Thanks to @nature.com for featuring our work in this piece on genetically-encoded sensors. The article does a great job highlighting their importance for both basic research and translational impact, such as in our lab's research on serotonin. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

lab preprint! Interopceptive predictions are central to many brain-body interactions theories, but it's unclear if/how they affect bodily physiology. We (fearless Einav Litvak et al) show that insular cortex predictions are essential for glucose homeostasis-THREAD.. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Wonderful to have @henningfenselau.bsky.social visit us at #UTSouthwestern. Fantastic talk on targeting neural plasticity in obesity. @maxplanck.de | @unicologne.bsky.social | @zigmanlab.bsky.social

🤩 I’m beyond excited to finally share our paper! 🎉 It’s been a long journey and a true team effort. Congratulations to our outstanding first authors, @lcreimon.bsky.social and Ayden Gouveia, and to all of the co-authors who made this possible 🙌! www.nature.com/articles/s42...

My passion is to bring together people from different worlds. Science Kitchen started with @pamado.bsky.social and Joana Lamego. We made it real: chefs+scientists side by side @champalimaudf.bsky.social - curiosity meets flavor. Discovery became a shared experience. Just the beginning.

Exciting that our first post gets to share that our paper in Nature Communications is now available! This work uncovers the circuits that mediate sex differences in responsiveness to social stress, but don't take our word for it, check it out! Congrats, Marie Francois and team 🎉

New essay in @currentbiology.bsky.social special brain-body issue! Fly lab meets psychiatrist: how bodily signals shape cognition and mental health. Great collaboration with Albino Oliveira-Maia showing @champalimaudf.bsky.social discovery ↔️ clinic at its best. www.cell.com/current-biol...

Rockefeller's Jeff Friedman has won the 2025 Albany Medical Center Prize, one of the nation’s most prestigious prizes in biomedicine. Friedman is recognized for his discovery of leptin, which established a biological basis for obesity. Congrats, Jeff!

What a great Titisee Conference! “Warm, cold, and life” brought together brilliant minds exploring how temperature shapes the brain, physiology, and behaviour — from mice, wild animals to humans. Thanks to Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds for the support!

That title is a mouthful 😆 Congrats to Darleen, @seeleyrj.bsky.social, @henningfenselau.bsky.social and team. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🚨 We’re hiring! 🧪 @uvabio.bsky.social UVA Biology is recruiting multiple tenure-track Assistant Professors in neuroscience as part of a $75M Brain & Neuroscience Initiative. 🧠 Apply by Oct 15, 2025. Start Aug 2026. 👉 apply.interfolio.com/172892 #Neuroscience #FacultyJobs #NeuroJobs #Biology #UVA

We are proud of Omprakash Singh's new study just out in Cell Reports. Supported by Sepideh Sheybani-Deloui et al, Om's work identifies GHSR expressing SCN neurons as regulating food intake + feed efficiency at a single time of day, accounting for at least 7% of a mouse's BW doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...

What's next for the #BetleyLab? We're diving deep into #EXERCISE! 🏃‍♀️💪 Our emerging studies show exercise doesn't just change your body – it literally rewires brain circuits and impacts #dopamine response. It’s a whole new world of #body-brain interaction. Stay tuned !

🚀 What’s it like to launch a new lab? Hans-Georg Sprenger shares challenges, early wins & the joy of mentoring in molecular metabolism research. @mpiage.bsky.social Read the interview: febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #ScienceCareers #Mentoring #ResearchLife

The brain is the master regulator of food intake and energy balance. A brilliant new @cellpress.bsky.social review, including the mechanism of GLP-1 drugs, by @clemmensenc.bsky.social and colleagues, open-access www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

‼️ We're looking for a postdoc to join our team starting January 1st, 2026! ‼️ Are you curious about how exercise promotes positive changes at the molecular level in obesity and diabetes? If so, consider applying or reach out with any questions. ddz.de/job/postdoct... ddz.de/en/research/...

And you thought #metformin lowered glucose via the liver? Here loss-of-function and gain-of-function studies suggest that VMH Rap1 is indispensable for the antidiabetic effects of metformin in mice #diabetes www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

How do animals decide if they should forage for food or stay home to take care of newborn offspring? Whose needs come first? For my PhD work now out in Nature, we examined how hunger and parenting neurons interact and are reshaped postpartum in mice 🧵⬇️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our very own @runningdar.bsky.social in the #DiabetesSpotlight #DiabetesBio

Finally… BBQ, and excellent and very creative journal club on our rooftop! Enjoying Cologne summer with the amazing team!

Not feeling hungry after cooking? Janice Bulk chatted about the latest study by the Steculorum Lab in an interview with German radio. 👃 🍲 📻 Great job, Janice! www.swr.de/leben/gesund...

Stephanie A. Fernandes selected for Minerva Fast Track Programme! 🎉 Congrats on this amazing achievement! @stephalcantara.bsky.social @cga-age.bsky.social www.age.mpg.de/428071/25071...

Excited to announce my new book FOOD INTELLIGENCE coauthored with brilliant journalist @juliabelluz.bsky.social‬! Cutting through the confusion about diet & health, #FoodIntelligence describes the fascinating science of how food both nourishes & harms us. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/671334...

Molecular mechanisms and brain regions that promote hyperphagia in the clinical expression of fructose-mediated #obesity www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The gut hormone mimetic era in medicine is just getting started www.nature.com/articles/s42... erictopol.substack.com/p/the-gut-br...

