
Jessica Leake
@leake_jess
Postdoctoral memory researcher at The University of Sydney 🧠👩🔬 | microscopy enthusiast | podcast addict
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https://www.psy.unsw.edu.au/contacts-people/research-staff/dr-jessica-leake 27-10-2020 10:18:10
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Want to volunteer in person for Pint of Science AU? pintofscience.com.au/eoi Maybe you want to share your science? pintofscience.com.au/speaker-eoi Hit the links now! #stemcareers #scicomm

This week #UNSWWomenChamps gave an awesome #WomeninSTEM webinar at Birrong Girls HS. We heard from Karly Turner, @saoirsecondes, Dr Melinda Toomey, Charuni Pathmeswaran & Jessica Leake . Feedback = students were surprised at the variety of UG degrees possible at UNSW Science Job well done!!💪💪


So excited my paper has been published in Neuropsychopharmacology. It’s been six years in the making, and shows how impactful adolescent #oxytocin treatment can be for treating psychiatric symptoms associated with early life #stress, including methamphetamine #addiction. A thread


We're back! Thanks to everyone who came to the #ALG Midyear Conference. Special thanks to our keynotes Robyn Brown and Ben Newell, and Dominic Tran, Daniel Pearson, and Jessica Leake for organising #AssociativeLearning #psychology





Graduated yesterday from Neuroscience Honours! Thanks to my superstar supervisors Nathan Holmes and Jessica Leake for their ongoing support and guidance! I’m excited to continue my research career with you both! 😊🧠🐀




Excited to share our article in the latest issue of #JNeurosci. We show that the type of learning determines whether protein synthesis is required in the amygdala for consolidating a fear memory. Dana Leidl Maddy Giles Justine Fam jneurosci.org/content/44/2/e…



🔥New Paper from the lab! Led by Masakazu Taira (Masa) and our awesome team, we reveal the learning components signaled by dopamine release in the Nucleus Accumbens core (NAcC): jneurosci.org/content/44/35/…

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 Laura Bradfield as my Supervisor. Best PhD Supervisor I could have asked for.