Thrilled to share our paper online nature (on my birthday)! We've identified a new population of LepR neurons (BNC2) in the hypothalamus ARC that acutely suppresses appetite by directly inhibiting AGRP neurons, decoding the missing LepR GABAergic neurons. nature.com/articles/s4158…

🔬✨ New insights into tissue regeneration! Our study uncovers a novel mechanochemical mechanism in Hydra, revealing how mechanical forces and Wnt signaling work together to create intricate tissue patterns. #Cnidarians #Hydra #Biology #Regeneration biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Dopamine-mediated interactions between short- and long-term memory dynamics nature.com/articles/s4158… - beautiful work (in flies) elucidating circuits integrating innate and learned preferences

Gary Ruvkun, our new Nobel Prize laureate in physiology or medicine, shared a touching story about how he overcame self-doubt and regained his self-confidence, after he was awarded his new Nobel Prize: “From 21 to 24, I was a disappointment to anybody who was thinking about

Cnidarians are supposed to be diploblastic. In this new ms we show that in the sea anemone Nematostella the interplay of Wnt, MAPK and Notch signaling controls the segregation of endodermal, mesodermal and ectodermal identities. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Happy to share our new paper 😊 "Developmental, behavioral, and biochemical effects of chronic exposure to sublethal concentrations of organic UV-filter compounds on a freshwater model species" BalatonScience HUN-REN Hungarian Research Network Andras Toth 🏂 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Excited to share my PhD work!🎉 By characterizing and comparing the cells at the aboral end of the planula larva in 3 cnidarian species, we identified shared molecular features and propose a model for settlement regulation in cnidarians 🪼🪸. Clytia group LBDV tinyurl.com/37z2ma2f

Tools such as Rosetta and AlphaFold have redefined the protein-engineering landscape. But some problems remain out of reach — for now go.nature.com/3YT7zgN

Poorly performing antibodies have plagued biomedical sciences for decades. Several fresh initiatives hope to change this go.nature.com/3NYdY42

Janesz just called me and said very nice things to me 🥰😭 Many thanks

We think that all memory is stored in the brain. But our study published today in Nature Communications shows that all cells—even kidney cells—can count, detect patterns, store memories, and do so similarly to brain cells. My first (co)corresponding author paper!🧵nature.com/articles/s4146…

"Behind the paper" story of how we got from sea slugs to human kidney cells, and found that their memory still worked the same way communities.springernature.com/posts/humans-s…

A novel method for imaging glutamate receptors in situ via #CryoET. elifesciences.org/articles/98458…

Time for science! This is a paper I loved for a couple reasons. 1) It gives a clear explanation for how noisy and antagonist neuropeptide signals ultimately determine satiety. 2) I think the tools and approach might be the future of systems neuro nature.com/articles/s4158…

Epigenetics is amazing

A recent publication claimed that the monoamine signalling system is a bilaterian innovation. This appears inconsistent with numerous earlier studies demonstrating that various non-bilaterian organisms exhibit responses to exogenously applied monoamines. shorturl.at/RSOBR

In the most recent work of my laboratory, we demonstrate that placozoans can respond to endogenous monoamines. Here you can look at the effects of tyramine, which increases the speed of placozoans. #Science #Placozoans #Neurotransmitters #Monoamines

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT📣: I haven’t been this excited to be part of something new in 15 years… Thrilled to reveal the passion project I’ve been working on for the past year and a half!🙀🥳 It started from my frustration with the depressing effect that the current publishing system has

Antiviral reverse transcriptases reveal the evolutionary origin of telomerase