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Neckel Lab @neckellab.bsky.social · 5d

📢 great to see this study out! Congrats to Demir lab. Happy, we could contribute TEM analyses 🔬
An absolute must read if you are interested in how neuron-cancer synapses contribute to pancreatic cancer progression!
#neurogastro @dgnm.bsky.social

Cancer Cell @cp-cancercell.bsky.social · 12d

Online Now: Sensory neurons drive pancreatic cancer progression through glutamatergic neuron-cancer pseudo-synapses

Sensory neurons drive pancreatic cancer progression through glutamatergic neuron-cancer pseudo-synapses

Ren et al. demonstrate pseudo-synaptic connections between sensory neurons and pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) cells. These pseudo-synapses exhibit enrichment of NMDA receptor subunit GRIN2D/GluN2D, enhancing PDAC responsiveness to neuron-derived glutamate and promoting tumor growth. Disrupting glutamate-GRIN2D signaling at pseudo-synapses improves survival in PDAC, highlighting the therapeutic potential of targeting cancer-neuron-pseudo-synapses.

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Neckel Lab @neckellab.bsky.social · 9d

📢 Last week, anatomists from Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and other countries met in Würzburg for the 119th Annual Meeting of the Anatomische Gesellschaft. Great to catch up with old friends and new colleagues...and of course, a little #neurogastro was also included! #anatomy @dgnm.bsky.social

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Deutsche Gesellschaft für Neurogastroenterologie & Motilität @dgnm.bsky.social · 10d

📢 Calling all neurogastroenterologists!
Are you passionate about the #Gut-Brain Axis, motility, #microbiome, or #neurogastro in Germany — or perhaps a German researcher or collaborator abroad? 🇩🇪🌍
Connect with us @dgnm.bsky.social! Let’s decode the mysteries of your brain in the gut. 🧠💩

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Boesmans Lab @wboesmans.bsky.social · Jul 9

The website for next year's symposium on 'ENS development, function and repair' is online!

Please visit ens-leuven2026.eu and mark your 📆 Updates and more information will follow soon.

We hope to see you next April in Leuven 🇧🇪 with your most exciting #ENS science!

@pietervandenberghe.bsky.social

ens-leuven2026.eu

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Candice Fung @candicefung.bsky.social · Jul 9

Ecstatic to share our paper on nutrient signaling in the #EntericNervousSystem published in Nature! 🧪

We explored how neurons in the gut respond to basic nutrients that we typically ingest and tested whether they can distinguish between different nutrients 🔬

Check it out 👉 tinyurl.com/3vc756dv

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Neckel Lab @neckellab.bsky.social · 20d

First day of the "Viszeralmedizin 2025" in Leipzig was a blast! 🤯
Two talks from the lab sharing latest results on ENS in gastroschisis and on the young #neurogastro community in Germany. Thanks to #DGVS for hosting! @dgnm.bsky.social

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Friederike Uhlig @fuhlig.bsky.social · Sep 4

Now off to #Neurogastro2025 for Part 2 of Conference Week. If you're there and interested in gut physiology get in touch!

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Neckel Lab @neckellab.bsky.social · Sep 4

📢 OMG! Parts of the crew are in London to rock the Neurogastro Meeting by ESNM!
🤩 Meet us at the posters today to hear life-changing data on aging in ENS progenitors and IGF signaling!
#neurogastro @dgnm.bsky.social

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Neckel Lab @neckellab.bsky.social · Aug 30

Current projects focus on:
🔬 changes of the ENS in gastroschisis
🔬 pathways that regulate neurogenesis in the gut (e.g., WNT and IGF)
🔬 postnatal development and aging of the ENS

👉 Follow us, if you want to learn more!

Neckel Lab @neckellab.bsky.social · Aug 30

The enteric nervous system (ENS) is an insanely complex nervous system that controls our gut, interacts with our brain, and is vital to our wellbeing.

🥼 Our lab is interested in how the cells of the ENS are regulated in many aspects of health and disease.

