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Big few days at #CINP_AsCNP2025 in Melb this week!! @natalie_matosin smashed an ELA symp with NeSTED collaborator @DrCriCru. @TamimAhsan10 shared his omics work as a Feat Comm, while @katrinazedmond, @debs_sophie and @Amberrcurry each gave a fantastic Data Blitz!!

@natalie_matosin @Amberrcurry absolutely smashed her data blitz on her work looking at stress-related changes to the spatial localisation of hippocampal cortisol receptors in psychiatric disorders!! Can’t wait to read her thesis in the coming months! 🔬💭

And that’s a wrap on #ANS2024! Thank you to the scientific and organising committees for such a rigorous scientific program! So proud of @natalie_matosin, @Amberrcurry and @TamimAhsan10 for representing the MINDS Lab and sharing some of our exciting science with the society! 🧠

Congrats also to our PhD students who all did a great job in representing our lab and presenting some of their super cool science! @Amberrcurry @katrinazedmond @TamimAhsan10 🧠🔬

Fantastic couple of days at BPA 2024 for the MINDS Lab. Thanks to co-chairs @natalie_matosin and @Dr_CJP for organising such an amazing scientific program!! 🧠🔬

@Amberrcurry @katrinazedmond @TamimAhsan10 …and super proud of @katrinazedmond for chairing the @Kinoxis_Tx Data Blitz as a member of the LOC!

Nailed it.

@debs_sophie @TertiaTyson Anytime! Congrats on a great paper 🎉

@Amberrcurry @TertiaTyson Thanks so much for sharing @Amberrcurry 😊

So fabulous to see this work, led by my always encouraging & supportive supervisor @TertiaTyson, now published. Our data is the first to suggest that stress signalling is altered in schizophrenia in a brain region not typically considered to be 'stress responsive' - the midbrain!

A zoom in the Dentate Gyrus (DG), a region in the mammalian hippocampus that is one of the few sites in the brain for continuous generation of new neurons across lifetime, or neurogenesis! Mature neurons with their long extensions can be seen in cyan 🔵, while immature, newborn neurons are shown in purple 🟣. Because in each phase of the development these neurons express different proteins, we can target these proteins using a technique called immunohistochemistry, and we are able to identify in which stage of development these neurons are :). Microglia, shown in orange🟠, are the brain's immune cells, and are directly involved in helping regulate the whole process. They are removing unnecessary, wrong, or redundant synapses in a process known as synaptic running. All of these and other millions of processes happening at the same time in your brain! #Neuroscience is beautiful 🧠🔬

Late Christmas gift for these big brain baddies 🧠 @katrinazedmond @domkaul Thanks for getting me through 2023, couldn’t have done it without you guys ❤️

Super proud of our @Amberrcurry (and also very jealous of her gorgeous figures 👀)

It’s SCMB HDR conference time again! Excited to learn about the PhD projects of our school. Here is @Amberrcurry sharing her research on altered glucocorticoid receptor expression during psychopathy in the context of stress @UOW @natalie_matosin @MolHorizons

@Amberrcurry and @katrinazedmond presented their posters yesterday at #BPA2023 and today we woke up to this STUNNING sunrise🌅

Ever wanted to see any of these baddies present their research? Well you’re in luck! BPA 2023 starts today 🤩🤿 Amber - TODAY - Poster 38, 4:15pm Katrina - TODAY - Poster 56, 4:15pm Dominic - Tomorrow - Data Blitz 3, 12pm AND Poster 35, 12:30pm

On World Suicide Prevention Day, the MINDS lab have completed our 9km walk in support of @LifelineAust campaign to remember those lost to suicide, and to bring awareness for their invaluable crisis support services! If you would like to contribute, it isn’t too late to donate!

Everyone say hello to the newest MINDS Lab team member, Tamim!! You’ll be happy to know he has already been shown all the best coffee spots at the @UOW Wollongong Campus 😉☕️

Here’s a clip of the woman who confronted the panel. I deeply admire her courage. “It is nothing compared to the systematic and structural discrimination have to face, especially in the stem fields”

66,879 push-ups. 40 participants. 23 days. $3,003 raised. There is still time to donate to the MH & SCMB team. Funds raised go towards critical mental health support & suicide prevention services in Australia. thepushupchallenge.com.au/fundraisers/uo… @PushForBetter @LifelineAust @MovemberAUS

One of our @UOW @CCeMMP PhD students is raising funds for the treatment of her extremely painful condition. gofund.me/cef6d1b6 The actual cost is several fold higher than the goal. Please consider donating even if the target is reached. Thanks in advance.