
Mary Tolcos 🤓🧠👩🏻🔬
@mtolcos
ARC Future Fellow, RMIT. A brain geek that works to find ways to prevent and repair brain injury in preterm and growth restricted babies.
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25-09-2009 02:36:50
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Currently attending the Gordon Research Conferences Thalamocortical Interactions meeting. Any trainees interested, please reach out DM or email me at NIH address. #GRC


Excited to be at today’s relaunch of Healthy Foundations Research Group as the Healthy Foundations Research Group. Beginning with a wonderful introduction and Acknowledgement of Country by Prof Catherine Itsipolous 👩🏫


Now hearing about the incredibly interesting projects conducted by Associate Prof Mary Tolcos 🤓🧠👩🏻🔬’s team about developmental brain injury, cortical development and folding, and adult brain regeneration 🧠


Listening to Associate Prof Elisa Hill’s fascinating research into the Gut-Brain Axis. Great to see some amazing work by Chalystha Lee, too! 👩🔬


Dr Dr Bobbi Fleiss discussing the Perinatal Brain Injury Laboratory’s important work (partly funded by Cerebral Palsy Alliance) to understand and improve brain injury outcomes in newborn babies 👶


Here at Healthy Foundations Research Group, we LOVE microglia! Prof Sarah Spencer now sharing “The secret life of the microglia” 🤫 Including some fascinating work completed by Mary Slayo



We now hear from my favourite speaker (possibly biased) - the remarkable Prof Guiying Nie (Implantation And Pregnancy Lab)! She shares the innovative Implantation and Pregnancy research we passionately do here at RMIT University. Read more about our team and work here: bit.ly/3NADBVX


We are relaunching to better fit our research interests - say Hi 👋🏼to the *Healthy Foundations Research Group* RMIT Research


Our own Victor Mondal and Sophea Heng chairing our collaborators session this afternoon. Engaging talk on #biosensors by Fateme Akhlaghi. RMIT Research


Mary Tolcos 🤓🧠👩🏻🔬 and I have brought the whole teams and we are relishing being at #ANS22 Australasian Neuroscience Society (ANS) - amazing science, by terrific human being.


Another amazing paper from Courtney Gilchrist Watch this space for more to come about the #preterm brain Angie Cumberland Deanne Thompson Fiber-Specific Measures of White Matter Microstructure and Macrostruct... sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

It’s finally here! A team effort lead by Angie Cumberland with Courtney Gilchrist #interneurons #fetalgrowthrestriction #neurodevelopmentaldisorders Healthy Foundations Research Group RMIT Research

That’s a wrap! Thanks to Australasian Neuroscience Society (ANS) organiser from the HFRG for the amazing event #ANS22.


It’s on and we couldn’t be prouder of Nhi Thao Tran, Sajida Malik & Courtney Gilchrist from the teams of @SJSpencerLab and Mary Tolcos 🤓🧠👩🏻🔬 who are graduating with their PhDs today!! Fireworks, live music and so much excitement. Not even Melb’s weather can dampen the atmosphere. RMIT Research



