Sara Prescott
@SaraPrescott6
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Assistant Professor of Biology at MIT. Airways & sensory neuron enthusiast.
Cambridge, MA
Joined March 2019
I’m thrilled to announce I’m joining @MITBiology as an Assistant Professor! I can’t wait to be part of this fantastic community of scientists and educators. We work on the molecules, cells and functions of sensory signaling in the airways. Stay tuned!
biology.mit.edu
Education PhD, 2016, Stanford University School of Medicine BA, 2008, Molecular Biology, Princeton University Research Summary Our bodies are tuned to detect and respond to cues from the outside...
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A great day @MIT at the launch of MIT Heals, the MIT Health and Life Sciences Collaborative. Among the many speakers are our investigators @SaraPrescott6, Mark Bear and Emery N. Brown. @ScienceMIT @MITBiology @mitbrainandcog
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Join our team! We’re looking for an exceptional candidate to help us lead our new center. Editor experience is a plus, but not required. Reach out with questions.
broadinstitute.avature.net
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Breathing is so important for life that we’ve evolved many pathways to protect it. My former colleagues Mike Schappe and @SLiberles discovered a new vagal circuit that makes us gasp upon airway collapse, answering a long-held mystery about why NEBs are innervated. Beautiful work!
Very cool paper from the Liberles lab about a vagal reflex for airway closure. Lucky for me, I'm here at @HHMINEWS HQ with Steve and the first author Michael hearing about this beautiful work firsthand. https://t.co/QviG1iiARt
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We are recruiting postdoctoral fellows in neurobiology and development to complement our group specializing in genomic technologies, epigenetics and machine learning. projects are very well funded and we are interested in co-mentorship. Please DM if interested in hearing more!
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Visit booth 89 @SfNtweets Learn about 2-year postbac scholar program in neuroscience @mitbrainandcog , funded postdoctoral position @MIT_Picower @SimonsCenterMIT Summer REU #MSRPBio and meet our Friendly students and staff! #sfn23
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Sara Prescott (@SaraPrescott6), Assistant Professor of Biology and Investigator at the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory (@MIT_Picower), investigates how sensory inputs from within the body control mammalian physiology and behavior.
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A huge congratulations to the one and only @JD_Buenrostro for being selected as a 2023 MacArthur Fellow. There is no one more deserving. Genius indeed.
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#MSRPBio 2023 cohort meets Sara Prescott @SaraPrescott6 a faculty @MITBiology & @MIT_Picower who studies the vagus nerve in mammalian airways. Her lab is identifying the many diverse cell types of vagal sensory neurons and their physiological function.
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Q&A with @MITBiology faculty member and @MIT_Picower investigator Sara Prescott: Why is understanding the peripheral nervous system important?
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MIT biologist Sara Prescott investigates how sensory input from within the body control mammalian physiology and behavior.
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Single-cell ATAC-seq finds active regulatory elements across cell types, but its resolution can be limited. What if we could identify when and where proteins bind to chromatin? Introducing PRINT, a new single-cell footprinting tool from @JD_Buenrostro lab https://t.co/nX1UUYNQcJ
biorxiv.org
Cis -regulatory elements control gene expression and are dynamic in their structure, reflecting changes to the composition of diverse effector proteins over time[1][1]–[3][2]. Here we sought to...
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Scientists are unraveling how our organs talk to the brain—and how the brain talks back. Learn more during #BrainAwarenessWeek: https://t.co/U3fYKABWEw
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Great #SfN22 Interoception minisymposium today with amazing talks by @doctheagrif, @KaraLMarshall, @koren_tamar, @SaraPrescott6, and Rocio Servin (postdoc w/ @ardemp)
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Cool! Airway sensory disorders are underdiagnosed, exciting to see progress being made.
A new test is the first of its kind to evaluate #laryngopharyngeal sensation by assessing sensitivity & safety in swallowing. It also has the potential to monitor head & neck cancer patients going through radiation treatments, UCSF's Dr. Clark Rosen says.
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Read this #review on the vagus nerve. @SaraPrescott6 & @SLiberles cover classical and modern studies to provide an up-to-date review of the vagal sensory neurons that innervate the respiratory, cardiovascular, & digestive systems https://t.co/z4uMVEkOyS
cell.com
Prescott and Liberles review sensory biology of the vagus nerve, a major arm of the interoceptive nervous system and vital body-brain relay. Vagal sensory neuron functions, anatomical projections,...
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Beautiful new review by @SaraPrescott6 and @SLiberles now online. Earliest citation is from 1863 so you know it's thorough, but it's also a good read. https://t.co/7DQq4Aavcx
cell.com
Prescott and Liberles review sensory biology of the vagus nerve, a major arm of the interoceptive nervous system and vital body-brain relay. Vagal sensory neuron functions, anatomical projections,...
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Spatial genomics now vs in 5 years from now :
A photo of Pluto - 24 years apart (1994-2018) Credit: NASA/JPL
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Mechanoreceptor synapses in the brainstem shape the central representation of touch https://t.co/HYbg8wIaYp Deeper and deeper into understanding the sense of touch. Very interesting!
cell.com
Mechanoreceptors that innervate glabrous skin form more numerous and powerful synaptic connections onto ascending projection neurons in brainstem than mechanoreceptors that innervate hairy skin. This...
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Highly selective brain-to-gut communication via genetically defined vagus neurons: Neuron
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