Rachel Essner

6/ Thank you also to @haganK and @Oren_Amsalem for their analysis wizardry, Sverre & Kristian for sharing the ribo-GCaMP, and Teresa for her fluoroscopy expertise. I am also beyond grateful for @andermann_mark for all of his guidance, support, and excitement throughout the years.

5/ Huge thanks to @RudamntaryNeuro and @hannahchoh (Team PBN!) – this project was a ton of work and could not have been done without them.

I’m so excited to share our preprint on how brainstem neurons sense and integrate multiple body signals during food consumption. We imaged 1000s of neurons across the lateral parabrachial nucleus (LPBN) in behaving mice. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

I’m over the moon to share my postdoc work @Nature, where we provide an answer to the longstanding question: how is the body’s stress response system (the HPA axis) activated during starvation? nature.com/articles/s4158…

I am excited to share our preprint on how hypothalamic hunger- and satiety-promoting neuropeptides compete at the level of cAMP to regulate feeding. We imaged endogenous peptide signals in subcellular compartments during behavior. Below are the findings: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Anorexia nervosa is a curious eating disorder where individuals go against their homeostatic needs and practice food restriction and self-starvation. We focused on a single symptom of this complex condition to see what it could teach us bit.ly/3IjaJ4A

Sr. Research Associate position open! >4 yr commitment. Prereqs: science nerd, kind, respectful, assertive, organized, >5 yrs experience post-BSc. Will train/oversee undergrads/technicians, manage mouse colony, equipment, orders, reimbursements, protocols. andermannlab.com

Williams is the best! Could not recommend it more :)

@FrankieDHeyward Thanks Frankie! And yes of course 😄

@RachelEssner So can you autograph mine when it comes in!? Incredible, congrats Rachel!!!

This is an awesome guide to techniques in neuroscience (in my unbiased opinion). Check it out! 👇🏻

Johnston canyon ice hike crew dominates #beautifulbanff #ksNeuroAppetite22 @FrankieDHeyward @RachelEssner

New work from twitterless superhuman Matt Carter and his @WilliamsCollege students! Go Ephs! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

@michael_krashes @NitsanGoldstein thank you! congrats to Matt and everyone involved - this looks awesome!

Beautiful new study investigating the role of discrete PSTN neurons in the regulation of appetite led by a crop of awesome Williams College undergrads following in the footsteps of the extremely talented @NitsanGoldstein and @RachelEssner. And Matt too biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Our insula review is out in @NeuroCellPress!!! @andermann_mark and I review recent studies recording and manipulating cellular activity in rodent insula at timescales from seconds to hours. Inspired by theoretical and CogNeuro studies,...(1/2) authors.elsevier.com/a/1dpeg_KOmxI~…

Feeling thirsty? Hungry? In mice, the insula bridges different timescales of interoception by tracking & predicting thirst & hunger states. See how in work by @Yoav_Livneh, @andermann_mark & coll. bit.ly/3bCiUX1 Preview by @vijay_mkn & @gstuber bit.ly/39yKfYL