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Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology @natrevgastrohep.nature.com · Aug 28

ICYMI: New online! Next-generation enteric neuroscience — fostering the future of the field

Next-generation enteric neuroscience — fostering the future of the field

Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Published online: 27 August 2025; doi:10.1038/s41575-025-01102-7In this Viewpoint, past attendees and organizers of the Little Brain Big Brain share their experience with this unique meeting and their insights into the field of enteric neuroscience and neurogastroenterology.

www.nature.com

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Universität Tübingen @unituebingen.bsky.social · Aug 15

12 Promotionsstellen - jetzt bewerben: Das Graduiertenkolleg IRTG 2804 „Women’s Mental Health Across the Reproductive Years“ vergibt 12 finanzierte Promotionsstellen im Bereich mentale Gesundheit von Frauen. 📅 Bewerbungsschluss: 07.09.2025
🛜 irtg2804.de

IRTG 2804

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Universität Tübingen @unituebingen.bsky.social · Aug 6

📍 Postdoc an der Uni Tübingen? Dann komm zu "Meet the Campus: Postdoc Edition" am 17.09.2025, 17 Uhr, Alte Aula - Und lerne zentrale Anlaufstellen in kurzen Gesprächsrunden kennen!

🔗 Mehr Infos: eveeno.com/304184727

#PostdocDays #UniversityOfTübingen #Research #Networking #Postdocs

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Deutsche Gesellschaft für Neurogastroenterologie & Motilität @dgnm.bsky.social · Jul 15

Die zunehmende Verbreitung von Künstlicher Intelligenz (KI) & Large Language Models (LLMs) beeinflusst auch die medizinische Versorgung. Die DGNM beleuchtet in ihrer Stellungnahme Potenziale, Herausforderungen & Auswirkungen dieser Technologien auf die Patientenversorgung.
👉 bit.ly/4nMkiMw

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Deutsche Gesellschaft für Neurogastroenterologie & Motilität @dgnm.bsky.social · May 21

📢 Abstracts noch bis 1. Juni 2025 einreichen!
Die 28. Chirurgischen Forschungstage finden vom 25.–27. September 2025 in Bonn statt – Leitthema: „Wet Lab vs. Dry Lab – chirurgische Forschung im Wandel“.
👉 Jetzt informieren & einreichen: boster-bonn.com/cft25/ #neurogastro @unibonn.bsky.social

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Tierversuche verstehen @tvvde.bsky.social · May 21

Wer sich für #Tierversuche in #Münster interessiert, kann sich umfassend informieren -denn die Uni ist vorbildlich transparent & engagiert sich für Dialog und Offenheit. Vorwürfe wie "sinnlos" oder "Qual für's Tier" lassen sich so leicht ausräumen.
Siehe u.a. hier: www.uni-muenster.de/Tierversuche/

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Nils Kroemer @nbkroemer.bsky.social · May 8

ARTE released a nice trailer for the upcoming documentary on the vagus nerve, which will cover our ongoing work on gut-brain interactions.
It also features @neurometabolic.bsky.social, so I am sure it will be worth watching 👀
www.arte.tv/de/videos/12...

Vagusnerv: Wie das Hirn zum Herzen spricht - Die ganze Doku | ARTE

Der Vagusnerv wird in der Medizin auch der Schlüssel zur Gesundheit genannt. Dieser bedeutende Nerv, der Gehirn und Körper verbindet, beeinflusst Atmung, Herzschlag und Verdauung. Viele Menschen könne...

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Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology @natrevgastrohep.nature.com · Apr 29

Did you know we have an ongoing Article Series on #neurogastroenterology?

Check it out here go.nature.com/3RG1XSz

#gastrosky #gutbrainaxis #Neuroscience

Card highlighting the Article Series on Neurogastroenterology published by Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology

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Tierversuche verstehen @tvvde.bsky.social · Apr 24

🐭🔬Heute ist Internationaler #TagDesVersuchstiers!
Forschungseinrichtungen in 🇩🇪 machen ihre Arbeit mit Versuchstieren sichtbar – mit Events, Kampagnen, Infos & Austausch.

