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Omega Lab

@omegalab.bsky.social
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passionate about gut-brain axis, neuroimaging, healthy aging @ MPI CBS Leipzig

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Omega Lab @omegalab.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
🧠 Join Our Team! 🧠 2 PhD candidates and 1 Study Nurse positions ope as part of our new RCT within the LeiCeM Excellence Cluster. - PhD (deadline:15/10): tinyurl.com/35e5tbhy - PhD within the IMPRIS-CONI (deadline:02/11): tinyurl.com/y9yt4akf - Study Nurse (deadline:15/10): tinyurl.com/4zztjmj9
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Omega Lab @omegalab.bsky.social · 26/08/2024
Only one more week until our hybrid Mini-Symposium on September, 2 2024 @mpicbs.bsky.social with @neurometabolic.bsky.social @rachellippert.bsky.social, Leonie Koban & Mirjam Bloemendaal #WomenInStem You can still register here and join online or in person: survey.academiccloud.de/index.php/57...
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Registration for "Exploring the gut-brain interplay"
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Omega Lab @omegalab.bsky.social · 24/07/2024
We're super excited to announce our hybrid Mini-Symposium on September, 2 2024 (9-11.30 a.m. CET) @mpicbs.bsky.social covering fascinating research on gut-brain interactions with @neurometabolic.bsky.social @rachellippert.bsky.social Leonie Koban & Mirjam Bloemendaal. Please register & share!
Flyer showing title (Exploring the Gut-Brain Interplay), Date (September, 2nd 2024 from 9am - 11.30 am, CET), pictures of speakers & talk titles:
Mirjam Bloemendaal (RadboudMC, Nijmegen, Netherlands): The gut microbiome & anti-depressant treatment response
Sharmili Edwin Thanarajah (University Hospital Frankfurt, Germany): The impact of Western diet & peripheral metabolism on mental health
Leonie Koban (Lyon Neuroscience Research Center, Lyon, France): Gut-brain interactions in human decision-making
Rachel Lippert (German Institute of Nutrition Research, Potsdam, Germany): The role of maternal metabolic environment in lifelong alterations to offspring neurophysiology.

Registration link: https://survey.academiccloud.de/index.php/578946?lang=en
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Omega Lab @omegalab.bsky.social · 05/07/2024
We are very happy to present our first registered report 🤩, now published in Imaging Neuroscience. After two very productive revisions of the stage 1 and stage 2 versions through @pci-regreports.bsky.social we can only recommend this! ** PAPER ** > doi.org/10.1162/imag...
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Progression of white matter hyperintensities is related to blood pressure increases and global cognitive decline – A registered report
Abstract. White matter hyperintensities (WMH) reflect cerebral small vessel disease (cSVD), a major brain pathology contributing to cognitive decline and dementia. Vascular risk factors, including hig...
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Veronica Witte @veronicawitte.bsky.social · 11/10/2023
New #RCT on the gut-brain axis 🧠🍏🦠 how #plant-based #prebiotics affect food decision-making now out in Gut 🥳 👏@omegalab.bsky.social paper ➡️ doi.org/10.1136/gutj... summary ➡️ t.co/XhJC1GlSwN #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #PsychSkySci #Medsky #neuroimaging #wisskomm #scicomm #gut #brain #openscience
Figures showing the effects of prebiotics on behavioral wanting ratings and decreases in brain activation in response to high-caloric, wanted food stimuli in prefrontal and brainstem areas.
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Omega Lab @omegalab.bsky.social · 09/10/2023
Three of our lab members, Daria EA Jensen (P.0748), Meghedi Vartanian (P.1065), and Konrad Endres (P.1111), have the opportunity to attend ECNP in Barcelona and present their posters today and tomorrow. Come & learn more about the hypothalamus, neuronal responses to visual food cues & ghrelin!
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