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Michael J. Krashes is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their research spans several key areas within neuroscience and medicine, with a particular emphasis on the endocrine and autonomic systems, social psychology, nutrition and dietetics, physiology, and cognitive neuroscience.

Their work focuses mainly on the regulation of appetite and obesity, neuroendocrine regulation and behavior, circadian rhythm and melatonin, biochemical analysis and sensing techniques, adipose tissue and metabolism, sleep and wakefulness research, and pancreatic function related to diabetes.

Krashes has contributed to numerous peer-reviewed publications, with recent papers including:

  • High-fat food biases hypothalamic and mesolimbic expression of consummatory drives, 2020, published in Nature Neuroscience
  • Acts of appetite: neural circuits governing the appetitive, consummatory, and terminating phases of feeding, 2022, published in Nature Metabolism
  • An open-source device for measuring food intake and operant behavior in rodent home-cages, 2021, published in eLife
  • Measuring Behavior in the Home Cage: Study Design, Applications, Challenges, and Perspectives, 2021, published in Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
  • Integrating Hunger with Rival Motivations, 2020, published in Trends in Endocrinology and Metabolism

The scientist frequently collaborates with colleagues in their field. Notable coauthors include:

  • Chia Li
  • Eva O. Karolczak
  • Alexxai V. Kravitz
  • Marc L. Reitman
  • Claire Gao

Their publications appear regularly in a range of venues specializing in neuroscience and behavioral research. The most frequent publication venues are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • UNC Libraries
  • Current Biology
  • Nature Metabolism
  • eLife

Michael J. Krashes's research contributions serve to advance understanding in complex biological and behavioral systems related to appetite regulation, metabolism, and physiology. Their interdisciplinary approach integrates aspects of neurobiology, endocrinology, and behavior to explore the mechanisms underlying feeding and metabolic control.

Best Publications

  • Rapid, reversible activation of AgRP neurons drives feeding behavior in mice

    Michael J. Krashes;Shuichi Koda;Chian Ping Ye;Sarah C. Rogan

  • Layered reward signalling through octopamine and dopamine in Drosophila

    Christopher J. Burke;Wolf Huetteroth;David Owald;Emmanuel Perisse

  • A Neural Circuit Mechanism Integrating Motivational State with Memory Expression in Drosophila

    Michael Jonathan Krashes;Michael Jonathan Krashes;Shamik DasGupta;Andrew Vreede;Benjamin White

  • An Excitatory Paraventricular Nucleus to AgRP Neuron Circuit That Drives Hunger

    Michael J. Krashes;Michael J. Krashes;Bhavik P. Shah;Bhavik P. Shah;Joseph C. Madara;David P. Olson;David P. Olson

  • Identification of Spinal Circuits Transmitting and Gating Mechanical Pain

    Bo Duan;Longzhen Cheng;Longzhen Cheng;Steeve Bourane;Olivier Britz

  • Sequential use of mushroom body neuron subsets during drosophila odor memory processing.

    Michael Jonathan Krashes;Alex Carl Keene;Benjamin M. Leung;J. Douglas Armstrong

  • A neural basis for melanocortin-4 receptor–regulated appetite

    Alastair S Garfield;Chia Li;Joseph C Madara;Bhavik P Shah

  • A New DREADD Facilitates the Multiplexed Chemogenetic Interrogation of Behavior

    Eyal Vardy;J. Elliott Robinson;Chia Li;Chia Li;Reid H.J. Olsen

  • Rapid versus Delayed Stimulation of Feeding by the Endogenously Released AgRP Neuron Mediators GABA, NPY, and AgRP

    Michael J. Krashes;Bhavik P. Shah;Shuichi Koda;Bradford B. Lowell

  • Distinct Subpopulations of Nucleus Accumbens Dynorphin Neurons Drive Aversion and Reward

    Ream Al-Hasani;Jordan G. McCall;Gunchul Shin;Adrian M. Gomez

  • Melanocortin-4 receptor-regulated energy homeostasis.

    Michael J Krashes;Bradford B Lowell;Alastair S Garfield;Alastair S Garfield

  • Asprosin is a centrally acting orexigenic hormone.

    Clemens Duerrschmid;Yanlin He;Chunmei Wang;Chia Li

  • Rapid consolidation to a radish and protein synthesis-dependent long-term memory after single-session appetitive olfactory conditioning in Drosophila

    Michael Jonathan Krashes;Scott Waddell

  • Hunger-Driven Motivational State Competition

    C. Joseph Burnett;C. Joseph Burnett;C. Joseph Burnett;Chia Li;Chia Li;Emily Webber;Emily Webber;Eva Tsaousidou

  • Identification of preoptic sleep neurons using retrograde labelling and gene profiling

    Shinjae Chung;Franz Weber;Peng Zhong;Chan Lek Tan

  • GABAergic RIP-Cre neurons in the arcuate nucleus selectively regulate energy expenditure

    Dong Kong;Qingchun Tong;Qingchun Tong;Chianping Ye;Shuichi Koda

  • MC4R-expressing glutamatergic neurons in the paraventricular hypothalamus regulate feeding and are synaptically connected to the parabrachial nucleus

    Bhavik P. Shah;Linh Vong;Linh Vong;David P. Olson;Shuichi Koda

  • Dynamic GABAergic afferent modulation of AgRP neurons

    Alastair S Garfield;Bhavik P Shah;Christian R Burgess;Monica M Li

  • DREADD Agonist 21 Is an Effective Agonist for Muscarinic-Based DREADDs in Vitro and in Vivo

    Karen J Thompson;Elham Khajehali;Sophie J Bradley;Jovana S Navarrete;Jovana S Navarrete

  • The Paraventricular Hypothalamus Regulates Satiety and Prevents Obesity via Two Genetically Distinct Circuits

    Monica M. Li;Joseph C. Madara;Jennifer S. Steger;Michael J. Krashes

  • A pair of inhibitory neurons are required to sustain labile memory in the Drosophila mushroom body

    Jena L. Pitman;Wolf Huetteroth;Christopher J. Burke;Michael Jonathan Krashes

Frequent Co-Authors

Bradford B. Lowell
Bradford B. Lowell Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Scott Waddell
Scott Waddell University of Oxford
Thomas L. Kash
Thomas L. Kash University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Michael R. Bruchas
Michael R. Bruchas University of Washington
Antonello Bonci
Antonello Bonci National Institute on Drug Abuse
Vincent Prevot
Vincent Prevot University of Lille
Patrick M. Fuller
Patrick M. Fuller Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Thomas E. Scammell
Thomas E. Scammell Harvard Medical School
Stephen D. Liberles
Stephen D. Liberles Harvard University
Jennifer L. Whistler
Jennifer L. Whistler University of California, San Francisco

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