Karen Ryan

now in press :) In 2019, @MCIPUCD student @karltonlarson first reported FGF21 affects AA homeostasis by increasing dietary protein intake. Here he finds FGF21 also increases plasma AA by accessing skeletal muscle, likely via the HPA axis. academic.oup.com/endo/advance-a…

Please RT: The @ucdavis Center for Neuroscience is recruiting a new Director! This high-profile leadership role integrates fundamental neuroscience research across scales. Join a vibrant, collaborative community with incredible core faculty. Learn more: recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF06763

@AmberAlhadeff @KPHuang_ Agree!!! And congrats KP and team, excited to dive into this interesting work!

Lead author and postdoc superstar @KPHuang_ will be on the academic job market this fall- any institute will be very lucky to recruit him as faculty!

Drugs like Ozempic are great for weight loss, but they make some people feel sick. We discovered that the brain circuits mediating the appetite suppression are distinct from those that mediate nausea – a finding that may be leveraged to develop more selective GLP1-based drugs.

And… kiddo #2 is officially a @PolyEngineering graduate 🎉 Proud mama moment. This kid is kind and thoughtful, focused and hardworking, and pretty darn smart too :) He’s heading out tomorrow for some well-deserved travel, before starting as a full-time SDE w/ Amazon in July.

A lot to celebrate for our ⁦@MCIPUCD⁩ student, ⁦@ChihTingWu1⁩ :) His new marriage !! And a new job :) Jeff will wrap up his stellar PhD in the Ryan Lab and continue his training as a postdoctoral fellow with ⁦⁦@Amgen⁩ in Thousand Oaks. Congratulations!!!

Karla Soto Sauza celebrating her new paper :) pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38801670/

@ClemmensenC @Nature Congratulations Christoffer and team!!

Our new paper "GLP-1-directed NMDA receptor antagonism for obesity treatment" is out today in @Nature nature.com/articles/s4158… We describe the engineering and preclinical development of a new drug candidate that targets NMDA receptors in GLP-1 receptor neurons. 1/8 🧵👇

@mf_navedo @MCIPUCD @sypan_June Congrats, June!!

Great work from @MCIPUCD Alum @sypan_June!

Obesity is rising among women of reproductive age, increasing impact on their children. The bright spot? Maternal nutritional interventions during lactation present an opportunity to modify outcomes. @BrigidGregg @DurgaSinger @bridges_lab @TheEndoSociety tinyurl.com/4v3cbvrk

It's back! CCST's Science Translators Showcase is returning to S&T Week 2024. We're seeking grad students, postdocs, and early-career faculty from our Partner Institutions to participate. Learn more and apply: ccst.us/calling-califo… #CCSTshowcase #CCSTweek #SciPol #SciComm

@LinTianPhD @ucdavis @mpfi @MPFNeuro Excited for you and congratulations to you and to @MPFI. You will be missed!!

The Tian Lab is moving! After many wonderful years at @ucdavis, I am embarking on a new journey as a Scientific Director at @MPFI. It’s bittersweet to say goodbye to the wonderful community at Davis, but I’m excited about the challenges & opportunities in my new role.

Friday celebrations :) Congratulations to @MCIPUCD student Jeff Wu and to all the authors! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

@CristalM_Hill @doc_becca @drugmonkeyblog 🤬

@doc_becca @drugmonkeyblog And I am begging reviewers to allow for the inclusion of such data without demanding to know ‘what is the mechanism for the sex difference?’! Otherwise it becomes easier/ more appealing for PIs to just not report the data from both sexes vs opening this can of worms.

And one more:) Congrats to ⁦@ChihTingWu1⁩ and the rest of the authors! The macronutrient content of a meal modulates subsequent 'dessert' intake, via Fibroblast Growth Factor 21 (FGF21) | bioRxiv biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Excited to share this one :) Congratulations to @karltonlarson and crew! FGF21 induces skeletal muscle atrophy and increases plasma amino acids in female mice: a potential role for glucocorticoids biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

@KimpleLab What? Gosh so sorry that happened to you, Michelle! Hope you’ve made it home now and are okay?!

Slow to post a photo, but big congrats to DR. Aki Chaffin! Winner of the UC Davis Loren D. Carlson Prize in Physiology (‘21), one of 20 UC-wide President’s Lindau Nobel Laureate Mtg Fellows (‘20), F31 and T32 trainee, ADA SABV abstract award (‘19), and all around wonderful human.

@yehya_nadine Heartbreaking. My condolences.

Today is Karim’s graduation and Father’s Day. Karim is no more here to walk the stage, so his dad will do that for him. I grieve my son with every breath and missed milestone. #Grief #childloss #graduation2023