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Very excited to announce the 3rd Annual Optogenetics Australia (in person) scientific meeting will take place from Feb 23rd - 24th 2023 at Flinders University, South Australia. Abstract submission and registration open 15th October 2022. REGISTER HERE: optogeneticsaustralia.com/meeting/

Register now to attend in person the 3rd Optogenetics Australia meeting, to hear leaders in optogenetics and chemogenetics? Optogenetics Australia optogeneticsaustralia.com/meeting/ @oferyizhar, FlindersHMRI, HongLab, @ChandraTucker7, ANGMA, Society for Neuroscience (SfN), Australasian Neuroscience Society (ANS), #optogenetics

I’m very excited to be part of Optogenetics Australia - it’s going to be a blast! Optogenetics Australia February 23-24, 2023. Join us! 🦘🦘🦘

A team from @WUSTL and FlindersHMRI inc Nick Spencer has found targeting a receptor responsible for our sense of touch and temperature found inside our gut could provide a new avenue for treating chronic pain in our internal organs. Read more: news.flinders.edu.au/blog/2022/12/2…

Check out this paper - Piezo2 channels underlie activation of mechanical pain in the gut-brain axis authors.elsevier.com/c/1gIGZ3BtfH1Z…

How should we define a nociceptor in the gut - brain axis ? This article may help ? Comments welcome !! frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

📢Down to the top 2 articles from 2022 based on #altmetric scores for #ajpgi 📖The gut-brain axis: spatial relationship between spinal afferent nerves & 5-HT-containing #EnterochromaffinCells in mucosa of mouse colon ow.ly/Ih8G50MqAQy Kelsi Dodds Lauren Jones Nick Spencer

It’s not too late to register for our 3rd Annual Optogenetics Australia Meeting! Register and access our full program here: optogeneticsaustralia.com/meeting/ We’re excited to share our program and look forward to welcoming our speakers and delegates to Adelaide, Feb 23rd-24th.

The 3rd Annual Optogenetics Australia meeting commences tomorrow! We're so excited to welcome our delegates. Check in for updates throughout the meeting! Thanks to Flinders Foundation and ANGMA for sponsoring our meeting.

It was a great honour to host the 3rd Optogenetics Australia meeting at Flinders University. Thank you to all outstanding speakers, registrants and sponsors. Special thanks to the Flinders Foundation. Look forward to the next meeting.

Very excited to announce we are looking for a Director of the new Flinders Health and Medical Research Institute (FHMRI) & Dean (Research), College of Medicine and Public Health. This is a unique opportunity. Applications can be made here: candidates.perrettlaver.com/vacancies/3519…

Ever wondered how and why your gut changes behaviour between day and night. Then check out this cool review frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

Are you interested in the connection between serotonin in the gut, the vagus nerve, the gut-brain axis and depression and mental health? A major new mechanism uncovered here today for gut-brain communication. Check out these new findings online, rdcu.be/dzhKP

Are you interested in how the gut communicates with the brain? Check out this major new mechanism, published today. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/YJPRGWVZ…

Check out our paper in Biosensors and Bioelectronics on wirelessly controlled, battery-free, miniature ‘flood lamps’ for optogenetic studies of the enteric nervous system and brain-gut axis in freely-behaving mice.  If you’d like access to this technology, then please let us

Look at this breakthrough to control the gut in freely-moving animals, without batteries, using a new full-implantable miniature optogenetic device. A fabulous collaboration with the outstanding laboratory of John Rogers at Northwestern University. 10.1016/j.bios.2024.116298

Yesterday the Prime Minister officially opened the new Flinders Heath and Medical Research institute. Very exciting new era in Australian science.

I was honoured to be asked to write an obituary for the journal for our dear friend Prof Marcello Costa FAA, AO, who sadly passed away early this year. Marcello was an absolute pioneer in enteric neuroscience, one of the godfathers. Here is an obituary. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38932431/

Check out our latest preprint on Synaptic cell adhesion molecule Cdh6 identifies a class of sensory neurons with novel functions in colonic motility biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Great collaboration with the Huguenard Lab and Nick Spencer labs!

Check out this cool paper published in Cell today, revealing the importance of Piezo channels in the enteric nervous system. A great collaboration between many institutions. Special thanks to my friend and long term collaborator, Hongzhen Hu pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40132579/