Kundakovic lab past and present - everyone is killing their presentation at @ossdcomm.bsky.social meeting and we are having such great time! Love these guys ❤️ Devin Rocks @lailaouldibbat.bsky.social @luisadema.bsky.social #KonaHawaii #OSSD2026
Laila Ouldibbat
@lailaouldibbat.bsky.social
PhD student 🧠 @kundakoviclab.bsky.social @fordham.edu
Extremely excited & proud to share our new preprint - we provide for the first time a single cell map of the mouse brain across sex, the estrous cycle, and peripartum! Data are 🔥 👇 "Single-cell map of the female brain across reproductive transitions" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Excited to wrap up this semester @fordham.edu w fantastic presentations by my graduate & undergrad students (@lailaouldibbat.bsky.social, Rachel Smith, Aidan Costella). Thank you for the hard work! And thanks to @mattgirgenti.bsky.social for the wonderful last dept seminar! Summer is almost here! ☀️
Super proud of @luisadema.bsky.social giving a short talk on hormone-regulated dynamics of the inactive X chromosome in the adult female brain at @sobp-org.bsky.social meeting. Stay tuned for this super exciting work! 🔥🔥
Liisa Galea@liisagalea.bsky.social · 3mo agoLuisa Demarchi from @kundakoviclab.bsky.social lab talking about using estrous cycle (not controlling for it) to undercover susceptibility to depression/anxiety using epigenetics and X chromosome inactivation🔥🔥 super understudied and ripe for discovery! #SOBP
Extremely excited to give a #TEDx talk on perimenopause & mental health at #TEDxFordhamUniversity on March 26! now.fordham.edu/university-n... If you're interested in attending in person, here's the link to register: fordham.edu/tedx/ Can't wait! 😎 ❤️🔥 #WomensHealth @fordham.edu
TEDxFordham University Returns to Illuminate the Ideas Shaping Our Shared Future
Making an impact on the world starts with bold ideas, and at Fordham, those ideas come from a diverse mix of voices, from a reality television star to a philosophy
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Ending 2025 w/ our new paper @natcomms.nature.com which shows that the immediate early gene Egr1 induces sex-dependent changes in ventral hippocampal (vHIP) structure and in anxiety- & depression-related behavior, via direct regulation of chromatin structure 🧵👇 1/ www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Egr1 is a sex-dependent regulator of neuronal chromatin, structural plasticity, and behaviour - Nature Communications
Molecular drivers of sex-specific brain plasticity are unknown. Here, authors show estrogen-driven Egr1 controls chromatin accessibility sex-dependently, driving gene expression, structural plasticity...
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Goodbye San Diego! Thank you @sfn.org for another great meeting & exciting science! In the future, I hope to see more progressive work on sex/gender & critical #WomensHealth - related factors -ovarian cycle, menopause, pregnancy- featured in lectures & symposia! See you next year! #SfN25
Day 2 #SfN25: There was some sun in SD! ☀️ @lailaouldibbat.bsky.social gave a great presentation & we spent some time w/ @fordham.edu neuro community. Many interesting talks & sessions... finished w/ a great night hanging out w/ @JaredWYoung at a cute Filipino rest & the dopamine social! @sfn.org
Still some time left to stop by @lailaouldibbat.bsky.social ‘s poster X15! Check out her new single cell study showing how reproductive state - the estrous cycle and OVX - affects the hypothalamus! #SfN25 @sfn.org
Visit our posters on Sat, Sun & Weds @sfn.org ! @luisadema.bsky.social & @lailaouldibbat.bsky.social will present at #TPDA session too. I'll be around for all posters - let's chat about single-cell studies across the cycle, peripartum, OVX.. & the cool dynamics of the X chrom! See you there! #SfN25
Excited to have my piece on perimenopause published @thetransmitter.bsky.social "Perimenopause: An important—and understudied—transition for the brain" We need more studies & better education -we need this to be mainstream- knowledge is power! #WomensHealth www.thetransmitter.org/sex-hormones...
Perimenopause: An understudied transition for the brain
We know little about the mechanisms underlying well-known perimenopause symptoms in the brain. More research—in animals and humans—is essential.
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A fantastic event for young and wild alike!
SBN on Bluesky@sbn-bsky.bsky.social · 10mo agoWe are excited to announce our keynotes for the 2nd annual SBN ORS! Dr. Sara Freeman (sarafreeman.bsky.social) will be our opening keynote this Thursday 10/16 at 12:15pmEST/9:15amPST and Dr. Cheryl McCormick will be the closing keynote Friday 10/17 2pmEST/11amPST. Registration closes TOMORROW 10/15
Just 2.5 days left to register for the Online Research Symposium! We’re so excited to have you experience all of the cool science lined up! Don’t miss out on this opportunity: @sbn-bsky.bsky.social sbnorsc.wixsite.com/my-site-1/su...
