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Time for our second symposium: Therapeutic innovations for psychiatric disorders, chaired by @BPanizzutti ! First up, Prof Murray Cairns

Our first Biological Psychiatry Australia - ECRN Plenary award winner is Xavier Maddern, presenting his work on sex differences in the role of CART in binge drinking #BPA2024

Our next symposium "New targets for alcohol use disorder treatment" chaired by Leigh Walker is underway! First up, Erin Campbell discusses targeting the serotonin 2C receptor in alcohol craving #BPA2024

🚨🚨 Live now 🚨🚨 A thoughtful symposium on ‘New targets for alcohol use disorder treatment’ 🧠🥼🗣️

Loved presenting the 15th Aubrey Lewis lecture at my first Biological Psychiatry Australia - ECRN! Thanks to Natalie Matosin and Christina Perry for putting together such an awesome program! 🔥

Data blitz session 2 ⏱️⏱️ - A great line-up of talks on a range of fascinating topics 🧠🧠

Another great Data Blitz session at #BPA2024, with 8 excellent speakers! Make sure to attend the poster sessions at 2:30pm to hear more about their work and ask questions

Second poster session underway at #BPA2024

After a fantastic poster session, it's time for our fourth symposium, exploring the biology underlying physical comorbidities of neuropsychiatric disorders using genomics, chaired by Dr William Reay #BPA2024

That’s a wrap! What an amazing time representing the #SharpeLab Dr. Melissa Sharpe. First Biological Psychiatry Australia conference and it did not disappoint! Learned a lot! From brilliant keynote speakers to power-packed symposiums, the energy was intense. #BPA2024 Kiruthika Ganesan Masakazu Taira (Masa) 🧠

Also, I’m super honoured to get an award for my poster! Definitely wasn’t expecting this. Thankful to my mentors and peers #ECR It was amazing to see minds come together to shape the future of biological research in psychiatry in Australia. Grateful to be part of this community.

And that’s a wrap! Had a ball organising #BPA2024 this year with Christina Perry (an absolute force & the most selfless/capable human I’ve met!). Outstanding work from Dr. Tertia Purves-Tyson & the LOC resulting in a huge turnout, high calibre content, engagement & fun 🤩🧠 thanks to all! 🩵

Also to the whole Biological Psychiatry Australia community… I’m really sorry about the chicken 🥴

Never forget 🪦

Hard to pick a favourite moment of #BPA2024, but seeing Brandon Richards pick up best student data blitz was certainly up there 👑

What a team 😍. I’d do it again in a heartbeat (just give me a year or so to recover and catch up on sleep 😅). Thanks for making a big job so much fun Natalie Matosin Dr. Tertia Purves-Tyson and all of the LOC

That's a wrap on #BPA2024! Thank you to all our fantastic presenters and attendees! We are thrilled to announce that #BPA2025 will be held in Melbourne in October 2025! If you're interested in joining the #BPA2025 LoC, message us or contact Leigh Walker or Dr Alexandre Guérin!

Latest from Lab: Methamphetamine use disorder and SLC18A1, SLC18A2, BDNF, and FAAH gene sequence variants and expression levels associated with psychiatric and cognitive factors tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… another fab work from Dr Alexandre Guérin & collab w Ken Walder Professor Susan Ross

We had a great first Annual School of Psychological Sciences Mini-Conference on Wednesday where we celebrated the exceptional research happening by graduate researchers and Honours students across PSYCHSCIENCES@MQ !

🚨🚨We're excited to announce the next APSN webinar! Please join us on 26th August to hear Dr Roberta Anversa and Prof Wing Ho YUNG speak about Behaviour and the Brain 🧠. Register here: forms.gle/AbUVvrc6HyAEN3…