MINDS Lab USYD
@mindslab.bsky.social
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
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Fascinated by the human brain, we study the neurobiology of stress and brain disorders.
📍 The University of Sydney, Charles Perkins Centre
🔗 MINDSlaboratory.wordpress.com
New lab paper! @sophiedebs.bsky.social and @nataliematosin.bsky.social 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/...
🧠 Our editorial: psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/...
📜 The original study: psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/...
November 3, 2025 at 5:54 AM
New lab paper! @sophiedebs.bsky.social and @nataliematosin.bsky.social 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/...
🧠 Our editorial: psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/...
📜 The original study: psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/...
Reposted by MINDS Lab USYD
Wonderful visits, highlighted the need for face-to-face interactions. Cant wait for all our upcoming collabs 🙌 thanks for carving time out to come see us @drcricru.bsky.social @nikosdaskalakis.bsky.social @rcbagot.bsky.social
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!
August 17, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Wonderful visits, highlighted the need for face-to-face interactions. Cant wait for all our upcoming collabs 🙌 thanks for carving time out to come see us @drcricru.bsky.social @nikosdaskalakis.bsky.social @rcbagot.bsky.social
Reposted by MINDS Lab USYD
Congratulations to Natalie Matosin, Ph.D. a new Associate Member of ACNP! Welcome!! 🤩 @mindslab.bsky.social
October 7, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Congratulations to Natalie Matosin, Ph.D. a new Associate Member of ACNP! Welcome!! 🤩 @mindslab.bsky.social
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!
August 17, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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!
📢 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
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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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July 7, 2025 at 6:36 AM
📢 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_EXTERNA...
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_EXTERNA...
Check out our new paper led by the MINDS Lab original mass spec baddie @katrinazedmond.bsky.social 💃
🚨 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...
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…
sciencedirect.com
June 10, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Check out our new paper led by the MINDS Lab original mass spec baddie @katrinazedmond.bsky.social 💃
Reposted by MINDS Lab USYD
Thanks to Biological Psychiatry Australia for recognising our lab @mindslab.bsky.social and all their hard work. Who's coming to #BPA2025?
April 10, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Thanks to Biological Psychiatry Australia for recognising our lab @mindslab.bsky.social and all their hard work. Who's coming to #BPA2025?
🔔 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
@katrinazedmond.bsky.social
and Dominic Kaul with collaborators Elisabeth Binder and
@lieberinstitute.bsky.social
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
@katrinazedmond.bsky.social
and Dominic Kaul with collaborators Elisabeth Binder and
@lieberinstitute.bsky.social
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
February 4, 2025 at 12:38 AM
🔔 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
@katrinazedmond.bsky.social
and Dominic Kaul with collaborators Elisabeth Binder and
@lieberinstitute.bsky.social
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
@katrinazedmond.bsky.social
and Dominic Kaul with collaborators Elisabeth Binder and
@lieberinstitute.bsky.social
Check out our year in review 🏹✨
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
mindslaboratory.wordpress.com/2024/12/29/t...
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
mindslaboratory.wordpress.com/2024/12/29/t...
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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December 29, 2024 at 4:20 AM
Check out our year in review 🏹✨