Obesity is a global public health concern closely linked to cardiometabolic complications. This Comment provides views on recent breakthroughs, emerging innovations and future needs of therapeutic interventions to counteract obesity and its associated health risks. www.nature.com/articles/s42...

We have a new research group at MPI for Metabolism Research!👩‍🔬 A warm welcome to @svaltcheva.bsky.social !👋 For a first impression find her introduction below⬇️ and further informations under sf.mpg.de/2112068/Silvan

📅 Next week, we are excited to welcome Dr. @yoavlivneh.bsky.social from Weizmann Institute of Science. He will share his research on the #insular #cortex. 🥳 As always, everyone is welcome to join us at our Institute, and registration is not necessary! All info here: www.psych.mpg.de/events/40140...

Writing this was like any other act of love - awkward at the start, frustrating at times, but something to be proud of. Very grateful to Dr Kristi Griffiths for agreeing to take on this challenge with me for @natrevneuro.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Heading to one of my favorite meetings where the #Drosophila neuronal circuits world will come together to discuss science in Crete. We will celebrate the golden age of our field and there is so much more to come. Sad that the stete of the world is stopping some of us joining. Science will prevail.

📢 🤩Excited to share our latest paper👃🧠! Huge thanks to the amazing first author @janice-bulk.bsky.social‬ and all co-authors, especially @andreas-t-schaefer.bsky.social and ‪@tobiasackels.bsky.social‬ 🙌! ‬‬ www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Exciting news from @sophiesteculorum.bsky.social Lab!🤓 👃🧠 Smelling food primes your brain for satiety. Find out more in 🧵 or under 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s42... Congrats to @sophiesteculorum.bsky.social , first author @janice-bulk.bsky.social and all contributing authors!

So much fun at our Open Day, exploring how the brain powers our energy! 🧠⚡ Thanks to the organizers @mpi-metabolism.bsky.social @mpiage.bsky.social @cecad.bsky.social for the chance to share science with everyone curious about metabolism research 🔬 @hannahwilhelms.bsky.social

👏Congratulations to Professor Jens Brüning on receiving the #University #Award for Research 2024 in recognition of his exceptional scientific achievements and his contribution to #Cologne’s reputation as a leading research hub! ➡️ uni.koeln/QG3SW @unicologne.bsky.social @mpi-metabolism.bsky.social

Nice article in NY Times today about AgRP neurons, GLP1s, and hunger. By Gina Kolata. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/26/h...

Lots of recent papers discuss the nucleus of the solitary tract in interoception. In this review, we take a sensory processing perspective on how interoceptive signals are encoded in the NTS: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Congratulations to #CECAD Prof. David Vilchez @thevilchezlab.bsky.social on securing #DFG funding for a new research group on organismal proteostasis! This project, involving also Prof. Hoppe, will explore how proteostasis regulates #aging and #disease. @dfg.de #Proteostasis uni.koeln/ZCFFX

On #WorldObesityDay, we have contributed a SnapShot to a special Issue on Obesity in @cp-cellmetabolism.bsky.social covering brain actions of the current and emerging weight loss drugs. @jonaspetersen.bsky.social @johansenvbi.bsky.social Free access link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1kiaA5WXUlaX…

Today March 4, is world obesity day. People with obesity are not bad, they’re not morally bereft, they are fighting biology #obesityisnotachoice

Passionate about genetics, metabolism, and neuroscience? Join us for a Postdoc to explore how obesity-associated genetic variants impact hypothalamic circuits using CRISPR-based Perturb-seq & in vivo metabolic phenotyping candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI... @metabolcenter.bsky.social

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... very excited to share our latest work, out now in Science. Congratulations to Marielle who led our studies! And, all other authors - this was a wonderful collaborative effort

⏰The countdown is on! In just a few days, we will welcome 25 candidates from around the world to our CGA Recruitment Week! To get them - and you - excited, we're giving you an exclusive sneak peek at our programme. 🎥 Stay tuned for our full video and more insights coming soon.👀

I am excited to share our latest paper @Nature where we construct a hi-res spatial map of the human hypothalamus, the brain region central in appetite control. It is a collaboration between @IMS_MRL @Cambridge_Uni & @MPI_Metabolism www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Fruit flies have a different type of blood to us, and their insulin comes from neurons instead of pancreatic cells. But important similarities mean scientists could use them to better understand human health. https://elifesciences.org/digests/98514/a-closer-look-at-insulin-producing-cells?utm_sour…

The Science Day with the MPI for Metabolism Research last Thursday was an amazing success. Great networking opportunity and showcase for our extensive collaborations. That's the spirit for this year! 🔬🧬🤩

New paper from the @KononenkoLab! Happy to be part of this great work showing that less sugar is better your motor control, and autophagy makes sure you keep rocking on low sugar 😉 from molecules to behavior: tour de force!!!! www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Registration for the 2025 @mpfneuro.bsky.social Neurotechniques Course closes this Wednesday! Co-directed by Ryohei Yasuda & @denisejcai.bsky.social and led by an amazing team of experts, this hands-on course is a great opportunity to learn cutting-edge methods in neuroscience 🔬🧠

Last week to apply for a PhD position in my lab to dissect the cortico-spinal circuits for hindlimb control in healthy and Huntington mice. Email me CV, cover letter at the latest by Jan 22.

My systems neuroscience lab at ISTAustria is hiring a tech. Please check out and share! ista.ac.at/en/job/?titl...