Assistant Professor at UTMB || Study pain and itch || Xinzhong Dong lab alum || Occasionally tweet about video games π§ π³βπ @dustinpgreen.bsky.social
NOA Day! π₯³. Lab's 1st R01. Took us four times to get a fundable score. I need to thank my former PI Xinzhong Dong, @shivanibr, @PundirPriyanka_, @DongXintong, and Greg Dussor at @UTDPainLab for all their help and guidance. #mrgpr#mrgprx2
Well well well, they said it was impossible but we did it Joe! The Castro Lab is officially a pancreas lab! Our recent collaboration with @washumedicine David Piston, Chen Kong, and @Jeongmini_L showing that mu opioid receptors on pancreatic alpha cells regulate glucagon! Link π
Thrilled to share our paper online @Nature (on my birthday)! We've identified a new population of LepR neurons (BNC2) in the hypothalamus ARC that acutely suppresses appetite by directly inhibiting AGRP neurons, decoding the missing LepR GABAergic neurons. https://t.co/80m4atIKxa
My second manuscript from graduate school is now on bioRxiv! We generated a comprehensive scRNA-seq dataset of mouse OPCs from young adult to aged animals with the hope of providing a reference dataset for everyone to dig into! https://t.co/oxmeU0ejt2
π Exciting PhD & Postdoc Opportunities! π
My group at @RiceUniversity is recruiting PhD students and postdocs for 2025. Join us to explore space and dive into cutting-edge cosmochemical research! Please consider applying or spreading the word.
My NASA-funded programs focus on the chronology of lunar magmatic evolution and impact history and aim to test & develop advanced radiometric dating tools for Apollo samples - preparing for future samples returned by the Artemis Program.
π PhD positions are fully funded.
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Very happy to share this work in final form. This was such an exciting, and challenging, project with our long-time collaborator @ProfJohnARogers. Great work by the team & many thanks to collaborators in the @jomoronc lab, and others. What a team. https://t.co/WTsuDf5yq4
Thanks to the great Qin Liu for hosting me this week @WashUAnesRsrch. And thanks to @FlanBrain and @robgereau for meeting me and listening to me gripe about academia π
This week's research seminar features @DustinPGreen from @UTMBHealth. Details below β¬οΈ
π Tuesday, Oct. 22
β° 11:00 a.m.
π¬ "The Role of Mrgprs in Pain"
π Holden Auditorium
https://t.co/pCWqOouku9
Fellow scientists, I can't remember if I asked this before but do y'all count reading/literature review as "work." I always counted writing papers/grants and doing experiments as "work", but reading as something else. π€·πΌββοΈ
From the great @PundirPriyanka_
The evolving role of mast cells in wound healing: insights from recent research and diverse models - Guth - Immunology & Cell Biology - Wiley Online Library https://t.co/2nrsJ4vRnC
Why are some neurons more selective than others? We report now in @Nature how calcium permeable-AMPA receptors in PV neurons make them less selective to sensory features https://t.co/Y7sXbtE8I3 Long live the geniuses behind thisπ§ πhttps://t.co/87BqmXxYje @thainmueller @rhuganir
So cool to see work coming out of colleagues lab's, the great Qin Liu @WUSTL, and my friend @LiangHan13: Divergent sensory pathways of sneezing and coughing: @CellCellPress https://t.co/4DCzr0KSHw