Happy first day of #SRS26! www.suicideresearchsymposium.com #suicideprevention

There is encouraging but heterogeneous evidence linking epigenetic age acceleration to worse cognitive performance. More research is needed to establish epigenetic aging tools as premature cognitive aging biomarkers.

Attending the 5th Annual Suicide Research Symposium this week (lnkd.in/gpRjbxDw)? Don't miss the presentation by our brilliant PhD student Valeria Arredondo on Wed, April 15th, on the methylomics/transcriptomics of suicide/bipolar disorder (teaser: long non-coding RNAs!!). #suicide #bipolardisorder

Still time to register for the Suicide Research Symposium next week! It's such a good conference and it's free so check it out! Yours truly will be moderating the session on DBT and the session on youth and young adult risk screening! www.suicideresearchsymposium.com #suicideprevention #DBT

New publication alert! 🚨 We analyzed the shared genetic architecture of suicide attempt (SA) and ideation (SI) across 13 traits using large-scale GWAS. We found shared loci implicating neurodevelopmental, immune, and metabolic pathways, with distinct signatures for SA vs SI. doi.org/10.1016/j.eu...

Bipolar is one of the most common mental health diagnoses but still remains hugely misunderstood. For #WorldBipolarDay, we want that to change.

Interesting results with careful assessment of genetic influence and multiple confounding variables on DNA methylation in a clinical trial for psychotherapy. Wonderful work, @kirahoeffler.bsky.social and colleagues!

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

Excited and honored to share that I’ve received the 2026 Gerald L. Klerman Young Investigator Award from DBSA! This recognition means a great deal and reflects the incredible mentors, collaborators, trainees, and research participants who make our work possible. www.dbsalliance.org/about/gerald...

Looking for advice on navigating these unprecedented, challenging times in neuroscience research? Attend this Meet-the-Expert webinar to learn how to seek funding, maintain a work-life balance, and more. Register now🔗: vist.ly/4rg6g #neurosky #neuroskyence #academicchatter

Nice to see a secondary analysis of our hippocampal DNAm data (GEO: GSE129428). Ohi et al. show that 🧠 hippocampus-derived methylation risk scores are significantly associated with #bipolardisorder in 🩸 blood, pointing to cross-tissue epigenetic signatures: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

"Genomic research on suicidality in Latin America is growing but remains fragmented and underpowered. Increasing representative sampling, implementing ancestry-aware methods, and fostering collaborations are essential to advance research and inform prevention strategies in these populations."

Why do some individuals with serious mental illness experience earlier age-related decline? 🧬 Our new paper in @npp-journal.bsky.social investigates the role of premature biological aging ⌛ in SMI and what it means for future treatments. Check it out here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Very excited to share our latest 📖 publication from the Latin American Genomics Consortium Suicide Working Group, now in press in @biologicalpsych.bsky.social, where we systematically review genomic 🧬 studies of suicidality in Latin American populations: linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii...

Congrats to all new #ACNP Associate Members, and special shoutout to my friend/Science hero @drsarahsperry.bsky.social 🥳🥳

Grades are posted, and our Neurobiology and Neuroanatomy course is officially done for the semester!!! 🥳 🧠 @uthealthhouston.bsky.social

Honored to have been part of the 2025 International Summit on Suicide Research in beautiful Boston. #suicide #epigenetics #art

📢 calling colleagues to participate or help with recruitment for study on #depression experienced by #neurodivergent young people Specifically: 👩‍👧‍👦Parents/carers 💼Mental health professionals See poster @ehayashibara.bsky.social @qmul-wiph.bsky.social @qmulpsychiatry.bsky.social

🚨New publication alert! We tested the use of blood bulk or L1CAM (of putative 🧠 origin) extracellular vesicles (EVs) to identify #miRNA signatures in #bipolardisorder. Lots of lessons learned and key insights into the use of EVs for biomarker discovery: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🚨 New paper alert on telomeres! 🚨 Something different from the group! Thanks to Yuxin, a talented student in the lab, we used long-reads in 75 human trios to study telomeres and their inheritance.

Good news deserves to be celebrated! 🥳 Happy to share that our lab was recently awarded 1) a Pilot grant from @mcgovernpeds.bsky.social and 2) a CaDRE award from UTHealth Psychiatry to develop novel in vitro neuronal models to investigate mechanisms linked to suicide and bipolar disorder 🧠🔬

Updated lab photo from our Department’s Annual Behavioral Health Research Day @uthealthhouston.bsky.social

Are you an international (outside the US) scientist looking to attend the annual @acnporg.bsky.social meeting in January?🌎 Then see below for an opportunity to join us for #ACNP2026 in the Bahamas 😎🏖️👇

Latin America has experienced an increase in suicide rate, contrasting with a global decline. We review possible reasons for this here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Led by Dr. Brenda Cabrera-Mendoza and @renatopolimanti.bsky.social, 1st publication from the LAGC Suicide Working Group.

