Angélica Torres-Berrío, PhD
@neuroangelica-atb.bsky.social
Director of Social and Cognitive Research
Lurie Center for Autism
Mass General Hospital | Harvard Brain Science Initiative
Early life stress, Depression, Autism, Epigenetics, H3K27me1/2 🧬
Lab website: https://www.torresberriolab.com
Lurie Center for Autism
Mass General Hospital | Harvard Brain Science Initiative
Early life stress, Depression, Autism, Epigenetics, H3K27me1/2 🧬
Lab website: https://www.torresberriolab.com
Reposted by Angélica Torres-Berrío, PhD
Finally out, the last paper of a great collaboration with @mvlourenco.bsky.social, Sergio Ferrerira, and Nahum Sonenberg. Led by Felipe Campos and Danielle Cozachenco. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Genetic Reduction of the Translational Repressors FMRP and 4E‐BP2 Preserves Memory in Mouse Models of Alzheimer's Disease
Genetic reduction of the translational repressors FMRP or 4E-BP2 prevents amyloid-β oligomer–induced suppression of hippocampal protein synthesis and memory loss in mice. Targeting translational cont....
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December 5, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Finally out, the last paper of a great collaboration with @mvlourenco.bsky.social, Sergio Ferrerira, and Nahum Sonenberg. Led by Felipe Campos and Danielle Cozachenco. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Reposted by Angélica Torres-Berrío, PhD
Sex-Specific Induction of H3K27me1 in the Prefrontal Cortex Mediates the Enduring Effects of Early Life Stress https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.25.690167v1
November 26, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Sex-Specific Induction of H3K27me1 in the Prefrontal Cortex Mediates the Enduring Effects of Early Life Stress https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.25.690167v1
Reposted by Angélica Torres-Berrío, PhD
Sex-Specific Induction of H3K27me1 in the Prefrontal Cortex Mediates the Enduring Effects of Early Life Stress https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.25.690167v1
November 26, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Sex-Specific Induction of H3K27me1 in the Prefrontal Cortex Mediates the Enduring Effects of Early Life Stress https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.25.690167v1
Reposted by Angélica Torres-Berrío, PhD
Thank you so much to @acnporg.bsky.social
for this absolute honor! Grateful to all I've worked with particularly mentors who've given such amazing examples, to brilliant mentees, & my friend for such kind words!
The work is the important thing & I'm so grateful we get to promote it this way!
for this absolute honor! Grateful to all I've worked with particularly mentors who've given such amazing examples, to brilliant mentees, & my friend for such kind words!
The work is the important thing & I'm so grateful we get to promote it this way!
Congratulations to Carlos Bolanos Guzman, Ph.D. and Jared Young, Ph. D. for being awarded the Dolores Shockley Advancement Award! 👏 #ACNP2026
November 24, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Thank you so much to @acnporg.bsky.social
for this absolute honor! Grateful to all I've worked with particularly mentors who've given such amazing examples, to brilliant mentees, & my friend for such kind words!
The work is the important thing & I'm so grateful we get to promote it this way!
for this absolute honor! Grateful to all I've worked with particularly mentors who've given such amazing examples, to brilliant mentees, & my friend for such kind words!
The work is the important thing & I'm so grateful we get to promote it this way!
Reposted by Angélica Torres-Berrío, PhD
Congratulations to Carlos Bolanos Guzman, Ph.D. and Jared Young, Ph. D. for being awarded the Dolores Shockley Advancement Award! 👏 #ACNP2026
November 24, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Congratulations to Carlos Bolanos Guzman, Ph.D. and Jared Young, Ph. D. for being awarded the Dolores Shockley Advancement Award! 👏 #ACNP2026
Reposted by Angélica Torres-Berrío, PhD
Reposted by Angélica Torres-Berrío, PhD
A Special Congratulations to @ericjnestler.bsky.social on receiving the 2025 Synapsy Prize. This prestigious award celebrates lifelong dedication to translating fundamental neuroscience discoveries into tangible clinical advancements in mental health. Learn More 👉 www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
November 14, 2025 at 7:16 PM
A Special Congratulations to @ericjnestler.bsky.social on receiving the 2025 Synapsy Prize. This prestigious award celebrates lifelong dedication to translating fundamental neuroscience discoveries into tangible clinical advancements in mental health. Learn More 👉 www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
Reposted by Angélica Torres-Berrío, PhD
🚨 @lisawatt.bsky.social 's paper is out! We uncovered an epigenetic ‘swing’ that tunes how neuronal ensembles capture memories in the brain 🧬🛝🧠. A project that I co-supervised with @graeffjohannes.bsky.social. Kudos to all authors! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Manipulating Engram Histone Acetylation Alters Memory Consolidation
The epigenome provides the brain with a nucleus-templated form of plasticity that is of fundamental importance for learning and memory. Of the various types of epigenetic modifications, elevations in....
