• “My childhood – your childhood”: Intergenerational transmission of psychological and biological consequences of childhood maltreatment
• “MitO₂Health”: Biological mechanisms of depression and their significance for the success of therapy

• WS 2018/2019 Introduction to Psychotraumatology (BSc)
• SS 2019 Biomolecular Systems in Psychiatric Disorders (MSc – Practical)
• WS 2019/2020 Biomolecular Clinical Psychology – Basics and Specifics (MSc)
• SS 2020 Biomolecular Systems in Psychiatric Disorders (MSc)
• SS 2022 Essentials of Biology for Clinical Psychologists (BSc)
• SS 2023 Essentials of Biology for Clinical Psychologists and Psychotherapists (BSc)

Fissler, P., Vandersmissen, A., Filippi, M., Mavioglu, R. N., Scholkmann, F., Karabatsiakis, A., Kraehenmann, R. (2023, accepted). Effect of serotonergic psychedelics on mitochondria: Transdiagnostic implications for mitochondria-related pathologies. Journal of Psychopharmacology.

Karrasch, S., Mavioğlu, RN., Matits, L., Gumpp, AM., Mack, M., Behnke, A., Tumani, V., Karabatisikis, A., Bongartz, W., & Kolassa I.-T. (2023, submitted). Effects of one-session relaxation hypnosis on the bioenergetics of immune cells: A randomized controlled experiment.

Karrasch, S., Matits, L., Bongartz, W., Mavioğlu, R. N., Gumpp, A. M., Mack, M., ... & Kolassa, I. T. (2023). An exploratory study of hypnosis-induced blood count changes in chronically stressed individuals. Biological Psychology, 178, 108527.

Mavioglu, R. N., Ramo-Fernandez, L., Gumpp, A. M., Kolassa, I. T., & Karabatsiakis, A. (2022). A history of childhood maltreatment is associated with altered DNA methylation levels of DNA methyltransferase 1 in maternal but not neonatal mononuclear immune cells. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 13.

Fissler, P., Mavioglu, R.N., Wenzel, M., Filippi, M., Stoewer, S., Wolff, W., Karabatsiakis, A., Pruessner, J. C., Kolassa, I.-T., & Kraehenmann, R. (2022, preprint). The link between mitochondria, psychopathology, and intelligence: A bioenergetic model of cerebral function. PsyArXiv. doi:10.31234/osf.io/b3qf5.

Varadarajan, S., Behnke, A., Gumpp, A. M., Mavioglu, R. N., Fissler, P., & Kolassa, I.-T. (2022). An integrative view on the biopsychology of stress and posttraumatic stress disorder. In U. Schnyder & M. Cloitre (Eds.), Evidence Based Treatments for Trauma-Related Psychological Disorders (2nd ed.). Cham, Switzerland: Springer.

Mavioglu, R. N.*, Mack, M.*, Behnke, A., & Kolassa, I. T. (2021, preprint). Oxygen-Mitochondrial fuel as a missing link in depressive pathophysiology. PsyArXiv. doi: 10.31234/osf.io/m5t3h. *Equal contribution

Ramo-Fernández, L., Karabatsiakis, A., Boeck, C., Bach, A. M., Gumpp, A. M., Mavioglu, R. N., Ammerpohl, O., & Kolassa, I. T. (2021). Characterization of the effects of age and childhood maltreatment on ELOVL2 DNA methylation. Development and psychopathology, 1-11.

Mavioğlu, R. N., Kara, B., Akansel, G., Nalbant, G., & Tolun, A. (2019). FAM160B1 deficit associated with microcephaly, severe intellectual disability, ataxia, behavioral abnormalities and speech problems. Clinical genetics, 96(5), 456-460.

Kim, M., Sandford, E., Gatica, D. Qiu, Y., Schulman, B.A., Xu, J., Semple, I., Ro, S.H., Mavioğlu, R.N., Tolun, A., Jipa, A., Takats, S., Karpati, M., Li, J., Yapici, Z., Juhasz, G., Lee, J.H., Klionsky, D.J., Burmeister, M. (2016). Mutation in ATG5 reduces autophagy and leads to ataxia with developmental delay. eLife, e12245.

Mavioğlu, R. N., Boomsma, D. I., & Bartels, M. (2015). Causes of individual differences in adolescent optimism: a study in Dutch twins and their siblings. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 24(11), 1381-1388.

Mavioglu, R. N., Gumpp, A., Hummel, E., Moser, D., Mack, M., & Kolassa, I. T. Childhood maltreatment impacts telomere – mitochondria dynamics in postpartum women and their newborns. Poster Presentation on April 27-29 in SOBP 2023, San Diego.

Mavioglu, R. N., Behnke, A., Matits, L., Mack, M., & Kolassa, I. T. Longitudinal and intergenerational effects of childhood maltreatment on leukocyte telomere length of mother-newborn dyads. Oral Presentation on March 30-April 1 2022 in GEBIN (online).

Mavioglu, R. N., Ramo-Fernández, L., Koenig, A., Gumpp, A., Kolassa, I. T., & Karabatsiakis, A. The effect of childhood maltreatment on the promoter methylation of DNTM1 in immune cells of mother-infant dyads. Poster Presentation on August 29-31 2019 in ISPNE 2019, Milan.

Mavioğlu, R. N., Eroğlu, F., Dedeoğlu, G., Corapci, F., & Duman, E. A. Effect of Socioeconomic Status on Preschoolers’ Social Competence: Moderation by Serotonin Transporter Genotype and Sex. Poster Presentation on April 6-8, 2017 in SRCD 2017, Austin TX.

Mavioğlu, R.N. & Duman, E.A. (2016). Changes in HPA-axis Reactivity by Subjective Well-Being: Impact of Loneliness, Gender and Serotonin Transporter Genotype. Poster presentation in the 46th International Society of Psychoneuroendocrinology Conference, September 8-11, 2016, Miami, USA.

Kursuncu, S*., Mavioğlu, R.N*., & Duman, E.A. (2015). Relationship Between Subjective Well-Being and Cortisol Awakening Response: Moderation by Serotonin Transporter Genotype. Poster presentation on Sept 12-15, 2015 in EBBS 2015, Verona. * Equal contribution.

Mavioğlu, R.N., Kara, B., & Tolun, A. (2015). Searching for a gene responsible from cerebellar ataxia and mild intellectual disability. Poster presentation on June 6-9, 2015 in ESHG 2015, Glasgow.

Psychoneuroendocrinology

Translational Psychiatry*

Heliyon*

Epigenetics*

* Together with Prof. Kolassa