Michael Notaras is a senior PhD candidate at the Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health located within the Melbourne Brain Centre at the University of Melbourne, where he is a member of the Behavioural Neuroscience and Psychoneuroendocrinology Laboratories. For his thesis, Michael is examining a novel genetic mechanism for how chronic stress may potentiate the expression of anxiety and depressive-like behaviour in adulthood.
Michael holds a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology, as well as an honours degree in Cognitive Science, and is funded by an Australian Postgraduate Award for his PhD in Neuroscience. Michael has a primary interest in biological psychiatry, behavioural neurogenetics and the molecular biology of cognition, and is specifically interested in the interaction of stress hormones and growth factors within the brain.
