Sasha L. Fulton
@SashaLFulton
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HHMI HG Fellow/K00 DSPAN/UNCF E.E. Just/BWF PDEP Fellow. Postdoc in the Abdus-Saboor Lab at Columbia University. Former Ph.D. Student in the Maze lab at ISMMS.
New York City
Joined March 2009
I’m extremely honored to be a recipient of the NIH Director’s Pioneer Award!
Congratulations to @IshmailSaboor on receiving the @NIH Director’s Pioneer Award, celebrating “scientists with outstanding records of creativity.” His lab will explore how the sense of touch can help build relationships. 🫶🧠💡See https://t.co/rv8V7mFrJT
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Thanks to our incredible collaborators on this huge team effort, and especially to my tireless Ph.D mentor @themazelab for the support, training, and sheer will to make this project happen! Paper: https://t.co/yFApb7vCIU Preview:
cell.com
In this issue of Neuron, Fulton et al. discover ZBTB7A, a chromatin regulator in orbitofrontal astrocytes, drives neuronal hyperactivity to promote depression susceptibility.
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So excited my doctorate work (and this excellent Preview by Yuhui Cui) is finally out @Neuron! We used human MDD profiling + mouse manipulation studies to identify an epigenetic regulator linking OFC astrocyte reactivity -> neuronal hyperexcitability -> stress susceptibility.
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BWF is proud to announce the 2025 recipients of its Postdoctoral Diversity Enrichment Program (PDEP), which provides critical support to postdoctoral researchers pursuing careers in biomedical and medical research. https://t.co/IWVLQwMSvb
#bwfpdep
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So incredibly excited to be able to officially highlight the outstanding work of @SashaLFulton, a previous superstar PhD student in my lab and now a superstar postdoc in the @IshmailSaboor lab at Columbia (also an @HHMINEWS Hanna H. Gray Fellow), now out at @NeuroCellPress !!
Online now: Major-depressive-disorder-associated dysregulation of ZBTB7A in orbitofrontal cortex promotes astrocyte-mediated stress susceptibility https://t.co/WhWwIxQfyb
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This was such a fun chat with @Melissa_Franch about my science journey so far! Thanks to @storiesofwin for featuring my story.
Our latest profile is here! Dr. Sasha Fulton (@SashaLFulton) studies cellular mechanisms of peripheral nerve damage repair and regeneration. Follow the link below to listen and learn more! https://t.co/BoWoo0mP4c
#StoriesOfWiN #WomenInNeuroscience
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@HHMINEWS @IshmailSaboor Also to the small army of mentors/peers that invested their time and efforts into helping me with this process – PhD PI @themazelab, members of both PhD and Postdoc labs, and so many current HG fellows @monique_ja44 – I really can’t thank you all enough!
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Congrats to postdoc @SashaLFulton (@IshmailSaboor lab), now an @HHMINews Hanna H. Gray Fellow! She's digging deep into nerve regeneration and other amazing things that happen in the peripheral nervous system. 📰 https://t.co/UEH6yV1gXZ 📷 Charles Sykes / AP Images for HHMI
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Beyond thrilled to be named a 2025 @HHMINEWS Hanna Gray Fellow!! So grateful for the incredible mentorship/support from PI @IshmailSaboor every step of the way. Excited to make the most of this unbelievable opportunity to push my work forward and join this inspiring community!
Today we're thrilled to announce our 2024 #HannaGrayFellows! Please join us in welcoming and celebrating these outstanding early career scientists! This cohort includes scientists working in research areas ranging from treatment-resistant cancers to sleep dysregulation to how
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Don't miss this huge funding opportunity for your postdoc work! Reach out to me if I can help with app materials!
Apply for the Postdoctoral Diversity Enrichment Program & receive up to $60K for research, travel, & career advancement! Don't miss out on this opportunity! 🔗 https://t.co/hwF59lGqmW
#PostdocLife #FundingOpportunities #bwfpdep
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My PhD work is finally out in @NeuroCellPress! "Heightened lateral habenula activity during stress produces brainwide and behavioral substrates of susceptibility" w/ amazing team @IlanaWitten @ZimmermanNeuro @lindsaywillmore @Neurrriot @alexpan_neuro
cell.com
Zhukovskaya et al. show that during social defeat, stress-susceptible mice have higher initial activity in LHb. Closed-loop LHb activation during defeat produces lasting behavioral and neural...
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Huge congrats to all the new DSPAN Scholars!! So proud of my superstar Maze labmate @ANeurogirl, who's heading into the postdoc market soon - catch her if you can !
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Congrats @andydotstew, it was a joy to watch this project come together! Super cool - dopamine modifies (and regulates) synaptic proteins 🤯
Excited to share the preprint of my thesis work in @themazelab! In collaboration with @MuirLab we utilized a new chemical tool to label and enrich for endogenous substrates of protein dopaminylation in vivo! my favorite bits below:🧵 https://t.co/fDsIbu15m1
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! This REACH LRP Award is going to pay off my remaining student loans. Mechanisms like this make a huge difference. Apply! Thank you @NIH_LRP @NIH_NINDS and my mentor @IshmailSaboor.
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Another hugely important development : My dog Bruce was featured on the dogist!!!
Bruce, St. Bernard mix (4 y/o), 110th & Manhattan Ave., New York, NY • “He’s a gentle giant – he’s the sweetest dog. He flops on the ground and sleeps for hours. He will try to chase squirrels a little bit if he sees one, but he’s pretty slow, honestly.” A rescue via @hbrdogs
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So excited this work is out congrats Amni!!!
Excited to share our lab’s new manuscript exploring roles for Histone serotonylation in the regulation of stress- and antidepressant-mediated gene expression and behavior!! Huge congratulations to Amni Al-Kachak and all co-authors for their amazing efforts
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Incredibly honored to be selected for this program! This support from BWF is going to have a huge impact on my work. Big thanks to my mentor @IshmailSaboor and previous awardees @AndreBToussain1 and @iaahmed123 for their mentorship, guidance, and wisdom!
BWF is proud to announce the recipients of the 2024 Postdoctoral Diversity Enrichment Program (PDEP) awards. #bwfpdep
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Excited to finally share my thesis work with a wider audience. Learn more about the ARM, a device we created to improve evoked mechanosensory assays on all levels!
biorxiv.org
The canonical framework for testing pain and mechanical sensitivity in rodents is manual delivery of stimuli to the paw. However, this approach can produce variability in results, requires signific...
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So excited to be the recipient of a 2023 NARSAD Young Investigator award!!! Thanks to @BBRFoundation @themazelab and the @SinaiBrain community for supporting my research examining the persistent effects of pregnancy/postpartum experiences on brain plasticity! 🧠☀️🎉
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