@ishmailsaboor.bsky.social
Associate Prof | Columbia Biology & Zuckerman Institute
Freeman Hrabowski Scholar | HHMI
We study how the skin-brain axis drives somatosensory behaviors
@yukihaba.bsky.socialReposted by @ishmailsaboor.bsky.socialHow does individual behavior reflect the organization of the society it belongs to?
Excited to share our new paper with @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social & team: a naked mole-rat’s spontaneous behavior in isolation predicts its identity, colony membership, and rank within its colony.
@ishmailsaboor.bsky.socialExcited to see our fMRI paper is out, led by Itamar Kahn’s lab. Our grad students, Amir Lawen and Bella Succi, in collab with Darcy Peterka, built a setup for simultaneous fMRI and dopamine fiber photometry in awake behaving mice. We learned some new biology too.
@ishmailsaboor.bsky.socialLooking great! Sorry to miss you all.
@nobelprize.orgReposted by @ishmailsaboor.bsky.socialCongratulations to our first Nobel Prize laureate of 2026 🎉 Early this morning Karl Deisseroth found out he was awarded this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He seems very happy with the news!
@ishmailsaboor.bsky.socialFinally!! So happy for my colleague and buddy @deisseroth.bsky.social!!
@ishmailsaboor.bsky.socialWe enjoyed collaborating on this project with Evan Schaffer, Kanaka Rajan, Caleb Weinreb, and Bob Datta.
@ishmailsaboor.bsky.socialExcited to share my lab’s latest preprint led by postdoc @yukihaba.bsky.social and grad student Ryan Schwark. We surprisingly find that spontaneous behavior in isolation predicts a naked mole-rat’s identity, its colony membership, and even rank within its colony.
@ishmailsaboor.bsky.socialHappy Day at Columbia. We just learned moments ago that our very own Charles Zuker was just awarded the Wolf Prize!
@hhmi-science.bsky.socialReposted by @ishmailsaboor.bsky.socialLike humans, zebra finches learn to vocalize by imitation — a trait found in only a handful of species.
#HHMIInvestigator Erich Jarvis's lab has assembled the first complete songbird genome, & it could hold the key to understanding how vocal learning evolved: bit.ly/4A74dHu.
@sarareardon.bsky.socialReposted by @ishmailsaboor.bsky.socialThe first transgenic cuttlefish is here, and it is beautiful. Our story @science.org explores the challenges @tessamontague.bsky.social and others face when engineering cephalopods. #GMO-Cthulhu 🐙🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...
@denisejcai.bsky.socialReposted by @ishmailsaboor.bsky.socialNEW: The anterior hypothalamic nucleus acts like a volume knob for stress, scaling the brain’s response to threatening events 🧠
Read the Cai Lab's latest paper, led by @zachtpennington.bsky.social, in @nature.com 🎉
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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@ishmailsaboor.bsky.socialCongratulations @tessamontague.bsky.social! Major development in your research program.
@neurovenki.bsky.socialReposted by @ishmailsaboor.bsky.socialSignal boost to our tenure track faculty search in "AI in Life Sciences". Broadly construed, so PLEASE apply!!
@harmitmalik.bsky.socialReposted by @ishmailsaboor.bsky.socialI see that @anthropic.com is now competing with PhD students in Biology/Bioengineering labs, whose biggest worry until now was being inevitably scooped by the Feng Zhang and Jennifer Doudna labs. Very different from Wild West days of RT discoveries in my PhD. www.anthropic.com/news/claude-...
@ishmailsaboor.bsky.socialThanks Chen! Loved speaking with our amazing undergrads and glad to have you on our team at Zuckerman.
@debivort.bsky.socialReposted by @ishmailsaboor.bsky.socialHello friends, the Harvard Life Science departments have banded together to hire a new colleague working at the intersection of Life Sciences and AI. Could be primarily an experimentalist, or could be primarily a compute/theorist.
@ishmailsaboor.bsky.socialSo well deserved! Congrats @dulaclab.bsky.social. Looking forward to celebrating at Rockefeller.
@ssebastianchoi.bsky.socialReposted by @ishmailsaboor.bsky.socialMy department (Psychiatry) at UT Southwestern Medical Center has openings for TT faculty position! Our Neuroscience Research Division has diverse research programs, from genes to neural circuits to human brain imaging. UTSW has a vibrant/growing neuroscience community
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
@ishmailsaboor.bsky.socialWonderful interview of @drjkhokhar.bsky.social on a paper that changed his life.
@ishmailsaboor.bsky.socialThanks for having me, I had a great time! Wonderful community you have built with awesome science underway.
