Ishmail Abdus-Saboor

We study how the skin-brain axis drives somatosensory behaviors | Associate Professor @Zuckermanbrain @Columbia_Bio | Freeman Hrabowski Scholar @HHMINEWS

[Ishmail Abdus-Saboor @IshmailSaboor]

Excited to share my lab’s latest preprint led by postdoc @YukiHaba_ and grad student Ryan Schwark. We surprisingly find that spontaneous behavior in isolation predicts a naked mole-rat’s identity, its colony membership, and even rank within its colony.

https://t.co/4LFNOSj9UO

[Ishmail Abdus-Saboor @IshmailSaboor]

@MExpositoAlonso @UCBerkeley Great news Moi!! So well deserved!! Freeman Hrabowski Scholars in action!

[Ishmail Abdus-Saboor @IshmailSaboor]

@CorneliusGati Very cool, congrats!

[Ishmail Abdus-Saboor @IshmailSaboor]

Congrats Jo!

[Josefina del Mármol @MarmolJosefina]

I’m delighted to present our new work on IRs, a massively expanded family of receptors derived from iGluRs. Here we explain how these proteins adapted the iGluR scaffold to sense a variety of stimuli, through an elaborate system of co-receptor subunits. Congrats, team!

[Leslie Vosshall PhD @leslievosshall]

Not one, not two, but three insect ionotropic receptor CryoEM structures from @hhmi_science #FreemanHrabowski Scholar Josefina del Marmol:
https://t.co/nK8HIFwFm4
Read this pre-print for the full picture of IR structure-function.

[Ishmail Abdus-Saboor @IshmailSaboor]

Series looks incredible! Be sure to check out Briana Nixon from the Abdus-Saboor lab.

[Friedman Brain Institute @SinaiBrain]

CHECK THE DATES | MARK YOUR CALENDARS! Join us for the #MSNSeminarSeries 2026–2027 @IcahnMountSinai! This year's series brings together researchers from leading institutions to share exciting discoveries, innovative approaches, and new perspectives in neuroscience. NOT TO MISS!

[Osama Harraz @OsamaHarraz]

🧠Hypertension changes how brain blood vessels sense mechanical forces. Overactive Piezo1 disrupts cerebral blood flow and cognition, while Piezo1 inhibition reverses these deficits in mice. https://t.co/lHC0nVxRK9 @CircRes

[Cell @CellCellPress]

Now online! A high-dimensional population code in the bat motor cortex during natural dexterous flight dlvr.​it/TVvMP6

[Jibran Khokhar @DrJKhokhar]

So excited to finally share this collaborative work exploring the role of CADM2 recursive splice site deletions led by @Philip_M_Boone. We (@JKhokharLab) were fortunate to characterize the neural and behavioural consequences of CADM2 RS1 deletion https://t.co/dTc9E5sZgR

[Ishmail Abdus-Saboor @IshmailSaboor]

Awesome news!! Congrats @ScottRussoPhD!

[Friedman Brain Institute @SinaiBrain]

We are INCREDIBLY EXCITED to share that @ScottRussoPhD has been appointed Chair of #NashNeuroscience @IcahnMountSinai. Dr. Russo is a distinguished neuroscientist, visionary leader & mentor. We couldn't be happier for the Department of Neuroscience! Congratulations, Dr. Russo! 🎉

[Columbia University @Columbia]

What do you do after winning the @NobelPrize? If you're Columbia Professor Michael Woodford, newly named a Nobel laureate in Economic Sciences, you head to Uris Hall and give your students an exam. Woodford entered the classroom to cheers and applause from the students in his course “Cognitive Mechanisms and Economic Behavior.”

“It's just a staggering piece of news,” Woodford said of receiving the honor. He is the 16th Columbian to receive this prize in economics, and the University's 89th Nobel laureate.

Hear more from Woodford about the award: https://t.co/fvqtEQakBh

📹 Columbia University
📷 Diane Bondareff/Columbia University

[Yuki Haba @YukiHaba_]

How does individual behavior reflect the organization of the society it belongs to?

Excited to share our new paper with @IshmailSaboor & team: a naked mole-rat’s spontaneous behavior in isolation predicts its identity, colony membership, and rank within its colony.

[Science Magazine @ScienceMagazine]

Exclusive: When Tessa Montague learned about #CRISPR, the gene-editing system that was supposed to make it easy to modify any organism, she set her sights on the cuttlefish. The Columbia University neuroscientist dreamed of injecting its embryos with genes that would prompt its neurons to fluoresce as they fired.

The flashes would let her track how this tentacled creature's brain controls one of its most striking behaviors: camouflaging itself by copying patterns it perceives in its surroundings onto its skin. Unlike most animals, she says, “cuttlefish can actually tell us what they see.”

Six years and thousands of embryos later, she has reached a milestone: seven cuttlefish that glow red under fluorescent light. Every cell in their boneless bodies contains a gene encoding a synthetic fluorescent protein—even their eggs and sperm, which means their cuttlebabies glow, too.

The work, posted as a preprint, marks the first time anyone has successfully added a new gene to a cephalopod. https://t.co/URTEOdc5za @NewsfromScience

[Isabella Succi @IsabellaSucci]

so proud our work linking dopamine dynamics to brain-wide changes during learning is published! working with @AmirLawen was a privilege — he’s an incredible leader, thinker, and scientist. it was a delight to bring our scientific strengths together and find something very cool 🤩

[Ishmail Abdus-Saboor @IshmailSaboor]

@NYUPainResearch @lauren_orefice @karagm2009 @SarahANajjar Bummed to miss this one. Im a huge fan of Lauren’s work!

[Ishmail Abdus-Saboor @IshmailSaboor]

Excited to see our fMRI paper is out, led by Itamar Kahn’s lab. Our grad students, Amir Lawen and Bella Succi, in collab with Darcy Peterka, built a setup for simultaneous fMRI and dopamine fiber photometry in awake behaving mice.

https://t.co/temXlZaVGQ

[Ishmail Abdus-Saboor @IshmailSaboor]

@SchreinerDrew @statnews @EricBoodman Awesome, congrats!

[Ishmail Abdus-Saboor @IshmailSaboor]

@MoKhalilLab @NIH awesome, congrats!!

[Ishmail Abdus-Saboor @IshmailSaboor]

@bjmarlin @Stanford @KarlDeisseroth Im not mad! And OMG, you and Sage look like twins.

[Karl Deisseroth @KarlDeisseroth]

Thanks to everyone sharing in this moment!
I’m so grateful to my trainees & collaborators…
https://t.co/6JdZQHnYJf
(pic: optogenetics conference chairs, Tuscany)

Reading for all those asking:

for technical details: https://t.co/x7kQvPujvq

for everyone: https://t.co/1omhw0hKAV

[Stanford University @Stanford]

The most important briefings of the day.

Karl Deisseroth, professor of bioengineering and of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, shares the news of his Nobel Prize with his kids.