DDX3X can cause a neurodevelopmental disorder in males. 🧬 📢 A new cohort of affected males broadens the spectrum. ⬇️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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“How does a brain take shape?” Neurobiologist @bassemh.bsky.social on the embryonic cells that fold into the neural tube and become the brain. Discover more in The Brain’s Secret. #Biology #Neuroscience #Brain #Education #ReliableKnowledge #PublicEngagement

HAPPENING NOW! Visit the Icahn School of medicine #SURP4US Poster Session as @wellesley.edu's Kayla Quinlan, mentored by the DeRubeis Lab, presents her summer research project on “Characterizing olfactory bulb development in a mouse model of DDX3X syndrome”. @mountsinainyc.bsky.social NOT TO MISS!

To all post-docs: The Genome Biology dept ‪@embl.org has an Independent faculty position. Fantastic place to set up your lab –great package: core funding, fantastic Ph.D. students, cutting edge core facilities & great colleagues. Closing date Sept 19th embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...

🎉 Big congratulations to GSMI-NYC 2022 scholar, @michae1flores.bsky.social, on being awarded the prestigious HHMI Gilliam Fellowship! 🌟 We are so proud of you leading the way for the next generation of scientists!

A reminder that the mRNA vaccine technology saved millions of lives during the Covid pandemic and received the 2023 Nobel Prize for Medicine

Incredibly proud to see our alumnus Michael Flores among the 2025 Gilliam Fellows 🥹 Congratulations to Michael and all other Fellows!

New Science story about the beginnings of grant reinstatement. www.science.org/content/arti...

Today, SfN joins communities across the nation in celebrating #Juneteenth — a day that honors freedom, resilience, and progress. We celebrate the remarkable contributions of Black neuroscientists whose research has expanded our understanding of the brain and improved lives worldwide. #neurosky

What? Some good news on a Friday? Parent Fellowship Notices of Funding Opportunities are up! F30, F31, F32, F33 grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Today is DDX3X Awareness Day! 12th June marks the fifth annual International DDX3X Day! Share our expert-written guide, freely available online at bit.ly/3VlQ0D5 #DDX3X #RareChromo #GeneDisorder #ChromosomeX #AwarenessDay #Unique #FamilySupport

the reissued NOFO for theRuth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Fellowship for Students at Institutions Without NIH-Funded Institutional Predoctoral Dual-Degree Training Programs (Parent F30) is finally published! grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Padilla: If this is how DHS responds to a senator with a question you can only imagine what they're doing to farm workers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California.

"Tanner, a chemist at the Univ. of Mississippi working to develop a novel approach for treating glioblastoma, was notified in April that the grant was terminated. “I would like to cure brain cancer,” Dr. Tanner said. “I think that's not particularly controversial.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

NEW STUDY from Adele Mossa, Lauren Dierdorff, Jeronimo Lukin, Silvia De Rubeis, et al. unveils sex-specific molecular signatures when Ddx3x is missing, impacting the neuronal proteome, protein synthesis machinery & nucleoli structure. Learn More @natcomms.nature.com 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Excited to be in Milan for #eshg2025! If you’re interested in leading analysis of large, diverse cohorts with WGS and cellular genomic data in Australia, I’d be keen to chat - we’re looking to fill a variety of senior comp bio roles: populationgenomics.org.au/careers/ #eshg25

Thanks Giannina for organizing this at @canacn.bsky.social. It was so much fun! It was great seeing you and @arrudacarvalho.bsky.social again and meeting so many new friends! @kundakoviclab.bsky.social @ivazovkic.bsky.social @walkerde.bsky.social @iordanova.bsky.social @deryasargin.bsky.social

To all those descending onto Toronto for the @canacn.bsky.social annual meeting, as program chair I hope you have an exciting meeting and enjoy our featured speakers @franklandlab.bsky.social @yulonglilab.bsky.social @neurovoice.bsky.social @turrigiano.bsky.social and Kerry Ressler #CAN2025

Join us at CAN for genomic fun!

OPT is the program that allows foreign students graduating with STEM degrees stay and work for up to three years. Because of the oversubscribed H-1B lottery, OPT is one of the main ways that foreign students manage to transition to jobs in the US. Ending it would destroy a major STEM pipeline.

If you are at @canacn.bsky.social , don't miss our symposium on Thurs 1:30 pm: A genomics approach towards understanding sex differences in cognition, mental health, and neurodevelopment. w @descalzi.bsky.social @ivazovkic.bsky.social @derubeislab.bsky.social @walkerde.bsky.social See you there!

