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Please see this article published today in Science Magazine, which represents a spectacular collaboration between my lab and two close colleagues at Rockefeller University, Jeff Friedman and Alipashi Vaziri, and was performed by Bowen Tan, Caleb Browne, and Tobias Nöbauer. Friedman Brain Institute

Just published in Molecular Psychiatry! Our first venture into the human gut microbiota in late-life with postdoc Antonija Kolobaric 🇭🇷🇧🇦🏳️‍🌈 in our group. University of Pittsburgh Magee-Womens Research Institute & Foundation

One of the most fulfilling aspects of my graduate school experience has been TAing Friedman Brain Institute’s Effective Science Communication (ESC) course. It has been a safe space for develop as a communicator and scientist, while also providing long lasting relationships.

The gut microbiome influences metabolites, hormones and immune function Perturbing gut microbiota therefore impacts homeostasis across somatic tissues Could it also affect the reproductive system - and even offspring? See our results👇& tweetorial🧵 rdcu.be/dGpoc

Pride and Joy 🥰 Talented amazing scientists I’ve had the fortune to work with ⁦Katie Morrison⁩ and ⁦Jennifer Chan at #OSSD2024 in Norway. Truly my favorite part of this job watching their incredible success 👏

How do chromatin modifications quantitatively impact gene expression? How do sequence variants or combinatorial marks influence relationships? We developed a modular #EpigenomeEditing toolkit to systematically test these Q, published today 🧵… nature.com/articles/s4158…

Hugely exciting to see this roll out and for #WomensHealthResearch to have this important moment and attention on the global stage with NIH Women's Health and Jill Biden making huge strides in funding and focus 👏

Excited to share our newest paper, in which we report our discovery that monogamous oldfield mice have very recently evolved a novel cell type in their adrenal glands that promotes parental care 🧵 Work led by the fabulous Natalie Niepoth and Jenny Merritt rdcu.be/dH1Kn

SUPER EXCITED! 2024 Emerging Scholars Program Awardees are Vanderbilt University’s José C. Zepeda, @CUanschutz’s Science Gambino w/ HONORABLE MENTION to The City University of New York's Katherine Anderson Katherine L. Anderson. CONGRATULATIONS🎉JOIN US 6/21, 12:30pm as awardees present their work. RSVP👉tinyurl.com/2wpts3pm

Check out our latest review titled "Understanding the #maternalbrain in the context of the #mentalload of motherhood Springer Nature in Nature Mental Health with Dr. Bridget Callaghan, Clare McCormack and Dr Pilyoung Kim (DU Psychology). 🔥 University of Rennes Irset | UMR_S Inserm 1085 pdf : rdcu.be/dLP1N

Drugs like Ozempic are great for weight loss, but they make some people feel sick. We discovered that the brain circuits mediating the appetite suppression are distinct from those that mediate nausea – a finding that may be leveraged to develop more selective GLP1-based drugs.

Wow, this work from Holly Ingraham and team was so exciting to read! Brain body mechanisms occurring at critical windows of female reproductive lifecycle to facilitate maternal-offspring resource allocation!

🚨 New preprint alert! 🚨 We explore the role of E2F3a in regulating cocaine reward at sex- and cell-specific levels in the nucleus accumbens. Read more on our findings below. Thanks to all co-authors and supporters for their contributions! 💎💎😊🙌

🚨Deadline to apply for the external neuroscience postdoc seminar series at Mount Sinai has been extended to Sept 8th!! #MSNSeminars Encourage the senior postdocs in your life to apply!

Our newest pub📢: Menopausal hormone therapy (MHT) can be beneficial or not on brain health. Why? 1) length of time since menopause (too late=not as effective); 2) type of estrogens used (E1 not as effective as E2) ++. Here we 👀E1 vs E2 on neuroplasticity onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hi…

We tragically lost our wonderful colleague Sidhanta Nanda, PhD, unexpectedly due to medical condition. He will always be remembered as an incredibly kind friend and co-worker. A memorial service will be on Sep-24. You can help support his family here: gofundme.com/f/in-memory-of…

Excited to share our new work identifying cellular allostatic mechanisms and the impact of stress on sperm mitochondria and motility! Huge thanks to Dr. Tracy Bale 🟧🧠 and all of my coauthors who made this study in mice *and* men possible! Read all about it! nature.com/articles/s4146…

Thanks Eric Topol for the shoutout. This is an incredible translational story on how prior stress exposure alters sperm signals and function. Research that started in cells, moved to men and then into mice. Extraordinary work by first author Nickole Moon. nature.com/articles/s4146…

📢Proud to share our new paper!📢 It all began with a conversation about germ-free animals having small litters and no one really knew why. Here we define a role for microbiota in the ovarian reserve and trade-offs between growth and reproduction. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

A few years ago I was in a position to do something unique in neuroscience. I had been working with the phenomenal Emily G. Jacobs on menopause and inspired by Laura Pritschet's menstrual study, and I was planning a pregnancy. What if we scanned my brain?? nature.com/articles/s4159…