Dr Lizzie Manning is a senior lecturer at the University of Newcastle, and she leads a lab supported by NHMRC and ARC funding that uses behavioural neuroscience approaches combined with advanced neuroscience approaches to study the neural circuit basis of inflexible behaviour in health and disease states relevant to obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), Tourette Syndrome and depression. Her research responds to the urgent need for neuroscience-guided therapeutics that directly treat disease pathophysiology, to improve health and quality of life for those affected.
Dr Manning returned to Australia in 2020 after 5.5 years postdoctoral training at the University of Pittsburgh in the USA, and completed her PhD at the Florey Neuroscience Institute in Melbourne (2014).
Lizzie is passionate about equity and inclusivity in research and academia. She co-founded in 2022 and co-chairs an Indigenous student engagement committee in the School of Biomedical Sciences and Pharmacy at the University of Newcastle. She is also a member of the Equity and Diversity committees of the Australasian Neuroscience Society (ANS) and International Behavioural Neuroscience Society (IBNS).
