Rachel Essner

neuroscience PhD candidate @Harvard
@WilliamsCollege '16

[Rachel Essner @RachelEssner]

6/ Thank you also to @haganK and @Oren_Amsalem for their analysis wizardry, Sverre & Kristian for sharing the ribo-GCaMP, and Teresa for her fluoroscopy expertise. I am also beyond grateful for @andermann_mark for all of his guidance, support, and excitement throughout the years.

[Rachel Essner @RachelEssner]

I’m so excited to share our preprint on how brainstem neurons sense and integrate multiple body signals during food consumption. We imaged 1000s of neurons across the lateral parabrachial nucleus (LPBN) in behaving mice. https://t.co/OB6dozSeMZ

[Rachel Essner @RachelEssner]

5/ Huge thanks to @RudamntaryNeuro and @hannahchoh (Team PBN!) – this project was a ton of work and could not have been done without them.

[Amelia Douglass @AmeliaMDouglass]

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? https://t.co/VjAnykioMm

[Stephen Zhang @StephenXZhang]

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:

https://t.co/GggdTX5CBb

[Hakan Kucukdereli @haganK]

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 https://t.co/ojIccbuNSw

[@markandermann.bsky.social @andermann_mark]

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. https://t.co/T8JV4OxvUd

[Rachel Essner @RachelEssner]

Williams is the best! Could not recommend it more :)

[Matt Carter @__Matt_Carter__]

The Williams College Biology Department is hiring a tenure track Neurobiologist! This is the perfect faculty position for anyone who wants to pursue research and teaching in an inclusive and supportive community. Feel free to DM me with any questions!

https://t.co/x1ohm0RfMR

[Rachel Essner @RachelEssner]

@FrankieDHeyward Thanks Frankie! And yes of course 😄

[Rachel Essner @RachelEssner]

This is an awesome guide to techniques in neuroscience (in my unbiased opinion). Check it out! 👇🏻

[Matt Carter @__Matt_Carter__]

Happy to announce the release of a new, 3rd Ed. of Guide to Research Techniques in Neuroscience. A handy guide to learn about common and cutting-edge methods. With new co-authors… @NitsanGoldstein @RachelEssner and Manasi Iyer.

[Rachel Ross, MD, PhD @rossenator]

Johnston canyon ice hike crew dominates #beautifulbanff #ksNeuroAppetite22 @FrankieDHeyward @RachelEssner

[Nitsan Goldstein @NitsanGoldstein]

New work from twitterless superhuman Matt Carter and his @WilliamsCollege students! Go Ephs! https://t.co/eSneckiV7y

[Rachel Essner @RachelEssner]

@michael_krashes @NitsanGoldstein thank you! congrats to Matt and everyone involved - this looks awesome!

[Yoav Livneh @Yoav_Livneh]

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) https://t.co/9SwLtgdZyY

[Neuron @NeuroCellPress]

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. https://t.co/P6jjVzxspZ
Preview by @vijay_mkn & @gstuber https://t.co/3PmKScyv11