Kyna Conn
@KynaConn
Post-doc @MonashBDI // @QldBrainInst Alumna / Researching the neurobiology of 🍄 psychedelics & anorexia nervosa #FoldiLab
Proud to have co-led this important study w/ @LauraKMilton and to finally bring to fruition the pioneering vision of @ClaireFoldi in @molpsychiatry . It has been an honour to work with #psilocybin 🍄 in Australia @MonashBDI nature.com/articles/s4138…
We created a python package for photometry post-hoc analysis using bootstrapping confidence Intervals No more AUC or time bins analysis! Ever Follow our simple step by step instructions. Thanks.... @DrReal82 @ClaireFoldi @philURDB @Stark_BrainSci biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
Writing this was like any other act of love - awkward at the start, frustrating at times, but something to be proud of. Very grateful to @DrK_Griffiths for agreeing to take on this challenge with me @NatRevNeurosci nature.com/articles/s4158…
are my behav neuro peeps still here? I posted the fabulous new work from the lab, led by PhD student @KaixinCHuang over on the other place last night and got crickets... check it out!! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
My brilliant friend @Joeybenetatos from post-grad is joining the @MonashBDI seminar series today to present the cutting-edge techniques he uses to better understand psychedelic mechanisms of action. Please come along and support this very talented ECR!

Forgot to post in real time but THE @KynaConn crushed her poster presentation @ecnptweets in Milan this week. Figured out how to include a QR code and everything #genius #ECNP2024
I’m so excited to share my first paper on “Potential Differences in Psychedelic Actions Based on Biological Sex” 🍄🟫✨ I am deeply grateful to my incredible supervisor @ClaireFoldi for her support and guidance throughout this process 💙 academic.oup.com/endo/article/1…
Join us in Lorne in November 🌞🏖️ and give our X account a follow @BDI_MDOP - we had a technical issue last year and lost all our lovely followers 😥
We are delighted to announce that Metabolic Diseases Breakthrough Discoveries in Diabetes and Obesity Meeting 2024 is now open for registrations! Where & when: Lorne, Australia, 17 - 20 November. For early-bird registrations at #MDO24 see: bdi-mdo.org
They say to “write what you know” but @feliciamreed1 & I broke with convention to write about what we don’t know @TrendsinPharma. We want to understand whether potential #psychedelic actions in the gut may be relevant for therapeutic outcomes 🤨🍄👇🏼 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
Was a pleasure working with @KynaConn on this proposal in @IntJEatDisord to better understand and treat #compulsive exercise in #anorexia nervosa. Thanks to @KaixinCHuang & @sashadmo for their valuable input👇🏼 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ea…
Boom💥new preprint just dropped! #psychedelics activity-based #anorexia, reinforcement learning, behavioural pharmacology + cortical 5-HT1A & 5-HT2A transcription. Led by the inimitable @KynaConn & @LauraKMilton 💪🏼 @MonashBDI👇🏼 Check it out! 🍄🐁
Psilocybin prevents activity-based anorexia in female rats by enhancing cognitive flexibility: contributions from 5-HT1A and 5-HT2A ... biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_neursci
Back to work Monday after a fantastic time at #BPA2023. Thanks for the opportunity to present amongst the highest ranked abstracts and to experience FNQ! Here is the #FoldiLab at the cutting edge of '(noo)tropics' chic 💅


Delighted to see this study published with the old PhD supervisory team @JKesby and @BurneTom indicating that altering D1:D2 receptor signalling ratios improves amphetamine-induced learning impairments in mice, with implications for schizophrenia bitly.ws/TTS6
Great overview by @feliciamreed1 of some of our recent progress uncovering novel therapeutic mechanisms of psilocybin 🍄@QTResearchWeek @aedrtc
New work from the lab is out in @eLife! We used an experimenter-free touchscreen testing system from @phenosys to examine effects of activity-based anorexia on flexible learning & vice versa 🐁📲 @MonashBDI elifesciences.org/articles/84961
Boating under the Niagara Falls by day, winning @IBNSconnect postdoc poster awards by night - what a day for @KynaConn CONGRATULATIONS 💦
Poster presenting tutorials available on request 🙃 @KynaConn @IBNSconnect #IBNS2023