Marija Kundakovic

Happy Birthdays to the two Libras in the Kundakovic lab - @lailaouldibbat.bsky.social and Ana Milosevic! Glad we got a chance to celebrate you and everything you do before the long weekend! 🎉 🥂 w/ @luisadema.bsky.social @bruzzone-sep.bsky.social

Induction of menstruation in mice reveals the regulation of menstrual shedding During menstruation, an inner layer of the endometrium is selectively shed, while an outer, progenitor-containing layer is preserved to support repeated regeneration. Progress in understanding this co...

Congratulations @karalmckinley.bsky.social & lab on their groundbreaking recent preprint establishing + characterizing a chemically inducible model of menstruation in mouse:

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

My jaw dropped when I heard this presented earlier this year. Incredible.

📢 Dear all, just a reminder that proposals for the 2026 @ossdcomm.bsky.social meeting in Kona, Hawaii are due this Friday, October 10. We look forward to receiving your best proposals for symposia and individual talks! Please find the links here:

ossdweb.org/ossd-2026-sy...

#OSSD2026

Congrats, Armin! So happy for you!

A small primer on the #NobelPrize awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi today. This prize was for combining two separate fields of immunology research - genetic research on IPEX and immunology research of regulatory T cells (#Tregs), with enormous impact on biology/medicine

Totally!

Feeling so blessed to see one of my favorite pieces of literature, Beckett’s #WaitingForGodot , being played on #Broadway at the Hudson Theatre by… imagine…Keanu Reeves! This is magic! Don’t miss if you are in NYC.. things that make this city so amazing! ❤️

Professor Leads Groundbreaking Study on Menopause-Mental Health Connection A biology professor is examining the links between menopause and depression, anxiety, and other mental illnesses, building on a pioneering study she and her team just published.

Check out this nice story from @fordham.edu News on our work on #menopause transition recently published in Molecular Psychiatry & funded by the NIH. Knowledge is power! #WomensHealth 🔥

"Professor Leads Groundbreaking Study on Menopause-Mental Health Connection”

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So funny how I always look like I am an athlete at the Olympic Games when I am receiving an award! 😂 I am not even aware of that but it is deeply ingrained in my behavior I believe 🥇😃

Many thanks to @fordham.edu for organizing the celebration of the recently promoted & tenured faculty. It is incredible honor to be celebrated by the President, the Provost & the Deans. So proud of my dear colleague Eduardo Gallo & many thanks to our chair @ehekkala.bsky.social for her support!

So much enjoyed the night out with @jordanmarrocco.bsky.social & Co. tonight. We are having just incredible weather in NYC this week…let’s enjoy while it lasts! ❤️

Happy to give a talk on sex differences to @springernature.com editors focusing on neuroscience. I highlighted factors & mechanisms underlying sex differences in the brain, behavior & brain disease risk. Hope this helps editors and our field. Great Qs & thanks to Ben Bessieres for the invitation!

Big lab celebration: my 10 year anniversary @fordham.edu ; papers accepted @natcomms.nature.com Mol. Psychiatry @npp-journal.bsky.social ; @luisadema.bsky.social & @lailaouldibbat.bsky.social won #TPDA @sfn.org ; new postdoc @bruzzone-sep.bsky.social ; w/ Devin Rocks 🍾 Killing it - so proud! 🔥

Is enhancer-driven gene regulation all wrapped up? - Nature Reviews Genetics In this Comment, Wendy Bickmore discusses mechanistic models of how 3D genome organization facilitates communication between distant enhancers and their target promoters to regulate gene expression.

Very interesting new @wbickmor.bsky.social commentary on the mechanistic mystery that is very distal enhancer-promoter interactions www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Thank you, Laura!

Incredible day today as Devin Rocks' main PhD thesis manuscript was accepted @natcomms.nature.com ! Please stay tuned for all the updates we made to the paper since *2023*! - so proud of Devin for all the fantastic work!

Also, I got 15% funding cut on my R01 restored today!

Lets go! 🏆 🔥

Morrissey opening tonight’s show at the Radio City Music Hall with ‘There is a light that never goes out’. My heart jumped ❤️☺️… Amazing night! 🙏

Still a bit jet lagged… the last part of my European trip was beautiful, stylish (& sustainable!) Copenhagen! Enjoyed this visit immensely… many thanks to Vibe Frokjaer for invitation to give a seminar at the University of Copenhagen. This is indeed the best job in the world! 💙💛♥️

Leveraging high-resolution brain imaging and (epi)genomic approaches to improve women’s mental health - Neuropsychopharmacology Neuropsychopharmacology - Leveraging high-resolution brain imaging and (epi)genomic approaches to improve women’s mental health

#ThisWeekInNPP

This 🔥 Hot Topic 🔥 emphasizes that ovarian hormone fluctuations - across the menstrual cycle, postpartum, & menopause - are key drivers of psychiatric risk in ♀️, yet remain understudied / @kundakoviclab.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Many thanks to Joram Mul and the Brain Plasticity group for hosting my talk at the University of Amsterdam . Really enjoyed visiting the university and meeting everyone — such a great group! w/ @anikokorosi.bsky.social

Next step of the trip was beautiful #Amsterdam ! So lively, vibrant & free-spirited.. enjoyed every moment of the visit! Spent time with a dear friend and exploring the city, the Moco museum & my favorite Van Gogh museum, saw mesmerizing #AlmondBlossom again! 🌸 ❤️

Goodbye beautiful #Helsinki ! This was an amazing visit to @helsinki.fi , Helsinki Biennial at the wonderful Vallisaari island w/ @iirishovatta.bsky.social lab , beautiful art at the Kiasma museum , swimming & sauning at the Allas pools. 🙏 Iiris, until next time! ❤️

A new 🔥 Hot Topic 🔥 from @kundakoviclab.bsky.social is out now in @npp-journal.bsky.social

Thank you, Iiris, for everything! It was a wonderful visit!

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Thrilled to share our Hot Topics article just published @npp-journal.bsky.social :

"Leveraging high-resolution brain imaging & (epi)genomic approaches to improve women’s mental health"

Always huge pleasure to work w/ @cogneuroend.bsky.social on revolutionizing #WomensMentalHealth 🔥

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On my way to begin my Northern European tour! ☺️ The first stop is Helsinki and seminar at the University of Helsinki @helsinki.fi Many thanks to @iirishovatta.bsky.social for this kind invitation. Can’t wait to visit the uni and the city! 😍

Thank you!

Thank you, Debbie!

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Amazing day in the lab today... we first got our menopause biomarker paper accepted in Molecular Psychiatry and then... BOTH @lailaouldibbat.bsky.social and @luisadema.bsky.social received the Trainee Professional Development Award #TPDA from @sfn.org . So proud of the lab and my lab members! 🔥

Dear all, call for proposals for the next @ossdcomm.bsky.social meeting, May 11-14 2026, in Kona, Hawaii, is now open! Deadline: October 10, 2025.

Pls send us your best proposals for symposia & individual talks!

Excited to be program chair w/ co-chair Cindy Barha:
www.ossdweb.org/ossd-2026-sy...