I am absolutely thrilled to receive a new ERC advanced grant to study the origins of mechanical pain. I am eternally grateful for this funding instrument which ten years ago allowed us to tackle the molecular origins of extreme physiology in the naked mole-rat!

Shout out to our Colin who just won an awsrd for best film! Really cool film by the way.

Now our local newspaper in Berlin takes up the Elkin1 story.....tagesspiegel.de/wissen/teilche…

Very exciting to see our latest study now online with PAIN Journal! 📰💫

Digging deeper into pain: an ethological behavior assay correlating well-being in mice with human pain experience.

journals.lww.com/pain/fulltext/… 🧵 [1/6]

Nature Highlighted our Paper...cool
nature.com/articles/d4158…

theconversation.com/we-discovered-…

100% non-alcoholic bubbly.....ha ha

Lab celebrations!

So excited to see this published - ELKIN1 is required for sensitivity of gentle touch - congrats to Gary and Sam

Read about our latest contribution to science ⬇️: How do we feel touch? science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…
(press release) mdc-berlin.de/news/press/new…
Thanks to all the contributors and here's to the next discovery!

mdc-berlin.de/news/press/new…
Great pictures from Amy in the press release!