Lab news

October 2019

Amazing work by super talented photographer on what it looks like to have a mental health condition inspired by our research.

September 2019

Marta receives the Aubrey Lewis Award from the Biological Psychiatry Australia and will be giving a a plenary lecture at the society's annual meeting.

August 2019

The lab has moved to The University of Melbourne, in the heart of the second most livable city in the world (still 1st if you're fluent in English but not German). Loving the Melbourne vibe!

July 2019

Lab's farewell to glorious sunny Brisbane - bye bye palm trees!

June 2019

We welcome Chrys Zantis, textile artist in residence. Her residency just started and she's already filling our lab with beautiful neuroart!

May 2019

Farewell Melissa Larsen! It's been wonderful to have you in the lab and good luck in your new position at Boeme og ungdemspykiatrisk Center and DRCMR. You'll be missed!

April 2019

Congratulations to Clare Harris who will be taking up her new position as a Clinical Research Medical Officer at the Centre for Clinical Studies in Melbourne, run by a phase l clinical trials company called Nucleus Network.

Feb 2019

The Garrido Lab is migrating to the University of Melbourne in August!

Feb 2019

Congratulations to everyone in the lab for all the reached milestones and achievements for the first quarter of 2019 and especially, Melissa, Roshini, Lena and Clare.

• Melissa completed her multimodal 50 person MRI-EEG study. This is a huge effort so very well done Melissa!

• Roshini completed her 40 person fMRI study with each person completing several behavioural tests and questionaires with over 3+ hours per person. Fantastic job Roshini.

• Lena and Roshini had their 89 person combined DWI-EEG study accepted in NeuroImage - showing that the structural connectivity of the right arcuate fasciculus enables the effective connectivity underpinning prediction errors. Congratulations Lena and Roshini!

• Clare submitted her MPhil thesis!!! Clare's thesis reports one EEG study already published in Frontiers Neuroscience with all data and code available, plus one 46 person fMRI study currently being written up for publication. The examiners will be utterly impressed by Clare!

Jan 2019

Congratulations Melissa on your paper, "Individuals with 22q11.2 deletion syndrome show intact prediction but reduced adaptation in responses to repeated sounds: evidence from Bayesian mapping" being accepted (13/2/2019) by Neuroimage. K.M. Larsen, M. Morup, M.R. Birknow, E. Fischer, L. Olsen, M. Didriksen, W.F,C Baare, T.M Werge, M.I Garrido* & H.R. Siebner*. *equal contribution.

Based on the study published in eLife, NEWDAILY published a piece around Marta and Jessica's findings. "The sixth sense explained: How the brain fools you into feeling things you hadn't seen".

New research from the Garrido lab was featured in New Zealand media websites MSM News New Zealand and Newshub. It was also featured in Cosmos Magazine.

Jessica's eLife paper, "An afferent subcortical white matter pathway to the amygdala facilitates fear recognition" has been selected for eLife digest.

Ilvana and Melissa’s abstract has been accepted for an oral presentation at the 2019 Congress of the Schizophrenia International Research Society in Orland - “The Neural Dynamics of Belief formation: Impairments Specific to the Schizophrenia Spectrum and Features that Align on the Psychosis Continuum”. This is work with our wonderful Melbourne collaborators Olivia Carter @UniMelbourne and Suresh Sundram @MonashUni

Lena and Roshini’s paper was selected for the cover of HBM February issue. Congratulations on this rare achievement and especially to Lena's artistic abilities.

Congratulations Marta on, "Predictive coding of visual motion in both monocular human visual processing" being accepted for publication in the Journal of Vision by Elle van Heusden, Anthony Harris, Marta Garrido and Hinze Hogendoorn.

From Tuesday 2nd October, 2018 the lab welcomes two new members, Shivam from New Zealand and Moritz from Germany on research internships.

Welcome back Cooper from the lab stay with Floris de Lange based at the Donders Institute in Nijmegen.

Congratulations Marta for being awarded the 2018 ACNS, Young Investigator Award.

Another paper has been accepted for the group and this time congratulations go to Melissa and Ilvana for a review paper on the altered functional brain architecture in 22q11.2 deletion syndrome and susceptibility for psychosis.

May 2018

Congratulations to Lena and Roshini who had their paper accepted this morning in Human Brain Mapping: White matter connectivity reductions in the pre-clinical continuum of psychosis: A connectome study. This study shows that people (N=89) with increasing psychotic - like experiences have reductions in white matter connectivity.

Wonderful news for Clare and Roshini who had their paper accepted in Frontiers! This is Clare’s first paper and presents a beautiful tutorial for Bayesian model selection mapping for M/EEG with all code and data available.

The Garrido lab also welcomes Yihao Wang, a winter program student at the Queensland Brain Institute coming from Wenzhou Medical University, where she majors in Optometry/Ophthalmology

Welcome to the lab Talina Bayeleva. Talina joins the lab on her 3 month rotation project as part of her MPhil in Neuroscience.

