mindsbehindtheMINDS

Our findings highlight astrocytes as crucial players in how exposure to severe adversity raises risk to psychopathology and position them as strategic pharmacological targets for future intervention strategies. Read more here: biorxiv.org/content/10.1

Human pluripotent stem cell-derived astrocytes from both two- and three-dimensional models confirmed that glutamate signalling is directly impacted by glucocorticoid activation.

Latest lab preprint! Astrocytes ✨ are a brain cell type vulnerable to the effects of stress and the development of psychiatric-like phenotypes in animals, yet how this translates to humans is unclear... so we dived in: biorxiv.org/content/10.1

New lab paper! Sophie and Natalie discuss a recent study from LIBD investigating the transcriptomic landscape of the human habenula in schizophrenia 🧠 Our editorial: psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/ 📜 The original study: psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/

Starting the afternoon with the 16th Aubrey Lewis Award Lecture at the #BPA2025, presented by Dr Natalie Matosin

Welcome to one of our newest @ACNPorg Associate Members, Dr. Natalie Matosin @mindbehindMINDS 🎉 #WelcomeToACNP👋

@JaredWYoung @ACNPorg Thanks for the support Jared! Looking forward to catch ups in the Bahamas💃

@ACNPorg @mindbehindMINDS Wooohoooo, congratulations Natalie! so glad you'll be coming regularly again!

Congratulations to Natalie Matosin, Ph.D. a new Associate Member of ACNP! Welcome!! 🤩 @mindbehindMINDS

Grateful to host @DrCriCru, @NikosDaskalakis & @BagotLab at USYD over the last few months. Your talks highlighted the importance of our field and understanding how stress in mental illness. Lots of new ideas for future collaborations. Thanks for coming!

Microdosing delight to combat stress; interesting concept, backed by neuroscience. Our lab head Natalie spoke to the Sydney Morning Herald about the fascinating work of Dr Rachel Barr on how the experience of delight can tune down our stress response. smh.com.au/lifestyle/heal…

In good hands! Our @mindbehindMINDS postdocs @debs_sophie + @lydiahardowar are in the lab with James Fraser from @10xGenomics running Visium HD 3' assays for the first time in Australia 🧠✨Can't wait to see how the data looks!

📢 Help us progress our research! Opportunity to join our team. We are recruiting a Research Assistant/Lab Manager. If you have experience in supporting a lab and tissue handling experience, we'd love to hear from you Closes Sunday 20 July 2025 11:59 usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/USYD_EXTERNAL_…

Oh! And we had some stunning posters all round too!

Thanks @theCINP, @biolpsychaust and @BPA_ECRN for facilitating such a stimulating congress! 🧠💊🔬

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!!

Check out our new paper led by the MINDS Lab original mass spec baddie @katrinazedmond!

📣📣BPA ECRN member profiles 📣📣 Meet Katrina, a PhD candidate at the University of Wollongong and University of Sydney 🏆👏🧠 If you would like to feature, DM us on X or email us at biolpsychaustralia.ecrn@gmail.com

Huge shoutout to our phenomenal lab head @natalie_matosin for winning this year’s Aubrey Lewis Award!! So well deserved! Don’t miss her seminar later this year in Melbourne at #BPA2025 to hear all about the exciting brain science we do in the MINDS Lab at @CPC_usyd 🧠🧬🔬