Congratulations to Danny for his Nature paper on an airway-to-brain sensory pathway that alerts the brain to a respiratory infection through prostaglandin detection, and that evokes sickness responses. Please see the news stories and briefings below for more information:

Nature News: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00675-0

Science News: https://www.science.org/content/article/why-does-flu-make-you-feel-so-c…

HMS News: https://hms.harvard.edu/news/how-brain-senses-infection

Research briefing: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00425-2

The actual paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-05796-0

We are excited to welcome new postdocs: Masa Josipovic from Cambridge, Meg Allison from Michigan/MGH, Shan Lu from Columbia, and Rocio Pena from Yale!

for his paper in Nature on a visceral sensory homunculus! Here's a story in HMS News with more information:

https://hms.harvard.edu/news/sensory-mystery