Lori Zeltser, PhD
@zeltserlab.bsky.social
Zeltser Lab at Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Studying central & peripheral neural circuits mediating food intake, metabolism, & nutrient uptake in brown adipose tissue 🧠🍏
Studying central & peripheral neural circuits mediating food intake, metabolism, & nutrient uptake in brown adipose tissue 🧠🍏
Distinct neurons, distinct functions 🧠🟤 Our Nature Metabolism paper (now out!) shows that separate sympathetic projections to brown adipose tissue independently control thermogenesis and glucose tolerance. Congrats Daniele Neri and team 🥳
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Distinct sympathetic projections to brown fat regulate thermogenesis and glucose tolerance - Nature Metabolism
Neri et al. develop elegant tools to understand how the sympathetic nervous system regulates intrascapular brown adipose tissue (iBAT) function. Using these tools, they find that sympathetic nerves ta...
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January 21, 2026 at 5:38 PM
Distinct neurons, distinct functions 🧠🟤 Our Nature Metabolism paper (now out!) shows that separate sympathetic projections to brown adipose tissue independently control thermogenesis and glucose tolerance. Congrats Daniele Neri and team 🥳
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Always a pleasure hearing from Dr. Joe Bass and this time around was no different! Thank you Joe for visiting and sharing the recent work from your lab!
January 19, 2026 at 3:45 PM
Always a pleasure hearing from Dr. Joe Bass and this time around was no different! Thank you Joe for visiting and sharing the recent work from your lab!
Wishing everyone a warm holiday season and a happy new year!
December 24, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Wishing everyone a warm holiday season and a happy new year!
Changing of the leaves means a lab retreat! Great day with the lab complete with discussing new ideas, a walk through Central Park for a brain break, and quite the sunset to cap the day off!
November 20, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Changing of the leaves means a lab retreat! Great day with the lab complete with discussing new ideas, a walk through Central Park for a brain break, and quite the sunset to cap the day off!
Reposted by Lori Zeltser, PhD
A great collaborative effort with @zeltserlab.bsky.social and colleagues, now in press, thank you NIDDK! academic.oup.com/edrv/advance...
Advances in Adipose Tissue Biology
Abstract. Adipose tissue has emerged as a central regulator of human physiology, with its dysfunction driving the global rise in obesity-associated disease
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November 18, 2025 at 10:03 PM
A great collaborative effort with @zeltserlab.bsky.social and colleagues, now in press, thank you NIDDK! academic.oup.com/edrv/advance...
Reposted by Lori Zeltser, PhD
Welcome to Bluesky @zeltserlab.bsky.social !! an important addition to our neurometabolism starter pack
October 23, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Welcome to Bluesky @zeltserlab.bsky.social !! an important addition to our neurometabolism starter pack
It was our pleasure to have @neuroadipo.bsky.social ! Kristy was kind enough to come from Ohio and share the excellent work that her lab is pushing forward. Another great piece of the neuro-adipo puzzle and always welcome back! 🧪
Truly enjoyed my time at the Berry Diabetes Center at Columbia this week, delivering a seminar and meeting with colleagues. Great conversations! Thank you to my host @zeltserlab.bsky.social and her lab!
November 14, 2025 at 3:06 AM
It was our pleasure to have @neuroadipo.bsky.social ! Kristy was kind enough to come from Ohio and share the excellent work that her lab is pushing forward. Another great piece of the neuro-adipo puzzle and always welcome back! 🧪
Exciting that our first post gets to share that our paper in Nature Communications is now available!
This work uncovers the circuits that mediate sex differences in responsiveness to social stress, but don't take our word for it, check it out!
Congrats, Marie Francois and team 🎉
This work uncovers the circuits that mediate sex differences in responsiveness to social stress, but don't take our word for it, check it out!
Congrats, Marie Francois and team 🎉
Amygdala AVPR1A mediates susceptibility to chronic social isolation in female mice - Nature Communications
Females are more sensitive to social exclusion and loneliness, risk factors for anxiety and stressrelated disorders. Here, the authors identified molecular signals in the amygdala that make females mo...
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November 10, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Exciting that our first post gets to share that our paper in Nature Communications is now available!
This work uncovers the circuits that mediate sex differences in responsiveness to social stress, but don't take our word for it, check it out!
Congrats, Marie Francois and team 🎉
This work uncovers the circuits that mediate sex differences in responsiveness to social stress, but don't take our word for it, check it out!
Congrats, Marie Francois and team 🎉