It's now Dr Francis!

On Friday, I passed my PhD with no corrections UCL
Thank you to my supervisors Dr Jessie Baldwin, Jean-Baptiste Pingault & CMAP Mapping Causal Pathways to Mental Health for all their support ❤️
Grateful to my examiners Barbara Maughan & Emily Midouhas for an enjoyable viva!
#FirstGen #WomenInSTEM

Very happy and grateful to have been awarded a UCL Excellence Fellowship, to start in July 2024! Thank you to the Rosetrees Trust and UCL for supporting me, I'm excited to get started🤩

New blog post on our recent paper:
Exploring genetic contributions to conduct problems in childhood and adolescence. CMAP Mapping Causal Pathways to Mental Health communities.springernature.com/posts/explorin…

Our paper on genetic transmission and genetic nurture effects for conduct problems is now published in Molecular Psychiatry molecularpsychiatry! This version includes new analyses nature.com/articles/s4138… 🧵 1/6

Thrilled that my PhD paper is one of the top 10 most downloaded papers Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry for 2023!

Great news for all co-authors to celebrate: Anna Tsaligopoulou, Sarah sarah, J-B Pingault, Dr Jessie Baldwin CMAP Mapping Causal Pathways to Mental Health 🙌

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We have a new preprint out! Intergenerational transmission of polygenic predisposition for neuropsychiatric traits on emotional and behavioural difficulties in childhood

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Prof Francesca Happé Congrats to Dr Jessie Baldwin for winning the Kathy Sylva 'Rising Star' Award & to both our Highly Commended nominees, Dr. Giorgia Michelini (@QMUL) & Dr. Varun Warrier (@Cambridge_Uni). Congratulations also go to all shortlisted nominees! acamh.org/blog/acamh-awa…

#ACAMHawards2023

Thanks again to CMAP Mapping Causal Pathways to Mental Health Dr. Ziada Ayorech (she/her) 🌈 Andrea Allegrini and our discussant Prof Thalia Eley 💙.

And to everyone! who made it to our #WCPG2023 session on the use of polygenic scores, exposome modeling, and family-based designs in genetic confounding and #GxE 🧬

Looking forward to our #WCPG2023 symposium (starting soon!) on methods to untangle genetic, environmental, & confounding influences on mental health in the genome-wide era 🧬 #GxE

With @atcmap Dr. Ziada Ayorech (she/her) 🌈 Andrea Allegrini Prof Thalia Eley 💙 (@RosaCheesman in spirit) 💙

Huge congratulations to our lab member Dr Jessie Baldwin for making it on to the short list for the Kathy Sylva ‘Rising Star’ Award!

New preprint is out medRxiv 👇

Here, we assess the impact of error in self-report measures in the UK Biobank: what are the implications for (genetic) epidemiology?
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Very happy to share my editorial perspective in @theJCPP on Misaligned Incentives in Mental Health Research - the Case for Registered Reports. Thread below!
acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

In a molecularpsychiatry two-sample Mendelian Randomisation study led by Eleonora Iob, we found evidence of causal protective effects of objectively assessed physical activity on #depression and #smoking , pointing to prevention targets Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience NHS Maudsley nature.com/articles/s4138…

Congratulations to our CMAP lab members for placing on the Association for Child & Adolescent Mental Health Awards 2023 Longlist 🎉

Dr Dr Jessie Baldwin for the Kathy Sylva ‘Rising Star’ Award, and Dr Emma Francis and Leonard Frach for the Research Trainee of the Year Award!

acamh.org/blog/awards23-…

#BGA2023 over and out 🇪🇸

Lovely to meet everyone and share our work!

(Pictured: CMAP Mapping Causal Pathways to Mental Health ❤️)

Great to see Dr Emma Francis give her talk on PGS for psychiatric disorders predicting subjective body satisfaction beyond objective body measures today at BGA! Behavior Genetics Association

Giulia Piazza CMAP Mapping Causal Pathways to Mental Health sharing results of network analysis showing PGS for psychiatric disorders are associated with symptoms of other disorders in ALSPAC. Findings were replicated in TEDS #BGA2023

Fascinating talk by Andrea Allegrini CMAP Mapping Causal Pathways to Mental Health outlining his extensive findings examining intergenerational transmission of psychiatric risk over psychopathology symptoms in early childhood #BGA2023

I'm SO excited to share that our Mendelian randomisation study has been published in Scientific Reports 🧬🫀➡️👶

Is resting heart rate a causal risk factor for antisocial behaviour?

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The best thing about conferences is meeting people from all over the world! Behavior Genetics Association CMAP Mapping Causal Pathways to Mental Health Giulia Piazza Lachlan Gilchrist Laura Hegemann Dirk Pelt (others tagged!) #BGA2023