Dustin Green
dustinpgreen.bsky.social
Dustin Green
@dustinpgreen.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at UTMB || Study pain and itch || Xinzhong Dong lab alum || Also video games fit in there sometimes 🧠🏳‍🌈
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New lab group photo! This academic year we’ve welcomed two graduate students, Austin and Carly, and two undergraduate project students, Amara and Ellen. Grateful to be working with such a thoughtful, motivated group. #TeamMrgpr
September 19, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Nice review out by @priyankapundir.bsky.social lab! Bitter Taste Receptors in Bacterial Infections and Innate Immunity - Rudolph - 2025 - Immunity, Inflammation and Disease - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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July 25, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Very cool!
July 25, 2025 at 7:02 PM
MrgprB2 back in the news. Stroke! Big new @cellpress.bsky.social paper with a lot of good friends on it: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... congrats to Ruchita, Risheng, Dr. Dong and the great @nathachitlim.bsky.social
A mast cell receptor mediates post-stroke brain inflammation via a dural-brain axis
The immune environment surrounding the brain plays a fundamental role in monitoring signs of injury. Insults, including ischemic stroke, can disrupt t…
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July 24, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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HOWZAT!!!
JCI - Sensory neuron–expressed FGF13 controls nociceptive signaling in diabetic neuropathy models www.jci.org/articles/vie...
JCI - Sensory neuron–expressed FGF13 controls nociceptive signaling in diabetic neuropathy models
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July 15, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Nice new work out from Dussor lab on stress and migraine @utdallas.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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July 15, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Great news 🔥
We finally have an impact factor at Neurobiology of Pain. Thanks to our editorial team: Michael Burton, @annatheneurosci.bsky.social, and Dave Seminowicz; the editorial board; and all our wonderful authors for submitting such great papers over the past several years.
June 24, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Happy Pride 🏳️‍🌈
June 2, 2025 at 8:19 PM
So happy to see more people studying MRGPR’s
An amazing paper reveals the healing power of poop and a new molecular target for metabolic diseases (MRGPRE).
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An amazing microbiome paper
The power of poop revealed
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May 30, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Very cool!
Our paper in Journal of Pain challenges old labels: TrkB isnt just an A-LTMR marker. Its truncated isoform is expressed and functional in trigeminal nociceptors, opening new avenues for studying the receptor in pathological pain #painresearch www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Truncated TrkB: The predominant TrkB isoform in nociceptors
Truncated TrkB (TrkBT1), traditionally considered a dominant-negative regulator of full-length TrkB (TrkBTK+), remains poorly understood in peripheral…
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May 21, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Congratulations to Priya and to a mentor of mine @shivanibr.bsky.social
Congratulations to my student Priya Narayanan for an excellent performance on defending her MS thesis focused on the molecular mechanisms underlying oral mucositis @uthealthsa.bsky.social. I am a proud mentor today. #teachingisrewarding #graduateeducation
May 14, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Thanks for the reporting @sutherlandphd.bsky.social
And it's unanimous! The NINDS Advisory Council has approved the HEAL pain research priority recommendations.
May 14, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Very nice!
This paper is now published in Nature Communications www.nature.com/articles/s41... Huge congrats to Stephanie Shiers on this magnum opus updating our view of Nageotte's legendary pathology work in the early 1900s.
May 5, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Very cool idea
Gave a talk at my parents’ retirement community to describe how science is done, and what is at stake. There was a ton of interest, and anyone can do this. Get the word out about how science affects everyone. I’m happy to share slides with anyone who asks- just get in touch! youtu.be/BY_SFgi-Cig
Kara Marshall PHD-History of Science in America - Trilogy at Tehaleh 04/27/25
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May 4, 2025 at 2:21 AM
See me Monday at #Immunology2025 latest on neuropeptides and mast cells at PosterBoard: 1214. #AAI2025
May 3, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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On our way to #Immunology2025! Catch our latest on mast cells at Posters 782 and 814. #AAI2025
May 2, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Congrats!
It finally happened, the Castro lab's first paper! Congrats to
@katybraden.bsky.social
!! In this review we examine what we know, and more importantly, what we DON'T know about neuropeptides in the dorsal raphe/ventromedial PAG. Here we go! www.frontiersin.org/journals/beh...
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April 9, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Lots of talent 🔥🔥🔥
Had a blast speaking and catching up w/ Nicole Scheff, @flybottleescape.bsky.social @robgereau.bsky.social @laurenslosky.bsky.social et al at the Center for Adv PainTher and Res (CAPToR) @ufresearch.bsky.social.Thank you @khannalabuf.bsky.social and @maykhanna.bsky.social for hosting us.
April 2, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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@utdpaincenter.bsky.social doing some science good out in the community. See if you can spot my shiny bald head in the photos :-)
🧠✨ This weekend, we had an amazing time at STEM Day in the Park! Families joined us for a hands-on journey into the brain and nervous system with interactive experiments.

We loved sparking curiosity and inspiring future scientists. 🚀🔬 #STEMDay #NeuroscienceFun #BrainPower
March 17, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Very cool!
March 5, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Interested in low back pain mechanisms? Wondering about the molecular composition of rat DRG neurons (a perplexing gap in the literature that is now filled)? Check out our latest preprint! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
@ish1789.bsky.social led this work in our lab. Great collab with Becky Wachs
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February 25, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Nice history/overview and the legality of Indirect Costs at NIH . . . open.substack.com/pub/goodscie...
Indirect Costs at NIH . . .
I wasn’t planning on spending part of a Saturday writing about cost accounting principles and the like, but NIH-world was hit with a doozy of a policy announcement on Friday night:
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February 11, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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February 8, 2025 at 4:34 AM