Zachary Knight

If you are a student and postdoc interested in body-brain communication - check out Chris's lab!

Unbelievably proud of @nataliefigueredob.bsky.social for winning the prestigious Bogue Fellowship 🌟 She'll be heading across the pond to train with the @zknight.bsky.social lab for 3 months. Exciting things to come for this bright young scientist 🧠. @uclnpp.bsky.social @ccmnlondon.bsky.social

Beautiful images - great to see so many using this approach.

What Nearly Brainless Rodents Know About Weight Loss and Hunger

Nice article in NY Times today about AgRP neurons, GLP1s, and hunger. By Gina Kolata. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/26/h...

The POMD meeting scheduled for today was cancelled yesterday.

A dual-pathway architecture for stress to disrupt agency and promote habit - Nature Adaptive decision-making often requires an understanding of our agency in a situation; however, chronic stress can disrupt agency and promote inflexible, habitual behaviour by turning off a brain path...

🚨📃New Wassum Lab Paper📃🚨

Out today, @jackiegio.bsky.social discovered brain pathways that support agency and habit and how chronic stress disrupts them to rob of us our agency and cause us to form rigid habits 🧵👇

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Chris is an incredible talent who transformed our understanding of thirst when he was a student in my lab. Wonderful to see the progression of his science and thrilled that he's on the job market!

Impressive new study from Chris Zimmerman shows that visceral malaise reactivates the representation of recently consumed flavors, providing a mechanism for post-ingestive learning.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...