On the 27th July 2018 the Garrido Lab held their Lab Retreat at Mt Coot-tha.

Marta travelled to Helsinki, Finland and delivered her talk titled,"Reduced top-down connectivity as an underlying mechanism for psychotic experiences in healthy people" at the 8th Mismatch Negativity Conference from 12-15 June, 2018.

Feb 2018

The lab welcomes Kelly Garner who joins the lab on a very prestigious Marie-Curie fellowship.

Congratulations to Roshini who has been selected into the 2018 UQ Global Change Scholars Programme. Graduates of the program will possess deep understanding of global trends, the challenges and opportunities they present, and an awareness of how to drive the changes necessary to build sustainable futures.

eLIFE have published a collection of stories called "Scientist and Parent" with one featuring "Life story: Marta Garrido. Parenting as an early-career researcher and as a group leader hold different challenges."

Happy International Women's day from the Garrido Lab! Today we bid farewell to Kirstie - all the best for the future Kirstie!

The Garrido lab farewell's Lena as she joins the O'Sullivan's lab - thank you Lena for your contributions to the lab and all the best for the future.

Kelly Garner from the University of Birmingham has been awarded a highly competitive international postdoctoral Marie-Curie fellowship and will join the Garrido lab in the near future.

Welcome to Biophysics Honours student Perri Newman. Perri will be investigating evoked brain responses during statistical learning using dynamic causal modelling.

Welcome back to Roshini who started her PhD on Feb 1st, 2018.

The lab wishes Cooper all the best who is off shortly for a lab stay with Floris de Lange based at the Donders Institute in Nijmegen, Netherlands to learn more about MEG.

Marta and Melissa have had their paper, on auditory processing and brain connectivity in 22q11.2 deletion Syndrome, accepted into Schizophrenia Research.

A fantastic achievement for Roshini who was awarded her MPhil on 12/1/2018 and will return to the Garrido lab next week. Roshini received a highly competitive fully funded international scholarship to pursue her PhD.

Well done Dr. Natalie Rens, Dr. Chase Sherwell and Dr.Ilvana Dzafic on their recent PhD graduations in December, 2017.

Chase Sherwell at the UQ lake fountain after the graduation.

At the recent Systems & Computational Neuroscience Down Under (SCiNDU) 2017 meeting invited speaker Marta Garrido presented, "Connectivity underpinnings of statistical learning in healthy people with psychotic experiences".

Congratulations Lena Oestreich who received the ACNS Emerging Researcher award for her publication “Abnormal white matter microstructure and increased extracellular free-water in the cingulum bundle associated with delusions in chronic schizophrenia”, published in Neuroimage: Clinical. The study used a novel method, termed free-water imaging, to investigate whether delusions in schizophrenia are the result of microstructural and therefore relatively stable, or neuroinflammatory, transient processes. The findings revealed that whereas a history of delusions is associated with microstructural changes, the active presence of delusions is associated with neuroinflammation.

Congratulations go to Ilvana for being awarded the Centre for Integrative Brain Function the 2017 ECR Travel Award to attend ACNS in Adelaide in November 2017.

May 2017

Marta Garrido's research was highlighted in the Marie Claire magazine with a snapshot of how Marta became interested in the brain, her current work and her ideas for the future.

Congratulations Marta Garrido on the recently published paper. Cornwell, B.R., Garrido, M.I., Overstreet, C., Pine, D.S., Grillon, C.(2017) The unpredictive brain under threat: A neurocomputational account of anxious hypervigilance. Biological Psychiatry 82(6): 447-454

Congratulates to Ilvana Dzafic who received her PhD thesis back from examination with very positive thesis examiner comments and the recommendation that the thesis be passed with no corrections.

March 2017

Welcome to Melissa Larsen who joins the Lab as a Postdoctoral Fellow after completing her PhD at the Technical University of Denmark, Danish Research Center for Magnetic Resonance.

Lab members Jessica McFadyen and Cooper Smout attended the first CIBF, Early Career Researcher (ECR) retreat held at North Stradbroke Island, Queensland. This gave the ECR's an opportunity to network with each other, share their research and receive up to date professional information on publishing, neuroscience startups, and career pathways.

Lily has accepted an offer to start her postdoc at UCL in the lab of Janaina Mourao-Miranda, the home of PRONTO, and an excellent place to do machine learning. All the best in the future Lily.

Clare is finishing her QBI rotation with the Garrido lab after a very few productive months. Clare continues her rotation by moving onto the Goodhill lab.

Cooper and Jessica will use their travel award funding to present their work at the ICON2017 13th International conference for cognitive neuroscience, Amsterdam (Netherlands), 5-8 August 2017. Both Cooper and Jessica have been invited to present.

Feb 2017

Congratulations to Jessica McFadyen for being awarded the Candidate Development Award (CDA) to be used towards travel. Jessica will present at ICON2017 and also travel to visit Klaas Stephan's lab in Zurich.

