@RachelEssner

PhD in Neuroscience from @Harvard PiN @WilliamsCollege '16

 Boston, MA
Joined March 2018
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I’m over the moon to share my postdoc work @Nature, where we provide an answer to the longstanding question: how is the body’s stress response system (the HPA axis) activated during starvation? nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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I am excited to share our preprint on how hypothalamic hunger- and satiety-promoting neuropeptides compete at the level of cAMP to regulate feeding. We imaged endogenous peptide signals in subcellular compartments during behavior. Below are the findings: biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Hakan Kucukdereli@haganK18 May 2023
Anorexia nervosa is a curious eating disorder where individuals go against their homeostatic needs and practice food restriction and self-starvation. We focused on a single symptom of this complex condition to see what it could teach us bit.ly/3IjaJ4A
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Sr. Research Associate position open! >4 yr commitment. Prereqs: science nerd, kind, respectful, assertive, organized, >5 yrs experience post-BSc. Will train/oversee undergrads/technicians, manage mouse colony, equipment, orders, reimbursements, protocols. andermannlab.com

The Andermann Lab

The Andermann Lab at Harvard University and the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center researches how internal motivational states create bias in sensory processing.

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Johnston canyon ice hike crew dominates #beautifulbanff #ksNeuroAppetite22 @FrankieDHeyward @RachelEssner
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New work from twitterless superhuman Matt Carter and his @WilliamsCollege students! Go Ephs! biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…

An essential role for a discrete parasubthalamic nucleus subpopulation in appetite suppression

Food intake behavior is regulated by a network of appetite-inducing and appetite-suppressing neuronal populations throughout the brain. The parasubthalamic nucleus (PSTN), a relatively unexplored...

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Yoav Livneh@Yoav_Livneh27 Sep 2021
Our insula review is out in @NeuroCellPress!!! @andermann_mark and I review recent studies recording and manipulating cellular activity in rodent insula at timescales from seconds to hours. Inspired by theoretical and CogNeuro studies,...(1/2) authors.elsevier.com/a/1dpeg…
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Neuron@NeuroCellPress31 Mar 2020
Feeling thirsty? Hungry? In mice, the insula bridges different timescales of interoception by tracking & predicting thirst & hunger states. See how in work by @Yoav_Livneh, @andermann_mark & coll. bit.ly/3bCiUX1 Preview by @vijay_mkn & @gstuber bit.ly/39yKfYL
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Our lab is hoping to hire a research technician with neuroscience experience to join a new project examining awareness and anticipation of body signals. The ideal candidate would have experience with stereotaxic surgery and acquisition/analysis of neural data.
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