Brian Dias
@briandias.bsky.social
Immigrant 🇮🇳 scientist - studying Legacies of Stress 🧠- Children’s Hospital LA + USC Keck School of Med - Espresso aficionado (posts/opinions = mine)
@academic-chatter.bsky.social @thephdplace.bsky.social I am facilitating a Writing Retreat focused on writing an Aims page and wrote up the attached document to crystallize some thoughts. Maybe some will find it helpful. But more importantly, I’d love to hear your tips/tricks/strategies/psychology
May 5, 2025 at 3:24 PM
@academic-chatter.bsky.social @thephdplace.bsky.social I am facilitating a Writing Retreat focused on writing an Aims page and wrote up the attached document to crystallize some thoughts. Maybe some will find it helpful. But more importantly, I’d love to hear your tips/tricks/strategies/psychology
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Beautiful presentation by @briandias.bsky.social on mechanisms of intergenerational stress - inspired & excited about potential future directions from this work
April 16, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Beautiful presentation by @briandias.bsky.social on mechanisms of intergenerational stress - inspired & excited about potential future directions from this work
Enjoyed writing this book chapter with Sam Stack, Layla Vasquez & Will Taylor.
Intergenerational Effects of Stress - A Focus on Learning and Memory
doi.org/10.1007/7854...
doi.org/10.1007/7854...
Intergenerational Effects of Stress – A Focus on Learning and Memory
Stress is a ubiquitous facet of life. Ranging in form (e.g., psychosocial, physical, nutritional, economic) and longevity (e.g., acute, chronic), stressors affect the biology of those directly in thei...
doi.org
March 23, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Enjoyed writing this book chapter with Sam Stack, Layla Vasquez & Will Taylor.
Reposted by Brian Dias
UAB Neurobiology is hiring up to 4 new tenure-track faculty as part of 3 new open-rank searches. Come join our vibrant, supportive, and growing neuroscience community!
uab.peopleadmin.com/postings/23916
uab.peopleadmin.com/postings/23944
uab.peopleadmin.com/postings/24010
uab.peopleadmin.com/postings/23916
uab.peopleadmin.com/postings/23944
uab.peopleadmin.com/postings/24010
Academic Joint Departments-Open Rank/Tenure-Neurobiology
The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Heersink School of Medicine invites applications for 4 open-rank faculty positions in the Department of Neurobiology. We are seeking candidates who apply ...
uab.peopleadmin.com
March 11, 2025 at 10:52 PM
UAB Neurobiology is hiring up to 4 new tenure-track faculty as part of 3 new open-rank searches. Come join our vibrant, supportive, and growing neuroscience community!
uab.peopleadmin.com/postings/23916
uab.peopleadmin.com/postings/23944
uab.peopleadmin.com/postings/24010
uab.peopleadmin.com/postings/23916
uab.peopleadmin.com/postings/23944
uab.peopleadmin.com/postings/24010
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Plasticity of visual looming response reveals a dissociation of innate and learned components https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.18.628938v1
December 29, 2024 at 11:15 AM
Plasticity of visual looming response reveals a dissociation of innate and learned components https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.18.628938v1
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I have a story out today about a remarkable woman named Linde Jacobs. Three years ago, at 33 years old, Linde found out that she carried a genetic mutation for a devastating brain disease, frontotemporal dementia, which begins in middle age. (Thread)
December 22, 2024 at 1:45 PM
I have a story out today about a remarkable woman named Linde Jacobs. Three years ago, at 33 years old, Linde found out that she carried a genetic mutation for a devastating brain disease, frontotemporal dementia, which begins in middle age. (Thread)
Reposted by Brian Dias
Following @daylab.bsky.social’s nice paper on eRNA regulating Fos, and then our paper showing eRNA mediated regulation of NR4A2, here’s yet another eRNA controlling NPAS4.
LncRNAs for the win in the brain!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
LncRNAs for the win in the brain!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
A long noncoding eRNA forms R-loops to shape emotional experience–induced behavioral adaptation
Emotional experiences often evoke neural plasticity that supports adaptive changes in behavior, including maladaptive plasticity associated with mood and substance use disorders. These adaptations are...
