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!

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

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! ⬇️

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...

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...