Marija Kundakovic
@kundakoviclab.bsky.social
Neuroepigenetics, Chromatin regulation, Dynamics of the female brain, Sex differences, Behavior, and Psychiatric disorders
https://kundakoviclab.com/
https://kundakoviclab.com/
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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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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”
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"Professor Leads Groundbreaking Study on Menopause-Mental Health Connection”
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What a privilege to spend an evening with Salman Rushdie in person at the 92nd Street Y. So charismatic and free spirited, he talks about his new book, inspiration, attack on free speech.. With his fatwa, the room feels electric… and he still thinks that some writers had it worse! ✊
November 7, 2025 at 3:53 AM
What a privilege to spend an evening with Salman Rushdie in person at the 92nd Street Y. So charismatic and free spirited, he talks about his new book, inspiration, attack on free speech.. With his fatwa, the room feels electric… and he still thinks that some writers had it worse! ✊
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A sneak peek at the cover of next week’s issue, which celebrates Zohran Mamdani’s historic win. #NewYorkerCovers
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/451hFM
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/451hFM
November 5, 2025 at 3:15 AM
A sneak peek at the cover of next week’s issue, which celebrates Zohran Mamdani’s historic win. #NewYorkerCovers
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/451hFM
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/451hFM
November 4, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Just received the *new* book by our favorite epigeneticist - my dear colleague and friend Johh @greally.bsky.social - on #Epigenetics: History, Molecules, & Diseases 🔥. Congrats and thank you for the mention, my friend - am honored that the work of my lab is included. Excited to read it! ❤️
October 30, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Just received the *new* book by our favorite epigeneticist - my dear colleague and friend Johh @greally.bsky.social - on #Epigenetics: History, Molecules, & Diseases 🔥. Congrats and thank you for the mention, my friend - am honored that the work of my lab is included. Excited to read it! ❤️
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Join us on November 21st at 12PM ET for a PANS symposium on clinical and basic aspects of menopausal hot flushes - including novel neurokinin receptor antagonists. Register here: mgb-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi... @menopausesociety.bsky.social @menopause
October 23, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Join us on November 21st at 12PM ET for a PANS symposium on clinical and basic aspects of menopausal hot flushes - including novel neurokinin receptor antagonists. Register here: mgb-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi... @menopausesociety.bsky.social @menopause
Finally got to hang out with @jordanmarrocco.bsky.social at #BlueRibbonSushi . What a great night … and sushi was amazing, as always! ❤️ #Soho
October 17, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Finally got to hang out with @jordanmarrocco.bsky.social at #BlueRibbonSushi . What a great night … and sushi was amazing, as always! ❤️ #Soho
A relaxing Wednesday night in #Manhattan , with a nice meal at a cute Japanese place KEI in Chelsea and a nice French movie 'Love letters' at the The New York LGBTQ+ Film Festival NewFest 🌈
October 16, 2025 at 3:56 AM
A relaxing Wednesday night in #Manhattan , with a nice meal at a cute Japanese place KEI in Chelsea and a nice French movie 'Love letters' at the The New York LGBTQ+ Film Festival NewFest 🌈
Happy Birthdays to the two Libras in the Kundakovic lab - @lailaouldibbat.bsky.social and Ana Milosevic! Glad we got a chance to celebrate you and everything you do before the long weekend! 🎉 🥂 w/ @luisadema.bsky.social @bruzzone-sep.bsky.social
October 11, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Happy Birthdays to the two Libras in the Kundakovic lab - @lailaouldibbat.bsky.social and Ana Milosevic! Glad we got a chance to celebrate you and everything you do before the long weekend! 🎉 🥂 w/ @luisadema.bsky.social @bruzzone-sep.bsky.social
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Congratulations @karalmckinley.bsky.social & lab on their groundbreaking recent preprint establishing + characterizing a chemically inducible model of menstruation in mouse:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
My jaw dropped when I heard this presented earlier this year. Incredible.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
My jaw dropped when I heard this presented earlier this year. Incredible.
Induction of menstruation in mice reveals the regulation of menstrual shedding
During menstruation, an inner layer of the endometrium is selectively shed, while an outer, progenitor-containing layer is preserved to support repeated regeneration. Progress in understanding this co...
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October 9, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Congratulations @karalmckinley.bsky.social & lab on their groundbreaking recent preprint establishing + characterizing a chemically inducible model of menstruation in mouse:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
My jaw dropped when I heard this presented earlier this year. Incredible.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
My jaw dropped when I heard this presented earlier this year. Incredible.
