Ishmail Abdus-Saboor

Excited to share my lab’s new paper out today @CellCellPress. "Touch neurons underlying dopaminergic pleasurable touch and sexual receptivity" Congratulations to this amazing team of scientists. cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

🌆🐀Check out our new paper about NYC rats! With @ralph_ep , @zamakany and Dima Batenkov. biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 🐀🌆

Abdus-Saboor & @VAbraira lab joint tenure celebration party. We opened our labs together in 2018 and got tenure together this July. Our labs have published together and are writing up more work as we speak.

⚡️🧠A nociceptive amygdala-striatal pathway modulating affective-motivational pain Now published on the cover of @ScienceAdvances !!! Improved with projection-specific, pain-active intersectional chemogenetic pain behavior Check it out 👇 science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Mex3a-dependent post-transcriptional silencing ensures olfactory receptor diversity and axon guidance specificity: Cell Reports cell.com/cell-reports/f… If you thought singular olfactory receptor expression can only be achieved by extreme nuclear processes, think again!

We're sad at Columbia to see Attila go, but happy for the new horizons for him and his lab at UTSW.

what a masterful and dominant performance, congrats!

Excited to see another cohort of @BWFUND PDEP postdoctoral fellows. Reviewing these applications and supporting these talented scientists feels so impactful.

I am happy to share that I’ve been awarded tenure here at Columbia University. Alhamdulillah. I thank my wife, parents, mentors, colleagues, friends, & family. I thank my lab members, present and past, for entrusting their careers in my hands and making this a thrilling journey.

Alert!!!! Anybody out there?!?! “An Action Networks Model for Pain” We propose a new model for chronic pain — and highlight two functionally connected cortical networks that could revolutionize how we treat it. 👉 thread below 🧵 osf.io/preprints/ps...

Whoa! Big increase in the DP2 New Innovator budget. Great news!

🎉 Black In Neuro is turning FIVE and we’re celebrating with our first-ever in-person conference!  Join us for 3 days of connection, learning & celebration with the BIN community!   📍Sept 10–12 | Washington, D.C. Register today! tinyurl.com/BINW25

Just finished this excellent new book from @NicoleCRust . Although we have collected lots of facts about the brain, we still don't know how it functions, or how to fix it when it breaks. Nicole provides a Grand Plan, which views the brain as a complex dynamical system. Inspiring!

Today, SfN joins communities across the nation in celebrating #Juneteenth, a day that honors freedom, resilience, & progress. We celebrate the remarkable contributions of Black neuroscientists whose research has expanded our understanding of the brain & improved lives worldwide

Happy Juneteenth!

Octopuses’ 8 Arms Snoop on the Microbial World | @nytimes nytimes.com/2025/06/17/sci…

Santiago Correa, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, has been named a 2025 Beckman Young Investigator — one of just 10 scientists nationwide selected from 300 applicants. With $600,000 in new funding across four years, Correa’s lab is working to advance cancer…

So incredibly excited to be able to officially highlight the outstanding work of @SashaLFulton, a previous superstar PhD student in my lab and now a superstar postdoc in the @IshmailSaboor lab at Columbia (also an @HHMINEWS Hanna H. Gray Fellow), now out at @NeuroCellPress !!

I really enjoyed listening to this interview from force-of-nature postdoc in my group @SashaLFulton.