Hi friends! I am an incoming neuropsychologist at the Cleveland Clinic. My research is focused in health disparities & aging in epilepsy & other neurological disorders. I am a proud momma of a 1.5 year old, advocacy warrior, & neuro lover. #BlackinNeuroRollCall

Jeff Bridges: “I’m white, I’m the Dude, and I’m for Harris."

Representation matters, and #BlackInNeuroRollCall inspires & uplifts those striving to make it in the Neurosciences. Hi everyone👋🏾, I'm a (still) first-year #NewPI at UT Southwestern Medical Center studying the Neuroepigenetic control of hunger 🧠🧬🍔😋 Excited to connect with you all! #BINW24

I am thrilled to announce that my doctoral research has been published in Nature Scientific Reports! I am incredibly grateful for the support and guidance from my mentors, Lori McMahon UVA Research and John Chatham! nature.com/articles/s4159…

We're finally doing it. We're finally going low and bullying conserv@tives.

5/ And therein lies the problem for conservatives: BIOLOGY IS NOT BINARY. It never has been, despite what conservatives insist.

Received perfect score on a center grant. Looks like we will be hiring postdocs for big collaboration UC San Diego Health on organoid models of schizophrenia and autism genes, CRISPR a/i screens and integrative data analysis of genes and neuroimaging, EEG and neural phenotypes! Pls RT

Meanwhile in Philly

THIS!!!! 👇👇👇

After ~8 years, happy to share work done w/Nathan Lewis showing you can eliminate the Warburg effect in mammalian cells-w/out impacting growth rate!-by simultaneous knock out of pyruvate dehydrogenase kinases and lactate dehydrogenases. Thread below: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

thetransmitter.org/neuroanatomy/r…

I am going to develop a course called "Data for Good & Evil" and each week will have readings on how data has been used for good and evil (including different concepts of good and evil) and at least one of evil readings will be from a campaign labeled "data for good"

"No person shall... hold any office, civil or military... to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof" -Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution's Fourteenth Amendment

Scientists establish myoblast cell line for Japanese eel, which is endangered due to overconsumption. Their reproductive cycle makes them difficult to farm — a perfect use case for #cultivatedmeat At least 2 companies already work on eel (Forsea, Umami Bioworks)

This would be such an own to the libs, I hope Texas doesn’t do this because we would be so owned.

One of the things I love about microscopy is watching order arising from chaos! These are mouse myoblasts undergoing differentiation into myotubes imaged every 3 mins. #microscopymonday

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

My favourite discovery ever has just come online. Can I please tell you about some seriously wacky molecular biology? The story starts with a reverse transcriptase that SOMEHOW defends bacteria from viruses. (👇 I recommend sound ON for the video 🎹) 1/

Delighted that California Institute for Regenerative Medicine has funded our center UC San Diego Health. Center is focused on integrative DATA SCIENCE combining genetics, neuroscience & clinical psychiatry (CRISPR, 3D organoid models of genes and neurocog and neuroimaging data on patients) cirm.ca.gov/about-cirm/new…

Nice feature on my grad PI, Stephanie White! newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/a-deep…