📢 Dear all, just a reminder that proposals for the 2026 @ossdcomm.bsky.social meeting in Kona, Hawaii are due this Friday, October 10. We look forward to receiving your best proposals for symposia and individual talks! Please find the links here:
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#OSSD2026
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#OSSD2026
Dear all, call for proposals for the next @ossdcomm.bsky.social meeting, May 11-14 2026, in Kona, Hawaii, is now open! Deadline: October 10, 2025.
Pls send us your best proposals for symposia & individual talks!
Excited to be program chair w/ co-chair Cindy Barha:
www.ossdweb.org/ossd-2026-sy...
Pls send us your best proposals for symposia & individual talks!
Excited to be program chair w/ co-chair Cindy Barha:
www.ossdweb.org/ossd-2026-sy...
October 8, 2025 at 5:33 PM
📢 Dear all, just a reminder that proposals for the 2026 @ossdcomm.bsky.social meeting in Kona, Hawaii are due this Friday, October 10. We look forward to receiving your best proposals for symposia and individual talks! Please find the links here:
ossdweb.org/ossd-2026-sy...
#OSSD2026
ossdweb.org/ossd-2026-sy...
#OSSD2026
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A small primer on the #NobelPrize awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi today. This prize was for combining two separate fields of immunology research - genetic research on IPEX and immunology research of regulatory T cells (#Tregs), with enormous impact on biology/medicine
October 6, 2025 at 11:21 AM
A small primer on the #NobelPrize awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi today. This prize was for combining two separate fields of immunology research - genetic research on IPEX and immunology research of regulatory T cells (#Tregs), with enormous impact on biology/medicine
Feeling so blessed to see one of my favorite pieces of literature, Beckett’s #WaitingForGodot , being played on #Broadway at the Hudson Theatre by… imagine…Keanu Reeves! This is magic! Don’t miss if you are in NYC.. things that make this city so amazing! ❤️
October 4, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Feeling so blessed to see one of my favorite pieces of literature, Beckett’s #WaitingForGodot , being played on #Broadway at the Hudson Theatre by… imagine…Keanu Reeves! This is magic! Don’t miss if you are in NYC.. things that make this city so amazing! ❤️
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”
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.
now.fordham.edu
October 3, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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”
now.fordham.edu/university-n...
Many thanks to @fordham.edu for organizing the celebration of the recently promoted & tenured faculty. It is incredible honor to be celebrated by the President, the Provost & the Deans. So proud of my dear colleague Eduardo Gallo & many thanks to our chair @ehekkala.bsky.social for her support!
September 30, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Many thanks to @fordham.edu for organizing the celebration of the recently promoted & tenured faculty. It is incredible honor to be celebrated by the President, the Provost & the Deans. So proud of my dear colleague Eduardo Gallo & many thanks to our chair @ehekkala.bsky.social for her support!
So much enjoyed the night out with @jordanmarrocco.bsky.social & Co. tonight. We are having just incredible weather in NYC this week…let’s enjoy while it lasts! ❤️
September 27, 2025 at 6:50 AM
So much enjoyed the night out with @jordanmarrocco.bsky.social & Co. tonight. We are having just incredible weather in NYC this week…let’s enjoy while it lasts! ❤️
Happy to give a talk on sex differences to @springernature.com editors focusing on neuroscience. I highlighted factors & mechanisms underlying sex differences in the brain, behavior & brain disease risk. Hope this helps editors and our field. Great Qs & thanks to Ben Bessieres for the invitation!
September 23, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Happy to give a talk on sex differences to @springernature.com editors focusing on neuroscience. I highlighted factors & mechanisms underlying sex differences in the brain, behavior & brain disease risk. Hope this helps editors and our field. Great Qs & thanks to Ben Bessieres for the invitation!
Big lab celebration: my 10 year anniversary @fordham.edu ; papers accepted @natcomms.nature.com Mol. Psychiatry @npp-journal.bsky.social ; @luisadema.bsky.social & @lailaouldibbat.bsky.social won #TPDA @sfn.org ; new postdoc @bruzzone-sep.bsky.social ; w/ Devin Rocks 🍾 Killing it - so proud! 🔥
September 19, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Big lab celebration: my 10 year anniversary @fordham.edu ; papers accepted @natcomms.nature.com Mol. Psychiatry @npp-journal.bsky.social ; @luisadema.bsky.social & @lailaouldibbat.bsky.social won #TPDA @sfn.org ; new postdoc @bruzzone-sep.bsky.social ; w/ Devin Rocks 🍾 Killing it - so proud! 🔥
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Very interesting new @wbickmor.bsky.social commentary on the mechanistic mystery that is very distal enhancer-promoter interactions www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Is enhancer-driven gene regulation all wrapped up? - Nature Reviews Genetics
In this Comment, Wendy Bickmore discusses mechanistic models of how 3D genome organization facilitates communication between distant enhancers and their target promoters to regulate gene expression.
