Thrilled to join the Rita Allen Scholars community ( and grateful for the support! Glad to (re)discover many inspirational colleagues as current and former award in pain scholars.

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

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

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

The irony was not lost on this reader of the @TheEconomist 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.

RT @celineriera: 👉Job Search Alert: My lab is looking for a postdoctoral fellow to work on Neuroscience & Metabolism in Los Angeles. Intere….

Fantastic work from my wonderful colleague @ttwang0908 showing how the sympathetic system imposes organ specific control over visceral function.

The Neuroscience Department at UTSW is hiring! Come work with us: @UTSWNeurosci

RT @gsxej: Working with n>1 connectomes, led us to a new #celltype definition: “a group of cells that are more similar to cells in a differ….

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!.

Beautiful work from Peng Li's lab identifying a cough mediating brainstem cell-type and respective regulatory circuit:

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

Glad to see the human primary DRG CRISPR-editing approach out from Seph, @_KatherinG18 and Patwardhan / @UTDPainLabs! Robust and efficient way to modulate human primary sensory neurons.

RT @UTDPainLab: @_KatherinG18, Seph and @JulietMwirigi working together with Amol Patwardhan and our @SWTransplant partners figured out how….

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

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

RT @Alex_Chesler: Please share: We are seeking new postdoctoral fellows. NIH is a fabulous place to do science and I'd like to think our g….

Central sensory neurons that turn aversive salt tolerable under salt deprivation now out: Dedicated sensory neuron type acts as a taste valence switch. Huge shout-out to lead author Yameng and @ttwang0908 and former colleagues at the Oka Lab.

Vagal sensory neurons linking cardiac activity to fainting: . Great to see cool work from former labmates @vinnyaug1 !.

Huge shout out to all co-authors @hpoldsam, @sisichen and x-less Yuki Oka and Matt Thomson, for bravely delivering on a project that we initially assumed would take two weeks tops to finish (3/3).