MRC/AstraZeneca partnership for clinical fellows: gain knowledge & experience of regulatory/clinical trial processes in new therapies

📣 We are hiring a research fellow in psychiatric genomics to work on a Wellcome funded project looking at longitudinal data & how symptoms change over time. Come and work with us: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat…

The new PGC Consortium Functional Genomics Group has a *new* twitter/X feed here. Please cosider following and liking them x.com/pgc_fg

Great opportunity

There is SO MUCH longitudinal data out there (landscaping-longitudinal-research.com). We should be trying our best to harmonise, replicate & triangulate evidence across different datasets to see what is consistent & what isn't. This will benefit understanding in the long run cc Louise Arseneault

New fully-funded Clinical Research Fellow in Psychiatry position available to join our research group in Edinburgh, working on Wellcome funded ambientbd.com project.
Enquiries very welcome, please apply below👇 Pls RT Psychiatric Trainees' Committee (PTC)
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The final version of this paper is now out. So giving it a little tweet.

Really enjoy seeing investigators making code available for others to read and use

📢The 23rd International Gene Forum is bringing stellar speakers from around the globe to Tartu on 24-25 September 2024! 🚀

Full list of speakers & info:
geneforum.ee/speakers/
Incl:
Stephen Kingsmore
Naomi Wray
Peter Visscher
Tuuli Lappalainen
Andrea Gaedigk
Julia Stingl
Zoltán Kutalik

My latest PhD Project is now up on medRxiv: medrxiv.org/content/10.110… ! Here, we looked at the association between antidepressant exposure and DNA methylation🧬in 16,536 individuals in Generation Scotland. A 🧵 of our main findings:

Delighted to see this longitudinal work on depressive symptoms in adolescents published - thanks to all of the participants, staff & investigators in the ABCD Study, Children of the 90s and PGC Consortium who made this possible pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38748406/

This is a blatant misrepresentation of our work science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…. Our study does not in any way suggest that the application of SPF50 sunscreen “blocks our natural defences” or is detrimental to health.

Enjoyed filming this piece last week, aired on BBC today, about our work on physical activity and mental health bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod…. Massive thanks to Joe Wicks for endless enthusiasm (obligatory post-wrap selfie below!) and to The ISEH 🏃🏽‍♀️🏃‍♀️ and Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging for all your support!

If you're aged 12-15 or support under 18's we'd love more young people to join gen.scot and the Loneliness Project gslonelinessteens.com

We need to understand more about mental health in young people, but we can't do it without them #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek

📢 Join us and MQ for an #EarlyCareerResearchers (ECR’s) Virtual Coffee Morning on 7th June. Topic: Top tips for securing research funding with guest speaker Emily Ball.

Submit questions & register for free 📝. Limited spots!
eventbrite.co.uk/e/early-career…

#ECRchat

A new UKRI-funded Hub for Metabolic Psychiatry is launching at The University of Edinburgh, led by #ListerFellow Daniel Smith. The hub will explore links between metabolic conditions and severe mental illness. Read our interview with Danny on the Lister blog lister-institute.org.uk/danny-smith-to…

PGC Consortium ISPG Dr Cathryn Lewis Andrew McIntosh Mark James Adams KarolineKuchenbäcker Xiangrui Meng Naomi Wray Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience Mental Health at the University of Edinburgh The latest GWAS meta-analysis of the PGC Consortium #Depression working group is now online as a preprint. I'm happy I could work on this with many other researchers, some from Zentralinstitut für Seelische Gesundheit, and 100s from all over the world.