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November 3, 2025 at 4:44 PM
🚨 @lisawatt.bsky.social 's paper is out! We uncovered an epigenetic ‘swing’ that tunes how neuronal ensembles capture memories in the brain 🧬🛝🧠. A project that I co-supervised with @graeffjohannes.bsky.social. Kudos to all authors! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Reposted by Angélica Torres-Berrío, PhD
🚨The paper from my postdoc in @graeffjohannes.bsky.social’s lab at @epfl-brainmind.bsky.social is out! We show that memories can be switched on and off by simply changing the « packaging » of DNA in neurons through epigenetic editing. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Cell-type- and locus-specific epigenetic editing of memory expression - Nature Genetics
CRISPR-based epigenetic editing is used in a cell-type-specific, locus-restricted and temporally controllable manner in the adult mouse brain to modulate memory expression.
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October 29, 2025 at 11:11 AM
🚨The paper from my postdoc in @graeffjohannes.bsky.social’s lab at @epfl-brainmind.bsky.social is out! We show that memories can be switched on and off by simply changing the « packaging » of DNA in neurons through epigenetic editing. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Angélica Torres-Berrío, PhD
Excited to share the latest from the lab on the molecular mechanisms of silencing and un-silencing a hippocampal engram ensemble. Was fun using a variant of the EPSILON technique developed by Adam Cohen's lab.
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Molecular mechanisms mediating engram ensemble retrievability state in mice
Engrams, ensembles of neurons that store memories, exist along a continuum of retrievability. Normally, sensory cues can reactivate a latent engram to…
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October 30, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Excited to share the latest from the lab on the molecular mechanisms of silencing and un-silencing a hippocampal engram ensemble. Was fun using a variant of the EPSILON technique developed by Adam Cohen's lab.
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Reposted by Angélica Torres-Berrío, PhD
I am extremely grateful and deeply honored to be conferred the new title of Xander University Professor by @harvard.edu
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Catherine Dulac Named Xander University Professor 🧠 🧪🧬 #AcademicSky #higherEd
www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n... @dulaclab.bsky.social @rachellegaudet.bsky.social @neurovenki.bsky.social @naoshigeuchida.bsky.social @harvardbrainsci.bsky.social @hhmi.org @cryptogenomicon.bsky.social
www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n... @dulaclab.bsky.social @rachellegaudet.bsky.social @neurovenki.bsky.social @naoshigeuchida.bsky.social @harvardbrainsci.bsky.social @hhmi.org @cryptogenomicon.bsky.social
Catherine Dulac Named Xander University Professor - Harvard University - Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology
MCB’s Catherine Dulac, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and renowned neuroscientist, has been appointed the Xander University Professor. Four Harvard scholars were recognized with appointm...
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October 29, 2025 at 6:38 PM
I am extremely grateful and deeply honored to be conferred the new title of Xander University Professor by @harvard.edu
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Reposted by Angélica Torres-Berrío, PhD
Incredible opportunity to showcase your promising drug targets at @acnporg.bsky.social this year! This is a new session that has been popular in attendance with clinical trial unblinding and novel therapeutic targets. 💊📊. Get those abstracts submitted! @sbilbo.bsky.social @talliezee.bsky.social
Deadline TODAY at 5pm Central! ACNP Promising Targets Submissions are open for the ACNP 64th Annual Meeting: January 12-15, 2026, Nassau, Bahamas. For more information, visit: tinyurl.com/4euj9bca #ACNP2026
October 27, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Incredible opportunity to showcase your promising drug targets at @acnporg.bsky.social this year! This is a new session that has been popular in attendance with clinical trial unblinding and novel therapeutic targets. 💊📊. Get those abstracts submitted! @sbilbo.bsky.social @talliezee.bsky.social
Reposted by Angélica Torres-Berrío, PhD
A 2024 #ScienceReview highlights the growing recognition of the complex cognitive capacities of #rats and its implications for how they are treated in scientific contexts. https://scim.ag/49byOse #ScienceMagArchives
The complex affective and cognitive capacities of rats
For several decades, although studies of rat physiology and behavior have abounded, research on rat emotions has been limited in scope to fear, anxiety, and pain. Converging evidence for the capacity ...
