Fatima presented her poster on ✨High-Throughput Functional Analysis of Genes Associated with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder✨ at the Bonn Brain Conference @bonnbrainconf.bsky.social last week.
🧬 Are the genetics of anxiety different in females and males? In a new preprint, Hu et al. report the first sex-specific GWAS meta-analysis of anxiety disorders, combining UK Biobank and All of Us: 85,000 female cases & 36,720 male cases 📄 doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Most successful University of Excellence - In the atrium of the rectorate building, University members watched with bated breath as the decision on excellence was announced.
Most successful University of Excellence - Rector Hoch, together with the Rectorate and hundreds of guests, burst into cheers when the decision was announced.
Great news—We remain the most successful German University of Excellence! With eight Clusters of Excellence and funding secured until 2033, we’re moving closer to our goal of establishing our Uni permanently among the best universities in the world: www.uni-bonn.de/en/news/040-...
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Wow look at this! @aydaabol.bsky.social presented her work on COVID-19 host genetics at the #GfH2026 in Munich! Nice to see this important research on the conference stage. 🧬
@lea202.bsky.social presented her MPRA data at the Stem Cells in Neuroscience conference last week. Where she didn't just reconnect with her Master's thesis lab led by @stefanhauser.bsky.social, but also received valuable input from specialists across the field.
10/10 conference experience 👩🔬
🖨️ Hot off the press 🍾 :
I am super excited to share that our article on the host control of persistent EBV infection has just been published in Nature Magazine, in an accelerated article preview version:
rdcu.be/e4Lg8
In addition to the recent PGC Outreach Committee report, here’s another useful resource for science communication in psychiatric genetics, this PGC webinar on the topic
Clear communication is essential in a field as sensitive and complex as psychiatric genetics.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KQW...
New report by the PGC outreach committee:
From Genomes to Conversations: Outreach and Engagement in Psychiatric Genetics (2026)
An important contribution on why dialogue, and responsible communication must be integral to psychiatric genetics.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
It’s Carnival in the Rheinland and of course we celebrated 🎭
Yesterday we swapped lab coats and computers for costumes and balloons. @aydaabol.bsky.social designed and made her beautiful flower costume herself and very deservedly took 2nd place in the costume competition.
🌟for our last portrait, @fg-pgc.bsky.social is back in Germany @unibonn.bsky.social, where Dr EVA BEINS @evabeins.bsky.social studies #genetics and #microglia in #depression & #bipolardisorder. Think #brain #immune cells and #mentalhealth 🧠🧬👨🎓
🧠... our next young #functionalgenomics brain is Dr FATIMA MOHAMEDELMUGADAM from @unibonn.bsky.social in Germany🌟 She is interested in how genetic variants in different populations of the world contribute to #autism and #ADHD in kids👨👩👧👧
So, who are the the Functional Genomics Working Group?
🎯Our goal is to understand how genes🧬, cells🦠and molecules💠contribute to psychiatric disorders🧠
We work with other PGC groups and different 'omics data (methylation, cytometry, single cell etc.) to do this🧪
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Before we get started, let’s introduce our two Social Media Reps - @natashaberthold.bsky.social and @evacschulte.bsky.social!
We're here for the #functionalgenomics🧬, and #Science #Communication📡is a🔑key part!
💫Check out their profiles💫
A late post from this year’s World Congress of Psychiatric Genetics in Mexico! 🇲🇽
@evacschulte.bsky.social was there and got us this snapshot from our colleague @evabeins.bsky.social’s great presentation on the role of microglia in depression. 🧠🧫
We can't wait for WCPG26 in Glasgow! 🏴
#WCPG25
@evacschulte.bsky.social is at ASHG 2025 in Boston - make sure to stop by at her poster and learn more about ongoing work on ✨Lipids as a link between genetic risk factors and mental health disorders ✨
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#ASHG2025 @geneticssociety.bsky.social
@lea202.bsky.social is taking us to the functional side of psychiatric genetics today with her poster on ✨ massively parallel characterization of common risk variants for mental health disorders in glutamatergic neuron ✨at @ecnp.eu
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#ECNP2025
Join @kilarski.bsky.social for her poster presentation today on her project “Expression and splicing outlier analysis in whole-blood transcriptomes of individuals with schizophrenia spectrum disorders” located at the psychiatric genetics section! 🧠🧬🌌 @ecnp.eu
#ECNP2025
Our PhD student
@anoja.bsky.social
presented her first ever conference poster today at @ecnp.eu 🎊🧠📊
There was tons of interest in her work on:
✨ Molecular characterization of a “severe psychosis” subgroup in the PsyCourse study ✨
#ECNP2025
Congrats to @maheshgouda.bsky.social for winning a @ecnp.eu excellence award 🏆for his poster titled:
✨Transcriptomics highlights immune cell contribution to lithium response in bipolar disorder ✨
🧬👨🔬🧠
#ECNP2025
🎓👏 We’re proud to announce that our colleague Khaoula Ferchichi successfully defended her PhD last Tuesday!
Big congratulations to Dr. Ferchichi on this huge achievement🥳🥂
Last week, Fatima joined the @eventswcs.bsky.social CRISPR screen course in Hinxton.
The course brought together PhD students and postdocs from around the world to dive into pooled and arrayed CRISPR screening.
A great opportunity to learn, connect, and bring new expertise back to the lab! 🧬✨
Last Friday our group swapped laptops and pipettes for axes 🪓🎯
At our belated summer outing we had a blast trying out axe throwing together. And fittingly, the three wisest (not oldest 😉) members of the team took home the win in one of our competitions. There is proof in the pictures! 🪓👑
☀️ We are happy to have Jente Meijer from the Bonn–Melbourne Joint PhD Program visiting us in Bonn this week! ☀️
Her talk “Towards precision psychiatry using multi-view clustering approaches” was a wonderful opportunity to learn how machine learning can be applied in psychiatry. 🎓🧠💻
🙏 Our collaborators (2/2) @renatopolimanti.bsky.social @ripkelab.bsky.social @popgemlab.bsky.social @usedforglue.bsky.social @ntrbiopsy.bsky.social @srijansen.bsky.social @florishuider.bsky.social @yf-is-fy.bsky.social @karmelchoi.bsky.social @kritikasingh.bsky.social
🙏 Our collaborators (1/2) @evacschulte.bsky.social @psygenomics.bsky.social @annadocherty.bsky.social@klehto.bsky.social @ymilaneschi.bsky.social @jonicoleman.bsky.social @markjamesadams.bsky.social @cathrynlewis.bsky.social @docknowles.bsky.social @mcintosh2001.bsky.social @fstreit.bsky.social
✨Psygenomics Lab escapes the psych ward! ✨
We had a lot of fun at our early Christmas outing at the psychiatry-themed escape room! 🧠🕵️♀️🎄
Congratulations to the TRANSLATE-NAMSE team and thank you for this fascinating paper! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The Third Law is that you are likely to get volunteered for new work when you are not present at the committee meeting
