Marija Kundakovic

Vibe Frøkjær and Silvia Bruzzone from NRU invite all to join the guest lecture with Dr. Marija Kundakovic (Fordham University, New York, USA) titled:

“Epigenomic programming of brain plasticity and disease risk by ovarian hormones"

The lecture will take place at Rigshopitalet, section 8057 (entrance 8, 5th floor), Neurobiology Research Unit, the conference room on September 4th at 10am to 11am.

Online attendees: https://ucph-ku.zoom.us/j/63675526519?pwd=Q2JiQk41NTVKVXpGb2orb3lyZXE1Zz09

Bio: Dr. Marija Kundakovic is a Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Fordham University. She received a PhD in Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics from the University of Illinois, Chicago, and completed her postdoctoral training at Columbia University and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City. In 2015, she was awarded a NARSAD Young Investigator Award by the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation and established her research laboratory at Fordham University. Dr. Kundakovic has been at the forefront of psychiatric epigenetics research since her early career, and her lab focuses on hormonal and environmental factors driving sex differences in depression, anxiety, and substance use disorders. The Kundakovic lab discovered sex-specific epigenetic regulation in the female brain as a function of the ovarian cycle, providing a new molecular framework to study the female-specific susceptibility to neuropsychiatric disorders. Dr. Kundakovic's research has been published in top-tier scientific journals and is funded by multiple grants from the National Institute of Mental Health. She is an elected Member of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology and an elected Council Member of the Organization for the Study of Sex Differences.

On behalf of the organizers,
Bw,
Nanna