Stadtman investigator at NIH, NIDDK. Neuromodulation and motivation section. All views/posts are my own.
Andrew Lutas
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Our work on cAMP-dependent mechanisms in area postrema that mediate Semaglutide-induced weight loss in mice is out in final form. I learned a lot from this study and the effort of the team, especially Claire Gao who led the work, was inspiring. I hope it can stimulate new directions.
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To study how animals understand the physical world (and the rules that govern its dynamics), @jinyao-y.bsky.social trains rats to play fetch with robots 🐀🤖🎾
To learn more, come to our poster Tuesday morning!
[Board W11] Rats learn and use intuitive physics knowledge to solve fetch tasks.
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Nature Metabolism - Semaglutide-induced weight loss is shown to depend on Gs-coupled signalling in GLP1R-expressing hindbrain neurons, with a critical role for cAMP in mediating neuronal activation...
Sigh. NIH normally sends several hundred scientists to the SFN annual meeting to learn, exchange info, come up with new ideas, and advance science. (The exchange of ideas is the very core of the scientific enterprise.)
This year, no one from NIH will attend due to the gov't implosion.
Andrew Lutas
Ed Kravitz passed away yesterday.
He was a remarkable scientist and mentor- brilliant, curious, creative, and kind. I am grateful to have learned from him. His legacy will endure through his science and through the many people he inspired.
We will miss you, Ed.
The Transmitter
A high #fat #diet increases risk taking and suppresses escape neurons
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#neuroscience
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After 50 years in science, former #HHMIInvestigator David Clapham’s advice is simple: “You have to see problem-solving as fun.” From training with Nobel laureates to deepening our understanding of ion channels & leading at HHMI, he retires with a lasting legacy: hhmi.news/3O3kYji.
The New York Times piece today about US science is terrible and wrong—in many ways.
I could write a whole article about this, but as one example:
“To close observers, the original crisis began well before any of this…”
No. I’m a close observer of science, and this is incorrect.
Rob Johnson
Abstract submissions are now OPEN for the Dopamine 2026 meeting!
Share your latest discoveries and join the global dopamine community in advancing the science of motivation, movement, and reward.
Submit here: dopaminesociety.org/abstracts/
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