Jeff Davies

How neurons go with the blood flow when migrating through the brain.
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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.
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doi.org/10.1111/jne....

Thanks Daisy. This work demonstrated proof of concept. For the next step, we need to show efficacy in experimental neurodegenerative disease contexts.

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...

Nose‐to‐Brain Delivery of Acyl‐Ghrelin Peptide Gold Nanoconjugates for Treatment of Neurodegenerative Diseases Intranasal delivery of acyl-ghrelin using gold nanorods (AuNRs) is investigated as a strategy for treating neurodegenerative diseases. Acyl-ghrelin is conjugated to AuNRs under optimized conditions t...

Delighted to share collaborative work led by Khuloud Al-Jamal #ghrelin #nano @wiley.com onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Exciting Senior Scientist 👩‍🔬 👨‍🔬 role available in my research group 🧠 🦠 - Closing date Tuesday 5th August 2025.

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Boosting foreign students must be part of the industrial ... As the UK’s fourth largest export industry, universities are a missed opportunity in the government’s plan

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Funded by @alzheimersbrace.bsky.social based at
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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.

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
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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

www.jci.org/articles/vie...

JCI - Meal-feeding promotes skeletal growth by ghrelin-dependent enhancement of growth hormone rhythmicity www.jci.org/articles/vie...

Congrats Amanda, Tim and all co-authors 👏 fantastic to see this work published #ghrelin #growth @bsneuroendo.bsky.social

Meal-feeding promotes skeletal growth by ghrelin-dependent enhancement of growth hormone rhythmicity
www.jci.org/articles/vie...

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...

A cerebrospinal fluid synaptic protein biomarker for prediction of cognitive resilience versus decline in Alzheimer’s disease
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The @bsneuroendo ECR Mentor Scheme is open!

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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
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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!

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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.

We're hosting our annual meeting in Bradford, UK, bet 31/8-3/9, and our abstract submission, registration and ECR prizes are open!

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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...

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...

2025 BrainConf: BrainBody - Bordeaux Neurocampus 1-3 October 2025. Registrations and abstract submission (short talks and posters) will open on April 15th.

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...

Brain-wide cell-type-specific transcriptomic signatures of healthy ageing in mice - Nature A comprehensive single-cell RNA sequencing study delineates cell-type-specific transcriptomic changes in the brain associated with normal ageing that will inform the investigation into functional chan...

Brain-wide cell-type-specific transcriptomic signatures of healthy ageing in mice
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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

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!

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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.

Separate orexigenic hippocampal ensembles shape dietary choice by enhancing contextual memory and motivation
www.nature.com/articles/s42...

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...

Multimodal transcriptomics reveal neurogenic aging trajectories and age-related regional inflammation in the dentate gyrus
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Important paper on current funding models
“The substantial cost of grant writing and peer review involves significant opportunity costs, not only financial resources but also the time and effort of researchers, which could otherwise contribute to advancing science or enhancing its social impact”

How 3M Discovered, Then Concealed, the Dangers of Forever Chemicals The company found its own toxic compounds in human blood—and kept selling them.

Catching up on some of the years NewYorker long reads

YOU MAKE ME SICK
How corporate scientists discovered—and then helped to conceal—the dangers of forever chemicals.
By Sharon Lerner

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Modeling Parkinson’s disease pathology in human dopaminergic neurons by sequential exposure to α-synuclein fibrils and proinflammatory cytokines - Nature Neuroscience Bayati et al. discovered that sequential treatment of iPSC-derived dopaminergic neurons with α-synuclein fibrils and proinflammatory cytokines leads to the formation of Lewy body–like inclusions, thro...

Modeling Parkinson’s disease pathology in human dopaminergic neurons by sequential exposure to α-synuclein fibrils and proinflammatory cytokines

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