My recent research wrapping up my PhD work is finally out. I expanded on our hypothesis of disrupted mTOR signaling in Schizophrenia & studied the expression/activity of downstream effector proteins of mTOR & kinome profiles in Schizophrenia brain. https://t.co/Vcfa6EHx9f

At the end of 2018 I was lucky to receive a @cziscience Ben Barres award. This preprint is the culmination of that funding, which allowed us to try "out of the box" ideas to study neurodegeneration. Fearlessly led by amazing student @MitaliTyagi2! 🧵 /1

Academic science has a set of unwritten rules for success. In an effort to level the playing field, particularly for URM trainees, let’s make a list of the unwritten rules in science. What are some unwritten rules you learned during each stage of your academic career?

New preprint 🚨 from the lab! Another paper years in the making from @AliciaRavens and Kaelan Sullivan (not on twitter). TDLR: we describe a new form of intercellular synaptic plasticity! It involves Arc and another cool protein IRSp53. 🧵/1

Congratulations to our own @DrJeanneM! @UAB_ID @uabmedicine @UABDeptMed @anupamuab #HeersinkFaculty

Finally had some long overdue lab celebrations! Tate getting into med school, @AerialNeuroSci graduating, @RadhikaChadha30’s baby shower, lab’s R01 renewal, @MitaliTyagi2’s graduate research fellowship from @UUtah, @JunjieXu15’s von Schwendler prize!!

🎉🙌 It's happening soon and we are very proud @AerialNeuroSci

We are super excited to host the 2023 Rising Stars in Neuroscience Symposium! Check out this amazing group of speakers. If you’d like to attend the symposium virtually on 5/22 from 9am-3pm (MT), please register here: https://t.co/IGk1dy3qRM

Its 2023 and we are still struggling with being acknowledged for our work😞 The optimist in me is hoping for some major changes for Women in Stem in the next few years!

1/ Grant-writing tips. This #tweetorial mainly applies to @NIH grants (particularly R01s) but some stuff may be applicable to other types of grants and funding agencies. Based on my experience writing grants for 20 yrs +lots of cringe-worthy missteps and rejections along the way!

We're excited to share the largest genetic association study to date for age at dementia onset in dominant Alzheimer's disease, published today in @alzdemjournals and made possible by great collaborators and data sharing. Check it out!

I don’t usually post personal news but Clinicians have told us to pull every lever. Our daughter has with #dipg Brain cancer. There is no cure and typically 9m life expectancy. If anyone knows of trials then please get in contact! #braincancer #childrenscancer @CR_UK

It's important to recognize that if human conflicts are created by the misuse of human intelligence, we can also utilize our intelligence to find ways and means to overcome them. When human intelligence and human goodness are used together, all our actions become constructive.

You're not define by Your publications Your awards Your grants Your CV But by your behaviour, kindness and honesty!

A significant proportion of my thesis work is now available at @journal_ad. Many thanks to my co-authors, as well as @NeurologicalNZ and @HRCNewZealand for funding this work, as well as my awesome co-authors including @JamesAWiseman and @hcmurray6! 🧠🔬 https://t.co/gidmNChFR0

Anything that produced a result that helped in the exposition in the paper, even if it did not end up in the final paper, is a contribution worthy of authorship. Its the deletion rule- if this person did not do this, who would have done it to know its a negative result?

Look at this cool new preprint from our lab...congratulations @JunjieXu15 🎉🥳

Many professions including academia weirdly rewards & selects for folks who want to be seen as the smartest people in the room, who have to win every argument, & take no prisoners. But real humility also brings openness to others’ ideas & is the first step to true learning. 1/

In a rush of academia, don't forget to enjoy life, family, good food, outdoor activities, traveling, etc. If you are thinking to do it all after you finish a/an experiment, paper, school, Ph.D., Postdoc, etc., so remember this is just one life, & sadly time is not coming back!

Hard to believe this PhD will be PhDone in a few short days. My official defense presentation flyer and the unofficial, Dr.@taylorswift13-themed one @ananya_swaroop and I had fun making! If you'd like to tune in on Zoom, shoot me a DM. I'd be honored to have you join ☺️

One of the biggest lessons I have learned since I became a PI is that the best scientists are the ones who accept others' paths to happiness and success. I no longer value my colleagues based on numbers, but on how they got where they are and how generous they are with others.