Carolina Makowski

I am oh so happy to share that my K99/R00 "Linking Adolescent Environmental Enrichment to Association Cortex Plasticity and Psychiatric Resiliency" was awarded by the NIMH! And with that, I am on the job market! I can't wait to find the home of my future lab.

Attending #Flux2026 Sept 8-10 in San Diego? Come check out our posters from BRIDGE Lab trainees and say hi to these amazing human beings and scientists! 🧠🚸📉🤗🌴@fluxsociety.bsky.social

If you're at OHBM, we would love for you to join us at our Women Faculty SIG events this week! Tues June 16 @ 5-6pm, Roundtable Career Panel & Networking Event Wed June 17 @11:15am - 12:15pm, Community Event See attached flyers for details ☺️ #OHBM2026 @ohbmofficial.bsky.social

FEMA-Long is available on GitHub here: github.com/cmig-researc...

If you’re at #SOBP2026- come check out our symposium integrating imaging and metabolism to normative and disordered eating across the lifespan! 🍽️🩸🧠 3:30-5:30 marquis a&b @sobp-org.bsky.social

I ❤️ @ohbmofficial.bsky.social 🧠https://apertureneuro.org/article/154736-what-the-organization-for-human-brain-mapping-community-is-doing-right @ohbmtrainees.bsky.social

My perspective in The Transmitter on the role of AI and neuroimaging in advancing women’s brain health. “To put it bluntly, we need to recruit more AI researchers to be interested in women’s brain health, and we need to make women’s brain health researchers more fluent in AI.” tinyurl.com/4mvytsdu

📣 The OHBM Women Faculty SIG is seeking nominations for 2 Communications Officers (1 postdoctoral fellow and 1 faculty member) to work synergistically towards the WF-SIG’s mission of supporting women in OHBM. 🗓 Deadline: March 13, 2026 🔗 Apply here: forms.gle/2AdQ9ouRy1kQ...

Tomorrow: Join the OHBM Women Faculty Special Interest Group for their next Seminar Series in honor of International Women’s Day! This session will focus on Leadership, Identity and Wellbeing, presented by Dr Sonja Zaar. All are welcome! 🔗 Register here: forms.gle/PqSVto4tn98m...

Excited to share a new commentary on enhancing visibility of the neurobiology of eating disorders in JCPP, building off of the fabulous work by @hagankephd.bsky.social , @sashadmo.bsky.social & Caitlin Lloyd! Check it out here 👉https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.70136

On behalf of the @ohbmofficial.bsky.social's Women Faculty SIG, please join us for our inaugural Seminar Series on the International Day of Women and Girls in Science (Wed Feb 11th) by Dr. Jean Chen! You can register here & info in flyer: forms.gle/XBzwbLLueVxt...

If you are at #ACNP2026 and interested in metabolic psychiatry & psychiatric genetics - come check out my poster (W21) on the shared genetic architecture between Anorexia nervosa and metabolites! @acnporg.bsky.social

🚨🚨Applications for the OHBM Mentoring Program has opened! 🚨🚨 Use this chance to connect with mentors and mentees from all around the world. Register: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... More details: www.ohbmtrainees.com/mentoring-pr...

Excited to share our cross-disorder GWAS analysis of neurological and psychiatric disorders (~1 M cases), now out in @natneuro.nature.com! We show more extensive genetic pleiotropy than previously recognized, supporting a more unified view of these disorders rdcu.be/ePmwD

Excited to share that our work introducing the Reproducible Brain Charts (RBC) data resource is now published in Neuron!! 🎉 📚 Read the paper: authors.elsevier.com/c/1lpaF3BtfH... 🧠 Explore the RBC dataset: reprobrainchart.github.io

The BRIDGE Lab has officially been launched! 🔗 bridgelab.ucsd.edu 👉 we Bridge Research in Imaging, Development, Genetics and Emerging mental health 🧠 🧬 🚸 🌉 please don't be shy to reach out if you are interested in learning more about our lab's research!

That’s a wrap for #flux2025! What a fabulous community coming together in Dublin. Sláinte! 🇮🇪🧠

My fave part of attending #flux2025- connecting with talented trainees! 😊

The ABCD Study 6.0 release is finally here! 🧠 Apply for data access here @theabcdstudy.bsky.social www.nbdc-datahub.org

Do you use ABCD study data and/or are interested in shaping the next phase of the study? Please join our roundtable in mezzanine 3! @ohbmofficial.bsky.social #OHBM2025

Super excited to be in Brisbane! Come check out new work from our group using ABCD study data and clinical data with the ABCD imaging protocol!

Don’t miss more exciting research and discussion from our team: Roundtable Discussion: @cmakowski.bsky.social & @parekhpravesh.bsky.social 📅 Thursday, June 26th | ⏰ 13:00 - 14:00 “Shaping the Future of the ABCD Study: A Roundtable Discussion”

Introducing FEMA-Long for high-dimensional large-scale mixed-effects modelling! Includes modelling unstructured covariance, non-linear effects using splines, time-dependent effects with spline interactions, and longitudinal GWAS with time-dependent genetic effects! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🧠💊New preprint differentiating antipsychotic medication vs. illness effects on cortical thickness in people w/ psychosis. Finding: People receiving placebo show prominent cortical thinning over 1st year of illness, whereas those receiving antipsychotics do not. 1/3 www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

an absolute tour de force! Congrats @goliashf.bsky.social & team!

🔍 New must-see resource! 🧠 --> Reproducible Brain Charts – an open-data tool for mapping brain development & mental health www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 👏 Kudos to @ted-satterthwaite.bsky.social and Michael Milham @childmindinstitute.bsky.social for leading this effort!

Since good news feels rare these days, excited to share a win - My R00 was awarded! Will be looking for a postdoc soon to help uncover biological 🧠🧬 & behavioral prospective 📈factors for adolescent eating disorders 🍽️ @ucsdhealthsci.bsky.social @ucsdhealth.bsky.social

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... Thread below👇

Synaptome architecture shapes regional dynamics in the mouse brain | www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Led by Justine Hansen Big news: there are all sorts of different synapse types in the brain 👀‼️⤵️

A Direct Hit, by @holdenthorp.bsky.social @science.org www.science.org/doi/full/10.... "This is a moment to unite."