Kristy Townsend, PhD
@neuroadipo.bsky.social
ktownsendlab.com Neuroscience 🧠 PhD; PI- Neurobiology & Energy Balance Lab ⚖️ & Professor at Ohio State Dept Neurosurgery, formerly faculty UMaine & Joslin Diabetes; @neuroadipo all platforms
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Please consider sharing - new flyer for our clinical trial that is still recruiting patients with painful diabetic peripheral neuropathy for spinal cord stimulation. #neuropathy #diabetes #neuromodulation 🧪🧪
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Big new paper from us published yesterday: The synaptic ectokinase VLK triggers the EphB2–NMDAR interaction to drive injury-induced pain
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Led by @hajisciencebaji.bsky.social in my lab and a wonderful collaboration with Matthew Dalva's lab at Tulane
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Led by @hajisciencebaji.bsky.social in my lab and a wonderful collaboration with Matthew Dalva's lab at Tulane
The synaptic ectokinase VLK triggers the EphB2–NMDAR interaction to drive injury-induced pain
Phosphorylation of hundreds of protein extracellular domains is mediated by two kinase families but the functional role of these kinases is underexplored. We find that the presynaptic release of the t...
www.science.org
November 21, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Big new paper from us published yesterday: The synaptic ectokinase VLK triggers the EphB2–NMDAR interaction to drive injury-induced pain
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Led by @hajisciencebaji.bsky.social in my lab and a wonderful collaboration with Matthew Dalva's lab at Tulane
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Led by @hajisciencebaji.bsky.social in my lab and a wonderful collaboration with Matthew Dalva's lab at Tulane
A great collaborative effort with @zeltserlab.bsky.social and colleagues, now in press, thank you NIDDK! academic.oup.com/edrv/advance...
Advances in Adipose Tissue Biology
Abstract. Adipose tissue has emerged as a central regulator of human physiology, with its dysfunction driving the global rise in obesity-associated disease
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November 18, 2025 at 10:03 PM
A great collaborative effort with @zeltserlab.bsky.social and colleagues, now in press, thank you NIDDK! academic.oup.com/edrv/advance...
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From your friendly neighborhood SRO: thanks to everyone for their patience while we work to make these rescheduled meetings happen.
Correct guidance link: grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
NOT-OD-26-005: Interim Guidance on Reopening of NIH Extramural Activities
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Interim Guidance on Reopening of NIH Extramural Activities NOT-OD-26-005. NIH
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November 14, 2025 at 5:51 PM
From your friendly neighborhood SRO: thanks to everyone for their patience while we work to make these rescheduled meetings happen.
Truly enjoyed my time at the Berry Diabetes Center at Columbia this week, delivering a seminar and meeting with colleagues. Great conversations! Thank you to my host @zeltserlab.bsky.social and her lab!
November 13, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Truly enjoyed my time at the Berry Diabetes Center at Columbia this week, delivering a seminar and meeting with colleagues. Great conversations! Thank you to my host @zeltserlab.bsky.social and her lab!
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Gotta say, I’m not so confident that you do
November 7, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Gotta say, I’m not so confident that you do
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Flying Squirrel Loves It Every Time
November 5, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Flying Squirrel Loves It Every Time
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The world’s coldest microbes are waking up.
Warming across the cryosphere — from melting glaciers to thawing permafrost — is accelerating microbial activity, reshaping carbon and nutrient fluxes, and amplifying climate feedbacks
(review)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Warming across the cryosphere — from melting glaciers to thawing permafrost — is accelerating microbial activity, reshaping carbon and nutrient fluxes, and amplifying climate feedbacks
(review)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Current and projected effects of climate change in cryosphere microbial ecosystems - Nature Reviews Microbiology
The cryosphere remains one of the least-understood microbial ecosystems on Earth, but as climate change accelerates, cryosphere microbial communities will have an increasingly prominent role in Earth’...
www.nature.com
November 5, 2025 at 10:42 AM
The world’s coldest microbes are waking up.
