Huda Akil
Gardner C Quarton Distinguished University Professor of Neurosciences
Gardner C Quarton Collegiate Professor of Neurosciences in the Molecular and Behavioral Neurosciences Institute
Professor of Psychiatry and Research Professor
Michigan Neuroscience Institute
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Available to mentor
Huda Akil
Research Professor
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  • Recent Publications
    • Center Memberships
    • Center Member
      Eisenberg Family Depression Center
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    • Journal Article
      A revamped rat reference genome improves the discovery of genetic diversity in laboratory rats.
      de Jong TV, Pan Y, Rastas P, Munro D, Tutaj M, Akil H, Benner C, Chen D, Chitre AS, Chow W, Colonna V, Dalgard CL, Demos WM, Doris PA, Garrison E, Geurts AM, Gunturkun HM, Guryev V, Hourlier T, Howe K, Huang J, Kalbfleisch T, Kim P, Li L, Mahaffey S, Martin FJ, Mohammadi P, Ozel AB, Polesskaya O, Pravenec M, Prins P, Sebat J, Smith JR, Solberg Woods LC, Tabakoff B, Tracey A, Uliano-Silva M, Villani F, Wang H, Sharp BM, Telese F, Jiang Z, Saba L, Wang X, Murphy TD, Palmer AA, Kwitek AE, Dwinell MR, Williams RW, Li JZ, Chen H. Cell Genom, 2024 Apr 10; 4 (4): 100527 DOI:10.1016/j.xgen.2024.100527
      PMID: 38537634
    • Preprint
      Resource: A Curated Database of Brain-Related Functional Gene Sets (Brain.GMT).
      Hagenauer MH, Sannah Y, Hebda-Bauer EK, Rhoads C, O'Connor AM, Watson SJ, Akil H. 2024 Apr 10; DOI:10.1101/2024.04.05.588301
      PMID: 38645214
    • Preprint
      Cell-Type Specific Reductions in Interneuron Gene Expression within Subregions of the Anterior and Posterior Cingulate Gyrus of Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder Subjects
      Krolewski DM, Waselus M, Bunney BG, Myers RM, Barchas JD, Lee FSY, Schatzberg AF, Bunney WE, Akil H, Watson SJ. bioRxiv, DOI:10.1101/2024.03.20.585908
    • Journal Article
      Multiomic profiling of transcription factor binding and function in human brain.
      Loupe JM, Anderson AG, Rizzardi LF, Rodriguez-Nunez I, Moyers B, Trausch-Lowther K, Jain R, Bunney WE, Bunney BG, Cartagena P, Sequeira A, Watson SJ, Akil H, Cooper GM, Myers RM. Nat Neurosci, 2024 Jun 3; DOI:10.1038/s41593-024-01658-8
      PMID: 38831039
    • Journal Article
      The impact of COVID-19 on a college freshman sample reveals genetic and nongenetic forms of susceptibility and resilience to stress.
      Turner CA, Khalil H, Murphy-Weinberg V, Hagenauer MH, Gates L, Tang Y, Weinberg L, Grysko R, Floran-Garduno L, Dokas T, Samaniego C, Zhao Z, Fang Y, Sen S, Lopez JF, Watson SJ, Akil H. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2023 Dec 5; 120 (49): e2305779120 DOI:10.1073/pnas.2305779120
      PMID: 38011555
    • Journal Article
      High emotional reactivity is associated with activation of a molecularly distinct hippocampal-amygdala circuit modulated by the glucocorticoid receptor.
      Wei Q, Kumar V, Moore S, Li F, Murphy GG, Watson SJ, Akil H. Neurobiol Stress, 2023 Nov; 27: 100581 DOI:10.1016/j.ynstr.2023.100581
      PMID: 37928820
    • Journal Article
      Inhibition of Dopamine Neurons Prevents Incentive Value Encoding of a Reward Cue: With Revelations from Deep Phenotyping.
      Iglesias AG, Chiu AS, Wong J, Campus P, Li F, Liu ZN, Bhatti JK, Patel SA, Deisseroth K, Akil H, Burgess CR, Flagel SB. J Neurosci, 2023 Nov 1; 43 (44): 7376 - 7392. DOI:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0848-23.2023
      PMID: 37709540
    • Journal Article
      Allele biased transcription factor binding across human brain regions gives mechanistic insight into eQTLs.
      Moyers BA, Loupe JM, Felker SA, Lawlor JMJ, Anderson AG, Rodriguez-Nunez I, Bunney WE, Bunney BG, Cartagena PM, Sequeira A, Watson SJ, Akil H, Mendenhall EM, Cooper GM, Myers RM. bioRxiv, 2023 Oct 9; DOI:10.1101/2023.10.06.561245
      PMID: 37873117