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Aaron Fleischer@neuroendoawf.bsky.social · 10mo agoMonday is a great day to submit an abstract! Abstracts are due in just 2 days, on October 8, and registration closes on October 15! Please submit and register if you haven’t already - we would love to have you there and see your cool science! @sbn-bsky.bsky.social sbnorsc.wixsite.com/my-site-1
We are excited to announce our keynotes for the 2nd annual SBN ORS! Dr. Sara Freeman (sarafreeman.bsky.social) will be our opening keynote this Thursday 10/16 at 12:15pmEST/9:15amPST and Dr. Cheryl McCormick will be the closing keynote Friday 10/17 2pmEST/11amPST. Registration closes TOMORROW 10/15
Sara M. Freeman (@sarafreeman.bsky.social)
Asst Prof at Utah State University, Bio Dept. Social behavioral neuroendocrinologist, comparative neuroanatomist. Lover of food, dogs, conversation, music, travel. She/her.
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SBN ORS abstract submission has been extended until 10/8! Submit an abstract and register today! @sbn-bsky.bsky.social forms.gle/StU5PkrWdG7E...
SBN on Bluesky@sbn-bsky.bsky.social · 11mo agoReminder that registration and abstract submission is open for the SBN online research symposium. Free to attend and present your research! Abstract submission will close 10/1 and registration closes 10/15
Check out this nice story from @fordham.edu News on our work on #menopause transition recently published in Molecular Psychiatry & funded by the NIH. Knowledge is power! #WomensHealth 🔥 "Professor Leads Groundbreaking Study on Menopause-Mental Health Connection” now.fordham.edu/university-n...
Professor Leads Groundbreaking Study on Menopause-Mental Health Connection
A biology professor is examining the links between menopause and depression, anxiety, and other mental illnesses, building on a pioneering study she and her team just published.
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Today is the day! Submit your abstract for poster and talk considerations by the end of the day! We would be delighted to see everybody’s super awesome science, so please submit your abstracts! @sbn-bsky.bsky.social
Aaron Fleischer@neuroendoawf.bsky.social · 11mo ago1 week to submit your abstract to the Online Research Symposium! Please come share your cool new findings with a great audience! We would be delighted to have you along for the ride 🙂 nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
Reminder that registration and abstract submission is open for the SBN online research symposium. Free to attend and present your research! Abstract submission will close 10/1 and registration closes 10/15
SBN on Bluesky@sbn-bsky.bsky.social · 12mo agoWe are excited to announce the 2nd annual SBN Online Research Symposium this October 16-17th. “Registration and abstract submission is open for the SBN Online Research Symposium. Free to attend and present your research! Abstract submissions open until 10/1. Registration closes 10/15
Share your most recent findings at the SBN online research symposium!
SBN on Bluesky@sbn-bsky.bsky.social · 12mo agoWe are excited to announce the 2nd annual SBN Online Research Symposium this October 16-17th. “Registration and abstract submission is open for the SBN Online Research Symposium. Free to attend and present your research! Abstract submissions open until 10/1. Registration closes 10/15
Amazing day in the lab today... we first got our menopause biomarker paper accepted in Molecular Psychiatry and then... BOTH @lailaouldibbat.bsky.social and @luisadema.bsky.social received the Trainee Professional Development Award #TPDA from @sfn.org . So proud of the lab and my lab members! 🔥
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We are excited to announce the 2nd annual SBN Online Research Symposium this October 16-17th. “Registration and abstract submission is open for the SBN Online Research Symposium. Free to attend and present your research! Abstract submissions open until 10/1. Registration closes 10/15
Another great @sbn-bsky.bsky.social meeting! So good to see everyone and hear about exciting science! Until next time! ❤️ w/ @liisagalea.bsky.social @drglitterbear.bsky.social @lailaouldibbat.bsky.social @travisehodges.bsky.social @caromenard666.bsky.social @ciernialab.bsky.social #SBN2025
Celebrating @lailaouldibbat.bsky.social successfully completed thesis proposal defense - after a 4-hour marathon :), with high pass! I am so proud of you and can’t wait to see where your project brings us! Great time with @masako-suzuki.bsky.social & @luisadema.bsky.social
The undergraduate research symposium and the graduate students research day overlapping at Fordham today. So proud of my students killing it at all levels! 🔥 w/ @lailaouldibbat.bsky.social
My lab is hiring 2 postdocs on an NIH-funded grant characterizing molecular & cellular changes in the human brain across menopausal transition. Other neuroepigenomics projects are also available. We plan to hire a wet lab scientist and a bioinformatician. Please RT! kundakoviclab.com More info 👇
Had a wonderful evening celebrating my promotion to full professor with my lab members & alumni. Thank you all for shining so brightly, for the fantastic work that you do, and for being part of this amazing journey! ❤️ @luisadema.bsky.social @lailaouldibbat.bsky.social
Excited to share Laila’s @lailaouldibbat.bsky.social first first-author paper & the very first “metabolic” paper from the lab just published @ Hormones & Behavior: "The role of ovarian hormone dynamics in metabolic phenotype and gene expression in female mice" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The role of ovarian hormone dynamics in metabolic phenotype and gene expression in female mice
Ovarian hormones, particularly estradiol, play an important role in the regulation of metabolic function including in food intake, thermogenesis, acti…
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