Gabriel R. Fries, Ph.D.
@friesgabriel.bsky.social
Ass. Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.
Researcher focused on the biological basis of bipolar disorders and suicide. #epigenetics #aging #bipolardisorder #suicide #metabolicpsychiatry
Researcher focused on the biological basis of bipolar disorders and suicide. #epigenetics #aging #bipolardisorder #suicide #metabolicpsychiatry
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Could premature aging help explain the variability in Alzheimer's risk in bipolar disorder (BD)? Excited to share our latest findings on the link between epigenetic aging and amyloid biomarkers in BD, now published in the American J of Geriatric Psychiatry: www.ajgponline.org/article/S106...
Honored to have been part of the 2025 International Summit on Suicide Research in beautiful Boston. #suicide #epigenetics #art
November 11, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Honored to have been part of the 2025 International Summit on Suicide Research in beautiful Boston. #suicide #epigenetics #art
Reposted by Gabriel R. Fries, Ph.D.
📢 calling colleagues to participate or help with recruitment for study on #depression experienced by #neurodivergent young people
Specifically:
👩👧👦Parents/carers
💼Mental health professionals
See poster
@ehayashibara.bsky.social
@qmul-wiph.bsky.social @qmulpsychiatry.bsky.social
Specifically:
👩👧👦Parents/carers
💼Mental health professionals
See poster
@ehayashibara.bsky.social
@qmul-wiph.bsky.social @qmulpsychiatry.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 1:23 PM
📢 calling colleagues to participate or help with recruitment for study on #depression experienced by #neurodivergent young people
Specifically:
👩👧👦Parents/carers
💼Mental health professionals
See poster
@ehayashibara.bsky.social
@qmul-wiph.bsky.social @qmulpsychiatry.bsky.social
Specifically:
👩👧👦Parents/carers
💼Mental health professionals
See poster
@ehayashibara.bsky.social
@qmul-wiph.bsky.social @qmulpsychiatry.bsky.social
🚨New publication alert! We tested the use of blood bulk or L1CAM (of putative 🧠 origin) extracellular vesicles (EVs) to identify #miRNA signatures in #bipolardisorder. Lots of lessons learned and key insights into the use of EVs for biomarker discovery: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
November 7, 2025 at 9:34 PM
🚨New publication alert! We tested the use of blood bulk or L1CAM (of putative 🧠 origin) extracellular vesicles (EVs) to identify #miRNA signatures in #bipolardisorder. Lots of lessons learned and key insights into the use of EVs for biomarker discovery: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Reposted by Gabriel R. Fries, Ph.D.
🚨 New paper alert on telomeres! 🚨
Something different from the group! Thanks to Yuxin, a talented student in the lab, we used long-reads in 75 human trios to study telomeres and their inheritance.
Something different from the group! Thanks to Yuxin, a talented student in the lab, we used long-reads in 75 human trios to study telomeres and their inheritance.
October 9, 2025 at 5:33 AM
🚨 New paper alert on telomeres! 🚨
Something different from the group! Thanks to Yuxin, a talented student in the lab, we used long-reads in 75 human trios to study telomeres and their inheritance.
Something different from the group! Thanks to Yuxin, a talented student in the lab, we used long-reads in 75 human trios to study telomeres and their inheritance.
