Neuroscientist and psychopharmacologist working on the discovery and development of novel treatments for addiction and social dysfunction in brain disorders

Joined May 2021
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Huge congratulations to the organising committee of the @BrainMind_Usyd Annual Symposium and ASU for putting on such a fantastic day! This symposium gets better every year!
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Very excited to be hosting Prof Howard Becker at the @BrainMind_Usyd on 30th September. A talk not to be missed 👇
Reg➡️ bit.ly/StressandAlcoholInter… ⏰ Mon, 30 Sep 3:30 - 5:00 pm Lvl 5, Lecture Theatre, BMC Join us for-> speaker, Prof Howard Becker, Medical University of South Carolina. 🗣️Stress and Alcohol Interactions: Brain Mechanisms & Pot. Therapeutics @Sydney_Science @BowenLabTweets
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This event speaks for itself! Huge turnout for @Aus_ScienceWeek Neural knitworks and Meet the Scientist BMC superstars: ⭐ @nebulasector7, Dr Nathan Cross, Dr Vivian Liao, @AnastasiaSuraev @syd_health @Sydney_Science @cityofsydney
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Michael Bowen retweeted
How do patterns of gene expression in parts of the social brain change during the life-history transition to motherhood in pairbonded female #PrairieVoles? #oxytocin receptor, #dopamine receptors, #opioid receptors New paper by @SantiAndForero onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…

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Great to see team member @TylahDoolan presenting her research on oxytocin and addiction at #IBNS2024 @UsydPsych @BrainMind_Usyd
Grateful to the @IBNSconnect team for giving me the opportunity to present my research in Panama! #IBNS2024
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It was great catching up with colleagues at the @BrainMind_Usyd mid-year event this morning. The 🥓 🥚 sliders were 👍 👍
A great turnout for our Mid-year event with all our members in the courtyard -> with the heaters on to take care of that brisk June air🥶🍔 @ian_hickie @DrSalGainsbury @BowenLabTweets
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Most viewed in the last 7 days from @JAMAPsych: Which psychiatric disorder exhibits the strongest improvement associated with placebo treatment in randomized clinical trials? ja.ma/4ceK5qh
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Congratulations Dr @_bluejayray! I couldn’t be prouder of everything you achieved during your PhD. I can’t wait to see what you accomplish during your next exciting chapter in the USA. @UsydPsych @BrainMind_Usyd
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Excited to share my latest first author paper from my PhD: "Effects of CB1 receptor negative allosteric modulator Org27569 on oxycodone withdrawal symptoms in mice" 🐁, published in Psychopharmacology!
Interested in opioid-endocannabinoid interactions in the context of opioid withdrawal? Check out our latest paper in @PsychopharmEBPS . First author @RhianneScicluna, co-authors @neuronick_ @ConnieJBadolato Bianca Wilson. @BrainMind_Usyd @UsydPsych link.springer.com/article/10…
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Joining our 'WINNERS are GRINNERS' club! We are proud that @james_wm_kang is also a past #AusPainSoc PhD Scholar.
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Michael Bowen retweeted
I have been waiting for this moment for three years - thank you @AusPainSoc I graciously receive the honour of the twitter (x) prize
More #AusPainSoc WINNERS are GRINNERS! Great job @LewisCrawford63
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Looking forward to catching the always impressively informative and entertaining @jfcryan in the Secrets of your Gut on @netflix next month
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And there I am inside a giant gut… coming to @netflix April 26th
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Michael Bowen retweeted
We are deeply saddened by the loss of @lyoun03, a founder of the @S4SNeuro, a legend in the field, and a brilliant scientist who is loved by many, many members of this society and beyond. Our #S4SN2025 meeting will be dedicated to the life and memory of Dr. Larry Young! ❤️
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(1/3) Excited to share our latest research on Neuron! We have developed improved GRABNE sensors and a new Cre-dependent KI mouse line for consistent and concurrent norepinephrine and calcium recordings. Free access before May 16, 2024 at authors.elsevier.com/a/1iqK7…

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Come join our team @BrainMind_Usyd , open to international applicants, two year post doc position in translational neuroscience and psychopharmacology
We are hiring for a 2-year post-doc in translational social neuroscience and psychopharmacology! Click here > tinyurl.com/bd4waepx Closes 02 April 11:59 PM. Open to internationals, up to level B! Come develop novel prosocial drugs with us at @BrainMind_Usyd @UsydPsych
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Michael Bowen retweeted
We are hiring for a 2-year post-doc in translational social neuroscience and psychopharmacology! Click here > tinyurl.com/bd4waepx Closes 02 April 11:59 PM. Open to internationals, up to level B! Come develop novel prosocial drugs with us at @BrainMind_Usyd @UsydPsych

We are hiring a post-doc at @BrainMind_Usyd @UsydPsych! This is a 2year position to research the oxytocin neurobiology of social behaviour and to develop novel oxytocin receptor agonists, to directly influence a major industry partnered drug development program. Link below 👇
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In the political landscape there are very few people who are so articulate and honest about their own experiences of living with a mental illness as Alastair Campbell. Let's get mental health it back on the political agenda. Register: bit.ly/42KUcj1 #mentalhealth #auspol
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Michael Bowen retweeted
Interested in a PhD in circuit neuroscience?- Come work with @colingmcn & I in Cork to decode influence of gut microbiota on brain. @Pharmabiotic Please RT!
🚨Hiring: Two funded PhD studentships @UCC @AnatNeuroUCC @Pharmabiotic deciphering neural dynamics of gut-brain influence using neuropixels/fiber photometry supervised by @colingmcn and @jfcryan See fens.org/careers/job-market/… for more info and APPLY by March 12th!
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Michael Bowen retweeted
Highly interesting new Nature article from Andrew Holmes' group: A distinct cortical code for socially learned threat nature.com/articles/s41586-0… Full text: rdcu.be/dx46k

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