Could premature aging help explain the variability in Alzheimer's risk in bipolar disorder (BD)? Excited to share our latest findings on the link between epigenetic aging and amyloid biomarkers in BD, now published in the American J of Geriatric Psychiatry: www.ajgponline.org/article/S106...

I recently—for the first time—spoke openly & honestly about my 11+year journey w/ #BipolarDisorder +chronic su!cidality on my friend @UmaRChatterjee podcast @AChatWithUma. Grateful to Uma for creating the opportunity for me to speak truth to stigma. Check out Part 1! (part 2 coming this week!)

Biological age prediction in schizophrenia using brain MRI, gut microbiome and blood data www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I had a very nice conversation last week with João Freitas on the topic of Epigenetics, Psychiatry, and the Future of Mental Health. 🧠🧪 Check out my interview 🎙️ on the Mind Body Science Podcast here: YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubIc... Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/54HO...

Time to say goodbye to one of my first mentees, Rohit Jha, who is brilliantly graduating from Rice University this week. Rohit led many of our studies with a lot of creativity and enthusiasm, and I'm very grateful for what he has done for our lab over the last 3+ years. We will miss you, Rohit! 👨‍🎓

Final leg of the 🇨🇦 tour was in Hamilton: a visit and talk at the beautiful McMaster University and St. Joseph's (plus seeing really good friends!). So excited to learn of the work they have been doing.

Loved learning more about the awesome work @robynmcquaid.bsky.social and Ayeila Daneshmend are doing on the #epigenetics of #suicide #SOBP2025

SOBP just reminded me of the amazing work being done by Dr. Patricia Silveira's lab at McGill University!

The first day of the annual meeting of the Society of Biological Psychiatry was a success (and a lot of fun)!

Exciting day 2 of the 🇨🇦 tour: Metabolic Psychiatry in Severe Mental Illness Meeting at the beautiful Hart House, UofT @uoft.bsky.social

Day 1 of the 🇨🇦 tour: productive visit and talk @camhnews.bsky.social Loved visiting the UoT campus, as well. Thank you, Dr. Erica Vieira, for hosting me!

🚨 New preprint from our lab explores a potential biological mechanism underlying the heterogeneity in Alzheimer's disease 🧠 risk among individuals with bipolar disorder. Check it out here: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... #bipolardisorder #Alzheimers #aging #amyloid #epigenetics

ACNP Travel Award Applications open TODAY for the ACNP 64th Annual Meeting: January 12-15, 2026, Nassau, Bahamas. Deadline to Submit is May 8, 2025, at 5:00 pm Central. acnp.org/annual-meet... #ACNP2026 #travelawards

A cross-generational methylomic signature of infant maltreatment in newborn rhesus macaques www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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 👇

Join our Early & Mid-Career Committee as they launch its Community of Practice on Tuesday, March 25th. This online event is for early & mid-career people working in the field of #bipolardisorder. Don't miss your chance to connect with others in the field! Register here: forms.gle/cobckZRdVK14...

🚨The @isbd4.bsky.social EMCC will host an online event to launch its 'Community of Practice' on Tuesday, March 25th, 2025. The event is free and open to all, but we require those who will attend to complete a registration form by Thursday, March 20th at 5:00PM EDT: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Many thanks to all of the collaborators and funders (esp @wellcometrust.bsky.social & @ukri.org) who made this DNA methylome-wide study of antidepressant exposure possible www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Lithium wins for treatment of bipolar depression Real-world effectiveness of pharmacological maintenance treatment of bipolar depression: a within-subject analysis in a Swedish nationwide cohort - The Lancet Psychiatry www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

So proud of @julialsmith.bsky.social!!! Her first, first-author pub is now online!!! 🎉🥳 A quick 🧵: intensity/frequency of cannabis use and levels of alcohol and substance use impairment prospectively predicted higher SI in bipolar disorder

Ei! Você é pesquisador(a) brasileiro(a) e quer fazer doutorado ou pós-doc em um país de língua inglesa, mas não sabe por onde começar? Me manda uma mensagem! Talvez eu possa te ajudar. 😊

Farewell lunch to celebrate the months we had Iago Santos with our lab @uthealthhouston.bsky.social. With funding from @agenciafapesp.bsky.social, Iago (originally from Diego Rovaris' lab at USP) quickly became an expert in epigenetic analyses and a true asset to our lab. We'll miss you in Houston 🤠

Deadline coming up for the Career Development Institute in Psychiatry on Dec 23rd!!! I HIGHLY recommend this program- I did it in 2007 (!), and it was packed with helpful information re: the transition from post-doc to K-award to independent faculty.

Academic Christmas

For #ACNP2024 folks who need a quick break from Science or a stop before heading to the airport, the Phoenix Art Museum is definitely worth a visit! 👩‍🎨👨‍🎨