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Jeff Davies
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Brains, Hormones, Neurogenesis, Parkinson’s, Dementia 🔬🧫🧬 & all things ghrelin
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How neurons go with the blood flow when migrating through the brain.
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November 1, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Have you seen this new Open Access early view article?

GHSRs in the olfactory bulb suppress food motivation and promote exploration without altering spatial memory in male mice. 🐁

Authors: Stark R, Zigman JM, Andrews ZB.
@zane-andrews.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1111/jne....
November 1, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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Bethan David will speak on:

Circulating Ghrelin Profiles in Neurodegenerative Disease & Dementia: Insights from the GDEM3 Clinical Trial

In #BSNBradford2025 Symposium 4 Neuroendocrine links to dementia.

Register by 15 Aug: bsnbradford2025.oa-e...
August 14, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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Exciting Senior Scientist 👩‍🔬 👨‍🔬 role available in my research group 🧠 🦠 - Closing date Tuesday 5th August 2025.

Please Share

@apcmicrobiomeirel.bsky.social @anatneuroucc.bsky.social
Full details here
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July 7, 2025 at 11:20 AM
We have a PhD position open for a talented & enthusiastic grad student interested in Neuro-Immune communication in the context of dementia. Come and join myself and @nickjonesimmuno.bsky.social click 👇 or contact me for more info
www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate...
Medicine: Fully Funded BRACE PhD in Alzheimer’s Research (RS855) - Swansea University
We offer a wide range of funded and fully funded research scholarships in all subject areas. Explore your options and apply now.
www.swansea.ac.uk
July 2, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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Timothy Wells, @jeff-neuro.bsky.social‬ & team discover eating regular meals—not grazing—accelerates skeletal growth in rodents.

More on circulating ghrelin and growth hormone secretion profiles: buff.ly/PLZPMu9
June 26, 2025 at 1:20 PM
June 17, 2025 at 7:47 PM
JCI - Meal-feeding promotes skeletal growth by ghrelin-dependent enhancement of growth hormone rhythmicity www.jci.org/articles/vie...
JCI - Meal-feeding promotes skeletal growth by ghrelin-dependent enhancement of growth hormone rhythmicity
www.jci.org
June 17, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Congrats Amanda, Tim and all co-authors 👏 fantastic to see this work published #ghrelin #growth @bsneuroendo.bsky.social
April 3, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Meal-feeding promotes skeletal growth by ghrelin-dependent enhancement of growth hormone rhythmicity
www.jci.org/articles/vie...
JCI - Meal-feeding promotes skeletal growth by ghrelin-dependent enhancement of growth hormone rhythmicity
www.jci.org
April 3, 2025 at 9:59 PM
A cerebrospinal fluid synaptic protein biomarker for prediction of cognitive resilience versus decline in Alzheimer’s disease
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A cerebrospinal fluid synaptic protein biomarker for prediction of cognitive resilience versus decline in Alzheimer’s disease - Nature Medicine
The ratio between the levels of two synaptic proteins in cerebrospinal fluid predicts future cognitive resilience versus decline among presymptomatic individuals and individuals with early Alzheimer’s...
www.nature.com
April 1, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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The @bsneuroendo ECR Mentor Scheme is open!

A mentor can help you:

Identify your goals
Find your career direction
Expand your network
Clarify your scientific niche
Learn from subject matter experts

Find your mentor: www.neuroendo.org.uk...

Closes 31 March 2025

March 8, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Why academia is sleepwalking into self-destruction. My editorial @brain1878.bsky.social If you agree with the sentiments please repost. It's important for all our sakes to stop the madness
academic.oup.com/brain/articl...
March 6, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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We're hosting our annual meeting in Bradford, UK, bet 31/8-3/9, and our abstract submission, registration and ECR prizes are open!

Register & submit your abstract bit.ly/3WS2zHy

(You'll need to create a free account with Oxford Abstracts)

Join us!

#BSNBradford2025
March 10, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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I expect to have an opening later in the year in my lab for a postdoctoral fellow to work on our projects on dopamine neurotransmission and Parkinson models. Please share.
February 26, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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We're hosting our annual meeting in Bradford, UK, bet 31/8-3/9, and our abstract submission, registration and ECR prizes are open!

Register & submit your abstract https://bit.ly/3WS2zHy

(You'll need to create a free account with Oxford Abstracts)

Join us!

#BSNBradford2025
February 14, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Effects of early, late and self-selected time-restricted eating on visceral adipose tissue and cardiometabolic health in participants with overweight or obesity: a randomized controlled trial
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Effects of early, late and self-selected time-restricted eating on visceral adipose tissue and cardiometabolic health in participants with overweight or obesity: a randomized controlled trial - Nature...
A multicenter randomized controlled trial found that incorporating time-restricted eating, regardless of the timing of the eating window, into usual care—combining a Mediterranean diet with a nutritio...
www.nature.com
February 4, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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Save the date! Our next international conference will be about brain-body interactions.
📅 When? 1-3 October.
🗺️ Where? Bordeaux!
📝 Registrations and abstract submissions (short talk and poster) will open on April 15th.

www.bordeaux-neurocampus.fr/2025-brainco...
2025 BrainConf: BrainBody - Bordeaux Neurocampus
1-3 October 2025. Registrations and abstract submission (short talks and posters) will open on April 15th.
www.bordeaux-neurocampus.fr
January 21, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Really proud to start the year by sharing our new review in @endosocjournals.bsky.social on the roles of GLP-1 in eating and obesity treatment, led by superstar postdoc @laurenjonesucl.bsky.social!

academic.oup.com/endo/article...

🧪🧠📈 #neuroscience #neuroskyence #GLP-1 #obesity #wegovy #ozempic
GLP-1 and the Neurobiology of Eating Control: Recent Advances
Abstract. Obesity is now considered a chronic relapsing progressive disease, associated with increased all-cause mortality that scales with body weight, af
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January 21, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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Come join us @umontreal.ca - We're looking to recruit a Professor in the field of neurobiology, with a focus on linking neurodevelopment to neural circuit function and dysfunction.
#neuroskyence #neuroscience 🧪

See ad below -
www.fens.org/careers/job-...
Principal Investigator in neurodevelopment/Assistant Professor - CHU Sainte-Justine Azrieli Research Centre/ Université de Montréal - Federation of European Neuroscience Societies
www.fens.org
January 17, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Separate orexigenic hippocampal ensembles shape dietary choice by enhancing contextual memory and motivation
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Separate orexigenic hippocampal ensembles shape dietary choice by enhancing contextual memory and motivation - Nature Metabolism
Yang et al. identify and characterize distinct sugar- and fat-responsive neuronal populations in the dorsal hippocampus and their contribution to the development of obesity.
www.nature.com
January 16, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Multimodal transcriptomics reveal neurogenic aging trajectories and age-related regional inflammation in the dentate gyrus
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Multimodal transcriptomics reveal neurogenic aging trajectories and age-related regional inflammation in the dentate gyrus - Nature Neuroscience
Multimodal transcriptomics unveil the molecular dynamics of neural stem cells and their surrounding niche in the aging mouse hippocampus and provide a resource to understand age-related molecular chan...
www.nature.com
January 9, 2025 at 8:23 PM