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Enriching Engagement grant set to transform public understanding of the human form
Awards and Honours Outreach Srinivas Group news
7 January 2022
A Srinivas Group-led collaborative public engagement project has been awarded more than £188k to bring a multi-disciplinary approach to the concepts of ‘destiny’ and ‘embodiment’ to the local Oxford community.
Eminent neuroscientist Randy Bruno Joins DPAG
Bruno Group News Head of Department's News Integrative Neuroscience
4 January 2022
This week, Randy Bruno, PhD starts his research group here at DPAG. He joins the Department as Professor of Neuroscience and Tutorial Fellow at St Peter’s College. He was previously an Associate Professor of Neuroscience at Columbia University, Principal Investigator at Columbia’s Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, and a member of the Kavli Institute for Brain Science.
Switch with a spring: a new model for sleep regulation
Publication Research Vyazovskiy Group News
16 December 2021
New collaborative research led by the Vyazovskiy Group has shed new light on the role of the hypothalamus in the transition between sleep and wake states.
Parkinson's protein test could lead to earlier and better diagnosis
OPDC News
13 December 2021
OPDC's Associate Professor Laura Parkkinen, and her team has conducted a study published in Brain, funded by the charity Parkinson’s UK and Weston Brain Institute.
Mootaz Salman appointed Departmental Research Lecturer
Awards and Honours EDI News Head of Department's News OPDC News Salman Group News Teaching Wade-Martins Group News
9 December 2021
Congratulations are in order to Mootaz Salman on his conferral of the title of Departmental Research Lecturer.
Vladyslav Vyazovskiy becomes Professor Vladyslav Vyazovskiy
Awards and Honours Head of Department's News Vyazovskiy Group News
9 December 2021
Congratulations are in order to Vladyslav Vyazovskiy on his conferral of the title of full Professor. Research in the Vyazovskiy Lab aims to understand the fundamental questions of "what is sleep?" and “why do we sleep?”
Molly Stevens FRS delivers 2021 Mabel FitzGerald Prize Lecture
General Head of Department's News Stevens Group News
3 December 2021
The annual lecture is held in dedication to pioneering Physiologist and Scientific Explorer, Mabel FitzGerald, in whose honour the Department recently erected The Physiological Society blue plaque outside the Cardiac Science Centre.
Ana Domingos appointed Editor-in-Chief for distinguished American Physiological Society journal
Awards and Honours Domingos Group News EDI News
30 November 2021
Congratulations are in order to Associate Professor Ana Domingos on her appointment as Editor-in-Chief for the American Journal of Physiology-Endocrinology and Metabolism.
Winners of the DPAG Student Poster Day 2021 announced
Awards and Honours EDI Events Riley Group News Students Wade-Martins Group News
19 November 2021
"A Year of Progress" was held in the Sherrington Library and Sherrington PCR Café on Thursday 18 November 2021.
Dr Jessica Meir inspires the next generation of scientists and explorers
EDI Events Head of Department's News
18 November 2021
NASA Astronaut and Physiologist Dr Jessica Meir delivers the Sherrington Prize Lecture: Public Understanding of Science to an audience of DPAG staff, students and their families.
One high altitude explorer acknowledges another
EDI Events Head of Department's News
18 November 2021
NASA Astronaut and Physiologist Dr Jessica Meir unveils The Physiological Society blue plaque in honour of fellow pioneering Physiologist and Scientific Explorer Mabel FitzGerald.
Oxford-led research maps milestone stage of human development for the first time
Postdoctoral Publication Research Srinivas Group news
18 November 2021
Scientists have shed light on an important stage of early embryonic development that has never been fully mapped out in humans before.
Pioneer of 'reverspective' art unveils celebrated optical illusion piece in honour of Sir Colin Blakemore FRS
General Head of Department's News
5 November 2021
British artist Patrick Hughes has donated an artwork entitled “Popsee” to DPAG in honour of Emeritus Professor of Physiology Sir Colin Blakemore FRS and their shared interest in visual perception.
Dame Kay Davies FRS delivers inaugural Sir Wilfrid Le Gros Clark Prize Lecture
Davies Group News EDI Events General Head of Department's News
4 November 2021
The new annual lecture is held in honour of Sir Wilfrid Le Gros Clark, the Department’s former Chair of Anatomy, after whom the Le Gros Clark building is named, who was a leading figure in British anatomy.
Wade-Martins Group achieves Bronze award for sustainable practices
Awards and Honours Wade-Martins Group News
28 October 2021
The Wade-Martins Group has achieved a Laboratory Efficiency Assessment Framework (LEAF) Bronze award in recognition of its sustainable practices.
Mapping uncharted networks in the progression of Parkinson’s
Cragg Group News OPDC News Research Wade-Martins Group News
26 October 2021
A major new $9 million project funded by the Aligning Science Across Parkinson’s (ASAP) initiative will map the original circuits vulnerable to Parkinson’s on an unprecedented scale. The project is a collaboration between core investigators Stephanie Cragg, Richard Wade-Martins, and Peter Magill at Oxford, Mark Howe at Boston University and Dinos Meletis at the Karolinska Institutet, as well as collaborators Yulong Li at Peking University and Michael Lin at Stanford University.
Mapping uncharted networks in the progression of Parkinson’s
Cragg Group News OPDC News Research Wade-Martins Group News
26 October 2021
A major new $9 million project funded by the Aligning Science Across Parkinson’s (ASAP) initiative will map the original circuits vulnerable to Parkinson’s on an unprecedented scale. The project is a collaboration between core investigators Stephanie Cragg, Richard Wade-Martins, and Peter Magill at Oxford, Mark Howe at Boston University and Dinos Meletis at the Karolinska Institutet, as well as collaborators Yulong Li at Peking University and Michael Lin at Stanford University.