Christin Weissleder

Current Appointments

Post Doctoral Fellow

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Following completion of her Bachelor of Science in Biological Science, Christin obtained her Master of Science in 2013 in Molecular Medicine from the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany, majoring in pharmacology and pathology. During her Master Thesis, she investigated the coupling of brain stimulation reward, adult neurogenesis and learning in collaboration with the Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology in Magdeburg, Germany.

Christin joined the Schizophrenia Research Laboratory as a visiting researcher in 2014 and relocated to Australia in 2015 to start her PhD. She investigates age-related changes of neurogenesis and associated molecular factors in healthy humans across the entire lifespan. Christin also examines whether there are differences in neurogenesis and associated molecular factors in the brains of healthy adults compared to patients with schizophrenia. Her research will be important to advance our understanding of the underlying molecular causes of this disease and may help to explain some of the symptoms, such as working memory deficits.

Publications

2025 Jan

Divergent changes in complement pathway gene expression in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder: Links to inflammation and neurogenesis in the subependymal zone

View full journal-article on http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.schres.2024.11.005

2024, 04 May

RNA-sequencing suggests extracellular matrix and vasculature dysregulation could impair neurogenesis in schizophrenia cases with elevated inflammation

View full journal-article on http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41537-024-00466-0

2024 Feb

Sex- and suicide-specific alterations in the kynurenine pathway in the anterior cingulate cortex in major depression

View full journal-article on http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41386-023-01736-8

2022 Oct

Increased immune cell and altered microglia and neurogenesis transcripts in an Australian schizophrenia subgroup with elevated inflammation

View full journal-article on http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.schres.2022.08.025

2022, 07 Jan

Identifying gene expression profiles associated with neurogenesis and inflammation in the human subependymal zone from development through aging

View full journal-article on http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-03976-4

2021, 15 Dec

A schizophrenia subgroup with elevated inflammation displays reduced microglia, increased peripheral immune cell and altered neurogenesis marker gene expression in the subependymal zone

View full journal-article on http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41398-021-01742-8

2021 Dec

Reductions in midbrain GABAergic and dopamine neuron markers are linked in schizophrenia

View full journal-article on http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13041-021-00805-7

2021, 08 Jul

Reduced insulin-like growth factor family member expression predicts neurogenesis marker expression in the subependymal zone in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder

View full journal-article on http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sbaa159

2021, 31 May

Reduced adult neurogenesis is associated with increased macrophages in the subependymal zone in schizophrenia

View full journal-article on http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41380-021-01149-3

2020, 29 Sep

Increased macrophages and C1qA, C3, C4 transcripts in the midbrain of people with schizophrenia

View full journal-article on http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2020.02002

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