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
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!
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. 🧪🧪
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 ;) 🧪🧪
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?
Looking forward to seeing colleagues at Michigan State soon! Love this time of year in Michigan 🍂🍁🧪
September 18, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Looking forward to seeing colleagues at Michigan State soon! Love this time of year in Michigan 🍂🍁🧪
Love an early writing sesh with my weekend writing buddy, over cappuccino! 🧪🧪
September 14, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Love an early writing sesh with my weekend writing buddy, over cappuccino! 🧪🧪
Fluorescence Friday! Gargi images a lot of DRGs in the lab, and these two appeared as animals to her. Can you see them? #fluorescencefriday #peripheralnervoussystem #rorschach 🧪🧪
August 22, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Fluorescence Friday! Gargi images a lot of DRGs in the lab, and these two appeared as animals to her. Can you see them? #fluorescencefriday #peripheralnervoussystem #rorschach 🧪🧪
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 🧪🧪
August 21, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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 🧪🧪
The grant that had so much care and attention, years of preliminary data, input from trusted colleagues, many rounds of edits. And it goes to peer review. 🧪🧪
August 12, 2025 at 1:42 AM
The grant that had so much care and attention, years of preliminary data, input from trusted colleagues, many rounds of edits. And it goes to peer review. 🧪🧪
Proud of stellar M2 summer intern Akshay Ganesh - built on prior experience w Jan Schwab; learned DRG methods for new drug discovery project (metab neuropathies); great talk even w tough Qs. So glad he will continue w us! Thx to @osuneurosurgery.bsky.social Hunt Scholars!
August 7, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Proud of stellar M2 summer intern Akshay Ganesh - built on prior experience w Jan Schwab; learned DRG methods for new drug discovery project (metab neuropathies); great talk even w tough Qs. So glad he will continue w us! Thx to @osuneurosurgery.bsky.social Hunt Scholars!
Sharing our paper - incretin receptors in peripheral nervous system. Much work on these signals centered on functions in brain only, but clearly also neural actions in PNS. We show staining on human nerves. Maybe a role in neuropathy? Great work by Erica DeSousa in our lab 🧪 tinyurl.com/5n6e99wy
July 22, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Sharing our paper - incretin receptors in peripheral nervous system. Much work on these signals centered on functions in brain only, but clearly also neural actions in PNS. We show staining on human nerves. Maybe a role in neuropathy? Great work by Erica DeSousa in our lab 🧪 tinyurl.com/5n6e99wy
Headed to #ENDO2025 this week? Come see us hypothalamic neurogenesis folks! Chaired by Kurrasch, with me, Petrik and Quarta at 9am Tuesday! @endocrinesociety.bsky.social
July 11, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Headed to #ENDO2025 this week? Come see us hypothalamic neurogenesis folks! Chaired by Kurrasch, with me, Petrik and Quarta at 9am Tuesday! @endocrinesociety.bsky.social
Yay for Gehirn & Geist (a German pop science magazine) for covering the excitement around adipose nerves. Quotes by my colleagues and me, which I had to translate to understand 😂 I think this writer did a phenomenal job distilling a complex topic and making it relevant. 🧪🧪
July 10, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Yay for Gehirn & Geist (a German pop science magazine) for covering the excitement around adipose nerves. Quotes by my colleagues and me, which I had to translate to understand 😂 I think this writer did a phenomenal job distilling a complex topic and making it relevant. 🧪🧪
Lab meetings feel like an art exhibit some days! Gargi Mishra’s parade of DRGs today 🥳 🧪🧪
July 1, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Lab meetings feel like an art exhibit some days! Gargi Mishra’s parade of DRGs today 🥳 🧪🧪
Enjoyed our crosstalk about brain-body systems in metabolism and diabetes re: adipose (me), liver (Young-Hwan Jo), pancreas (Roberto Coppari), and gut (Lisa Beutler), chaired by Gary Schwartz and organized by Young-Bum Kim- at American Diabetes Association annual meeting in Chicago today.🧪🧪🧪🧪
June 20, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Enjoyed our crosstalk about brain-body systems in metabolism and diabetes re: adipose (me), liver (Young-Hwan Jo), pancreas (Roberto Coppari), and gut (Lisa Beutler), chaired by Gary Schwartz and organized by Young-Bum Kim- at American Diabetes Association annual meeting in Chicago today.🧪🧪🧪🧪
Hearing directly from NIH Director Dr Bhatracharya at AAMC GRAND today - his blueprint: 1) advance health of entire population; 2) allow academic dissent/freedom; 3) solve replication crisis; 4) make big advances via innovation; 5) maintain safety and transparency.
June 6, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Hearing directly from NIH Director Dr Bhatracharya at AAMC GRAND today - his blueprint: 1) advance health of entire population; 2) allow academic dissent/freedom; 3) solve replication crisis; 4) make big advances via innovation; 5) maintain safety and transparency.
Barlow’s 25 principles for adult behavior. Pretty nice.
June 4, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Barlow’s 25 principles for adult behavior. Pretty nice.
Breaking news but highly unsettling.
May 30, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Breaking news but highly unsettling.
April 7, 2025 at 11:19 AM
On the hill with Foundation for Peripheral Neuropathy today, advocating for restoration of NIH and DOD funding for biomedical research and a concerted effort to improve outcomes for this debilitating condition that impacts more than 30 million Americans, but is under-funded and has no cure.
March 18, 2025 at 6:12 PM
On the hill with Foundation for Peripheral Neuropathy today, advocating for restoration of NIH and DOD funding for biomedical research and a concerted effort to improve outcomes for this debilitating condition that impacts more than 30 million Americans, but is under-funded and has no cure.
I sadly could not be at the March today, but sharing this from Columbus @standupforscience.bsky.social #standupforscience
March 7, 2025 at 10:05 PM
I sadly could not be at the March today, but sharing this from Columbus @standupforscience.bsky.social #standupforscience
Great visit at AdventHealth Research Institute, Translational Research Institute, and Neuroscience center. Nobody does it better - translational/clinical metabolic research at a purpose-built facility formerly led by this great scientist (recently retired). Ended week at this great meeting!
March 7, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Great visit at AdventHealth Research Institute, Translational Research Institute, and Neuroscience center. Nobody does it better - translational/clinical metabolic research at a purpose-built facility formerly led by this great scientist (recently retired). Ended week at this great meeting!
World Obesity Day! Avoid the stigma, myth and pseudoscience.
March 4, 2025 at 8:42 PM
World Obesity Day! Avoid the stigma, myth and pseudoscience.
Fantastic BigTen Academic Alliance (BTAA) 6th Lipids Conference today. Speakers from across the country covering so many aspects of lipid science. + Sharing another BTAA opportunity - environmental scan survey on professional opportunities - pls share across BTAA schools for us! #commUNITYten
February 21, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Fantastic BigTen Academic Alliance (BTAA) 6th Lipids Conference today. Speakers from across the country covering so many aspects of lipid science. + Sharing another BTAA opportunity - environmental scan survey on professional opportunities - pls share across BTAA schools for us! #commUNITYten