Zarah Haniff, pharmacist and PhD fellow in the Thuret Lab at King's College London, explores how adult hippocampal neurogenesis may explain how psilocybin works in Psychology Today

This is part of the The Mental Health Innovation Group blog run by COMPASS pathways.

PhD student Tinne Nissen was selected to participate and present her research at the FENS winter school focusing on neuroimmune interactions in health and disease in Austria. 

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A new paper from the Thuret lab published in Brain demonstrates how human hippocampal progenitors exposed to serum can predict the progression to Alzheimer's.

Congratulations to postdoc Edina Silajdzic and Hyunah Lee!

The Thuret Lab won the BCN Christmas party fancy dress group price. A turkey, Christmas pudding, carrots, parsnips, champagne, a candy cane, gravy, pigs in blankets, and a mushroom wellington.

Can you guess our group theme?  

Congratulation to Dr Curie Kim who was recently awarded a small grant from the King’s Together Public Mental Health Initiative Early Career Researcher Seed Funding Scheme. She will be conducting her own independent qualitative research project gathering information from ethnic minorities on the main barriers that prevent them and their communities from participating in human trials. Opinions will also be gathered on strategies they believe would be effective in order to guide recruitment strategies for future trials and improve participant diversity. 

​Congratulations to PhD-student Tinne Amalie Damgaard Nissen who has been awarded a grant from the Danish William Demant Fonden to go to the British Society for Immunology (BSI) Congress 2022 in Liverpool. 

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Swing by her poster Tuesday 6 December, 18:00-19:30 (poster P-277).

November 2022​

Prof. Sandrine Thuret, Dr. Edina Silajdzic, Dr. Hyunah Lee, and Daniel Rock attended SfN 2022 in San Diego.

October 2022​

Chiara de Lucia, Daniel Rock, and Tinne Nissen are attending the 35th ECNP Congress in Vienna. 

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Monday the 17th of October Chiara will be giving a talk in the New Findings session and Daniel is presenting his poster. Tinne is presenting her work during the poster jam on Tuesday the 18th of October. Come and say hi!

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Impaired hippocampal neurogenesis in vitro is modulated by dietary-related endogenous factors and associated with depression in a longitudinal ageing cohort study.

Du Preez A, Lefèvre-Arbogast S, González-Domínguez R, Houghton V, de Lucia C, Low DY, Helmer C, Féart C, Delcourt C, Proust-Lima C, Pallàs M, Sánchez-Pla A, Urpi-Sardà M, Ruigrok SR, Altendorfer B, Aigner L, Lucassen PJ, Korosi A, Manach C, Andres-Lacueva C, Samieri C, Thuret S. Mol Psychiatry. 2022 Jul 7. doi: 10.1038/s41380-022-01644-1.

The EAT-Lancet reference diet and cognitive function across the life course.

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Dalile B*, Kim C*, Challinor A, Geurts L, Gibney ER, Galdos MV, La Fata G, Layé S, Mathers JC, Vauzour D, Verkuyl JM, Thuret S. Lancet Planet Health. 2022 Sep;6(9):e749-e759. doi: 10.1016/S2542-5196(22)00123-1.

Welcome to PhD student Zarah Haniff joining the lab to investigate the cellular and molecular mechanisms by which psilocybin impact mood and cognitive function. She is funded by the Wellcome as part of King’s PhD Programme in Mental Health Research for Health Professionals

Welcome to PhD student Sahand Farmand joining the lab to investigate the impact of exercise on neural stem cells and cognition as part of our RLWT-funded consortium investigating the mechanisms underlying the role of gut-microbiota in exercise-induced changes in cognitive function in middle age.

Congratulations to Dr Thomas Berger for successfully obtaining his PhD, being nominated by his examiners for King’s outstanding Thesis Prize and now hired by Catalent, Inc as Genome editing scientist at their German headquarters.

Congratulations to Dr Chiara de Lucia for winning the 2022 ECR ECNP New Findings award for her work on neural stem cell ageing and one of the poster prizes at the 2022 ILSI symposium.

Congratulations to PhD student Vikki Houghton for receiving the Best Presentation prize at King’s 2022 DTP symposium

Congratulations to PhD students Tinne Nissen and Daniel Rock for winning each a 2022 ECR ECNP Excellence award. Tinne also won the best 1st year poster Prize at King’s 2022 School of Neuroscience symposium.

Congratulations and welcome back Neuroscience student Thomas Eve who won the W J Revell Prize for 'Best research project in ageing' for his BSc project in our lab. We are lucky that Tom has just returned to complete his MSci project!