
Rebecca Shafee
@rebecca_shafee
Neurogenetics Research Fellow @NIMHgov. PhD on black holes @harvardphysics. Mom 🇧🇩
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http://rebeccashafee.com 27-01-2017 08:11:49
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Sction on Developmental Neurogenomics from National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) attending #ASHG2023





When I thought I was done with the GWAS stories of 2023 and I should wrap up, stephen o'rahilly (its pronounced O-RA-hill-EEE) dropped yet another great paper from his team. How can I resist? It's storytelling time. In this hot-off-the-press Nature paper, Marlena Fejzo et al. uncover an absolutely fascinating


#OSSD24 program here: ossdweb.org/ossd-2024-prog… Packed wt great sessions, including one chaired by Allan Mackenzie-Graham & me on "Mapping Sex Differences in Brain Organization Across Species and Spatial Scales" from 🤩 team: Jason Lerch Xia Yang Lab UCLA Elisa Guma Rebecca Shafee



Our paper (Armin Raznahan AdamT, @dmoracze , Siyuan Liu, Travis Mallard) on sex differences in the genetic architecture of the human brain anatomy is now out in Nature Communications Springer Nature ! rdcu.be/dTUX1 Please see original post below for details…



📢📢 We're hiring!! Looking for two motivated individuals to work us. 1) a scientific programmer to software dev in the group! douglas.research.mcgill.ca/offres_d_emplo… 2) somebody interested in supporting immunohistochem work! douglas.research.mcgill.ca/offres_d_emplo… RTs pls Douglas Research Centre TRIDENT

So so so happy to share that my first, first-author paper from my time at National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) is now available online at Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders! jneurodevdisorders.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11… See below for a 🧵of key findings... 1/

Each month an #egg is ovulated from the #ovary, starting the journey of reproduction. But how does ovulation occur?🥚 Our latest work in Nature Cell Biology led by Christopher Thomas and Tabea Marx, describes the control of #ovulation using live imaging. bit.ly/3Ya8dEL (1/7)


🚨 Brain Age vs Direct Models in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) 🚨 A thread 🧵 1/ Brain age is a powerful indicator of general brain health, trained on massive datasets. But does this translate to better prediction for specific outcomes, like AD? Preprint by Trevor Tan :

