What a stellar ⭐️ week it’s been so far 🇮🇹 🧠

Congratulations to Laurence Luu from the Infectious Diseases theme of our Discipline on being awarded a NHMRC Emerging Leader 1 (EL1) Fellowship!!👏🥳 "Targeting essential colonisation factors of bacterial pathogens for vaccine development" #WhoopingCough #Pertussis #mRNAVaccine

New preprint from the lab! I like to think there's a little something-something for (almost) everyone here: Hippocampal neuroinflammation causes sex-specific disruptions in instrumental conditioning, Pavlovian approach, and neuronal excitation biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…

Excited to be hosting Manju kandel from Professor Tu'uhevaha Kaitu'u-Lino lab UTS Science UTS Research UTS_Science IBMD for 2 weeks and looking forward to her seminar today 💫

🌟Join us for an insightful webinar on "Better Conversations to Support People Living with Weight Issues" 📅 Monday July 1st 2024 🕒 6 PM AEST 🎤 Speakers: Andrew Wilson Dr Elizabeth Machan and Dr Caz Hales RN moderated by Dr Jazzmin Miaobing Zheng Free! Zoom link in comment #EMCR #WIN

We have two new roles opened to come join our #Chlamydia research team with Prof Willa Huston and Samitha Fernando seek.com.au/job/76347846?t… seek.com.au/job/76314557

We got a bit ahead of ourselves... 😅 Abstract submissions for #ANZOS2024 are closing in just 4 weeks! 🗓️ Fantastic lineup of Plenary speakers: Andrea Hevener Christopher Gardner Boyd Swinburn @JNHealth Meet our speakers: anzos.com/invited-speake…

Drugs like Ozempic are great for weight loss, but they make some people feel sick. We discovered that the brain circuits mediating the appetite suppression are distinct from those that mediate nausea – a finding that may be leveraged to develop more selective GLP1-based drugs.

Exciting new work from Dr Simone Rehn and colleagues reveals differences in social motivation between male and female rats - a huge amount of work studying time-of-day and housing 🐭🐁 #neurotwitter #neuroscience #animalbehaviour #circadianbiology bsd.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Six years ago this week I started rebuilding my lab UTS Science with Kristie dickson after a long time & many memories Kolling Institute. Last weekend our 1st PhD student recruited at UTS submitted his thesis. Congratulations Daniel_Yue ! Rebuilding in science takes time. We did it.

Hung up the lab coat 🥼 yesterday and received the most adorable+perfect parting gift 🎁 🐀 thanks to the dream team Laura Bradfield Mike Kendig Simone Rehn for a pivotal+memorable 18 months. I will miss you, and promise to daily monitor my new rat 🫡

We are open for registrations and expressions of interest for presenting! Please anyone who is interested come along for a great day chatting about addiction neuroscience, followed by the Biological Psychiatry Australia - ECRN opening plenary! 🧠👩‍🔬 Rego closes end of September ☺️

Registration closes tonight! Don’t forget to sign up to attend our FREE addiction neuroscience conference on Sunday 3rd November, followed by the opening remarks of BPA 2024, it’s going to be a great day! Link: forms.gle/puSkCMTpLtqMfL… #ANA2024 Biological Psychiatry Australia

Got 60 seconds free while enjoying the sunshine on this lovely public holiday? ☀️Click the link below to register to attend #ANA2024, registration closes at midnight!

Laura Bradfield gave us a great explanation of how we can use VMAC (Value Modulated Attentional Capture) to study habitual vs compulsive behaviours #ANA2024

What a sugar rush! Today was 2024 MIF Great Microscopy Bake-off UTS Science. Sponsored by Australian Institute for Microbiology & Infection & Nikon Microscope Solutions. Well done to all the winners. Thx to judges Iain Duggin Errin Johnson & Anthea Leonard. Expect more posts with details of each bake! Microscopy Australia UTS Research UTS

✨New paper in JClinMicro EIC✨ Due to PCR replacing culture for pertussis diagnosis, we no longer receive strains for genomic surveillance. Here we developed a new 9-target amplicon-seq assay which can directly type pertussis from leftover PCR samples. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/jc…

Latest preprint from the lab! This is the bulk of superstar arvie 아비, PhD's PhD work Neuroinflammation in the dorsomedial striatum causes excessive goal-directed action control by disrupting homeostatic astrocyte function biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

In more news, Superstar Kiruthika Ganesan's PhD work is now online at Brain, Behavior and Immunity! Hippocampal neuroinflammation induced by LPS causes sex-specific disruptions in action selection, food approach memories, and neuronal activation url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/9QqDCL7EPlFR…