Holiday Season to all friends, colleagues, collaborators and competitors! May the GLP-1 field stay as exciting in 2026 as it was in 2025!

Our latest thoughts on brain-derived GLP-1 are out in Endocrinology now. academic.oup.com/endo/article...

New semester, new project students and another opportunity to experience research through a couple pair of enthusiastic eyes! @trapp-lab.bsky.social @ccmnlondon.bsky.social

Dr Cecilia Skoug presenting the latest mouse behaviour data from the Trapp lab at @theiups.bsky.social. Great presence from @ccmnlondon.bsky.social at a fantastic meeting!

Another day, another excellent talk from a @ccmnlondon.bsky.social member. Dr. Anna Robert’s from @adriaenssenslab.bsky.social lab presented her work on GIP and vascular health here at @theiups.bsky.social 2025 meeting in Frankfurt.

More @ccmnlondon.bsky.social representation at #IUPS2025; Philippa Wittenberg, PhD student in Prof. Alex Gourine’s group presented her work on the baroreceptor mechanism.

Last conference for the year for me is IUPS 2025. Yesterday was the well-attended symposium ”GLP-1 Receptor Agonists - a Magic Bullet Beyond Diabetes and Obesity?” Chaired by Prof. Stefan Trapp @trapp-lab.bsky.social Maybe I’m biased but a great symposium indeed! @ccmnlondon.bsky.social

Can targeting GLP-1 in the brain revolutionise obesity treatment? 🧠💉 Check out Professor Stefan Trapp’s take on how central GLP-1 pathways could transform the future of obesity care. www.drugtargetreview.com/article/1606...

We are recruiting! If you are interested in working as a post-doctoral Research Fellow in the heart of London contributing to MRC-funded research into GLP-1 action within the brain, please look at this link and apply if interested: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

CCMN is off to an amazing start this year. Here are some highlights you don’t want to miss ✨

Swedes would say ”den som väntar på något gott, väntar aldrig för länge”. Thanks to Mathew Demmings for taking the lead and all co-authors. Huge thanks to @isn-society.bsky.social @jneurochem.bsky.social for the oppurtunity and for the advanced school 2019! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Fantastic departmental seminar by @zknight.bsky.social, followed by craft beer and bowling for xmas party with the @ccmnlondon.bsky.social crew. Definitely a Good Science Day.

📣 We are excited to launch this year’s CCMN Lecture Series with Dr. @zknight.bsky.social! Join us to learn about his latest work on: In vivo imaging of brainstem neurons in response to nutrient intake. 🗓️ Wednesday, Dec 4, 2024 🕐 13:00 📍 H O Schild Lecture Theatre, Medical Sciences Building

Leaving X (2009-2024) for Bluesky! All new accounts should start with a cute picture of a cat. But will mainly be here for the science chat.