Hi #MedTwitter, #NeuroTwitter, and #NMatch2025! I'm Sinem, an IMG from Turkey, now working as a research fellow and team scientist Todd Lab @UM Michigan Medicine, applying for #Neurology in #match2025! 🧠 Looking forward to catching up and meeting with future colleagues!😊 #nmatch

Ever wonder if stress granules are intrinsically good or bad in neurodegeneration? Our new paper uses a unique tool to address this question: an alphavirus protein that blocks dimerization of G3BP but does not impact global protein translation. academic.oup.com/nar/article/do…

Filling out my ERAS application is bringing back so many memories. I’m deeply grateful to everyone I’ve met during my clerkships and research experiences! ♥️🙏Todd Lab @UM Mayo Clinic Neuro Pitt Neurology UAB Department of Neurology WashU Medicine Neurology UC San Francisco Yale University #NeuroTwitter #NMatch2025

Definitely recommending for our UM Neurology Residency Program residents and students!

Our first study in a new repeat expansion disorder: CANVAS. Connor Maltby used patient iPSNs to define how this non-reference AAGGG repeat impacts neuronal function. He finds a novel role for the repeat in disease that is independent of RFC1 function science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

New paper from my postdoc work at Michigan Research is now out in Science Advances 🎉 very proud to share the culmination of nearly 4 years of hard work with a fantastic group of colleagues and collaborators. A 🧵 of what we found out about RFC1/CANVAS 👉 science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

We have new #ALS research out: Epigenetic age acceleration is associated with occupational exposures, sex, and survival in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis - eBioMedicine thelancet.com/journals/ebiom… UMichNeurosciences U-M Medical School Research Michigan Neuroscience Institute (MNI) 〽️🧠

The British Library's blog on the exhibit Medieval Women: In Their Own Words is SO GOOD. Today: Medieval Witches - including the Malleus Malificarum, or Hammer of Witches (did I just find a name for my reflex hammer?) blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanus…

Happy Halloween!☠️👻🎃🧠 #zombieneurons #gesteantagoniste #Neurology #Halloween Neurdle - Neurology Word Game nature.com/articles/s4159… pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC55…

One of my favorite questions during interviews has been, ‘How do you pronounce your name?’ I usually explain that it’s pronounced just like ‘Sinemet,’ which translates to ‘without vomiting.’ In Turkish, however, ‘Sinem’ means my heart. 😂🧠🫀#NMatch2025 #neurology #neurotwitter

If you also love women, history, art and medicine - and want to go way beyond the tiny bit of history I touched on yesterday - sign up for this free series on women's ideas in the history of medicine! csmbr.fondazionecomel.org/events/confere… #womeninmedicine

Finally done with my interviews! Grateful for the opportunity to interview at such amazing places. It was great catching up with familiar faces and meeting new, inspiring people. Huge thanks to my friends, lab, and parents for their unwavering support!#NeuroTwitter #NMatch2025

Happy National Women Physicians Day! I'll be posting about important women from history and topics related to #BlackHistoryMonth for the next two months (and then some, you know me) over at the skies, same handle. 🦋

If implemented, this will destroy academic biomedical research in the US as we know it today. It amounts to a 30% cut on every NIH research grant at the University level. End result: less research and less discovery with negative effects across biotech and medical education.

A two-and-a-half-year-old girl shows no signs of a rare genetic disorder, after becoming the first person to be treated for the motor-neuron condition while in the womb. go.nature.com/4i9BpEx

I’m gonna be a neurologist! Endless gratitude to my incredible friends, amazing lab Todd Lab @UM and supportive parents for always believing in me! 🥰🧠#NMatch2025 #neurotwitter #Match2025

Step 3 ✅ No more UWorld! The only blue I’ll be seeing next year is that Virginia Beach ocean blue!🙃

Excited to share our collaborative preprint led by Zitian Tang and Sinem S. Ovunc, M.D.! We show that RFC1 AAGGG repeat expansions are common in idiopathic peripheral #neuropathy. A huge team effort! #genomics WashU Medicine Genetics @Umich Johns Hopkins Medicine medrxiv.org/content/10.110…