Good news deserves to be celebrated! 🥳 Happy to share that our lab was recently awarded 1) a Pilot grant from
@mcgovernpeds.bsky.social and 2) a CaDRE award from
UTHealth Psychiatry to develop novel in vitro neuronal models to investigate mechanisms linked to suicide and bipolar disorder 🧠🔬
@mcgovernpeds.bsky.social and 2) a CaDRE award from
UTHealth Psychiatry to develop novel in vitro neuronal models to investigate mechanisms linked to suicide and bipolar disorder 🧠🔬
September 9, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Good news deserves to be celebrated! 🥳 Happy to share that our lab was recently awarded 1) a Pilot grant from
@mcgovernpeds.bsky.social and 2) a CaDRE award from
UTHealth Psychiatry to develop novel in vitro neuronal models to investigate mechanisms linked to suicide and bipolar disorder 🧠🔬
@mcgovernpeds.bsky.social and 2) a CaDRE award from
UTHealth Psychiatry to develop novel in vitro neuronal models to investigate mechanisms linked to suicide and bipolar disorder 🧠🔬
Updated lab photo from our Department’s Annual Behavioral Health Research Day @uthealthhouston.bsky.social
August 14, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Updated lab photo from our Department’s Annual Behavioral Health Research Day @uthealthhouston.bsky.social
Reposted by Gabriel R. Fries, Ph.D.
Are you an international (outside the US) scientist looking to attend the annual @acnporg.bsky.social meeting in January?🌎
Then see below for an opportunity to join us for #ACNP2026 in the Bahamas 😎🏖️👇
Then see below for an opportunity to join us for #ACNP2026 in the Bahamas 😎🏖️👇
The ACNP Global Scholarship Application link is OPEN! The ACNP 64th Annual Meeting is January 12-15, 2026, in Nassau, Bahamas. The deadline to apply is August 15, 2025, at 5:00pm Central. Don’t miss out! #ACNP2026 Click here for more info: tinyurl.com/j8a9zybu
July 24, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Are you an international (outside the US) scientist looking to attend the annual @acnporg.bsky.social meeting in January?🌎
Then see below for an opportunity to join us for #ACNP2026 in the Bahamas 😎🏖️👇
Then see below for an opportunity to join us for #ACNP2026 in the Bahamas 😎🏖️👇
Latin America has experienced an increase in suicide rate, contrasting with a global decline. We review possible reasons for this here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Led by Dr. Brenda Cabrera-Mendoza and @renatopolimanti.bsky.social, 1st publication from the LAGC Suicide Working Group.
Led by Dr. Brenda Cabrera-Mendoza and @renatopolimanti.bsky.social, 1st publication from the LAGC Suicide Working Group.
June 17, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Latin America has experienced an increase in suicide rate, contrasting with a global decline. We review possible reasons for this here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Led by Dr. Brenda Cabrera-Mendoza and @renatopolimanti.bsky.social, 1st publication from the LAGC Suicide Working Group.
Led by Dr. Brenda Cabrera-Mendoza and @renatopolimanti.bsky.social, 1st publication from the LAGC Suicide Working Group.
Could premature aging help explain the variability in Alzheimer's risk in bipolar disorder (BD)? Excited to share our latest findings on the link between epigenetic aging and amyloid biomarkers in BD, now published in the American J of Geriatric Psychiatry: www.ajgponline.org/article/S106...
June 13, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Could premature aging help explain the variability in Alzheimer's risk in bipolar disorder (BD)? Excited to share our latest findings on the link between epigenetic aging and amyloid biomarkers in BD, now published in the American J of Geriatric Psychiatry: www.ajgponline.org/article/S106...
Reposted by Gabriel R. Fries, Ph.D.
I recently—for the first time—spoke openly & honestly about my 11+year journey w/ #BipolarDisorder +chronic su!cidality on my friend @UmaRChatterjee podcast @AChatWithUma. Grateful to Uma for creating the opportunity for me to speak truth to stigma. Check out Part 1! (part 2 coming this week!)
🧠 WHY IS MY BRAIN TRYING TO K!LL ME?: Living With Bipolar 1 Disorder & Chronic S#icidality with Dr. @mayaschumer.bsky.social (pt. 1) ☯️
Ep. 40 of A Chat with Uma out now! Listen here 👉🏾 creators.spotify.com/pod/show/uma...
#BipolarDisorder #MentalHealthAwarenessMonth #Neuroscience #LivedExperience 1/
Ep. 40 of A Chat with Uma out now! Listen here 👉🏾 creators.spotify.com/pod/show/uma...
