🚨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....

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

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...

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!

🚨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...

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 🤠

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! 👩‍🎨👨‍🎨

The great Dr. N. Olivia Zhao presenting her findings on the association between epigenetic aging and #Alzheimer's disease biomarkers in #bipolardisorder at #ACNP2024 #proudmentor @uthealthhouston.bsky.social

Houston - Pittsburgh - Toronto reunion at #ACNP2024

Almost omw to #ACNP2024, but had to make a quick stop at the 30th Annual #Neuroscience Poster Session first. Great event with lots of awesome science from @uthealthhouston.bsky.social @riceuniversity.bsky.social and Baylor College of Medicine!

Hi #ACNP2024 folks 🌵! If you are interested in aging, epigenetics, and transcriptomics in #bipolardisorder and #suicide, please stop by the posters M25 and T98 to talk to us! We are excited to hear your thoughts and suggestions (plus, we want to make new friends 😀). @acnporg.bsky.social