👉 Aktionen gesammelt auf:
🔗 www.tierversuche-verstehen.de/tag-des-vers...
#TierversucheVerstehen #Wissenschaft #Transparenz

Forschung mit Verantwortung – Aktionen zum Tag des Versuchstiers 2025

Eine Reihe von Mitgliedern der Initiative Transparente Tierversuche hat zum Tag des Versuchstieres Aktionen geplant.

www.tierversuche-verstehen.de

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Tierversuche verstehen @tvvde.bsky.social · Apr 22

Der neue „Kompass #Tierversuche“ ist da! 🧭📘 Fakten zum #TagDesVersuchstiers
👉 www.tierversuche-verstehen.de/kompass-tier...

Print-Exemplare 📚 auf Anfrage via [email protected]

Wir freuen uns über Feedback! #Forschung #Transparenz #Wissenschaftskommunikation #TierversucheVerstehen

Initiative legt „Kompass Tierversuche 2025“ vor

Der „Kompass Tierversuche 2025“ zeigt aktuelle Zahlen zu den Versuchstieren, aber auch aktuelle Entwicklungen in Deutschland und den USA.

www.tierversuche-verstehen.de

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Deutsche Gesellschaft für Neurogastroenterologie & Motilität @dgnm.bsky.social · Apr 19

📅 Am 19. April ist #WorldIBSDay! IBS betrifft Millionen – wird aber oft verkannt. Die DGNM setzt gemeinsam mit Patient:innen, Ärzt:innen & Initiativen ein Zeichen für mehr Sichtbarkeit, Aufklärung & bessere Versorgung.
🔗 www.worldibsday.org
#Reizdarm #Darmgesundheit #IBSAwareness #Patientenstimme

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Deutsche Gesellschaft für Neurogastroenterologie & Motilität @dgnm.bsky.social · Apr 1

#UKB Abdominal surgery leads to #neuroinflammation, #enteric #neurodegeneration and #dysmotility. The latest #research from Wehner lab in Bonn in
@embomolmed.org 👉 rebrand.ly/EMBO, shows the impact of reactive #macrophages on #neuron
death and #synaptic #damage in postoperative gut inflammation.

Macrophage-induced enteric neurodegeneration leads to motility impairment during gut inflammation | EMBO Molecular Medicine

imageimageThis study investigates the impact of myenteric neuron-macrophage interactions on postoperative trauma and subsequent motility disturbances, i.e., postoperative ileus. Gut surgical trauma activates myenteric neurons. Abdominal surgery ...

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Graduate Training Centre of Neuroscience @gtc-tuebingen.bsky.social · Mar 25

Applications for our three #MSc programs: Neural & Behavioural Sciences, Cellular & Molecular Neuroscience, and Computational Neuroscience close at the beginning of next week.

Submit yours now!

📅 Deadline: March 31, 2025
🔗 Apply here: www.neuroschool-tuebingen.de/application/...

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Boushra Dalile @bdalile.bsky.social · Mar 4

Super eventful last weekend in #Berlin: attended @dgnm.bsky.social, met new faces, caught up with colleagues, and got the chance to present first results from my collaboration with @neckellab.bsky.social 🧠🔬
Stay tuned for some cool findings!

Neckel Lab @neckellab.bsky.social · Mar 2

This was fantastic! 🤯

Annual meeting of the German #Neurogastro society @dgnm.bsky.social 2025 in Berlin with

🗣 great talks on the latest research in enteric #neuroscience

🫂 meeting friends and collaborators

🏆 and best of all: our MD-stundent Sophia Ritter winning a travel award!

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Graduate Training Centre of Neuroscience @gtc-tuebingen.bsky.social · Mar 3

Register here survey2.tuebingen.mpg.de/index.php/75... to receive the Zoom details for an Info-Day on March 20th at 2 PM CET or March 26th at 4 PM CET! You will gain insights into our three #MSc programs Neural & Behavioural Sciences, Cellular & Molecular Neuroscience and Computational Neuroscience.

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