Behavioural neuroscientist looking to understand motivated behaviour | overeating in obesity | addiction | LGBTIQ+ ally 🏳️🌈 @unimelb she/her
Melbourne, Victoria
Joined April 2010
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Excited to share our latest review article published in Endocrinology @TheEndoSociety discussing the potential crosstalk between brown fat and pancreatic beta cells. Selected as the Featured Article for the Sep issue! academic.oup.com/endo/articl… #obesity #diabetes #metabolism
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Check out our new paper lead by superstars Amy Pearl and Xavier Maddern in @NatureComms We show a sex specific role for ghrelin signalling in the Edinger Westphal nucleus driving binge drinking. Thanks @RobynBrownLab @willgiardino @feliciamreed1 nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
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Thrilled to see @RutgersU highlight the findings of my first first-author publication! Huge thanks to my mentors @morganjameslab & @DebMitchison for their support. #Rutgers #Research
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Week 3 is coming to an end and we want to thank the main theme sponsor @MedAssociates for their equipment. Also thank you to @doriclenses , @StoeltingNeuro , & @HP_Australia for providing equipment for our students to learn fibre photometry, surgery, & advanced data analysis
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The ACAN community has great spirit, built on a passion for neuroscience and collaboration. Some behind the scenes of an ACAN birthday and ACAN faculty showing off the 2025 T-shirt designed by our students. @AusNeuroSoc
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🚨 Exciting New Research Alert! 🚨 Our latest study, published in #NatureMetabolism, reveals how memory circuits in the brain drive intake of fats and sugars and impact body weight. 🍫🍟 Let’s break it down! 🧵
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Delightful to share that the final piece from my PhD is finally out as a preprint 🥳
This is years of painstaking research with amazing team! Indeed, SCIENCE IS A TEAM SPORT!
Forever grateful to have @Bradfield_Neuro as my Supervisor. Best PhD Supervisor I could have asked for.
Latest preprint from the lab! This is the bulk of superstar @arvieabiero's PhD work
Neuroinflammation in the dorsomedial striatum causes excessive goal-directed action control by disrupting homeostatic astrocyte function biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Keystone conference: Neurobiology of Ingestive Behavior—Registration and Abstract Submission is open!!
See u all in April 22-25, 2025 | Pacific Grove, CA,
@danamsmall @DanielaCota
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The latest @berke_lab paper in @PNASNews by my bff @DuhneMariana (with some contribution by yours truly) on cholinergic pauses in the striatum and the dopamine signal... What does the silence mean?
pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pn…
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Hunger signalling in the olfactory bulb primes exploration, food-seeking and peripheral metabolism.
We deleted ghrelin receptors in the olfactory bulb and saw many interesting effects - see graphical abstract
@ZigmanLab @jeff_neuro @Stark_BrainSci
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If you’re attending #sfn24, check out our lab’s posters Sunday morning! Orexin/hypocretin, sigma 1 receptor, sleep, addiction, cognition, feeding, puberty, depression, and more!
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Over the moon to accept the presidency for @PavlovSociety! I owe a lot to this community and can’t wait to host #Pavlovian2025 in SYDNEY 🇦🇺. We already have 50% of our speakers confirmed with another 50% to be selected from abstracts as well as an ECR data blitz and posters!!
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Having an awesome ISBRA meeting here in Melbourne. We had a really fun panel on neuronal and glial consequences of drug use. Many thanks to @ISBRAComm and @RobynBrownLab. Fantastic talks from @KateReissner, Xavier Maddern, and @morganjameslab,
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Incredibly happy that my first first-author paper is out in @JNeurochem today! We sought to determine how a particular lateral hypothalamus/zona incerta (LH/ZI) cell population contributes to conditioned fear expression. The answer was not so simple! A 🧵 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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Mice are obsessed with palatable high-fat diet, devaluing standard chow even when super hungry. Our latest work shows this is dependent on the amount and type of fat, experience, and post-ingestive feedback thru fat absorption, not taste or smell. gcc02.safelinks.protection.o…
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Obesity is a growing epidemic with major health consequences.
"It is crucial to enhance prevention efforts and explore effective interventions that are scalable irrespective of sociodemographic considerations", say authors of a Seminar.
Read this & more: hubs.li/Q02NX4Rw0
ALT Cover of The Lancet Sept 7, 2024 issue. Quote on cover reads: "The prevalence of obesity has nearly tripled since 1975 and is project to increase to 1.02 billion (18th% of adults) by 2030."
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BPA2024 | FOURTH SYMPOSIUM ANNOUNCEMENT
Decoding the Female Brain: Exploring Women’s Health in Psychiatry
Chairs & Discussants: @LeighWalkerPhD & @RobynBrownLab
Speakers: Dr Xavier Maddern, @BronwynM_Graham, @Rachneurosci & Dr Evelyne Mu
BPA 2024 | 3-5 November | Sydney
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Check out our new paper in @PsychopharmEBPS on changes in cognition & dopamine systems, and lack thereof, after adolescent THC in rats! Congrats @martydoesneuro, W key support from @dr_stan!
Adolescent THC impacts on mPFC dopamine-mediated cognitive processes in male and female rats
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Check out this recent @npp_journal paper from Brian Trainor & team exploring the role of hypocretin in the NAcc shell on social approach in 🐭
nature.com/articles/s41386-0…