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September 17, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Very interesting new @wbickmor.bsky.social commentary on the mechanistic mystery that is very distal enhancer-promoter interactions www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Incredible day today as Devin Rocks' main PhD thesis manuscript was accepted @natcomms.nature.com ! Please stay tuned for all the updates we made to the paper since *2023*! - so proud of Devin for all the fantastic work!
Also, I got 15% funding cut on my R01 restored today!
Lets go! 🏆 🔥
Also, I got 15% funding cut on my R01 restored today!
Lets go! 🏆 🔥
Here is our new lab preprint @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social, where we introduce the first sex-specific immediate early gene, Egr1!
Egr1 opens neuronal chromatin sex-specifically, with consequences for targeted gene expression changes, synaptic plasticity & behavior 👇
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Egr1 opens neuronal chromatin sex-specifically, with consequences for targeted gene expression changes, synaptic plasticity & behavior 👇
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Egr1 is a sex-specific regulator of neuronal chromatin, synaptic plasticity, and behaviour
bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution
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September 18, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Incredible day today as Devin Rocks' main PhD thesis manuscript was accepted @natcomms.nature.com ! Please stay tuned for all the updates we made to the paper since *2023*! - so proud of Devin for all the fantastic work!
Also, I got 15% funding cut on my R01 restored today!
Lets go! 🏆 🔥
Also, I got 15% funding cut on my R01 restored today!
Lets go! 🏆 🔥
Morrissey opening tonight’s show at the Radio City Music Hall with ‘There is a light that never goes out’. My heart jumped ❤️☺️… Amazing night! 🙏
September 17, 2025 at 4:46 AM
Morrissey opening tonight’s show at the Radio City Music Hall with ‘There is a light that never goes out’. My heart jumped ❤️☺️… Amazing night! 🙏
Still a bit jet lagged… the last part of my European trip was beautiful, stylish (& sustainable!) Copenhagen! Enjoyed this visit immensely… many thanks to Vibe Frokjaer for invitation to give a seminar at the University of Copenhagen. This is indeed the best job in the world! 💙💛♥️
September 14, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Still a bit jet lagged… the last part of my European trip was beautiful, stylish (& sustainable!) Copenhagen! Enjoyed this visit immensely… many thanks to Vibe Frokjaer for invitation to give a seminar at the University of Copenhagen. This is indeed the best job in the world! 💙💛♥️
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#ThisWeekInNPP
This 🔥 Hot Topic 🔥 emphasizes that ovarian hormone fluctuations - across the menstrual cycle, postpartum, & menopause - are key drivers of psychiatric risk in ♀️, yet remain understudied / @kundakoviclab.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
This 🔥 Hot Topic 🔥 emphasizes that ovarian hormone fluctuations - across the menstrual cycle, postpartum, & menopause - are key drivers of psychiatric risk in ♀️, yet remain understudied / @kundakoviclab.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Leveraging high-resolution brain imaging and (epi)genomic approaches to improve women’s mental health - Neuropsychopharmacology
Neuropsychopharmacology - Leveraging high-resolution brain imaging and (epi)genomic approaches to improve women’s mental health
www.nature.com
September 2, 2025 at 4:44 PM
#ThisWeekInNPP
This 🔥 Hot Topic 🔥 emphasizes that ovarian hormone fluctuations - across the menstrual cycle, postpartum, & menopause - are key drivers of psychiatric risk in ♀️, yet remain understudied / @kundakoviclab.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
This 🔥 Hot Topic 🔥 emphasizes that ovarian hormone fluctuations - across the menstrual cycle, postpartum, & menopause - are key drivers of psychiatric risk in ♀️, yet remain understudied / @kundakoviclab.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Many thanks to Joram Mul and the Brain Plasticity group for hosting my talk at the University of Amsterdam . Really enjoyed visiting the university and meeting everyone — such a great group! w/ @anikokorosi.bsky.social
September 2, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Many thanks to Joram Mul and the Brain Plasticity group for hosting my talk at the University of Amsterdam . Really enjoyed visiting the university and meeting everyone — such a great group! w/ @anikokorosi.bsky.social
Next step of the trip was beautiful #Amsterdam ! So lively, vibrant & free-spirited.. enjoyed every moment of the visit! Spent time with a dear friend and exploring the city, the Moco museum & my favorite Van Gogh museum, saw mesmerizing #AlmondBlossom again! 🌸 ❤️
September 2, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Next step of the trip was beautiful #Amsterdam ! So lively, vibrant & free-spirited.. enjoyed every moment of the visit! Spent time with a dear friend and exploring the city, the Moco museum & my favorite Van Gogh museum, saw mesmerizing #AlmondBlossom again! 🌸 ❤️