Warming across the cryosphere — from melting glaciers to thawing permafrost — is accelerating microbial activity, reshaping carbon and nutrient fluxes, and amplifying climate feedbacks
(review)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Warming across the cryosphere — from melting glaciers to thawing permafrost — is accelerating microbial activity, reshaping carbon and nutrient fluxes, and amplifying climate feedbacks
(review)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Found this relic on the “free” table today. Wow would my students laugh to know I used these overhead sheets to complete my PhD comprehensive exam defense. No more “slides” on slide projectors, but we didn’t apparently allow PPT either. 😂😂 The end of an era! 🧪🧪
November 4, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Found this relic on the “free” table today. Wow would my students laugh to know I used these overhead sheets to complete my PhD comprehensive exam defense. No more “slides” on slide projectors, but we didn’t apparently allow PPT either. 😂😂 The end of an era! 🧪🧪
Another great meeting of the metabolism, obesity, nutrition and diabetes symposium (CDI-MOD) at Michigan this year! Always a friendly crowd and great mix of superb talks. 6 members of our lab, 3 did posters. 🧪🧪
October 30, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Another great meeting of the metabolism, obesity, nutrition and diabetes symposium (CDI-MOD) at Michigan this year! Always a friendly crowd and great mix of superb talks. 6 members of our lab, 3 did posters. 🧪🧪
Re-upping link to the starter pack for any who want to follow or be added! #NeuroMetabolism 🧪🧪 go.bsky.app/4nbSbNR
Welcome to Bluesky @zeltserlab.bsky.social !! an important addition to our neurometabolism starter pack
October 23, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Re-upping link to the starter pack for any who want to follow or be added! #NeuroMetabolism 🧪🧪 go.bsky.app/4nbSbNR
Welcome to Bluesky @zeltserlab.bsky.social !! an important addition to our neurometabolism starter pack
October 23, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Welcome to Bluesky @zeltserlab.bsky.social !! an important addition to our neurometabolism starter pack
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Neuropathy research is essential to reach a cure in our lifetimes. FPN supports research and so much more for the 30mil Americans and 130mil worldwide with this devastating disease. 🧪🧪
Its FPN Day. There's still time for us to reach our $18K goal today. Help us celebrate our 18th anniversary by donating now https://www.foundationforpn.org/donate/
Today is FPN Day | Celebrating 18 years of FPN
#neuropathy #FPNday
Today is FPN Day | Celebrating 18 years of FPN
#neuropathy #FPNday
October 15, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Neuropathy research is essential to reach a cure in our lifetimes. FPN supports research and so much more for the 30mil Americans and 130mil worldwide with this devastating disease. 🧪🧪
Very ready for a long weekend fully UNplugged starting tonight. Let the emails pile up!! My brain needs to blissfully avoid the inbox for a bit. This is your sign to do the same ;) 🧪🧪
October 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Very ready for a long weekend fully UNplugged starting tonight. Let the emails pile up!! My brain needs to blissfully avoid the inbox for a bit. This is your sign to do the same ;) 🧪🧪
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Congratulations to Fred Ramsdell, Mary Brunkow and Shimon Sakaguchi - the 2025 Winners of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. #Treg_cells #Foxp3 #Immune_regulation
October 6, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Congratulations to Fred Ramsdell, Mary Brunkow and Shimon Sakaguchi - the 2025 Winners of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. #Treg_cells #Foxp3 #Immune_regulation
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#Throwback 🧪
COMMENT | A brief guide to studying extracellular vesicle function in the context of metabolism
C Crewe et al
COMMENT | A brief guide to studying extracellular vesicle function in the context of metabolism
C Crewe et al
A brief guide to studying extracellular vesicle function in the context of metabolism - Nature Metabolism
Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are now recognized as powerful modulators of metabolism, and thus the new field of EV-mediated metabolic regulation is growing exponentially. Here, we discuss special experimental considerations for the study of EV function in metabolism.