Congratulations to Cooper Smout for being awarded the Candidate Travel Award from the UQ Graduate School and also the CIBF travel award.

Former lab member Elise Rowe received a Brains for Brains Award to present at the Bernstein Conference in Gottingen.

Feb 2017

Lena Oestreich received the Ian Potter Foundation travel award to present at HBM in Vancouver June, 2017. Fantastic effort Lena.

Jan 2017

Well done Jeremy on his first ever paper. Published in Neuroimage: Clinical demonstrates that the combination of EEG and machine learning has great potential as a diagnostic tool for schizophrenia.

Jeremy A Taylor, Natasha Matthews, Patricia T Michie, Maria J Rosa and Marta I Garrido (2017). Auditory prediction errors as individual biomarkers of schizophrenia. Neuroimage: Clinical

New review paper R. Randeniya, L.K.L. Oestreich, M.I. Garrido. (2017) Sensory prediction errors in the continuum of psychosis accepted in Schizophrenia Research. Congratulations Roshini on your first paper.

Dr Garrido hosted the special public event "Machines that Read your Mind" in the QBI Auditorium, Brisbane, Australia.

Speakers featured Dr Lilach Avitan, Associate Professor Femke Nijboer, Associate Professor's Michael Milford and Associate Professor Elizabeth Stephens. Demonstrators

featured Professor Jason Mattingley, Dr David Painter and Ms Angela Renton. View the event here.

Marta Garrido and Linda Richards featured in Questnews/ southwest providing sage advice to women on following their passion and interests in Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM).

Dec 2016

First author Jessica McFadyen's manuscript " A rapid subcortical amygdala route for faces irrespective of spatial frequency and emotion"

has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Neuroscience.

Dec 2016

The Australian Mathematical Psychology Conference in Brisbane will start with workshops on Tuesday 14th Feb, followed by

the conference on Wednesday. Marta Garrido will be speaking at the Satellite Symposium themed, " Relationship between

mathematical modelling and cognitive neuroscience." Details can be found at https://ampc2017.wordpress.com/

Invited speaker Marta Garrido presented her talk titled, "Connectivity modelling of brain prediction errors"

at the MICCN Computational Neuroscience Symposium hosted by Monash Institute of Cognitive and Clinical Neurosciences.

Nov 2016

Welcome to Claire Harris who joins the Garrido team as the new QBI MPhil Neuroscience rotation student.

The Garrido Lab welcomes the newest member for 2017, Dr Ilvana Dzafic, Postdoctoral Fellow funded by CIBF.

Nov 2016

Jessica McFayden was awarded the "Lyn Beasley Award for Outstanding Contribution" at the CIBF Annual Meeting, Hobart, Australia.

At the Science Meeting Jessica presented a talk titled, "Mapping the Structure and Function of the Subcortical Route to the Amygdala".

CIBF Annual Meeting, Hobart, Australia. Marta Garrido was a member of the Scientific Committee that formed the CIBF Science Meeting.

Roxanne Jemison received the CIBF "Amanda Caples Award for Outstanding Staff Member" at the Annual CIBF Meeting in Hobart, Australia.

Lena Oestreich, Jessica McFayden, Marta Garrido and Roshini Randeniya gave talks at the ACNS 2016 meeting in Newcastle, Australia.

Lena Oestreich with supervisor Dr Thomas Whitford at her UNSW graduation ceremony where Lena was awarded her PhD.

Lead author Lena Oestreich's free-water imaging study published in NeuroImage Clinical has been highlighted in Psychiatry Advisor.

Marta is a travel award recipient of the Australian Academy of Science, Science Pathways 2016 Future Leaders Forum, being held in Sydney this week..

Marta received the UQ Foundation Research Excellence Award, at an event last night to honour the best and brightest researchers, for her work into early intervention in schizophrenia.

The 2016 Australasian Cognitive Neuroscience Conference have selected two symposium submissions which include speakers Jessica McFayden and Dr Marta Garrido.

Chase Sherwell won the "people's choice award" at the Science of Learning Centre's 3 minute thesis competition.

Elise Rowe's paper "Large capacity of conscious access for incidental memories in natural scenes" is published in Psychological Science.

Welcome to Lena who joins the lab as a post-doc.

Marta, Jeremy, and Elise get their paper accepted at npj Science of Learning.

Elise has her first paper accepted at The Journal of Neuroscience.

Marta speaks at QBI's International Women's Day Breakfast.

The lab receives support from a generous donor.

Marta speaks at Monash super computer launch.

Jess passes M1 PhD confirmation.

Welcome to Anton who starts as post-doc in the lab.

Marta receives research fellowship from UQ.

Jeremy, Jess, Elise and Marta present (posters and talk) at SCiNDU.

Elise receives First Class Honours.

Cooper wins ACNS Best Poster Award.

Elise and Chase present posters at ACNS.

Marta and Jess speak at ACNS.

Elise wins CIBF ECR ACNS Travel Award.

Jess wins ACNS Student Travel Award.