
Aaron Douglas
@Akaron0884
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Postdoctoral fellow investigating neuroimmune interactions for brain-body communication.
Dublin City, Ireland
Joined May 2017
Very excited to share part of my postdoctoral work from the @RyanLabTCD, out now in @Nature. Here, my brilliant co-author @Andrea_MZamora and I explored the link between memory engrams and whole-body metabolism. A thread: 🧵.
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Nature - Cold-sensitive engrams contribute to learned thermoregulation in mice that are returned to an environment in which they previously experienced a cold challenge, through a network formed...
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@TJRyan_77 @e_urrieta @paconway_ @jamesoleary @Clrar @lynchielydia @DrChristineAnnD @IrishResearch @Researchirel @ERC_Research @NIH @tcdTBSI @tcddublin @BrighamWomens @Harvard @PrincetonMolBio @Princeton @Columbia @Andrea_MZamora and I are now based in the Icahn school of Medicine at Mount Sinai in the brilliant labs of @Michel_Enamorad and @cam_phd respectively, so keep an eye out for the cool work to come from there also!.
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@TJRyan_77 @e_urrieta @paconway_ @jamesoleary @Clrar @lynchielydia @DrChristineAnnD This work was supported with funding from @IrishResearch, @Researchirel, @ERC_Research and @NIH, and was carried out across multiple institutions including @tcdTBSI, @tcddublin, @BrighamWomens, @Harvard, @PrincetonMolBio, @Princeton and @Columbia.
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With that, a massive thank you to my postdoc mentor @TJRyan_77, amazing lab mates @e_urrieta, @paconway_, @jamesoleary, @Clrar, and brilliant collaborators @lynchielydia and @DrChristineAnnD without who this project could not have been done.
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RT @cam_phd: We are thrilled to share the latest from the lab! We demonstrate that multi-organ MCSF-dependent myelopoiesis is dynamic in MS….
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Nature Communications - Myeloid cells contribute to the etiology of multiple sclerosis (MS), but the dynamics of myelopoiesis during disease progression is still unclear. Here the authors show, in...
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Thank you to @NatureRevEndo for their perspective piece on our recent paper from the @lynchielydia lab! Online @Nature.
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A research briefing of our recent work is now available online at @Nature!. "Fat keeps metabolism in tune and on time using an inflammatory immune protein".
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Nature - Immune cells that release the molecule IL-17A help to drive the metabolic rhythms of fat.
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RT @tcddublin: Scientists from @tcdTBSI and @Princeton have identified an immune molecule that keeps metabolism in tune and on time, which….
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And in a happy accident, the work of my soon-to-be postdoc lab also published in the same issue, with some amazing work on how immune cells drive sleep following myocardial infarction. Check it out! @cam_phd @peacemakerhuynh .
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Nature - Studies in humans and mice show that myocardial infarction recruits monocytes to the brain’s thalamus, promoting sleep, which in turn restricts cardiac inflammation and sympathetic...
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This work was supported with funding from the @IrishResearch, @Researchirel, @ERC_Research and @NIH, and was carried out across multiple institutions including @tcdTBSI, @tcddublin, @BrighamWomens, @Harvard, @salkinstitute, @Neuro_CF and @PrincetonMolBio @Princeton @LudwigCancer.
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