Main collaborations

Within Oxford University:

Professor David Smith (Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics) and Professor Margaret Esiri, Dr Catharine Joachim and Dr Olaf Ansorge (Department of Clinical Neurology) on analysis of gene expression in post-mortem brain tissue from the Oxford Project to Investigate Memory and Ageing (OPTIMA) collection

Dr Stephanie Cragg (Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics) and Dr Trevor Sharp (Department of Pharmacology) on analysis of dopamine biology

Professor Nick Rawlins, Dr David Bannerman and Dr Robert Deacon (Department of Experimental Psychology) on behavioural analysis

Dr Zoia Larin-Monaco (Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine) on development of human artificial chromosome vectors delivered by herpes simplex virus vectors

Professor Len Seymour (Department of Clinical Pharmacology) on gene transduction of stem cells by herpes simplex virus vectors

Professor Keith Channon (Department of Cardiovascular Medicine) on gene therapy for familial hypercholesterolaemia

Dr Ben Davies, (Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics) on generation of novel transgenic mouse models.

Professor Kevin Talbot, (Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics) Dr Olaf Ansorge  (Neuropathology, Department of Clinical Neuroscience) on molecular mechanisms of motor neuron disease.

Extenal:

Dr Filip Lim (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain) on gene therapy for Friedreich's ataxia

Dr E. Antonio Chiocca, Dr Yoshinaga Saeki and Dr Sean Lawler (Ohio State University, Columbus, OH) on herpes simplex virus vector systems

Dr David Adams (Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute) on genome analysis

Professor Vladimir Buchman (University of Cardiff) on analysis of genetic models of Parkinson's disease

Dr John Powell (Institute of Psychiatry, King's College, London) on functional analysis of Alzheimer's disease genes

Dr Patrik Brundin (Lund University, Sweden) on cellular models of dopaminergic neurons

Dr Marshall Summar (Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville TN) on genomic DNA expression vectors

Dr Lydia Teboul (Mary Lyons Centre, Harwell) on genetic models