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Christina Perry

@dr-cjp.bsky.social

Behavioural Neuroscientist in the Neuropharmacology Lab @Macquarie University (Australia) // addiction, cues and stress // easily distracted // too many dogs 🐢 // she/her

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APSN-FAONS-HKSN 2026 Neuroscience Conference APSN-FAONS-HKSN 2026 Neuroscience Conference United for Advancing Neuroscience in Asia-Pacific

APSN biennale meeting is happening this year (August 23-26) in Hong Kong. Call for symposia and young investigator colloquium speakers is now open. Excellent support available, especially for ECRs. Check it out! www.apsn-faons-hksn-2026.org/call-for-symposium

21.01.2026 05:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Check out the latest from the lab! @brandonkrneuro.bsky.social has made a detailed map of projections out of the zona incerta- the first installment of the brilliant work done during his PhD. More to come very soon 🧠

21.01.2026 05:11 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Biological Psychiatry Australia @biolpsychaust.bsky.social have joined Bluesky!

If you are a #biologicalpsychiatry #molecularpsychiatry researcher, give them a follow for research and news in this exciting area of research #neuroskyence

07.05.2025 21:00 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Don’t forget to submit your data blitz or poster abstracts for PAVLOVIAN in SYDNEY!πŸ§ͺ🧠

Due April 11th, including 5 x travel awards to help our buddies from the πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ and elsewhere get to πŸ‡¦πŸ‡Ί

Our line up is πŸ”₯ Check out our website, registration, and hotel block below πŸ‘‡

20.03.2025 19:43 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Congratulations to the amazing 2024 honours gang from the Behavioural Neuropharmacology lab! What a beautiful day for celebrating β˜€οΈβ˜€οΈ

19.03.2025 02:48 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

For those hurting after DP EOI outcomes today, courtesy of ChatGPT (I prompted with the first line, it will have to go over 2 posts as it's too long):

Oh ARC, why won't you fund me?
I’ve written papers, set them free,
With research deep and insights bright,
Yet still, no grant, no guiding light.

28.02.2025 03:13 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Relaxin family peptide receptor 3 (RXFP3) expressing cells in the zona incerta/lateral hypothalamus augment behavioural arousal Relaxin family peptide receptor 3 (RXFP3) is an inhibitory G-protein coupled receptor expressed widely throughout the mammalian brain. We show that RXFP3-expressing cells in the mouse zona incerta an....

Here’s the link to the paper, if you want to read about the story behind the picture onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

30.01.2025 00:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

So proud of @brandonkrneuro.bsky.social and his beautiful image! All those hours on the confocal paid off 🀩🀩

30.01.2025 00:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
A proud supervisor standing between two graduated masters students holding oversized bouquets. It’s raining.

A proud supervisor standing between two graduated masters students holding oversized bouquets. It’s raining.

3 very clever graduates standing on the lawn at Macquarie university

3 very clever graduates standing on the lawn at Macquarie university

Graduation day! My two very brilliant masters students from 2023, Tom Ferella and Michelle β€œShun” Shen, joined by the amazing Dr TanThai Polvat, who completed his PhD as a cotutelle student with Mahidol Uni (Jen Cornish was his MQ supervisor). Yes it was raining.

10.12.2024 21:31 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

But 2025 Laura will be MUCH more efficient and organised. As will 2025 Christina

29.11.2024 00:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Woohoo!! Congratulations Karly!!!

27.11.2024 05:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Good morning β˜€οΈπŸ• 🀩

22.11.2024 21:40 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

🧠πŸ§ͺπŸ”₯

PAVLOVIAN 2025 in Sydney, submit your abstracts below πŸ‘‡

#neuroskyence #neuroscience

21.11.2024 20:33 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

πŸ‘‹ thanks @karlyt.bsky.social and @thebehaviourforum.bsky.social! Great list 🀩

18.11.2024 21:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

He carries the cone with such dignity! Glad he’s ok, Lizzie! Hopefully those paws heal quickly

16.11.2024 19:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
ScienceDirect.com | Science, health and medical journals, full text articles and books.

In more news, Superstar Dr. Kiruthika Ganesan's PhD work is now online at Brain, Behavior and Immunity!

Hippocampal neuroinflammation induced by LPS causes sex-specific disruptions in action selection, food approach memories, and neuronal activation

url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/9QqDCL7EPl... 1/5

14.11.2024 23:22 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Soooo pretty!!!

15.11.2024 01:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Nice one Laura! Congrats to all the team 🀩

15.11.2024 01:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Relaxin family peptide receptor 3 (RXFP3) expressing cells in the zona incerta/lateral hypothalamus augment behavioural arousal Relaxin family peptide receptor 3 (RXFP3) is an inhibitory G-protein coupled receptor expressed widely throughout the mammalian brain. We show that RXFP3-expressing cells in the mouse zona incerta an...

πŸ™‹β€β™€οΈ another one in the mass exodus to bluesky here! This is the latest from my lab, exploring the zona incerta onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @brandonkrneuro.bsky.social is the star of this story… follow him to find out more!

14.11.2024 08:37 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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And check out Figure 3E - an image so beautiful that it has been blown up to around 2 metres high and now adorns the wall near my office at UTS. 5/5

14.11.2024 00:19 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Neuroinflammation in the dorsomedial striatum causes excessive goal-directed action control by disrupting homeostatic astrocyte function Compulsive actions have been confusingly described as reflecting both excessive habitual and excessive goal-directed action control. Here we sought to resolve this contradiction by inducing the neurop...

Hello Blue Sky! Check out our new preprint from the lab

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/5

14.11.2024 00:19 β€” πŸ‘ 34    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Hey Melbourne people, I’m visiting on the 27th and giving a seminar at the University of Melbourne Department of Psychiatry co-hosted with the Monash Neuromedicines Centre. It’ll be streamed as well, register πŸ”— melbournemedicalschool.cmail20.com/t/y-i-clrlyn...

13.11.2024 20:43 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Very excited about this! It’ll be my first Pavlovian Society meeting, and I happen to know that Mel had scored an excellent spot to hold it!

13.11.2024 23:20 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ”₯PAVLOVIAN 2025 will be in Sydney, Australia: August 7-10 πŸ”₯

To complement our already budding program, submit an abstract for an individual talk here: forms.gle/KJ2uBnMMkprf...

Due Jan 31, 2024

We will have a separate call for posters and the ECR data blitz. Stay tuned.

13.11.2024 20:56 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2