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Montalvo-Ortiz Lab News

2025

Dr. Sheila Nagamatsu presented a poster at the Brain, Behavior, & Mind 2025 Spring Conference, 2024.

2024

November

Rafaella Ormond and Dr. Sheila T. Nagamatsu presented a poster at the American Society and Human Genetics conference, 2024.

March

Dr. Sheila T. Nagamatsu was awarded Honorable Mention at ScientistA Award.

2023

October

Dr. Sheila T. Nagamatsu presented a poster at the World Congress of Psychiatric Genetics, 2023.

September

Dr. Diana L. Núñez-Ríos was selected to receive the two-year The Center for Brain & Mind Health (CBMH) Postdoctoral Fellowship.

January

Dr. José Jaime Martínez-Magaña was selected to receive the 2023 Kavli Postdoctoral Award for Academic Diversity.

2022

November

Diego Andrade-Brito presented a poster at the Yale Postgraduate Association (YPGA) Symposium titled “Neuronal-specific methylome and hydroxymethylome analysis identifies novel loci associated with alcohol use disorder."

October

Dr. José Jaime Martínez-Magaña presented a selected oral presentation at the World Congress of Psychiatric Genetics, the work titled “Genome-wide association study of alcohol consumption identifies novel loci in Latin American populations: Findings from the Latin American Genomics Consortium”.

Early Career Investigator Program - Travel Awards Winner to Diego Andrade-Brito in the World Congress of Psychiatric Genetics, 2022.

Dr. Sheila Nagamatsu, Dr. Diana Núñez, and Diego Andrade-Brito presented a poster at the World Congress of Psychiatric Genetics, 2022.

March

Dr. Janitza Montalvo-Ortiz participated as an invited speaker in the Neuropsychiatric Genetics Symposium hosted by NeuroMex, the Instituto Nacional de Psiquiatría Ramón de la Fuente Muñiz, and the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at Board Institute. She presented a talk titled “Epigenomic Landscape of Trauma across the Lifespan”.

Dr. Janitza Montalvo-Ortiz presented at the VA Brain Bank Annual Meeting the work titled “Multiomics mapping of PTSD in Human Cortical Neurons”.

Drs. Sheila Nagamatsu, Diana Núñez, and José Jaime Martínez-Magaña presented at the poster presentation of the Molecular Psychiatry Association conference in Maui, Hawaii.

2021

December

Drs. Sheila Nagamatsu and Diana Núñez presented at the poster presentation of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

October

Dr. Janitza Montalvo-Ortiz co-chaired and presented in the Latin American Genomics Consortium (LAGC) symposia at the World Congress of Psychiatric Genetics Virtual Meeting. In addition, she co-hosted the LAGC session during the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium Day and presented a talk titled “Same, same but different: Studying Psychiatric Genomics in Latin Americans” in the PGC Diversity Session.

Dr. Sheila Nagamatsu presented a selected oral presentation at the World Congress of Psychiatric Genetics Virtual Meeting, the work titled “Profiling Neuroepigenomic Networks of Opioid Use Disorder in Human Orbitofrontal Cortex”.

June

Poster presentation award to postdoc Dr. Sheila Nagamatsu in the 4th Annual Postdoc Symposium based on the work titled “Profiling Neuroepigenomic Networks of Opioid Use Disorder in Human Orbitofrontal Cortex”.

May

Postdoc Dr. Sheila Nagamatsu presented a poster at the virtual meeting of the Society of Biological Psychiatry titled “Differential Methylation and Co-Methylation Analysis Reveals Functional Targets of Major Depressive Disorder in Women”.

April

Postdoc Dr. Sheila Nagamatsu presented a poster at the virtual meeting of the Genomics of Brain Disorders Conference titled “Profiling Neuroepigenomic Networks of Opioid Use Disorder in Human Orbitofrontal Cortex”.

March

Dr. Janitza Montalvo-Ortiz presented at the NIDA Genetics and Epigenetics Cross-Cutting Research Team a poster titled “Neuron-Specific Methylome and Hydroxymethylome Profiling of Opioid Use Disorder”.

2020

October

Dr. Janitza Montalvo-Ortiz presented the work titled “Neuron-Specific Methylome and Hydroxymethylome Profiling of Opioid Use Disorder” at the American Society of Human Genetics Virtual Meeting

Dr. Janitza Montalvo-Ortiz co-hosted the Latin American Genomics Consortium session during the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium Day at the World Congress of Psychiatric Genetics Virtual Meeting.

Postdoc Dr. Sheila Nagamatsu was selected as an oral finalist in the World Congress of Psychiatric Genetics Virtual Meeting for the work titled “Dissecting Epigenomic Differences between Smoking and Nicotine Dependence in U.S. Military Veterans”

2019

May

Dr. Janitza Montalvo-Ortiz presented the oral presentations titled “Epigenome-Wide Association Study of Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms in 1,135 U.S. Veterans” and “OTX2, Child Abuse, and Psychosis” at the Society of Biological Psychiatry Meeting at Chicago, IL.

January

Dr. Janitza Montalvo-Ortiz presented at the NIDA Genetics Consortium Meeting at Bethesda, MD a poster titled “Epigenome-wide association study of opioid dependence in European American women."

Montalvo-Ortiz JL and Giusti-Rodriguez P. Latin American Genomics Consortium. Presented at the PGD Day, World Congress of Psychiatric Genetics Virtual Meeting, October 2020.