Lena Dorfschmidt

Postdoc @Penn and @ChildrensPhila | Visiting researcher @Cambridge_Uni | @Gates_Cambridge Alumn | Network neuroscience 🧠 and lifespan development 📈

[Lena Dorfschmidt @lenadorfschmidt]

Working with @rafa_romero_gar under the Spanish sun sounds like a dream ☀️🧠.

[Rafael Romero Garcia @rafa_romero_gar]

We’re hiring! 🚀 Are you passionate about neuroimaging, MRI, brain charts, or genetics? 📊🧠

Join our research team at the Neuroimaging Lab, University of Seville, and work on "Resil-net: Resilience and vulnerability—from neural circuits to networks". 🌐✨

[Melissa Thalhammer @melissaneuro]

⚡️New #preprint alert ⚡️
We show that #brain aberrations are highly heterogeneous after #preterm birth, and that there are consistent biological mechanisms and social environmental influences shaping these aberrations.

📰 Read the full preprint here: https://t.co/JP8tK7Fx0l

[Lena Dorfschmidt @lenadorfschmidt]

Absolutely delighted to see our review of structural MRI brain similarity networks out! The culmination of months of exciting conversations with co-first author @isaac_sebenius and the stellar team of @Aaron_A_B, @jakob_seidlitz, @Sarah_Morgan_UK and Ed Bullmore!

[Nature Rev Neurosci @NatRevNeurosci]

Structural MRI of brain similarity networks — a Review by Isaac Sebenius, Lena Dorfschmidt, Jakob Seidlitz, Aaron Alexander-Bloch, Sarah E. Morgan & Edward Bullmore
https://t.co/BKJDfo0QPh

@isaac_sebenius @lenadorfschmidt @jakob_seidlitz @Aaron_A_B @Sarah_Morgan_UK

[Lena Dorfschmidt @lenadorfschmidt]

If you are looking for a PhD position, I highly recommend working with @Sarah_Morgan_UK !

[Sarah Morgan @Sarah_Morgan_UK]

If you'd like to join us, we're recruiting a #PhD student to start Oct 24. The successful student will work on extending MIND- our new method to construct structural brain networks from #MRI (Sebenius et al., Nature Neuroscience 2023)- to study perinatal development (2/3)

[Lena Dorfschmidt @lenadorfschmidt]

@elvisha9 Interrail via Oslo, Gothenburg, Copenhagen, Hamburg, Munich. 🌱🌎

[Rafael Romero Garcia @rafa_romero_gar]

Fully funded PhD opportunities in my group!
You will have the opportunity to explore how brain structure is altered in psychosis and neurodevelopmental disorders using neuroimaging.
Become a neuroscientist a the University of Seville!
https://t.co/LZucxj20HS…

Spread the word!

[Natalia García San Martín @garsanmar]

I'm excited to share our preprint exploring the "Molecular and micro-architectural mapping of abnormal gray matter developmental trajectories in psychosis". 🧠🧪
👇How does neurobiology co-localize with volume deviations ?👇
https://t.co/hIAAOwJjZM

[Lena Dorfschmidt @lenadorfschmidt]

Had a wonderful in Zurich this weekend, after the @brainfoodPM team invited me to give a talk on working with large-scale aggregated MRI data. Thanks for having me - this weekend was a reminder of how wonderful mainland Europe is.

[Lena Dorfschmidt @lenadorfschmidt]

@edbullmore This would not have been possible without your support, @edbullmore!

[Lena Dorfschmidt @lenadorfschmidt]

My home town @GoettingenStadt has a wonderful tradition: doctoral graduates are meant to kiss and hand flowers to the city landmark, a statue of a girl on a fountain on the market square. Having finished my PhD @Cambridge_Uni, today my parents took me to complete the task.

[Richard Bethlehem @rai_bethlehem]

Our latest global effort (led by twitterles Varun Warrier from @psychiatry_ucam and @CambPsych ) to map the genetic architecture of the human 🧠 is now live! Massive thank you to all co-authors!! https://t.co/ZK5dGtl92a

[Lena Dorfschmidt @lenadorfschmidt]

I am so grateful to everyone who has supported me through this: my supervisors @edbullmore and @petra_vertes, official advisors @rai_bethlehem and @frantisekvasa, the unofficial ones @jakob_seidlitz, @SimonWhite83, @rafa_romero_gar, @Sarah_Morgan_UK and ofc the rest of the BMU.

[Lena Dorfschmidt @lenadorfschmidt]

Still not sure I believe it's over, but I just submitted my hardbound PhD thesis @Cambridge_Uni last week. Thanks to my examiners @matildevaghi and @estamatakis, who, after a rather chaotic last-minute change in viva date, let me defend online from Islamabad, Pakistan.

[Lena Dorfschmidt @lenadorfschmidt]

Super cool work by @eva_stauffer investigating the genetic relationship between brain structure and schizophrenia is available as a preprint now. Check out Eva's tweet for a summary 🧵

[Lena Dorfschmidt @lenadorfschmidt]

@rogierK OATS - https://t.co/nplAKb8HOI; QTIM (careful, to the best of my knowledge they haven't published the actual zygosity info yet. https://t.co/XnlXu8u731; QTAB - https://t.co/b4AhiavhVW.

[Jake Vogel @_JakeVogel_]

‼️PhD positions available‼️ Please share/RT.

2⃣ PhD positions open in my lab!

Neuro/fMRI -- https://t.co/MO2kKbnHtd
Quant. Biology/Omics -- https://t.co/w1gXY7T2pg

Great data, great science, great team (@biofinder_study) and great fun. A quick thread about the positions: 1/5

[Caitlin Cassidy @caitecassidy]

I've been speaking to PhD candidates about the struggle to maintain a decent standard of living on stipend rates - well below minimum wage, because they're considered students, not workers. Particularly tough in this economy https://t.co/65MQnUnsX8

[Rafael Romero Garcia @rafa_romero_gar]

Fully funded PhD opportunities in my group!
You will have the opportunity to explore how brain structure is altered in psychosis and neurodevelopmental disorders using neuroimaging.
Become a neuroscientist a the University of Seville!
https://t.co/T9YzGiLGkt

Spread the word!

[The Naked Scientists @NakedScientists]

Turning the Tide on Hydro Power @simon_on_energy @drlukemyers @Orbitalmarine @Catapult_UK @daverothery @lenadorfschmidt https://t.co/JSIb9bRLgf

[Lena Dorfschmidt @lenadorfschmidt]

It was great to talk to @NakedScientists about our recent work on sex differences in adolescent brain development!

[The Naked Scientists @NakedScientists]

Wasting our waters @simon_on_energy @drlukemyers @Orbitalmarine @Catapult_UK @daverothery @lenadorfschmidt https://t.co/r0XL6VTqHJ