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Farnaz Shamsi

@farnazshamsi.bsky.social
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Assistant Prof @NYUniversity. Metabolism, Neuro(adipose) biology, Development, Aging. New Yorker in training. www.shamsilab.com

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NYU Pain Research Center @nyupainresearch.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Congrats to the Shamsi Lab on this stellar paper! @farnazshamsi.bsky.social
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Farnaz Shamsi @farnazshamsi.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Really happy to share new work from our lab, led by Tamires Serdan, with Heidi Cervantes and Benji Frank. They uncover an elegant evolutionary design where adipocyte progenitors don’t just make fat, they help wire it. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #obesity #metabolism @nyupress.bsky.social
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SLIT3 fragments orchestrate neurovascular expansion and thermogenesis in brown adipose tissue - Nature Communications
Brown adipocytes are embedded within an intricate network of blood vessels and sympathetic nerves that support their development and thermogenic function. This study shows that adipocyte progenitor ce...
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James Olzmann @olzmannlab.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Sooo happy to share our new paper in @nature.com “CLCC1 promotes hepatic neutral lipid flux and nuclear pore complex assembly.” A terrific collaboration with @arrudalab.bsky.social, led by co–first authors Alyssa Mathiowetz and Emily Maymand. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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CLCC1 promotes hepatic neutral lipid flux and nuclear pore complex assembly - Nature
CRISPR–Cas9 screening identifies CLCC1 as a factor that increases neutral lipid flux to prevent hepatic steatosis and promotes nuclear pore complex assembly by promoting membrane bending and fusi...
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Farnaz Shamsi @farnazshamsi.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Super proud of Tamires Serdan and Liyi Wang for landing not one but two American Diabetes Association postdoc fellowships this year! More great things from both of them soon! #proudmentor @amdiabetesassn.bsky.social @nyu.edu @nyupainresearch.bsky.social
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NYU Pain Research Center @nyupainresearch.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
The NYU PRC is excited to welcome Farnaz Shamsi as one of our newest associate members! 🎉 Farnaz studies the neuroimmune regulation of energy balance and adipose tissue function, exploring how these systems shape metabolic health and contribute to obesity and related diseases.
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Farnaz Shamsi @farnazshamsi.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Scenes from the lab today. Breakthroughs in costume! #Halloween #Science #AcademicSky @lsiukstaite.bsky.social
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STAT @statnews.com · 15/10/2025
Immunotherapy researcher Miriam Merad from Icahn Mount Sinai says the reason that cancer research has slowed is because of funding issues, which is something taxpayers don’t have to accept. “We fight for patients, we fight for science, and we have to fight for progress.” #STATSummit
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NY-CURES @nycures.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Add your name ✍ at www.nycures.org so Albany sees 10,000 scientists calling for the future of biomedical research to be built right here in New York. Our first email to members goes out soon—introducing the statewide biomedical institute we’re proposing and how you can help power it forward.
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NY-CURES @nycures.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
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Yalda Moayedi @yaldamoayedi.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
We're seeking a postdoc to join our team to study the neuroscience of mouthfeel! If you're interested, please submit via the link or reach out to me directly. #sciencejobs #mouthfeel #somatosensation #neurojobs #postdocs apply.interfolio.com/172436
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Farnaz Shamsi @farnazshamsi.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Thrilled to see Ivor Joseph from our lab recognized as a 2025 BWF PDEP awardee! Big cheers to all the amazing recipients!
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Anne Loft @anneloftsdu.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Check out our new roadmap for single cell analyses of adipose tissue at @natmetabolism.nature.com 🧐 Thrilled to share our work put together by great colleagues from Adipose Bionetwork in @humancellatlas.org 🤩 Huge thanks to my fellow co-coordinators @smandrup.bsky.social Evan Rosen and Margo Emont
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Farnaz Shamsi @farnazshamsi.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Had a blast co-organizing the 2025 Fleischer NYC Regional Diabetes Symposium with Jose Aleman @NYULH! Full house, great science, and an amazing showing from my team! #DiabetesResearch #NYCScience #NYU
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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Big news: we are setting up a new non-profit organization to run bioRxiv and medRxiv. It's called openRxiv [no it's not a new preprint server; it's dedicated organization to oversee the servers] openrxiv.org 1/n
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Homepage - openRxiv
openRxiv is an independent non-profit, the new organizational home for bioRxiv and medRxiv, enabling researchers to instantly share groundbreaking findings with the global scientific community.
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Farnaz Shamsi @farnazshamsi.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
The NIH's diversity supplement NOFO, originally set to run until May 8, 2026, is unexpectedly (or predictably?) expiring TODAY! grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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PA-23-189: Research Supplements to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research (Admin Supp Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Research Supplements to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research (Admin Supp Clinical Trial Not Allowed) PA-23-189....
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MargolisLab @margolislabnyu.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Congrats to the whole team for the paper published in Gastroenterology this week! 🎉🧠🌟 #gutserotonin #depression #anxiety #antidepressants @tonelloraquel.bsky.social @danielxjuarez.bsky.social @karapedsgastrodoc.bsky.social @sarahanajjar.bsky.social 👉 www.gastrojournal.org/article/S001...
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DenisPBlondin @denispblondin.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Since 2007, there's been a surge in studies investigating the function of BAT. Along the way, there's been much debate on various topics. In this perspective, we highlight the importance of carefully considering your cooling protocol when studying BAT🔥in humans.❄️ www.cell.com/cell-metabol...
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Emerging debates and resolutions in brown adipose tissue research
The explosive growth in the study of human BAT has led over time to lively debates over central physiological concepts. This perspective discusses six areas of current disagreement and proposes experiments to achieve resolutions and move the field forward.
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Farnaz Shamsi @farnazshamsi.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Great and timely perspective! A must-read for anyone working on thermogenic fat #obesity #metabolism 🧪
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Hanieh Falahati @haniehfalahati.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Our paper is out just in time for #EM_Monday! It is about a specialized neuron-specific ER, called the spine apparatus, which is found close to synapses and has a very peculiar shape. If you think neurons are special, the spine apparatus is their🦄 horn! But how does it form?! doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...
Gif showing a spine containing spine apparatus, reconstructed from FIB-SEM images. ER: red, synapse: yellow, plasma membrane: blue
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Ardem Patapoutian @ardemp.bskyverified.social · 20/11/2024
Preprint dropped! Excited about this study by Yu Wang, a PhD student from Li Ye's lab and mine, now a postdoc in @deisseroth.bsky.social lab. It unveils an unexpected role for PIEZO2/mechanosensation in sensory neurons that innervate fat! What is it sensing in fat? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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