Weiyi Chen

Born in 🇸🇬. PhD in 🇦🇺. Postdoc in the Brüning lab 🇩🇪 @MPI_Metabolism @CECAD_ My craft: #Neuroscience, #Metabolism, #Autophagy

[Weiyi Chen @DrWChen]

Fresh from the oven! So excited to share our new findings in @Cell_Metabolism: AgRP neurons mediate autophagy and metabolic rewiring in the liver during fasting @MPI_Metabolism https://t.co/rEWb7PCchr

[Carlos G. Ardanaz @cgardanaz]

New paper now live! 🧠🍬

Lots of us assumed that synaptic transmission decreases upon glucose shortage because of direct neuronal failure. But... Is that really the case?

Spoiler alert: No! It's astrocytes guiding them all along the way! ⭐

https://t.co/yKkoM6ZV2o

[Sophie Steculorum @So_Steculorum]

📢 🤩Excited to share our latest paper on a #Sensory circuit that limits #Feeding before the first bite👃🧠! Huge thanks to the amazing first author @JaniceBulk and all co-authors, especially @AndreasTSchafer and @tobiasackels 🙌!
https://t.co/aOaPfCGYpT

[Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research @MPI_Metabolism]

Exciting news from @So_Steculorum's Lab!🤓

👃🧠 Smelling food primes your brain for satiety.
Find out more in 🧵 or under 🔗 https://t.co/xEIi3eFA2v

Congrats to @So_Steculorum, first author @_janice_bulk_ and all contributing authors!

[Marta Porniece @martaapp]

🚨Paper alert!
📣  We found abnormal feeding-related neural responses in satiety-promoting, MC4R-expressing neurons in the mouse paraventricular hypothalamus (PVHM-C4R) following diet-induced obesity. https://t.co/8pBvZAGcvU ​#obesity #feedingbehaviour #obesityresearch

[Marie Holm Solheim @marie_solheim]

🔍Check out our paper @CellCellPress where we identify leptin-sensitive hypothalamic PNOC/NPY neurons as key regulators of hunger and food intake! 💫🌟Excited to share what I’ve been up to the last years @MPI_Metabolism https://t.co/A3N97bFT7l

[Cell Metabolism @Cell_Metabolism]

EHBP1 suppresses liver fibrosis in metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis https://t.co/RdjxRRhRxw

[Cell @CellCellPress]

Now online! The structure of human sweetness https://t.co/mLwhtgpJGJ

[Cell Metabolism @Cell_Metabolism]

New! Online now: Endoplasmic reticulum Nogo drives AgRP neuronal activation and feeding behavior https://t.co/9cGoOvzlDe

[Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research @MPI_Metabolism]

You just can't leave the dessert even though you're full? 🍰
Blame it on your POMC neurons!🧠
(details ➡️🧵)
Congratulations to Marielle Minère, @FenselauHenning and all other authors for their newest publication @ScienceMagazine ! 🎉

https://t.co/u8av0ssiEP

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[Shuntaro Izawa @IzawaShuntaro]

Our new paper is out in @CellReports
We show an inhibitory response of Orexin receptor type 2 (Ox2R) in a subset of MCH neurons.
https://t.co/sLvrITSBMA

[Weiyi Chen @DrWChen]

@IzawaShuntaro @CellReports Congrats Shuntaro!!!

[John Tadross @JohnTadross]

🚨 New paper in @Nature! 🚨
We’ve mapped the human hypothalamus in unprecedented detail, revealing key differences from mice & unlocking insights into obesity, metabolism & drug development. Meet HYPOMAP—a cellular Google Maps for the brain’s metabolic control centre. 🧵(1/)

[Weiyi Chen @DrWChen]

@FenselauHenning @ERC_Research @MPI_Metabolism @CECAD_ Congratulations Henning! That’s huge!

[Dominique Langin @DominiqueLangin]

The research led by Prof. @Dominique Langin and Dr. @EMouiselsheds light on the importance of fat degradation in brown fat to generate heat. Exciting findings published in @Cell_Metabolism. @I2mcT @CHUdeToulouse @UT3PaulSabatier @Inserm 1/5
https://t.co/wy6myh44AR

[Stephen Zhang @StephenXZhang]

I am thrilled to share the published version of our study on how neuropeptide signals regulate feeding in the hypothalamus! We imaged endogenous peptide signals in subcellular compartments during behavior. Below is an updated summary: https://t.co/ONFDccZXc5

[Itai Yanai @ItaiYanai]

Coffee is "concentrated sunshine", said Alexander von Humboldt (1769 – 1859).

[Weiyi Chen @DrWChen]

@cgardanaz @ScienceAdvances @maitesolaszu Many congratulations @cgardanaz and @maitesolaszu

[Maite Solas @maitesolaszu]

Thrilled to announce that, finally, after a (very very) long way, our paper on the role of astrocytic GLUT1 in energy metabolism is published in @ScienceAdvances .
https://t.co/BYmHlwBcZh
Want to know more about it? 👇👇

[Dr. Akito Kawahara @Dr_Akito]

The #ICE2024 conference in Japan has been so inspirational. It’s amazing to see so many elementary, jr, highschool presenters. Here’s Jo Nagai, 5th grader, by his poster on learned inheritance. He told me he next wants to do epigenetics/CRISPR on his butterflies! @ice2024kyoto_jp