#BipolarDisorder #MentalHealthAwarenessMonth #Neuroscience #LivedExperience 1/
May 26, 2025 at 12:35 AM
I recently—for the first time—spoke openly & honestly about my 11+year journey w/ #BipolarDisorder +chronic su!cidality on my friend @UmaRChatterjee podcast @AChatWithUma. Grateful to Uma for creating the opportunity for me to speak truth to stigma. Check out Part 1! (part 2 coming this week!)
Reposted by Gabriel R. Fries, Ph.D.
Biological age prediction in schizophrenia using brain MRI, gut microbiome and blood data www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
May 23, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Biological age prediction in schizophrenia using brain MRI, gut microbiome and blood data www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
I had a very nice conversation last week with João Freitas on the topic of Epigenetics, Psychiatry, and the Future of Mental Health. 🧠🧪
Check out my interview 🎙️ on the Mind Body Science Podcast here:
YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubIc...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/54HO...
Check out my interview 🎙️ on the Mind Body Science Podcast here:
YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubIc...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/54HO...
May 12, 2025 at 1:34 PM
I had a very nice conversation last week with João Freitas on the topic of Epigenetics, Psychiatry, and the Future of Mental Health. 🧠🧪
Check out my interview 🎙️ on the Mind Body Science Podcast here:
YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubIc...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/54HO...
Check out my interview 🎙️ on the Mind Body Science Podcast here:
YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubIc...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/54HO...
Time to say goodbye to one of my first mentees, Rohit Jha, who is brilliantly graduating from Rice University this week. Rohit led many of our studies with a lot of creativity and enthusiasm, and I'm very grateful for what he has done for our lab over the last 3+ years. We will miss you, Rohit! 👨🎓
May 8, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Time to say goodbye to one of my first mentees, Rohit Jha, who is brilliantly graduating from Rice University this week. Rohit led many of our studies with a lot of creativity and enthusiasm, and I'm very grateful for what he has done for our lab over the last 3+ years. We will miss you, Rohit! 👨🎓
Final leg of the 🇨🇦 tour was in Hamilton: a visit and talk at the beautiful McMaster University and St. Joseph's (plus seeing really good friends!). So excited to learn of the work they have been doing.
April 28, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Final leg of the 🇨🇦 tour was in Hamilton: a visit and talk at the beautiful McMaster University and St. Joseph's (plus seeing really good friends!). So excited to learn of the work they have been doing.
Loved learning more about the awesome work @robynmcquaid.bsky.social and Ayeila Daneshmend are doing on the #epigenetics of #suicide #SOBP2025
April 27, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Loved learning more about the awesome work @robynmcquaid.bsky.social and Ayeila Daneshmend are doing on the #epigenetics of #suicide #SOBP2025
SOBP just reminded me of the amazing work being done by Dr. Patricia Silveira's lab at McGill University!
April 26, 2025 at 1:42 AM
SOBP just reminded me of the amazing work being done by Dr. Patricia Silveira's lab at McGill University!
The first day of the annual meeting of the Society of Biological Psychiatry was a success (and a lot of fun)!
April 25, 2025 at 2:34 AM
The first day of the annual meeting of the Society of Biological Psychiatry was a success (and a lot of fun)!
Exciting day 2 of the 🇨🇦 tour: Metabolic Psychiatry in Severe Mental Illness Meeting at the beautiful Hart House, UofT @uoft.bsky.social
April 23, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Exciting day 2 of the 🇨🇦 tour: Metabolic Psychiatry in Severe Mental Illness Meeting at the beautiful Hart House, UofT @uoft.bsky.social
Day 1 of the 🇨🇦 tour: productive visit and talk @camhnews.bsky.social Loved visiting the UoT campus, as well. Thank you, Dr. Erica Vieira, for hosting me!
