Working with n>1 connectomes, led us to a new #celltype definition: “a group of cells that are more similar to cells in a different brain than to any other cell in the same brain”. We use this to propose cell types that are robust to inter-individual variation. /8

Vagal sensory neurons linking cardiac activity to fainting: nature.com/articles/s4158… . Great to see cool work from former labmates Vineet Augustine !

Central sensory neurons that turn aversive salt tolerable under salt deprivation now out: cell.com/cell/fulltext/…. Dedicated sensory neuron type acts as a taste valence switch. Huge shout-out to lead author Yameng and Tongtong Wang and former colleagues at the Oka Lab.

Please share: We are seeking new postdoctoral fellows. NIH is a fabulous place to do science and I'd like to think our group is doing exciting work in somatosensation, Interoception and pain. training.nih.gov/jobs/pdf-04012… nccih.nih.gov/about/jobs/pos…

The pain negative valence circuit downstream amygdala gets mapped out - excellent cell-type resolved approach from the Corder (⚡️GREG_CORDER⚡️) lab!

Come work with us: excellent opportunity for a postdoc to establish own long-term research program in spinal cord function/development.

Glad to see the human primary DRG CRISPR-editing approach out from Seph, Katherin Gabriel and Patwardhan / @UTDPainLabs! Robust and efficient way to modulate human primary sensory neurons.

Elegant cell-type aware multiplexed retrograde tracing approach from the @Vijay_Samineni lab. Curious to test it out in a spatial transcriptomics setup.

Beautiful work from Peng Li's lab identifying a cough mediating brainstem cell-type and respective regulatory circuit: nature.com/articles/s4159….

Celebrating 33 years of restoration of Estonia's Independence🇪🇪🎇. Things looked not as promising watching a column of russian tanks plow past my childhood home in 1991. Palju õnne, Eesti!

👉Job Search Alert: My lab is looking for a postdoctoral fellow to work on Neuroscience & Metabolism in Los Angeles. Interested applicants can view the opportunity here. linkedin.com/jobs/view/7494…

The Neuroscience Department at UTSW is hiring! Come work with us: nature.com/naturecareers/… UTSW Neuroscience

Fantastic work from my wonderful colleague Tongtong Wang showing how the sympathetic system imposes organ specific control over visceral function.

The irony was not lost on this reader of the The Economist that one of their earliest attempts to automate away their superb voice actors generating their audio edition was a piece on how humans should not worry about being replaced by AI. Loved the enunciation of punctuation.

The plot thickens for PAG based opioid pain relief. Impressive tour de force by Corder lab (⚡️GREG_CORDER⚡️) clarifying key cellular players and uncovering disturbingly complex opioid dynamics in pain and pain relief states.

Very neat use of the whole brain cell-type atlases to uncover candidate disease relevant neural classes.

Human fibromyalgia patient microbiome driving mouse pain, immune and metabolic phenotypes. Neat characterization of candidate mechanisms underlying a complex pain condition from Arkady Khoutorsky lab.

Thrilled to join the Rita Allen Scholars community (ritaallen.org/stories/2025-s…) and grateful for the support! Glad to (re)discover many inspirational colleagues as current and former award in pain scholars.

Much needed updated view of the autonomic nervous system from Tongtong Wang. Many exciting recent developments and plenty of discoveries ahead.