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Ishmail Abdus-Saboor

@ishmailsaboor.bsky.social

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Associate Prof | Columbia Biology & Zuckerman Institute Freeman Hrabowski Scholar | HHMI We study how the skin-brain axis drives somatosensory behaviors https://www.abdus-saboorlab.com/

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Ishmail Abdus-Saboor @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social · Jul 2

I am happy to share that I’ve been awarded tenure here at Columbia University. Alhamdulillah. I thank my wife, parents, mentors, colleagues, friends, and family. I thank my lab members, present and past, for entrusting their careers in my hands and making this a thrilling journey.

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Ishmail Abdus-Saboor @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social · 6h

Congrats to the winners! Its notable that Omar Yaghi was a refugee. Refugees and immigrants once again making American science great!

Nature @nature.com · 10h

BREAKING: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi “for the development of metal-organic frameworks”

Stay tuned for more.
#NobelPrize

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 9h

Breaking News: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi for developing metal-organic frameworks.

Nobel Prize in Chemistry Is Awarded for Development of New Molecular Architecture

The prize was awarded on Wednesday to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi.

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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 22h

Please spread the word! I am recruiting a PhD student this cycle (Fall 2026 start) to join my team in a new venture: the neuroscience of mood.

If you are curious to learn more, this short talk provides a good overview of why, what and how.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjIK...

Nicole Rust - The representation of mood in the primate insula (May 6, 2025)

YouTube video by Simons Foundation

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Catherine Dulac @dulaclab.bsky.social · 2d

Attention, Attention, Early career investigators in Neuroscience: this is a great funding opportunity and a terrific community of scientists to join: deadline for application is February 25, 2026 🧠🧬🔬🧪

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 2d

Darleane Hoffman, a trailblazing nuclear chemist who was hailed by Discover magazine as one of the 50 most important women in science and whose research confirmed the existence of several elusive superheavy radioactive elements, died last month. She was 98.

Darleane Hoffman, Innovator in Nuclear Chemistry, Dies at 98

Hailed as one of the 50 most important women in science, she found ways to study rare radioactive isotopes and advanced the understanding of nuclear fission.

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Mehmet Keles @flyman.bsky.social · Apr 8

I am proud to share that our work of 4+ years has finally been published. We wondered if there are distinct behaviors that mark sleep in 🪰, where sleep has been defined as prolonged immobility.
🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

FlyVISTA, an integrated machine learning platform for deep phenotyping of sleep in Drosophila

A machine learning platform identifies and characterizes the dynamics of microbehaviors during fly sleep.

www.science.org

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Cordero-Vásquez Lab @cvlab.bsky.social · 5d

Our new PNAS paper "Enhanced PIEZO1 function contributes to the pathogenesis of sickle cell disease" is out: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 1/3

Enhanced PIEZO1 function contributes to the pathogenesis of sickle cell disease | PNAS

Sickle cell disease (SCD), an inherited blood disorder caused by a mutation in the β-globin gene, is characterized by sickle erythrocytes that are ...

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Ishmail Abdus-Saboor @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social · 4d

Congrats! I remember this project from my Penn Bio days.

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Science Magazine @science.org · 7d

Jane Goodall has died at the age of 91.

In 2020, Goodall spoke with Science Editor-in-Chief H. Holden Thorp for a #ScienceEditorial reflecting on the 60th anniversary of her arrival in Gombe to study wild chimpanzees. Read more: https://scim.ag/472Chb8

"… Goodall’s … is a story of genuine scientific curiosity, determination, and respect for
nature and humanity …" H. Holden Thorp, Editor-in-chief, Science journals

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eLife @elife.bsky.social · 12d

1/ Starting next year, @hhmi.org will require all authors to share their research as preprints under a CC BY 4.0 license as part of its new Immediate Access to Research policy.
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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 13d

Big wow! Wonderful listen on my commute home. My 2 cents is that what @antihebbiann.bsky.social is talking about here (biological mechanisms for computation that interface with brain activity but go beyond it, like hormones) is the next big impactful thing, and she's among those leading the way 🤩.

The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 14d

In this episode of “Brain Inspired,” @braininspired.bsky.social talks to @antihebbiann.bsky.social, who argues that molecular signaling, like protein expression, controls innate brain responses to varying environmental contexts.

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/brain-inspir...