April 23, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Day 1 of the 🇨🇦 tour: productive visit and talk @camhnews.bsky.social Loved visiting the UoT campus, as well. Thank you, Dr. Erica Vieira, for hosting me!
🚨 New preprint from our lab explores a potential biological mechanism underlying the heterogeneity in Alzheimer's disease 🧠 risk among individuals with bipolar disorder. Check it out here: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... #bipolardisorder #Alzheimers #aging #amyloid #epigenetics
Association between epigenetic aging acceleration and amyloid biomarkers in bipolar disorder
Objectives Bipolar disorder (BD) has been associated with an elevated risk of Alzheimer’s Disease (AD). We assessed AD biomarkers in BD and tested whether epigenetic aging (EA) acceleration is a poten...
www.medrxiv.org
April 10, 2025 at 5:35 PM
🚨 New preprint from our lab explores a potential biological mechanism underlying the heterogeneity in Alzheimer's disease 🧠 risk among individuals with bipolar disorder. Check it out here: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... #bipolardisorder #Alzheimers #aging #amyloid #epigenetics
Reposted by Gabriel R. Fries, Ph.D.
ACNP Travel Award Applications open TODAY for the ACNP 64th Annual Meeting: January 12-15, 2026, Nassau, Bahamas. Deadline to Submit is May 8, 2025, at 5:00 pm Central. acnp.org/annual-meet... #ACNP2026 #travelawards
March 31, 2025 at 1:30 PM
ACNP Travel Award Applications open TODAY for the ACNP 64th Annual Meeting: January 12-15, 2026, Nassau, Bahamas. Deadline to Submit is May 8, 2025, at 5:00 pm Central. acnp.org/annual-meet... #ACNP2026 #travelawards
Reposted by Gabriel R. Fries, Ph.D.
A cross-generational methylomic signature of infant maltreatment in newborn rhesus macaques www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
March 25, 2025 at 4:57 PM
A cross-generational methylomic signature of infant maltreatment in newborn rhesus macaques www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Reposted by Gabriel R. Fries, Ph.D.
My lab is hiring 2 postdocs on an NIH-funded grant characterizing molecular & cellular changes in the human brain across menopausal transition. Other neuroepigenomics projects are also available. We plan to hire a wet lab scientist and a bioinformatician. Please RT!
kundakoviclab.com
More info 👇
kundakoviclab.com
More info 👇
March 11, 2025 at 6:32 AM
My lab is hiring 2 postdocs on an NIH-funded grant characterizing molecular & cellular changes in the human brain across menopausal transition. Other neuroepigenomics projects are also available. We plan to hire a wet lab scientist and a bioinformatician. Please RT!
kundakoviclab.com
More info 👇
kundakoviclab.com
More info 👇
Reposted by Gabriel R. Fries, Ph.D.
Join our Early & Mid-Career Committee as they launch its Community of Practice on Tuesday, March 25th. This online event is for early & mid-career people working in the field of #bipolardisorder. Don't miss your chance to connect with others in the field!
Register here: forms.gle/cobckZRdVK14...
Register here: forms.gle/cobckZRdVK14...
March 10, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Join our Early & Mid-Career Committee as they launch its Community of Practice on Tuesday, March 25th. This online event is for early & mid-career people working in the field of #bipolardisorder. Don't miss your chance to connect with others in the field!
Register here: forms.gle/cobckZRdVK14...
Register here: forms.gle/cobckZRdVK14...
🚨The @isbd4.bsky.social EMCC will host an online event to launch its 'Community of Practice' on Tuesday, March 25th, 2025. The event is free and open to all, but we require those who will attend to complete a registration form by Thursday, March 20th at 5:00PM EDT: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
February 28, 2025 at 8:47 PM
🚨The @isbd4.bsky.social EMCC will host an online event to launch its 'Community of Practice' on Tuesday, March 25th, 2025. The event is free and open to all, but we require those who will attend to complete a registration form by Thursday, March 20th at 5:00PM EDT: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...