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October 25, 2025 at 7:59 PM
A 2024 #ScienceReview highlights the growing recognition of the complex cognitive capacities of #rats and its implications for how they are treated in scientific contexts. https://scim.ag/49byOse #ScienceMagArchives
Reposted by Angélica Torres-Berrío, PhD
"The way forward has become very clear"- Dr. Brendan G. Carr
A HUGE CONGRATULATIONS to @ericjnestler.bsky.social named Anne & Joel Ehrenkranz Dean of the Icahn School of Medicine. We’re thrilled about the exciting new direction Icahn Mount Sinai will take under Dr. Nestler's visionary leadership!
A HUGE CONGRATULATIONS to @ericjnestler.bsky.social named Anne & Joel Ehrenkranz Dean of the Icahn School of Medicine. We’re thrilled about the exciting new direction Icahn Mount Sinai will take under Dr. Nestler's visionary leadership!
October 23, 2025 at 9:39 PM
"The way forward has become very clear"- Dr. Brendan G. Carr
A HUGE CONGRATULATIONS to @ericjnestler.bsky.social named Anne & Joel Ehrenkranz Dean of the Icahn School of Medicine. We’re thrilled about the exciting new direction Icahn Mount Sinai will take under Dr. Nestler's visionary leadership!
A HUGE CONGRATULATIONS to @ericjnestler.bsky.social named Anne & Joel Ehrenkranz Dean of the Icahn School of Medicine. We’re thrilled about the exciting new direction Icahn Mount Sinai will take under Dr. Nestler's visionary leadership!
Reposted by Angélica Torres-Berrío, PhD
Such a nice collection of brain-body interaction articles in the special issue of @currentbiology.bsky.social. Love the beautiful vagus nerve on the cover by Andreas Vesalius www.cell.com/current-biol...
October 22, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Such a nice collection of brain-body interaction articles in the special issue of @currentbiology.bsky.social. Love the beautiful vagus nerve on the cover by Andreas Vesalius www.cell.com/current-biol...
Reposted by Angélica Torres-Berrío, PhD
Congratulations to Rebekah Rashford and team, it’s finally out! We tagged early life stress-activated neurons in VTA and found that chromatin those cells was much more open, even into adulthood, and that open CREs predicted greater gene expression in response to stress later in life
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Persistent open chromatin state in early-life stress-activated cells of the VTA
Scientific Reports - Persistent open chromatin state in early-life stress-activated cells of the VTA
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October 15, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Congratulations to Rebekah Rashford and team, it’s finally out! We tagged early life stress-activated neurons in VTA and found that chromatin those cells was much more open, even into adulthood, and that open CREs predicted greater gene expression in response to stress later in life
rdcu.be/eLa9z
rdcu.be/eLa9z
Reposted by Angélica Torres-Berrío, PhD
Congratulations to Freddyson Martinez-Rivera, Ph.D. a new Associate Member of ACNP! Welcome!! 👋 @freddysonj.bsky.social
October 14, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Congratulations to Freddyson Martinez-Rivera, Ph.D. a new Associate Member of ACNP! Welcome!! 👋 @freddysonj.bsky.social
Reposted by Angélica Torres-Berrío, PhD
Breaking News: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi for their work on immune systems.
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Is Awarded for Work in Peripheral Immune Tolerance
Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi were awarded the prize on Monday.
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October 6, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Breaking News: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi for their work on immune systems.
Reposted by Angélica Torres-Berrío, PhD
Excited to share that I landed my dream job!🎉🎉🎉 The Pennington Lab will be opening at the University of British Columbia in January 2026!
