Ted Abel

Medal-winning U.S. bobsledders Meyers Taylor, Humphries shattering conventional wisdom as they write their own narrative Elana Meyers Taylor and Kaillie Humphries are both 40-year-old Olympians trying to balance life as mothers and athletes, so they've heard all the doubters. But on Monday, they proved they are writing ...

“You can do whatever you want. Dream big, aim high, shoot for the moon, you'll end among the stars” Elana Meyers Taylor, American Bobsledder

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Great to be back @acnporg.bsky.social meeting, talking science 🧠 with colleagues, swimming with sharks and playing tennis on clay for the first time!

From neurodevelopmental disorders to the role of innate immunity in memory storage, it was an energizing day of science 🧠🧬 yesterday at the Dept of Neuroscience and the Rose F. Kennedy IDDRC einsteinmededu.bsky.social Great to see old friends Jelena Radulovic, Sophie Molholm and Gary Schwartz!

Check out our new manuscript describing the circuit-specific impact of 16p11.2, a chromosomal region linked to neurodevelopmental disorders! @UIowaNeuro @IowaNeuroPharm @Hawk_IDDRC
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"We have to keep up the romance and the idealist notions of what it means to learn things and to be a better educated person... Take time to learn things. It's one of the best things you could do with your time." —Dr. Sean M. Carroll

A wonderful reminder from physicist and author Sean M. Carroll. 📖

A terrific visit on Friday by @mikeyassa.bsky.social! Mike's work taking the fundamentals of how specific aspects of hippocampal circuitry connect to memory and applying this to neurodegeneration is a tour-de-force in how to go from bench to bedside! 🧠🧬

From RNA splicing to enhancer RNAs--an exciting day of epigenetics last week @mpi-psychiatry.bsky.social 🧠🧬

Jammed packed poster session for 4 hours yesterday at our poster studying laminar information flow during working memory and language in the human cortex from fMRI to gene expression, led by Chris Petkov!

What a terrific
MCCS meeting last Friday! For over 25 years, this small meeting has included presentations from trainees side by side with leaders in the field. Great to have some Abel lab alumni join some of the current lab in our photo!

Incredible to see what @btlamb.bsky.social and the extraordinary neuroscience community at IUH/IUSM have built that spans from bench to bedside and back again!

In NYC with Iowa Neuroscience Institute Associate Director Joshua Weiner celebrating the wedding of Mark Blumberg and Karen Adolph 🍾🥂🥃

It's not all athletics! Great to see fellow neuroscientists Ravi Allada (Michigan) and Stephen Maren (Illinois) at the meeting of Institute Directors across the Big Ten yesterday @big-ten.bsky.social

Congratulations to Dr. Stephanie Gantz on being named in the 2025 class of Stead Family Scholars!

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Submit your abstracts before Nov 1 to be considered for a short talk!

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What a terrific celebration of research 🧠🧬⁦‪ at the Carver College of Medicine‬⁩ Investiture Ceremony! Congratulations to ⁦‪Seth Tomchik‬⁩ and Chris Petkov named to Roy J. Carver Professorships and ⁦‪Kathleen named to Roy J. Carver Chair in Neuroscience! ⁦‪#IowaNeuroscienceInstitute

Measles in the Brain Can Kill Years after Infection, Child’s Death Shows A child in Los Angeles County has died from a rare but always fatal brain disorder that develops years after a measles infection. Experts underscore the need for vaccination to protect the most vulner...

Measles Death Shows How Virus Can Hide in the Brain for Years www.scientificamerican.com/article/meas...

Congratulations, Coach Ferentz! How to become the winningest coach in Big Ten history? “Just the ability to understand that everything we still want is out there for us, and work with that mindset,” said Iowa center Logan Jones. “Coach has instilled that in all his players.”

Fantastic to have Lori Isom from Michigan Pharmacology
here at Iowa to deliver the Talman Lecture on Basic Neuroscience in Clinical Neurology. #IowaNeuroscienceInstitute

Her fundamental discoveries have shifted the paradigm for treatment of epileptic and developmental encephalopathy. 🧠🧬

Great to welcome serenadudette.bsky.social to Iowa City to talk about her work on hippocampal area CA2, social memory and autism! 🧠 #IowaNeuroscienceInstitute #IowaNeuroPharm

Great to be at the SPARKns course on drug development for autism with my Big Ten Neuroscience colleagues! 🧠🧬

Disney Tales of Magic tonight at Disneyland Paris! “Find your magic, embrace it, and pass it on!”

Thanks, Markus!

A moving visit to the Aga Khan Palace in Pune, which is closely linked to the Indian Freedom Movement. Gandhi and his wife were imprisoned here from 1942 to 1944. It is inspiring to see how the actions of one individual can change the course of history 🙏🏻

A new epigenetic mark important for memory storage! Check out our new preprint! 🧠🧬

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

Thanks to Sourav Banerjee NBRC, India, Florence Besse Université Nice and Ambitabha Majundar, National Center for Cell Science, Pune,
for organizing an incredible meeting on RNA-protein complexes in neuroscience, development and cancer!

Great to be at the National for Cell Science in Pune for the for the India-EMBO Lecture Course on RNA-protein complexes!

Great to meet Shefalli Gulati whose work directing the Centre of Excellence & Advanced Research for Childhood Neurodevelopmental Disorders at AIIMS New Delhi has transformed treatment for neurodevelopmental disorders in Indian and the world!

From regeneration to memory to hearing loss to neurodevelopmental disorders at the EMBO satellite meeting at the National Brain Research Centre near New Delhi! 🧠🧬 Thanks to Sourav Banerjee for being a terrific host!

What an honor to meet Meery Barua and to visit Action for Autism in New Delhi! It is inspiring to see the impact that one woman can have in growing acceptance for autism in India and the world! 🙏🏻

What a terrific meeting of the Molecular and Cellular Cognition Society at NYU Abu Dhabi! From epigenetics to engrams to perception! Thanks Dan Ohtan Wang for hosting us!