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December 12, 2024 at 10:34 PM
Following @daylab.bsky.social’s nice paper on eRNA regulating Fos, and then our paper showing eRNA mediated regulation of NR4A2, here’s yet another eRNA controlling NPAS4.
LncRNAs for the win in the brain!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
LncRNAs for the win in the brain!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Hey #ACNP2024 attendees, UAB Neurobiology is looking to recruit 4 faculty in the areas of addiction neuroscience, iPSC/organoids, and neurodevelopmental disorders. All searches are open rank. Specific ads are forthcoming, but you can also apply at this link!
uab.peopleadmin.com/postings/18636
uab.peopleadmin.com/postings/18636
School of Medicine - Open Rank Neurosciences Strategic Hire
The University of Alabama at Birmingham* (UAB) Heersink School of Medicine (HSOM)** is recruiting up to 20 investigators as part of a major strategic initiative in the Neurosciences to build on a stro...
uab.peopleadmin.com
December 8, 2024 at 11:28 PM
Hey #ACNP2024 attendees, UAB Neurobiology is looking to recruit 4 faculty in the areas of addiction neuroscience, iPSC/organoids, and neurodevelopmental disorders. All searches are open rank. Specific ads are forthcoming, but you can also apply at this link!
uab.peopleadmin.com/postings/18636
uab.peopleadmin.com/postings/18636
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Such a thoughtful and well-contextualized talk by @briandias.bsky.social, strengthening evidence for transgenerational epigenetic inheritance (and amazing poem to start with)
Plus a recent review! osf.io/preprints/ps...
Plus a recent review! osf.io/preprints/ps...
@briandias.bsky.social summarizing the #acnp2024 panel:
Neural Mechanisms Underlying Mammalian Transmission of Affective and Motivated Behaviors Across Generations
Neural Mechanisms Underlying Mammalian Transmission of Affective and Motivated Behaviors Across Generations
December 10, 2024 at 11:18 PM
Such a thoughtful and well-contextualized talk by @briandias.bsky.social, strengthening evidence for transgenerational epigenetic inheritance (and amazing poem to start with)
Plus a recent review! osf.io/preprints/ps...
Plus a recent review! osf.io/preprints/ps...
Reposted by Brian Dias
New paper from the lab, where we show how the co-chaperone and psychiatric risk factor FKBP5 acts in CRH-expressing neurons to shape stress- sensitive social behavior. Deep phenotyping using #DLC and #DeepOF was key to unravel these effects. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Deep phenotyping reveals CRH and FKBP51-dependent behavioral profiles following chronic social stress exposure in male mice - Neuropsychopharmacology
Neuropsychopharmacology - Deep phenotyping reveals CRH and FKBP51-dependent behavioral profiles following chronic social stress exposure in male mice
www.nature.com
November 13, 2024 at 4:37 PM
New paper from the lab, where we show how the co-chaperone and psychiatric risk factor FKBP5 acts in CRH-expressing neurons to shape stress- sensitive social behavior. Deep phenotyping using #DLC and #DeepOF was key to unravel these effects. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
✨new paper✨10 yrs since we used smell to study legacies of stress (Dias & Ressler 2014). Then reversal (Aoued et al 2019), next, cause (germline RNA)+consequence (better learning) (Aoued et al 2020). My thoughts on how studies of chemosensation across species shed new light on such legacies.
Legacies of salient environmental experiences—insights from chemosensation
Abstract. Evidence for parental environments profoundly influencing the physiology, biology, and neurobiology of future generations has been accumulating in the
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January 30, 2024 at 4:36 PM
✨new paper✨10 yrs since we used smell to study legacies of stress (Dias & Ressler 2014). Then reversal (Aoued et al 2019), next, cause (germline RNA)+consequence (better learning) (Aoued et al 2020). My thoughts on how studies of chemosensation across species shed new light on such legacies.