Furness Lab

🆕🔥Characterization of idiopathic chronic #diarrhea & associated intestinal #inflammation & preliminary observations of effects of #VagalNerveStimulation in #NonHumanPrimate @TheFurnessLab👏 ⚡️#VNS⬇️#diarrhea & bowel #Inflammation‼️ 👉onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nm… @ANMSociety @esnm_eu

Phenomenal oration from @TessColes today, detailing enteroendocrine cells and plasticity of the gut! 🤩 Congratulations🥳one step closer, now onto thesis submission! @UniMelbMDHS #phdlife @stampintino @gutresearchrach

What an honour to receive the Mendelsohn Student Lecture Award (Fundamental) 2023 and present my PhD research at the awards ceremony. Congratulations to @VYogendrakumar for winning the Clinical Award 👏 🏅 @TheFurnessLab @UniMelbMDHS @TheFlorey

Check out the latest @ajpgi 'Got Guts' podcast with our very own @MadeleineDiNat1! 👏🎙️

John Furness named ASAN Inaugural President🥳 John is honoured by the Inaugural Presidency of this new society, initiated by Vaughan Macefield 👏#AustralianAutonomic #autonomicneuroscience Check out the society below ⬇️🎆 australasianautonomic.org

A new sympathetic reflex! Via sympathetic prevertebral ganglia connecting adjacent segments of intestine. Sympathetic efferent neurons differ from those controlling motility, fluid secretion or blood flow. Activated by threats to intestinal integrity. 📰⬇️ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38226653/

📣Check out our latest paper which provides a detailed mapping of nerve transmission to the circular muscle of the rat stomach! Showing nerve-mediated electrical events are different between regions! 📰➡️doi.org/10.1152/ajpgi.… @MadeleineDiNat1 @sparc_science @UniMelbMDHS

Huge congratulations to the PhD students in our lab, @MitchellRinguet and @xinyichaitea who have graduated 🎓 🍾 and @MadeleineDiNat1 who has submitted her thesis! Absolutely brilliant 👏 🥳 Happy Holidays from our team to yours also! @UniMelbMDHS @TheFlorey

Excited! Our work #dopamine & #ghrelin #GPCR signalling pathway interaction on BioRxiv: molecular basis for voluntary defecation co-regulation tinyurl.com/yj59d2ty & tinyurl.com/bddxp87t @TheFurnessLab collab led by @DehkhodaFarhad, @MitchellRinguet biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Great translational perspective highlighting the potential significance of #ghrelin and #dopamine GPCR interactions in spinal defecation centres and broader autonomic functions @TheFurnessLab @SebFurness physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/JP…

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The Florey's Professor John Furness from @TheFurnessLab has teamed up with @BionicsInst and @Austin_Health for a world first. A bionic device has been implanted in a patient with Crohn's disease to stimulate a nerve to prevent inflammation. Read more: florey.edu.au/news/2023/12/f…

Check This - Translational Perspective on Mitchell’s paper showing GHSR/ D2R functional interaction in the defecation centre @MitchellRinguet @UniMelbMDHS @JPhysiol physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/JP…

Great presentations from our lab sharing our latest data, @MitchellRinguet, Alicia Weier, and congratulations to @MadeleineDiNat1, who was runner up of the best basic science poster 👏 🥈

Astonishing @ANGMA_AU 2023! 🌟 Excellent science, great discussions and even a beautiful violin solo! 🎻 @StampHaoLab @UniMelbMDHS #phdlife

Kicking off @ANGMA_AU with a stellar line-up of public lectures about gut feelings! Great talks highlighting the importance of the gut microbiome 👏 @Prof_NickTalley @sunnyheiwong @emadelomar

We also congratulate our two honours students, Kiren and Chanya who have completed their degrees - a very successful week in the lab 🥼🤩👏

Brilliant PhD oration from @MadeleineDiNat1!🌟 Detailing advances in our understanding of the stomach and its integrated neural control. Congratulations! 🥳 @UniMelbMDHS #phdlife

John Furness @TheFurnessLab and Kim Barrett perfectly summarize #NIPGIT2023 in a single slide. We still have much more to work out regarding the neuroimmunophysiology interactome. Can’t wait for the next meeting!

Online today! From our very own @MitchellRinguet in @jphysiol! 📰➡️physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… “Sites and mechanisms of action of colokinetics at dopamine, ghrelin, and serotonin receptors in the rodent lumbosacral defecation centre” @UniMelbMDHS @TheFlorey @ScienceKoo @SebFurness