I am super excited to share that I will be joining the Hypothalamic Center at University of Texas Southwestern as an Assistant Professor this February 2026 🤘🏿🤠! This is such a dream job working with the best colleagues.

Apps for our Fellows-to-Faculty Award are due in 1 month! This program supports talented early career scientists in #neuroscience & #autismresearch by facilitating their transition into tenure-track positions. Deadline is 1/14/26: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/fellows-to-faculty-award/

Fellows-to-Faculty Award

The Fellows-to-Faculty Award is a new iteration of the previously offered Simons Foundation Independence Awards.

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We're hiring postdocs! Come join our team.

The Fellows-to-Faculty grant was truly transformative for my career, and provided $600K and an incredible network of big thinkers within the fields of cognitive aging & ASD. I highly recommend those passionate about studying cognitive aging or ASD while poised for the faculty market this fall apply!

Simons Foundation@simonsfoundation.org · 12mo ago

Fellows-to-Faculty awardee Frankie Heyward received crucial funding through the program to continue his #neuroscience research. Applications are now open for our next Fellows-to-Faculty class — apply by 1/14/2026: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/applications-for-fellows-to-faculty-awards-now-open/

I’m extremely honored to be a recipient of the NIH Director’s Pioneer Award!

Columbia University's Zuckerman Institute@zuckermanbrain.bsky.social · last yr.

Congratulations to @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social on receiving the NIH Director’s Pioneer Award, celebrating “scientists with outstanding records of creativity.” His lab will explore how the sense of touch can help build relationships. 🫶🧠💡 See zuckermaninstitute.columbia.edu/zuckerman-in...

new review alert❗️ thought your neighborhood stress response pathway (ISR) only dealt in stress adaptation? well, maybe so. but many cells are apparently quite “stressed out” - even healthy ones. see quoted thread by my phenom co-author @shyama13.bsky.social for a summary! ⬇️

Shyama Nandakumar@shyama13.bsky.social · last yr.

Hello fellow scientists, I'm thrilled to share with you a state of the art review that @lydiagrmai.bsky.social , the bsky-less Deepika Vasudevan and I have been working on for >1 year! Keep reading...! febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Excited to share the latest preprint from my lab! We present RESTRICT-seq, a novel method for precision CRISPR screen! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

RESTRICT-seq enables time-gated CRISPR screens and uncovers novel epigenetic dependencies of SCC resistance

Cancer cell evasion of therapy is a highly adaptive process that undermines the efficacy of many treatment strategies. A significant milestone in the study of these mechanisms has been the advent of p...

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Dear academic internet friends, I’m working on an R01 on our novel early life model of food insecurity, which the federal govt no longer recognizes (as of ~1 week ago cancelling the annual report). Should I re-write my 3 line public health narrative (bonkers) to de-center that topic?

I’m excited to share our new preprint! We built a single-nucleus multiomic (snRNA-seq+snATAC-seq) atlas of leptin receptor-expressing hypothalamic neurons (LepRᴴʸᵖᵒ) and identified conserved cis-regulatory elements overlapping human obesity-linked variants and eQTLs🧠🧬 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Single-nucleus transcriptional and chromatin accessibility profiling of mouse hypothalamic LepRb neurons reveals cell type-specific cis-regulatory elements linked to human obesity

Leptin receptor-expressing hypothalamic neurons (LepRHypo) are key regulators of energy balance, yet a comprehensive, cell type-resolved, chromatin accessibility map of these neurons is lacking. We pr...

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