@animalsocaging

An NIH R24 Network supporting the integration of animal models into studies of social aging through collaborations, training, and project support.

animalsocialaging-network.org
Joined May 2020
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Horace Zeng@horacezhlOct 6
Who knew that fire ants could potentially inform aging research?
Animal Models of Social Aging Research Network@animalsocagingSep 27
Announcing the winners of our Pilot & Feasibility awards and the Bruce McEwen Career Development Fellowship for 2026-2027! Check out the graphics below to learn more about these scientists, and visit our website to learn more about their science. animalsocialaging-network.or…
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Announcing the winners of our Pilot & Feasibility awards and the Bruce McEwen Career Development Fellowship for 2026-2027! Check out the graphics below to learn more about these scientists, and visit our website to learn more about their science. animalsocialaging-network.or…
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Thanks to everyone who viewed, shared, and submitted to our RFAs for our 2026-2027 Pilot & Feasibility Awards and Bruce McEwen Fellowship. So much incredible science related to the social determinants of aging! Stay tuned to learn more about the winners and their research!
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Thanks to all who submitted their proposals for our Pilot & Feasibility awards and McEwen fellowships. We look forward to learning more about you and your science. We will be in touch with each of you with funding decisions in the coming weeks! @BartolomucciLab
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One more week to apply for the Bruce McEwen Fellowship! Up to $6,000 in individual funding for early-career scientists whose research includes animal models or comparative approaches to study the social determinants of aging! Apply here: animalsocialaging-network.or…
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📣One more week to apply! The application window for our Pilot & Feasibility award mechanism closes on June 30. Check out the full RFA below and get your application submitted! animalsocialaging-network.or… @BartolomucciLab @SMack_Lab @jtung5
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Don't forget! We're accepting applications for our Pilot & Feasibility awards and the McEwen Career Development Fellowship until June 30. If you have a project relevant to Network science, check out our website for more information! @BartolomucciLab @SMack_Lab @jtung5
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Have a project related to animal models to study social aging? We welcome applications from early-career scientists for both our Pilot & Feasibility awards and the Bruce McEwen Fellowship. Applications are open until June 30. See details and apply here: animalsocialaging-network.or…
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📣Our Research Network's 2026-2027 RFA cycle are now open!📣 Applications for our Pilot & Feasibility awards (up to $20,000) and the McEwen Fellowship (up to $6,000) for early-career scientists are open through June 30. Ready to apply? Click here: animalsocialaging-network.or…
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Can't wait for our individual RFAs to open this summer? We now offer Small/Working Group Meeting grants on a rolling basis! If you have an idea for a meeting topic relevant to network interests, click the link below for more information! animalsocialaging-network.or…
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Gagan Wig
@GaganWigMar 31
This was a true team effort. Huge congratulations to the lead author @ezra_wn, who drove this project and just successfully defended his PhD yesterday! @UTDResearch @BBSutdallas And to our collaborators at UT Dallas' @CVLneuro, Technion, Columbia’s @ZuckermanBrain, and the Allen Institute — especially co-senior author @ItamarKahn, whose group did the mouse imaging. Grateful for the talented team across all sites, including: @eyalbergmann @Micaela__Chan @vill_gabriella This is the first paper from our growing multi-species program on brain network aging — more to come! @NIHAging @JSMF @animalsocaging
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🎉Huge congratulations to McEwen fellow @ezra_wn and Pilot awardee @GaganWig of UT Dallas on their recent publication in PNAS on large-scale brain network decline across aging mice and humans and its translational relevance. Read the paper here: shorturl.at/gjau5

Correspondence of large-scale functional brain network decline across aging mice and humans | PNAS

Human aging is marked by progressive reorganization of large-scale functional brain networks; these brain network changes have been linked to cogni...

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Dr. Millie Rincón-Cortés 🇵🇷@houseofmindFeb 27
Learned lots! 🧠🤓
Animal Models of Social Aging Research Network@animalsocagingFeb 27
The second of two 2026 Network-the-networks meetings concluded successfully at the University of Minnesota earlier this week. We are so grateful for all who attended and look forward to the collaborations that will no doubt result between invited network representatives!
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The second of two 2026 Network-the-networks meetings concluded successfully at the University of Minnesota earlier this week. We are so grateful for all who attended and look forward to the collaborations that will no doubt result between invited network representatives!
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Our first of two Network-the-networks meeting was recently organized and conducted at Arizona State University by @SMack_Lab. Thanks to all representatives of the networks who participated to "diversify the animal taxa used in the study of social determinants of aging"!
Welcome slide from the January 2026 Network-the-networks meeting held at ASU

ALT Welcome slide from the January 2026 Network-the-networks meeting held at ASU

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Aging Science News
@AgingBiologyJan 25
Ageing rewires the body’s tolerance to infection nature.com/articles/d41586-0…

Ageing rewires the body’s tolerance to infection

Nature - In life-threatening sepsis, the same signalling pathway that protects young mice from succumbing to organ dysfunction exacerbates damage and lethality in older animals.

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Elliot Howard-Spink@ElliotHowaSpi24 Nov 2025
Our New Paper is out in Nature Human Behaviour: 🚨 Culture is critical in driving orangutan diet development past individual potentials! 🦧 nature.com/articles/s41562-0…

Culture is critical in driving orangutan diet development past individual potentials

Nature Human Behaviour - Howard-Spink et al. develop an empirically based model of orangutan diet development, which suggests that social learning is vital for orangutans to acquire varied diets.

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🔦✨ Research Network Spotlight!✨🔦 Dr. Frank Raven, postdoctoral research fellow in the lab of Dr. Sara Aton at University of Michigan, is the second awardee of a 2025-2026 Bruce McEwen Fellowship through our Research Network. Check out Dr. Raven's project below!
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Brian Sweis@BrianMSweis29 Oct 2025
For those heading to #SfN25, come check out our posters on Saturday Afternoon! The lab is growing & expanding in several new directions & collabs #neuroeconomics 🧠🐭🧠 @IcahnMountSinai @SinaiBrain @MountSinaiNYC @MountSinaiPsych @SinaiCCP @SfNtweets @SocforNeuroecon @BWFUND
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🔦✨ Research Network Spotlight!✨🔦 Sabrina Mederos, PhD candidate at UC Davis, is one of two 2025-2026 Bruce McEwen Fellowship awardees through our Research Network. Check out a description of Sabrina's research below. @BartolomucciLab @jtung5 @SMack_Lab
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