bit.ly
October 5, 2025 at 3:23 PM
#Throwback 🧪
COMMENT | A brief guide to studying extracellular vesicle function in the context of metabolism
C Crewe et al
COMMENT | A brief guide to studying extracellular vesicle function in the context of metabolism
C Crewe et al
So well said, both. 🤩
I am filled with so much love and gratitude that I cannot grieve. Dr. Goodall worked tirelessly in her gentle, hopeful way for a better world for all life on Earth. She has laid down her field notebook for the last time; now it is for us to fill with wonder, joy, and connection, into infinity.
Jane Goodall's work insisting, with evidence from her brilliant and tenacious fieldwork, that we were not so separate from animals, and they were much more like us than the Eurocentric theorists asserted, was so important.
October 2, 2025 at 12:37 PM
So well said, both. 🤩
Hahaha yes! But when we don’t have enough food and not obese, a great physiology hack! 🧪
The biggest scam of the human body is the decrease in basal metabolic rate as you lose weight, thereby making it harder to lose more weight
Stupid homeostasis
Stupid homeostasis
October 2, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Hahaha yes! But when we don’t have enough food and not obese, a great physiology hack! 🧪
But but. Aren’t ALL these qualities a Type A?
September 30, 2025 at 8:01 PM
But but. Aren’t ALL these qualities a Type A?
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This only happens to you once
September 26, 2025 at 7:39 PM
This only happens to you once
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With Vicki, we reviewed current knowledge about estrogen’s actions in adipose - important functions that convey sex differences and explain changes to metabolism across menopause. #estrogenmatters #estrogen #menopause #adipose 🧪🧪
New content online: Health of adipose tissue: oestrogen matters
Health of adipose tissue: oestrogen matters
Nature Reviews Endocrinology, Published online: 26 September 2025; doi:10.1038/s41574-025-01180-2Oestrogen is a key regulator in many metabolic processes, particularly in adipose tissue. This Review discusses the role of oestrogen in adipose tissue metabolism and its wider implications for systemic metabolic health.
www.nature.com
September 26, 2025 at 10:58 PM
With Vicki, we reviewed current knowledge about estrogen’s actions in adipose - important functions that convey sex differences and explain changes to metabolism across menopause. #estrogenmatters #estrogen #menopause #adipose 🧪🧪
Metabolomics gone spatial! 🧪
✨New issue!✨
Check out the latest in #metabolism research from across all disciplines.
Read about #Ferroptosis, #MASLD, #DietaryBiomarkers, #CoA metabolism, #Immune signaling, #Tumor biology and many more topics! 🧪
www.nature.com/natmetab/vol...
Check out the latest in #metabolism research from across all disciplines.
Read about #Ferroptosis, #MASLD, #DietaryBiomarkers, #CoA metabolism, #Immune signaling, #Tumor biology and many more topics! 🧪
www.nature.com/natmetab/vol...
September 24, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Metabolomics gone spatial! 🧪
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A sweeping review reveals that everyday exposure to plastics—especially during childhood—poses lasting risks for heart disease, infertility, asthma, and even brain development issues.
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
Childhood plastic exposure could be fueling obesity, infertility, and asthma
A sweeping review from NYU Langone Health reveals that everyday exposure to plastics—especially during childhood—poses lasting risks for heart disease, infertility, asthma, and even brain development ...
www.sciencedaily.com
September 23, 2025 at 2:40 AM
A sweeping review reveals that everyday exposure to plastics—especially during childhood—poses lasting risks for heart disease, infertility, asthma, and even brain development issues.
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
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The new Apple Watch high blood pressure detection feature only detected 41% of people who have hypertension in their prospective trial. apple.com/health/pdf/H...
apple.com
September 23, 2025 at 3:18 PM
The new Apple Watch high blood pressure detection feature only detected 41% of people who have hypertension in their prospective trial. apple.com/health/pdf/H...