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Leigh Walker

@leighwalkerphd

neuroscientist studying sex and gender impact alcohol and substance use 🧠 |🏳️‍🌈

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Biological Psychiatry Australia - ECRN (@bpa_ecrn) 's Twitter Profile Photo

We are extremely excited to announce this years BPA ECRN Plenary Awardees as Sidhant Chopra (ECR category) and Xavier Maddern (Student category)!! 🥳 Both awardees will deliver a 20 minute talk on their research at the Biological Psychiatry Australia conference in #Sydney ✨👏👏 #BPA2024

ACAN (@acan_course) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Applications for ACAN 2025 will open soon! The course will be held in Sydney from 19th Jan to 8th Feb, 2025. The international faculty consist of >40 experts from 16 institutions to teach electrophysiology, imaging & behavioral techniques. ans.org.au/acan Australasian Neuroscience Society (ANS)

Biological Psychiatry Australia (@biolpsychaust) 's Twitter Profile Photo

BPA2024 | FOURTH SYMPOSIUM ANNOUNCEMENT Decoding the Female Brain: Exploring Women’s Health in Psychiatry Chairs & Discussants: Leigh Walker & Robyn Brown Speakers: Dr Xavier Maddern, Prof Bronwyn GrahamRachel Hill & Dr Evelyne Mu BPA 2024 | 3-5 November | Sydney

BPA2024 | FOURTH SYMPOSIUM ANNOUNCEMENT

Decoding the Female Brain: Exploring Women’s Health in Psychiatry

Chairs &amp; Discussants: <a href="/LeighWalkerPhD/">Leigh Walker</a> &amp; <a href="/RobynBrownLab/">Robyn Brown</a> 

Speakers: Dr Xavier Maddern, <a href="/BronwynM_Graham/">Prof Bronwyn Graham</a>, <a href="/Rachneurosci/">Rachel Hill</a> &amp; Dr Evelyne Mu

BPA 2024 | 3-5 November | Sydney
ACAN (@acan_course) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Applications for ACAN 2025 are now open! The course will be at UNSW in Sydney Jan-Feb 2025. See the program and world class faculty for the course at ans.org.au/acan/program . If you're a student or an ECR, you won't want to miss out on this opportunity! Help us spread the word

Applications for ACAN 2025 are now open! The course will be at UNSW in Sydney Jan-Feb 2025. See the program and world class faculty for the course at ans.org.au/acan/program . If you're a student or an ECR, you won't want to miss out on this opportunity! Help us spread the word
Nature Reviews Drug Discovery (@natrevdrugdisc) 's Twitter Profile Photo

FDA approves first schizophrenia drug with a new mechanism of action since the 1950s tinyurl.com/34ceshw4 Karuna/Bristol Myers Squibb’s KarXT (Cobenfy), which acts on M1/M4 muscarinic acetylcholine receptors, expands the treatment landscape beyond dopamine-targeted drugs

FDA approves first schizophrenia drug with a new mechanism of action since the 1950s tinyurl.com/34ceshw4  

Karuna/Bristol Myers Squibb’s KarXT (Cobenfy), which acts on M1/M4 muscarinic acetylcholine receptors, expands the treatment landscape beyond dopamine-targeted drugs
Franklin Women (@franklinwomen) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Please donate if you can – we cannot afford to lose queer excellence in STEMM 🙏 👉giveoutday.org.au/o/queersinscie…

Dr Alexandre Guérin (@alex_guerin13) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Another great conference, thanks to LoC co-chairs Natalie Matosin and Christina Perry ! Very excited to be hosting #BPA2025 in Melbourne next year with Leigh Walker. Message us if you'd like to get involved

Rodrigo Suárez, PhD (@rsuarezsaa) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Interested in complex systems, brain evo-devo, and/or computational approaches to big questions in neuroscience? Check out new opportunities in our lab! 🧠🧬💻🦘🔬🏝️🏄‍♀️😍 Further details and deadlines will be announced soon! #PhD #Postdoc #NeuroJobs

Interested in complex systems, brain evo-devo, and/or computational approaches to big questions in neuroscience? Check out new opportunities in our lab! 🧠🧬💻🦘🔬🏝️🏄‍♀️😍 Further details and deadlines will be announced soon! #PhD #Postdoc #NeuroJobs
Biological Psychiatry Australia - ECRN (@bpa_ecrn) 's Twitter Profile Photo

📢📢 BPA ECRN community we want to hear from you 📢📢 If you have any exciting news (publications, awards, etc.), we would love to promote these achievements on our platforms🏆🏆 To do so, reach out to us on X or email [email protected] 😎😎

Biological Psychiatry Australia - ECRN (@bpa_ecrn) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Check out this fascinating new paper published in Nature Communications by the Walker Lab The Florey, revealing a novel brain mechanism to mediate alcohol intake in a sex-specific manner 🧠🧠 ‼️If you have any exciting news, please reach out so we can share it‼️ nature.com/articles/s4146…

Biological Psychiatry Australia - ECRN (@bpa_ecrn) 's Twitter Profile Photo

IT'S TIME TO PREPARE THOSE SYMPOSIA SUBMISSIONS!! 🗣️🗣️ Symposia submission for #BPA2025 is now open! Submit your symposium by Wednesday 15th May, 5pm AEST. 🗓️🗓️ Follow this link for more information on submissions: biolpsychaustralia.com.au/symposium-prop…

IT'S TIME TO PREPARE THOSE SYMPOSIA SUBMISSIONS!! 🗣️🗣️

Symposia submission for #BPA2025 is now open!

Submit your symposium by Wednesday 15th May, 5pm AEST. 🗓️🗓️

Follow this link for more information on submissions:
biolpsychaustralia.com.au/symposium-prop…
Biological Psychiatry Australia - ECRN (@bpa_ecrn) 's Twitter Profile Photo

A big congratulations to Prof. Alex Fornito (Alex Fornito), who will be presenting the Isaac Schweitzer Lecture at #BPA2025 👏👏 Don't forget to save the dates - 26-28th of October, 2025, The Florey

A big congratulations to Prof. Alex Fornito (<a href="/AFornito/">Alex Fornito</a>), who will be presenting the Isaac Schweitzer Lecture at #BPA2025 👏👏

Don't forget to save the dates - 26-28th of October, 2025, <a href="/TheFlorey/">The Florey</a>
Biological Psychiatry Australia (@biolpsychaust) 's Twitter Profile Photo

CALL FOR SYMPOSIA | REMINDER | BPA 2025 🚨One week left to submit symposia for #BPA2025🚨 Submit your symposium proposal by Thursday 15 May, 5pm AEST. No extensions! More information about submission:biolpsychaustralia.com.au/symposium-prop…

CALL FOR SYMPOSIA | REMINDER | BPA 2025

🚨One week left to submit symposia for #BPA2025🚨

Submit your symposium proposal by Thursday 15 May, 5pm AEST.  No extensions! 

More information about submission:biolpsychaustralia.com.au/symposium-prop…
Addiction Neuroscience Australia (@addictionneuroz) 's Twitter Profile Photo

What’s in store for #ANA2025? • Interactive panel discussion on research translation, including input from individuals with lived experience 🧠🐀 • Speed networking ⚡️ • High energy data blitz 🎆 • Panel discussion on career pathways 👩‍🔬 Register now! url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/Dy7lCk81N9t5…