Behavioural neuroscientist looking to understand motivated behaviour | overeating in obesity | addiction | LGBTIQ ally 🏳️🌈 @unimelb she/her
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Robyn Brown retweeted
27 Aug 2025
Excited to share our latest review article published in Endocrinology @TheEndoSociety discussing the potential crosstalk between brown fat and pancreatic beta cells. Selected as the Featured Article for the Sep issue! academic.oup.com/endo/articl… #obesity #diabetes #metabolism
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Robyn Brown retweeted
21 Mar 2025
Check out our new paper lead by superstars Amy Pearl and Xavier Maddern in @NatureComms We show a sex specific role for ghrelin signalling in the Edinger Westphal nucleus driving binge drinking. Thanks @RobynBrownLab @willgiardino @feliciamreed1 nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
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Robyn Brown retweeted
7 Feb 2025
Thrilled to see @RutgersU highlight the findings of my first first-author publication! Huge thanks to my mentors @morganjameslab & @DebMitchison for their support. #Rutgers #Research
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Robyn Brown retweeted
8 Feb 2025
Week 3 is coming to an end and we want to thank the main theme sponsor @MedAssociates for their equipment. Also thank you to @doriclenses , @StoeltingNeuro , & @HP_Australia for providing equipment for our students to learn fibre photometry, surgery, & advanced data analysis
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Robyn Brown retweeted
8 Feb 2025
The ACAN community has great spirit, built on a passion for neuroscience and collaboration. Some behind the scenes of an ACAN birthday and ACAN faculty showing off the 2025 T-shirt designed by our students. @AusNeuroSoc
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Robyn Brown retweeted
7 Feb 2025
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Robyn Brown retweeted
16 Jan 2025
🚨 Exciting New Research Alert! 🚨 Our latest study, published in #NatureMetabolism, reveals how memory circuits in the brain drive intake of fats and sugars and impact body weight. 🍫🍟 Let’s break it down! 🧵
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Robyn Brown retweeted
21 Oct 2022
A BIG day for #BariatricSurgery at many levels. The indications are being expanded by IFSO & ASMBS but ALSO
Bariatric Surgery leads to 5️⃣0️⃣% reduction in NON-HORMONAL #Cancers 🦀. Our meta-analysis 📉📊 of 1️⃣8️⃣ Million patients in prestigious @BJSurgery
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Robyn Brown retweeted
14 Nov 2024
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 @Bradfield_Neuro as my Supervisor. Best PhD Supervisor I could have asked for.
13 Nov 2024
Latest preprint from the lab! This is the bulk of superstar @arvieabiero's PhD work
Neuroinflammation in the dorsomedial striatum causes excessive goal-directed action control by disrupting homeostatic astrocyte function biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Robyn Brown retweeted
22 Oct 2024
Keystone conference: Neurobiology of Ingestive Behavior—Registration and Abstract Submission is open!!
See u all in April 22-25, 2025 | Pacific Grove, CA,
@danamsmall @DanielaCota
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Robyn Brown retweeted
11 Oct 2024
The latest @berke_lab paper in @PNASNews by my bff @DuhneMariana (with some contribution by yours truly) on cholinergic pauses in the striatum and the dopamine signal... What does the silence mean?
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Robyn Brown retweeted
7 Oct 2024
Hunger signalling in the olfactory bulb primes exploration, food-seeking and peripheral metabolism.
We deleted ghrelin receptors in the olfactory bulb and saw many interesting effects - see graphical abstract
@ZigmanLab @jeff_neuro @Stark_BrainSci
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Robyn Brown retweeted
6 Oct 2024
If you’re attending #sfn24, check out our lab’s posters Sunday morning! Orexin/hypocretin, sigma 1 receptor, sleep, addiction, cognition, feeding, puberty, depression, and more!
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Robyn Brown retweeted
30 Sep 2024
Over the moon to accept the presidency for @PavlovSociety! I owe a lot to this community and can’t wait to host #Pavlovian2025 in SYDNEY 🇦🇺. We already have 50% of our speakers confirmed with another 50% to be selected from abstracts as well as an ECR data blitz and posters!!
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Robyn Brown retweeted
25 Sep 2024
Having an awesome ISBRA meeting here in Melbourne. We had a really fun panel on neuronal and glial consequences of drug use. Many thanks to @ISBRAComm and @RobynBrownLab. Fantastic talks from @KateReissner, Xavier Maddern, and @morganjameslab,
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20 Sep 2024
So excited to see this out! Huge congrats @garrondodd @beddows
Honoured to be part of this team 😍
18 Sep 2024
Excited to share our latest research published in Nature, revealing the crucial role of the brain's extracellular matrix in obesity and diabetes. nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
Thanks to @CaitBeddows, @MrEdwardMoh, @UniMelb & our funding partners @nhmrc, @arc_gov_au and @DiabetesAus
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Robyn Brown retweeted
5 Sep 2024
Incredibly happy that my first first-author paper is out in @JNeurochem today! We sought to determine how a particular lateral hypothalamus/zona incerta (LH/ZI) cell population contributes to conditioned fear expression. The answer was not so simple! A 🧵 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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