@ubcpsych.bsky.social @dmcbrainhealth.bsky.social
@ubcpsych.bsky.social @dmcbrainhealth.bsky.social
September 29, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Excited to share that I landed my dream job!🎉🎉🎉 The Pennington Lab will be opening at the University of British Columbia in January 2026!
@ubcpsych.bsky.social @dmcbrainhealth.bsky.social
@ubcpsych.bsky.social @dmcbrainhealth.bsky.social
Reposted by Angélica Torres-Berrío, PhD
Just dropped! 🧠🧪how to pinpoint brain cells activated by early-life #stress then determine their #epigenomic and #transcriptional changes that govern adult behaviors. Led by @amaliaflorious.bsky.social @svmahler.bsky.social @cate-cholamine.bsky.social @thebalelab.bsky.social doi.org/10.3389/fnin...
September 23, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Just dropped! 🧠🧪how to pinpoint brain cells activated by early-life #stress then determine their #epigenomic and #transcriptional changes that govern adult behaviors. Led by @amaliaflorious.bsky.social @svmahler.bsky.social @cate-cholamine.bsky.social @thebalelab.bsky.social doi.org/10.3389/fnin...
Reposted by Angélica Torres-Berrío, PhD
Please join us on 10/3 at 3pm at the Shaw-Roxbury Branch of the @bpl.boston.gov! All ages welcome!
September 22, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Please join us on 10/3 at 3pm at the Shaw-Roxbury Branch of the @bpl.boston.gov! All ages welcome!
Reposted by Angélica Torres-Berrío, PhD
This year marks 10 years since Dr. Millie Rincón-Cortés first joined ACNP as a postdoctoral trainee. Over the past decade, she has contributed significantly through her service and leadership. 👏 Click here to learn more about her impact: tinyurl.com/ys92eamk
September 19, 2025 at 5:51 PM
This year marks 10 years since Dr. Millie Rincón-Cortés first joined ACNP as a postdoctoral trainee. Over the past decade, she has contributed significantly through her service and leadership. 👏 Click here to learn more about her impact: tinyurl.com/ys92eamk
Reposted by Angélica Torres-Berrío, PhD
Meet @neuroangelica-atb.bsky.social on #HumansofHBI
Assistant Professor, @harvardmed.bsky.social;
Director of Social and Cognitive Research at the Lurie Center for Autism
brain.harvard.edu/hbi_humans/a...
Assistant Professor, @harvardmed.bsky.social;
Director of Social and Cognitive Research at the Lurie Center for Autism
brain.harvard.edu/hbi_humans/a...
September 19, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Meet @neuroangelica-atb.bsky.social on #HumansofHBI
Assistant Professor, @harvardmed.bsky.social;
Director of Social and Cognitive Research at the Lurie Center for Autism
brain.harvard.edu/hbi_humans/a...
Assistant Professor, @harvardmed.bsky.social;
Director of Social and Cognitive Research at the Lurie Center for Autism
brain.harvard.edu/hbi_humans/a...
📢Are you a Colombian Neuroscientist attending #SfN2025?
"Tomémonos un tinto, seamos amigos".
Let's celebrate the achievements of our community at the "Colombian Neuroscientist Networking Meeting" in San Diego!
Mark your calendar and stay tuned for further details 🗓️
@joeycheers.bsky.social
"Tomémonos un tinto, seamos amigos".
Let's celebrate the achievements of our community at the "Colombian Neuroscientist Networking Meeting" in San Diego!
Mark your calendar and stay tuned for further details 🗓️
@joeycheers.bsky.social
September 1, 2025 at 6:43 PM
📢Are you a Colombian Neuroscientist attending #SfN2025?
"Tomémonos un tinto, seamos amigos".
Let's celebrate the achievements of our community at the "Colombian Neuroscientist Networking Meeting" in San Diego!
Mark your calendar and stay tuned for further details 🗓️
@joeycheers.bsky.social
"Tomémonos un tinto, seamos amigos".
Let's celebrate the achievements of our community at the "Colombian Neuroscientist Networking Meeting" in San Diego!
Mark your calendar and stay tuned for further details 🗓️
@joeycheers.bsky.social
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August 19, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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