Ann Kennedy explains the theoretical neuroscience of survival behaviors

The Scripps neuroscientist calls for a broader theoretical neuroscience approach in her area of research, which focuses on how the subcortex bridges life and cognition.

www.thetransmitter.org

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Ishmail Abdus-Saboor @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social · 12d

love this pic and the people in it!

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eartha mae @endoeartha.bsky.social · 13d

Very excited and proud to share my postdoctoral research with @neurrriot.bsky.social looking at the context-specific encoding of social behavior 💃🕺 in hormone-sensitive, large-scale brain networks in mice!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#neuroskyence #compneurosky 🧪
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Jeremy Day @daylab.bsky.social · 15d

Excited to share this new work from the lab, in collaboration with @jtuscher.bsky.social & Rob Sorge! Here, we used single cell transcriptional profiling to define molecular adaptations induced by chronic pain and opioid experience, which often occur in conjunction.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Jeremy Day @daylab.bsky.social · 15d

What a great retreat! Thanks to the entire UAB neuroscience community for contributing their science, and to @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social for an awesome keynote lecture!

UAB Comprehensive Neuroscience Center @uabneuro.bsky.social · 16d

The 2025 CNC Retreat is in the books! 📖 Thank you to the 220+ attendees for being a part of this annual event and making it a grand success. More photos coming soon. 😎

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Maria Paz Fernandez @mariadelapax.bsky.social · 16d

Ed Kravitz passed away yesterday.
He was a remarkable scientist and mentor- brilliant, curious, creative, and kind. I am grateful to have learned from him. His legacy will endure through his science and through the many people he inspired.

We will miss you, Ed.

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Andres Bendesky @bendeskylab.com · 18d

Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Computational Ecology and/or Evolution @columbiauniversity.bsky.social.
Deadline to apply September 30.
Reach out if you have questions.

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Ishmail Abdus-Saboor @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social · 18d

So proud of Jess Jones, an HHMI Gilliam Fellow, for defending her PhD today in @tuthill.bsky.social's lab! Jess was one of my lab's 1st hires in 2018. She was also 1st author of one of our first papers: elifesciences.org/articles/57258. I wouldn’t be where I am today without her contributions.

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Ishmail Abdus-Saboor @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social · 19d

Very cool. A new mechanism found an ants to ensure the one-receptor-one olfactory neuron rule.

The Rockefeller University @handle.invalid · 19d

A new study in ants from @danielkronauer.bsky.social reveals a previously unknown mechanism that ensures that each olfactory neuron expresses only one odorant receptor, with broad implications for the study of gene regulation. #RockefellerScience
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Ardem Patapoutian @ardemp.bskyverified.social · 20d

New preprint alert! The uterus expands ~500-fold in pregnancy, yet we know little about how pressures are sensed. Led by @yunxiao-dr.bsky.social, we show PIEZOs are required for contractions and birth in mice, with dual roles of PIEZO1 in muscle and PIEZO2 in neurons
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

PIEZO channels link mechanical forces to uterine contractions in parturition

Mechanical forces are extensively involved in pregnancy and parturition, but their precise roles and mechanisms remain poorly understood. Here, we identify mechanically activated ion channels PIEZO1 a...

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Ishmail Abdus-Saboor @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social · 20d

fellow introvert here feels your pain

Ishmail Abdus-Saboor @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social · 22d

cant wait!

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Jeremy Day @daylab.bsky.social · 22d

One of my favorite events that we @uabneuro.bsky.social host each year, and excited to have @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social here for the keynote!

UAB Comprehensive Neuroscience Center @uabneuro.bsky.social · 22d

The annual UAB CNC retreat starts tomorrow in our beautiful new Heersink Institute for Biomedical Innovation Conference Center! Join us for trainee and faculty science as well as a keynote presentation from @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social! Link to program below.
www.uab.edu/medicine/cnc...

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Earl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · 23d

Prefrontal Network Mechanisms of Psychiatric Deep Brain Stimulation
www.jneurosci.org/content/45/3...
#neuroscience

Prefrontal Network Mechanisms of Psychiatric Deep Brain Stimulation

Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is an emerging treatment for otherwise treatment-refractory psychiatric disorders. It can produce remarkable clinical results in expert hands, but has not fared as well in...

www.jneurosci.org

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Ishmail Abdus-Saboor @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social · 24d

Congratulations to you both! Go HBCUs!