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Carmen Sandi
@carmensandi10.bsky.social
Professor of Neuroscience @EPFL Brain Mind Institute in Lausanne (Switzerland) #mitochondria #motivation #anxiety #stress
@NeuroLeman @StressnetworkC @network_alba
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Very happy to share our new paper in Biological Psychiatry, showing that Urolithin A reverses high anxiety by repairing mitochondrial function in the nucleus accumbens.

Big kudos to first co-authors David Mallet & Doğukan Ülgen, our amazing team, and collaborators!

🔗 Paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...
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📢To all scientists working on STRESS and/or RESILIENCE:

Save the date: 2027 GSRNet Conference, February 3–5, 2027 in Lausanne

Cutting-edge science, discussion sessions & great networking across our global community to connect, exchange, and advance our field together

Check for updates gsr-net.org
November 23, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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🚨 Less than 1 month to go: second session of the GSRNet Flagship Webinar Series

🎙️ Scott Russo (USA)
@scottrussophd.bsky.social

📆 December 10 — 3 PM CET | 2 PM GMT | 9 AM EST | 7:30 PM IST)
📼 Recording available on demand
👉 Registration: gsr-net.org/workshops-we...
November 13, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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🚨 Save the Date 🚨

The GSRNet Conference on Stress & Resilience 2027 will take place Feb 3–5, 2027 in Lausanne, Switzerland.

This 3-day hybrid event will gather the global #stress and #resilience community, and the program promises to be exciting!

More information coming soon!
#GSRNet2027
November 11, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Professor @carmensandi10.bsky.social, one of the world’s leading stress neurobiologists, has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Science by @ucc.ie

Professor Sandi leads the Laboratory of Behavioural Genetics at EPFL in Switzerland.

Read More 👇

www.ucc.ie/en/news/2025...
November 12, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Looking forward!
⚠️SAVE THE DATE⚠️

🧠CAJAL CONFERENCE 2026 
📍Cádiz, April 15–17

“Novel Insights into Brain Energy Metabolism in Health and Disease”

Join an outstanding lineup of keynote speakers!👇🏻
November 3, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Looking forward to joining @uccresearch.bsky.social research and the @ucc.ie community for this Public Lecture & In Conversation with the brilliant @jfcryan.bsky.social

& Deeply honored to be receiving an UCC Honorary Doctorate!

See you very soon in Cork!
Public Lecture & In Conversation: Fueling Resilience - Energising the Brain in Stressful Times

Featuring world-leading neuroscientist & @ucc.ie Honorary Doctorate awardee Professor Carmen Sandi

Find out more about @carmensandi10.bsky.social & how to register to attend👇

www.ucc.ie/en/research/...
October 31, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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🎤 10 Keynote Speakers
🔔 40 accepted symposia

🧠 Submit your abstract by December 1st!
📍 See you in Seville! 🇪🇸
#Dopamine #Seville2025

➕Info: dopaminesociety.org/abstracts/
October 22, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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Plasticity—the capacity to change brain functioning and mental states—is an essential ingredient of recovery.

Revealing its biological foundations and how it interacts with the environment is key to advancing precision psychiatry and promoting wellbeing.

Join the @ecnp.eu New Forntiers Meeting! 👇
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Don’t miss #ECNP New Frontiers Meeting 2026!
📅 15–16 March | Nice & virtual
🧠 From plasticity to recovery: how we can change the brain

The deadline to apply for in-person participation is 11 November 2025. Register now 👉 www.ecnp.eu/meetings/new-frontiers-meeting/

#Neuroscience #Neuroplasticity
October 21, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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Here’s a quick guide to ongoing & upcoming IBRO #grants for your next #neuroscience training, #BrainAwarenessWeek event, or internship program organization

Explore the calendar: https://ibro.org/grants/grants-calendar/

#IBROinAsiaPacific #IBROinUSCanada #IBROinAfrica #IBROinLatAm #IBROinEurope
October 21, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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“I was advised that having multiple children would detract from my scientific career. But I actually think that it has greatly benefited it.” Prof. @michellemonje.bsky.social, Neurology and Neurological Sciences at Stanford University, #BrainPrize2025.

#Neuroscience

youtu.be/f7sbSuWie5A?...
Balancing a career in science and personal life
YouTube video by BrainPrize
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October 21, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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New essay in @currentbiology.bsky.social special brain-body issue! Fly lab meets psychiatrist: how bodily signals shape cognition and mental health. Great collaboration with Albino Oliveira-Maia showing @champalimaudf.bsky.social discovery ↔️ clinic at its best. www.cell.com/current-biol...
From cognition in the body to the body in cognition
Carlos Ribeiro and Albino Oliveira-Maia propose how brain–body interactions may inform the study of ‘higher’ cognitive functions such as learning and memory across model systems.
www.cell.com
October 20, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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In Episode 5, four scientists from South Africa, the Czech Republic, the UK and the USA:
🌟 Challenge traditional success metrics
⚖️ Expose the toll of publish or perish and systemic inequality
👥 Share new ways to define success in academia
October 21, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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🎧 Tune into the season finale!

Season 2, Episode 5 of the #ALBA-#IBRO Diversity Podcast is available! 🌟

👉 https://loom.ly/PvDlNOI
@network-alba.bsky.social @ibroorg.bsky.social
October 21, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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🚨Don’t let the brain in Spain stay mainly in the plane! Today's the last day to apply for ALBA-CHS #TravelAwards that support early-career neuroscientists to attend #FENS2026

✅ Final-year PhD/MD or ≤10 yrs post-degree (excl. parental/medical leave)

🌍 Open worldwide

👉🏾 loom.ly/7FOgCJc

@fens.org
🧠 Are you an early-career brain science researcher interested to attend #FENS2026 in Barcelona, Europe’s largest #neuroscience meeting? Apply for the ALBA-CHS Travel Awards!

