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MINDS Lab USYD
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The Mental Illness, Neurobiology and Disorders of Stress Lab Fascinated by the human brain, we study the neurobiology of stress and brain disorders. 📍 The University of Sydney, Charles Perkins Centre 🔗 MINDSlaboratory.wordpress.com
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MINDS Lab USYD @mindslab.bsky.social · Aug 17
Grateful to host @drcricru.bsky.social, @nikosdaskalakis.bsky.social & @rcbagot.bsky.social at USYD over the last few months. Your talks highlighted the importance of our field and understanding stress in mental illness. Lots of new ideas for future collaborations. Thanks for coming!
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MINDS Lab USYD @mindslab.bsky.social · Jul 7
📢 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

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Research Officer
Full time fixed term contract for one year Exciting opportunity to drive research to better understand how stress raises risk for mental illness using a broad range of cutting-edge techniques and anal...
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MINDS Lab USYD @mindslab.bsky.social · Jun 10
Check out our new paper led by the MINDS Lab original mass spec baddie @katrinazedmond.bsky.social 💃
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Natalie Matosin @nataliematosin.bsky.social · Jun 10
🚨 NEW PAPER 🚨
Thrilled to share our latest work in "The Neurobiology of Stress" where we highlight the intricate roles of neuropeptides and neurosteroids in psychiatric disorders, & how new technologies can answer old questions about these important signallers. sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Expanding our understanding of (mal)adapted stress physiology in psychiatric disorders: achieving single-cell characterisation of steroids and neuropeptides
Steroid hormones and neurosteroids (collectively neuroactive steroids), alongside neuropeptides, are key modulators of the central nervous system. The…
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Natalie Matosin @nataliematosin.bsky.social · Apr 10
Thanks to Biological Psychiatry Australia for recognising our lab @mindslab.bsky.social and all their hard work. Who's coming to #BPA2025?
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MINDS Lab USYD @mindslab.bsky.social · Feb 4
🔔 New lab preprint 🔔
We show the reported heightened FKBP5 gene expression in psychiatric disorders and with age are likely to be moderated by epigenetic mechanisms. Great work by
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and Dominic Kaul with collaborators Elisabeth Binder and
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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · Jan 31
Lower cortical FKBP5 DNA methylation at key enhancer sites is associated with older age and higher gene expression in schizophrenia https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.28.635384v1
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MINDS Lab USYD @mindslab.bsky.social · Dec 29
Check out our year in review 🏹✨
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Natalie Matosin @nataliematosin.bsky.social · Dec 29
An enormous year for our lab moving to USyd and *A LOT* happened.

Check out our 2024 wrap-up 💌👇

Happy holidays and Happy New Year. I'm offline for a long summer break, and I'll be back late January 2025.

Thanks @mindslab.bsky.social for another year

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The 2024 Wrap-Up
I have this bow and arrow analogy that I think about often when going through stages of resistance and inertia. The concept is that while it feels frustrating, being pulled back is the crucial prec…
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