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Rachel Essner

@rachelessner.bsky.social

Neuroscientist 🧠. Runner 🏃🏻‍♀️. PhD from Harvard PiN. Williams College '16

Rachel Essner @rachelessner.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I'm thrilled to share the published version of our paper, now officially out in Neuron! Read it here: authors.elsevier.com/c/1no8J3BtfH... One updated highlight: with new analyses we now show how functionally-defined groups of neurons putatively overlap with molecular cell types in LPBN

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Rachel Essner @rachelessner.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

3/ Indeed, by imaging the same neurons across days, we found that Late Ensure neurons are sensitive to stomach stretch, malaise, and satiety signals. These Early vs. Late Ensure neurons were also spatially organized within LPBN.

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Rachel Essner @rachelessner.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

1/ Food (Ensure) consumption drove a seconds-long wave of activity across LPBN, with dynamics that mirrored movement of food through the upper GI tract observed using X-ray fluoroscopy.

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