✈️ Tiered grants for EU & non-EU candidates
✅ Final-year PhD/MD or ≤10 years post-PhD/MD
👉🏽 loom.ly/7FOgCJc
📆 21 Oct 2025
October 21, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Enormous thanks to the Chica and Heinz Schaller Foundation for this award!

I am thrilled and truly humbled, & I share it with my lab over the years and our wonderful collaborators!

A timely boost to keep our science moving!

Thanks to everyone for your kind messages!

Looking forward to #FENS2026!
The Chica and Heinz Schaller Foundation and #FENS are thrilled to announce the winner of the Chica and Heinz Schaller Foundation Award in Translational Neuroscience 2026: Prof. Carmen Sandi (@carmensandi10.bsky.social)! 🧠

👉 https://loom.ly/Uh0TghU
October 20, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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New study by the group of @epfl-brainmind.bsky.social professor Carmen Sandi @carmensandi10.bsky.social shows that three mitochondrial associated metabolites in the dmPFC/dACC brain region can predict mental effort choices - www.nature.com/articles/s41...
October 16, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Neuroscientists! This is a great opportunity to recognize excellent colleagues for a prize and linked to give a talk at the FENS Forum in 2026! Nominate or apply directly! Deadline: Oct 29th!

ALBA-Elsevier Award for Neuroscience - @network-alba.bsky.social
📣 Deadline extended to 29 Oct 2025! The ALBA–Elsevier Award Lecture honours neuroscientists from underrepresented regions (based on Elsevier authorship metrics & journal market share, & past conference speakers).

🏆 Special Lecture at #FENS2026
✅ Must have led own lab ≥5 years
👉🏽 loom.ly/FEG7E-w
October 16, 2025 at 9:55 AM
@gsrnet.bsky.social just launched Stress & Resilience Webinar Series with a great inaugural seminar by @kalischlab.bsky.social covering what stress resilience is, how to measure it & which processes help mitigate stress’s impact on mental health
Missed it live? Recording soon available gsr-net.org
October 15, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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ALBA @ #ECNP2025 : ✨ Transdisciplinarity drives discovery — diversity drives progress.
At our diversity & inclusion session yesterday, we were reminded how global and cross-disciplinary collaboration is essential to advance brain health. 🧵
@fens.org @ecnp.eu
October 14, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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🔎 Elsevier’s global #authorship metrics and #neuroscience #publishing market share, plus historical #representation at major #conferences, show some regions remain under-recognised globally. This #award highlights their excellence: winner delivers a Special Lecture at #FENS2026 🇪🇸 Apply by 15 October
📣Call open for the 2026 ALBA-Elsevier Award Lecture! Nominate outstanding neuroscientists who push the frontiers of brain research, champion EDI, & work in underrepresented countries.

🏆Special Lecture at #FENS2026
✅Must have led own lab ≥5 years
👉🏽Check eligibility loom.ly/FEG7E-w
📆15 Oct 2025
October 3, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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What is the best brain to study disorders of behavior? Great discussion at @ecnp.eu moderated by @jatinnagpal.bsky.social with inputs from @ribeirocarlitos.bsky.social @emreyaksi.bsky.social @eknapska.bsky.social & Hannah Clarke #ecnp2025
October 12, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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🎉 #ECNP2025 starts today! We are thrilled to take part once again to promote diversity, inclusion & global collaboration in neuroscience.
👋 Come meet us at the ALBA booth and discover our initiatives for equity in brain science.
💡 Don’t miss our session on Mon 13 Oct 🔗 https://loom.ly/EFCdYOk
October 11, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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🚨 Closing in 5 days! If your application is still a draft, now’s the time to finalise it. Don’t miss your chance to be recognised through the 2026 ALBA-Elsevier Award Lecture, celebrating #neuroscientists advancing #brainresearch, #diversity, & regional #representation in science.

👉 loom.ly/FEG7E-w
📣Call open for the 2026 ALBA-Elsevier Award Lecture! Nominate outstanding neuroscientists who push the frontiers of brain research, champion EDI, & work in underrepresented countries.

🏆Special Lecture at #FENS2026
✅Must have led own lab ≥5 years
👉🏽Check eligibility loom.ly/FEG7E-w
📆15 Oct 2025
October 10, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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Attending #ECNP2025? Add the ALBA Diversity & Inclusion Session to your programme.
📅 Mon 13 Oct | 13:55–14:40 🔗 loom.ly/EFCdYOk
See 🧵 for details.
🎪 ALBA also has a booth, so come and meet the team in the exhibition area. We will be next to @fens.org
See you in Amsterdam! @ecnp.eu
October 8, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Excellent framework to understand the processes favoring health vs disease based on the Energy Resistance Principle. Makes me wonder whether the shape of this inverted-U curve, or linked parameters, are trait-like across individuals. Congrats @martinpicardenergy.bsky.social & @msahsorin.bsky.social
This morning I felt a little sadness when I remembered that many of the colleagues I wished to share something dear to my heart with, had departed from X.

@msahsorin.bsky.social and I would love to know what people think of the Energy Resistance Principle (ERP)

authors.elsevier.com/a/1luVK5WXUl...
October 8, 2025 at 9:48 PM