Big thanks to Zachary Knight, Dana Small, Kara Marshall, and HHMI | Janelia for an incredible meeting on the sensory biology of ingestion! 🍔🧠👃🏼👅Inspiring, insightful, and a true highlight🤩! Hoping this is the first of many🤞🏼! #feeding #sensorybiology

🦋 The Steculorum Lab is now on Bluesky! 🦋 Follow us at @sophiesteculorum.bsky.social to stay up to date with our latest work on the 🧠, 🍔, 👃🏼, 🤰and more!

📢The Neurometabolism Seminars return for the upcoming summer and we are thrilled to announce our speakers’ lineup!👩‍🔬🧑‍🔬 The seminars will take place every Thursday at 11:00 EST, online, from May 29th to July 31st. To register, please complete this form: forms.gle/JGexQ2cstwuLP9…

My first first-author paper is live - this is amazing!! 🤩 Check it out in Nature Metabolism: nature.com/articles/s4225… I can't thank my co-authors and everyone who helped make this happen enough! Sophie Steculorum Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research

Exciting news from Sophie Steculorum's Lab!🤓 👃🧠 Smelling food primes your brain for satiety. Find out more in 🧵 or under 🔗 nature.com/articles/s4225… Congrats to Sophie Steculorum, first author Janice Bulk and all contributing authors!

Smelling Food Activates Neurons That Curb Appetite in Lean Mice A direct connection from the nose to brain neurons are activated by the smell of food to trigger satiety in lean, but not in obese #mice Sophie Steculorum Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research #neurons #obesity hubs.li/Q03rLM5L0

PAPER ALERT!📢  🧠What happens to the brain when glucose runs low? Does synaptic transmission collapse because neurons are starving? Or is there another, often-overlooked cell that senses the metabolic crisis and pulls the emergency brake? Let’s talk about astrocytes! 🤩🧵👇

New paper now live! 🧠🍬 Lots of us assumed that synaptic transmission decreases upon glucose shortage because of direct neuronal failure. But... Is that really the case? Spoiler alert: No! It's astrocytes guiding them all along the way! ⭐ aginganddisease.org/EN/10.14336/AD…

We've got something NEW for BSN ECRs! 🔬📹An Early Career Methodology video tutorial series #1: Introduction to single-cell transcriptomics by Dr Sreekala Nampoothiri. Watch: my.neuroendo.org.uk/article.php?ar… Not a BSN member? Join today and get access: neuroendo.org.uk/join

🔬 Join us for the next #iBehave Seminar! 🧠 Dr. Henning Fenselau (Max Planck) on The Synaptic Mechanism of Metabolism Regulation 📅July 4, 2025 | 🕛 12:00 PM Host: Prof. Grunwald Kadow & Prof. Beck, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn Uniklinik Bonn 📧Zoom: [email protected] #Neuroscience #Metabolism

Register now for the 12th Helmholtz Diabetes Conference! 🧠 Focus: #Diabetes & #LiverHealth 🧪 Organized by Anja Zeigerer & Stephan Herzig 🎤 Lecture Award: Philipp Scherer 📢 Poster or Flash Talk chance – submit your abstract! 🔗 helmholtz-munich.de/en/diabetes-co… #HelmholtzDiabetes2025

In our first study incorporating human data we identified new role for the cerebellum! We found a cerebellar output circuit that is activated only when individuals are hungry and helps control meal size. Even more parts of the brain regulate hunger and satiety!

I'm psyched to share that my PhD paper is now out in Neuron ! It's also my first paper as both first author and corresponding author, which means even more to me! 🥳 Thank my partner Chi-Chieh Lee for her contribution to the most adorable ever graphic abstract 🥰

Thrilled our discovery of a novel sensory pathway controlling satiety in mice is featured in the General-Anzeiger General-Anzeiger 🐭👃🍽️! 👇 Kölner Studie: Geruch macht satt (zumindest Mäuse) ga.de/news/wissen-un…