Edisona Tsakani
edisonatsakani.bsky.social
Edisona Tsakani
@edisonatsakani.bsky.social
FENS 2026.!! Super cool experience.!! In between patatas bravas and neuroscience..!!
July 11, 2026 at 7:35 PM
Reposted by Edisona Tsakani
I am super happy to have been selected as one of the new #FENSKavliScholars! Happy to be a voice of France, Greece and Cyprus, as well as one for Drosophila research! The first encounter with the rest of the extended scholar group has been an energy rump up!!! @institutducerveau.bsky.social
Welcome to the 15 newly selected #FENSKavliScholars!
Representing 12 European countries, they join a network of 30 Scholars across 21 countries and 25 nationalities. 🧠✨With thanks to @fens.org, @kavlifoundation.org, @alleninstitute.org and our partners for supporting FKNE.
h1.nu/1t8Lw
July 10, 2026 at 10:01 AM
Reposted by Edisona Tsakani
congrats to the new FKNE scholars!
rock on Dafni @drosostalis.bsky.social 🤘 and Vanessa @avstempel.bsky.social 🤘
Welcome to the 15 newly selected #FENSKavliScholars!
Representing 12 European countries, they join a network of 30 Scholars across 21 countries and 25 nationalities. 🧠✨With thanks to @fens.org, @kavlifoundation.org, @alleninstitute.org and our partners for supporting FKNE.
h1.nu/1t8Lw
July 8, 2026 at 6:35 AM
Reposted by Edisona Tsakani
Such a fantastic day at the @young-pi-neuro26.bsky.social!!! Thank you for having me!
This morning @drosostalis.bsky.social delivered an outstanding keynote reminding us that we are an integral part of the change we want to see in Science💪
July 5, 2026 at 5:31 PM
Reposted by Edisona Tsakani
Hello Barcelona it's been a while!!
Looking forward to the Young PI symposium tomorrow @young-pi-neuro26.bsky.social and the FENS conf, that is a first for me! Me and my brilliant PhD student @edisonatsakani.bsky.social can tell you about what we be been up to in the newbie GutSense lab!
July 4, 2026 at 6:51 PM
Reposted by Edisona Tsakani
thanks for the shout out Dafni! i don't often tell this story in my current life as a scientist ... but this story is a big piece of who i am, and what i stand for
🤝
Some positivity. We need to hold those in political power accountable for changes that serve the majority not the few. Non negotiable. But we need to push for change together, as a community. Science and society alike. @matthewkraushar.bsky.social well done!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz_v...
RHCI INTRO
YouTube video by Aran Baker
www.youtube.com
June 30, 2026 at 10:32 PM
Reposted by Edisona Tsakani
📣First preprint of the lab📣 Did that really happen?😅

Enteric neurons, aka somatic postmitotic cells, must hold on to their sex identity tight, to deliver a tuned response to signals from the ovary that instruct the animal to engage sex-matched behavioural programmes.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Genetic sex of enteric neurons enables ovarian relaxin to gate maternal gut plasticity
Animals must align intestinal plasticity and feeding with reproductive state, yet the checkpoint that gates these adaptations is unknown. Here we show that an ovary-to-enteric-neuron axis gates the on...
www.biorxiv.org
January 11, 2026 at 3:32 PM