@friesgabriel
Ass. Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. Researcher focused on the biological basis of bipolar disorders and suicide. #epigenetics #aging #bipolardisorder #suicide #metabolicpsychiatry
Excited and honored to share that I’ve received the 2026 Gerald L. Klerman Young Investigator Award from DBSA! This recognition means a great deal and reflects the incredible mentors, collaborators, trainees, and research participants who make our work possible.
www.dbsalliance.org/about/gerald...
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Nice to see a secondary analysis of our hippocampal DNAm data (GEO: GSE129428). Ohi et al. show that 🧠 hippocampus-derived methylation risk scores are significantly associated with #bipolardisorder in 🩸 blood, pointing to cross-tissue epigenetic signatures: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
"Genomic research on suicidality in Latin America is growing but remains fragmented and underpowered. Increasing representative sampling, implementing ancestry-aware methods, and fostering collaborations are essential to advance research and inform prevention strategies in these populations."
Congratulations, Kira!! 🥳
Why do some individuals with serious mental illness experience earlier age-related decline? 🧬
Our new paper in @npp-journal.bsky.social investigates the role of premature biological aging ⌛ in SMI and what it means for future treatments.
Check it out here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Very excited to share our latest 📖 publication from the Latin American Genomics Consortium Suicide Working Group, now in press in @biologicalpsych.bsky.social, where we systematically review genomic 🧬 studies of suicidality in Latin American populations: linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii...
Congrats to all new #ACNP Associate Members, and special shoutout to my friend/Science hero @drsarahsperry.bsky.social 🥳🥳
Sad to have missed it! Have a wonderful ACNP, Marija!
Grades are posted, and our Neurobiology and Neuroanatomy course is officially done for the semester!!! 🥳 🧠 @uthealthhouston.bsky.social
Honored to have been part of the 2025 International Summit on Suicide Research in beautiful Boston. #suicide #epigenetics #art
📢 calling colleagues to participate or help with recruitment for study on #depression experienced by #neurodivergent young people
Specifically:
👩👧👦Parents/carers
💼Mental health professionals
See poster
@ehayashibara.bsky.social
@qmul-wiph.bsky.social @qmulpsychiatry.bsky.social
🚨New publication alert! We tested the use of blood bulk or L1CAM (of putative 🧠 origin) extracellular vesicles (EVs) to identify #miRNA signatures in #bipolardisorder. Lots of lessons learned and key insights into the use of EVs for biomarker discovery: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
🚨 New paper alert on telomeres! 🚨
Something different from the group! Thanks to Yuxin, a talented student in the lab, we used long-reads in 75 human trios to study telomeres and their inheritance.
Good news deserves to be celebrated! 🥳 Happy to share that our lab was recently awarded 1) a Pilot grant from
@mcgovernpeds.bsky.social and 2) a CaDRE award from
UTHealth Psychiatry to develop novel in vitro neuronal models to investigate mechanisms linked to suicide and bipolar disorder 🧠🔬
Updated lab photo from our Department’s Annual Behavioral Health Research Day @uthealthhouston.bsky.social
Are you an international (outside the US) scientist looking to attend the annual @acnporg.bsky.social meeting in January?🌎
Then see below for an opportunity to join us for #ACNP2026 in the Bahamas 😎🏖️👇
Latin America has experienced an increase in suicide rate, contrasting with a global decline. We review possible reasons for this here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Led by Dr. Brenda Cabrera-Mendoza and @renatopolimanti.bsky.social, 1st publication from the LAGC Suicide Working Group.
Could premature aging help explain the variability in Alzheimer's risk in bipolar disorder (BD)? Excited to share our latest findings on the link between epigenetic aging and amyloid biomarkers in BD, now published in the American J of Geriatric Psychiatry: www.ajgponline.org/article/S106...
I recently—for the first time—spoke openly & honestly about my 11+year journey w/ #BipolarDisorder +chronic su!cidality on my friend @UmaRChatterjee podcast @AChatWithUma. Grateful to Uma for creating the opportunity for me to speak truth to stigma. Check out Part 1! (part 2 coming this week!)
Biological age prediction in schizophrenia using brain MRI, gut microbiome and blood data www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
I had a very nice conversation last week with João Freitas on the topic of Epigenetics, Psychiatry, and the Future of Mental Health. 🧠🧪
Check out my interview 🎙️ on the Mind Body Science Podcast here:
YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubIc...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/54HO...
Time to say goodbye to one of my first mentees, Rohit Jha, who is brilliantly graduating from Rice University this week. Rohit led many of our studies with a lot of creativity and enthusiasm, and I'm very grateful for what he has done for our lab over the last 3+ years. We will miss you, Rohit! 👨🎓
Final leg of the 🇨🇦 tour was in Hamilton: a visit and talk at the beautiful McMaster University and St. Joseph's (plus seeing really good friends!). So excited to learn of the work they have been doing.
Loved learning more about the awesome work @robynmcquaid.bsky.social and Ayeila Daneshmend are doing on the #epigenetics of #suicide #SOBP2025
SOBP just reminded me of the amazing work being done by Dr. Patricia Silveira's lab at McGill University!
The first day of the annual meeting of the Society of Biological Psychiatry was a success (and a lot of fun)!
Exciting day 2 of the 🇨🇦 tour: Metabolic Psychiatry in Severe Mental Illness Meeting at the beautiful Hart House, UofT @uoft.bsky.social
Day 1 of the 🇨🇦 tour: productive visit and talk @camhnews.bsky.social Loved visiting the UoT campus, as well. Thank you, Dr. Erica Vieira, for hosting me!
🚨 New preprint from our lab explores a potential biological mechanism underlying the heterogeneity in Alzheimer's disease 🧠 risk among individuals with bipolar disorder. Check it out here: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... #bipolardisorder #Alzheimers #aging #amyloid #epigenetics