NIH moved up the expiration date for some funding opportunities, effectively *canceling* the next application date without removing it from the standard table. I can't even imagine how many people are still prepping these grants. 👀 List of impacted opportunities: grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Important new study by @lotsb.bsky.social and colleagues on #DDX3X variants in males 🧬🧠 Comment to the new insights provided by the study and future directions 👇🏼 urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=htt... @ddx3x-es.bsky.social @rarediseasesint.bsky.social

New Forbes story about the economic consequences of science cuts. www.forbes.com/sites/johndr... Thoughtful and thorough analysis. 1/n

New paper from our lab! Happy to contribute to this collective effort, advancing our understanding of DDX3X and its role in #DDX3Xsyndrome

Sex-specific perturbations of neuronal development caused by mutations in the autism risk gene DDX3X www.nature.com/articles/s41... @natcomms.nature.com @derubeislab.bsky.social

🧪 New paper alert! In new work led by Adele Mossa out now in @natcomms.nature.com, we find that the #autism risk gene #DDX3X is a critical regulator of sexual dimorphisms in neuronal neurodevelopment 🧬 🧠 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

STAT story about freezing all payments to Columbia, Harvard, Brown, Northwestern, Cornell, and Cornell-Weill Medicine. www.statnews.com/2025/04/18/n...

DOGE abruptly cut a program called Charting My Path for Future Success—a research-based effort that helped teens with disabilities transition from high school into college, work, and independent living. Now it’s gone without explanation.

Exclusive: Weeks after President Donald Trump’s administration ordered NIH to pull $250 million in biomedical research grants to Columbia University, the agency is freezing all remaining grant money owed to the university until further notice. scim.ag/4if5Rg1

Postdoc opportunity in the heart of Europe! Check out the flyer below. Join our team on an international project with Anthony Holtmaat exploring synaptic plasticity and specificity in cortical and thalamocortical circuits.

“Kennedy’s team requested that Marks turn over data on cases of brain swelling and deaths caused by the measles vaccine—data that Marks said doesn’t exist because there have been no such confirmed cases in the U.S.” www.wsj.com/health/healt...

THIS IS TERRIFYING‼️ Dr. Peter Marks, former head of vaccines at the FDA, just had his last day—forced to resign or be fired because he wouldn’t lie about vaccines. He gives a chilling warning: the U.S. is unprepared for biowarfare—because the response team has been gutted.

We are seeking to hire a lab tech, this is an HHMI funded position, please share the job posting: hhmi.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...

At least four neuroscientists received termination letters this week dismissing them from NIH advisory boards. “This is unusual and unprecedented,” says @thebalelab.bsky.social, one of the terminated board members. By @callimcflurry.bsky.social @avaskham.bsky.social #neuroskyence bit.ly/4hM0Xa3

We are so proud of you, Michael!

Michael conducted this research while in the @derubeislab.bsky.social lab. He is now a PhD student in Michael Brainard's lab investigating how intrinsic developmental processes interact with sensory experience to form inter-individual variations in learned behaviours. doi.org/10.1242/bio....

#DDX3X syndrome is a rare neurodevelopmental disorder affecting motor & cognitive functions. Using a mouse model of DDX3X 🐭 , Michael Flores & co investigate how the development and circuit organization of a layer five neuronal subpopulation in the cortex is disrupted. doi.org/10.1242/bio....

Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women. More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications. I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.

The NCI grant supporting the Columbia comprehensive cancer center was terminated. Tell me how terminating support for cancer research helps the economy. taggs.hhs.gov/Content/Data...

Vinod's team's work could have saved my wife's life, and I hope this and others like it will make a huge difference with patients with seemingly untreatable deadly diseases. This needs to be able to continue. www.mskcc.org/news/can-mrn...

This cure for sickle cell anemia was made possible by NIH-funded research to turn the gene for fetal hemoglobin back on. It was done predominantly by NIH researchers, including intramural researchers on the NIH campus. irp.nih.gov/catalyst/33/...

Re-upping this PAID summer internship opportunity!

We need to organize--let’s help each other. NIH is cancelling grants, but it's not clear exactly what they're cancelling and why. Without this information, we can't respond. I've started a Google Sheet to track grant cancellations. Please add any canceled grants you know of and spread the word!

I have confirmation from several sources now that all T32s, many F30s and F31s, and most or all Center awards (P30, P50) have been terminated at Columbia. This is quite damaging to research and to individuals. This is pure terrorism and cannot be legal. But litigation will take time...

ATTENTION If anyone from Columbia is interested in communicating with reporters and/or can share documents to help reporters cover this nightmare and cover it accurately, PLEASE reach out to me (or have them do so) on signal (jeremymberg.78). 1/n

Last year, I was overjoyed to receive an NIH NRSA fellowship to study toddler brains and caregiving effects on memory at Columbia. Last night, my grant was terminated.

was your vaccine-related NIH grant terminated? please reach out: @katherinejwu.12 on Signal