Zachary Knight
@zknight.bsky.social
The Neurobiology of Homeostasis
If you are a student and postdoc interested in body-brain communication - check out Chris's lab!
I’m very excited to share that I will join the University of Utah Department of Neurobiology as an Assistant Professor in Jan 2026!! 🎉🏔️🏜️
My lab will focus on body–brain interactions in learning & memory — how do signals from our internal organs remodel the brain & behavior?
My lab will focus on body–brain interactions in learning & memory — how do signals from our internal organs remodel the brain & behavior?
July 16, 2025 at 4:20 PM
If you are a student and postdoc interested in body-brain communication - check out Chris's lab!
Reposted by Zachary Knight
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
June 24, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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.
We've had advances in green genetically encoded Ca2+ indicators (GECIs), but what about red-shifted GECIs? @piatkevich.bsky.social &co present SomaFRCaMPi, a new soma-localized red #GECI that exhibits improved accuracy & sensitivity for in vivo neuronal imaging @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/3YnCqRW
May 1, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Beautiful images - great to see so many using this approach.
Nice article in NY Times today about AgRP neurons, GLP1s, and hunger. By Gina Kolata. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/26/h...
What Nearly Brainless Rodents Know About Weight Loss and Hunger
www.nytimes.com
April 26, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Nice article in NY Times today about AgRP neurons, GLP1s, and hunger. By Gina Kolata. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/26/h...
Reposted by Zachary Knight
🚨📃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...
Free full text: rdcu.be/eaxEv
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...
Free full text: rdcu.be/eaxEv
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...
www.nature.com
February 19, 2025 at 11:37 PM
🚨📃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...
Free full text: rdcu.be/eaxEv
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...
Free full text: rdcu.be/eaxEv
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...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
October 11, 2023 at 4:30 AM
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...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...