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Professor Christine Mummery gives the 2019 John Burdon-Sanderson Lecture
EDI Events General Head of Department's News
16 October 2019
The annual lecture given this year by a world leading stem cell scientist is held in honour of John Burdon-Sanderson, the University of Oxford's first Waynflete Professor of Physiology, after whom the Cardiac Centre is named.
Damian Tyler is an Honorary Skou Professor at the University of Aarhus
Awards and Honours Cardiac Theme
15 October 2019
The award recognises and solidifies Professor Tyler's collaborative work with the MR Research Centre, part of the Department of Clinical Medicine at the University of Aarhus.
Physiology Friday: a spotlight on Physiological Society membership
Head of Department's News Postdoctoral Students
11 October 2019
Find out more about our Physiological Society funded Head of Department Seminar Series, the opportunities available to those who join the Society, and DPAG's own Dr Mark Richards’ experiences as a Physiological Society member.
DPAG Women's Dinner 2019
EDI Events Postdoctoral
11 October 2019
In conjunction with the Athena SWAN initiative and organised by Professor Kieran Clarke, a dinner was held on Monday 30 September at Merton College for female researchers.
Watch Newton-Abraham Professor Don Bers' talk: Calcium is at the Coeur of Normal Heart Function and Disease
General Head of Department's News
10 October 2019
Event video for the Newton-Abraham Lecture 2019, delivered by Professor Donald M. Bers, Ph.D. on Wednesday 25 September 2019 at the Oxford University Natural History Museum. The lecture discusses the mechanisms by which calcium orchestrates cardiac function in health and is also involved in heart failure and life-threatening arrhythmias.
DPAG's inaugural John Scott Haldane Lecture speaker, Sir Peter Ratcliffe FRS, awarded Nobel prize in physiology or medicine
General Head of Department's News
7 October 2019
William G Kaelin, Sir Peter Ratcliffe and Gregg L Semenza share 9m Swedish kronor prize for work on how cells adapt to oxygen availability.
Zoltán Molnár delivers the Guillery Memorial Lecture 2019
General Molnar Group News Research
2 October 2019
Professor Zoltán Molnár was elected to deliver the 2019 Ray Guillery Lecture at the Grossman Institute for Neuroscience at University of Chicago.
KC Park wins the OXION 2019 Poster Prize
Ashcroft Group News Awards and Honours EDI News Research Students
1 October 2019
Congratulations are in order to KC Park, the winner of this year's OXION Poster Prize.
New light shed on what controls our motivated actions
Cragg Group News Publication Research
20 September 2019
The release of dopamine in the brain plays a key role in determining how we respond when we perceive a potential reward or benefit. But so far little has been understood about the mechanism behind this. A new collaborative paper from Prof Stephanie Cragg's Group and Prof Ed Mann published in Nature Communications has uncovered a dominant regulator of the dynamics of dopamine output.
DPAG's inaugural Sir Hans Krebs Lecture speaker, Jeffrey Friedman ForMemRS, has been awarded the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences
Domingos Group News Head of Department's News
13 September 2019
The Breakthrough Prize is renowned as the “Oscars of Science" and honours transformative advances towards understanding living systems and extending human life. Associate Professor Ana Domingos reflects on her past experiences working with Dr Friedman and how these impacted her research today.
Three DPAG Academics recognised with Teaching Excellence Awards
Awards and Honours EDI News Heather Group News Teaching
6 September 2019
The Medical Sciences Teaching Excellence Awards scheme recognises and rewards excellence in teaching, supervision, the organisation and development of teaching, and support for teaching and learning, within a research-intensive environment.
Adam Packer set to explore uncharted territory in the brain
Integrative Neuroscience Research
3 September 2019
Wellcome Trust Henry Dale Fellow Dr Adam Packer has been awarded a European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant to investigate the function of the Claustrum, a poorly understood area of the brain that could hold the key to how the brain processes information from our environment to generate perception and drive our decisions.
Deborah Goberdhan receives DPAG’s first LAB282 award
EDI News Research
2 September 2019
The scheme is a collaboration between Oxford University, the global drug discovery company Evotec, and the investment fund Oxford Sciences Innovation (OSI).
Zoltán Molnár evaluates latest research into human cerebral cortex development
Integrative Neuroscience Molnar Group News Publication Research
22 August 2019
Professor Zoltán Molnár has edited a special issue of Journal of Anatomy with Dr Gavin Clowry from the University of Newcastle on Human Brain Development. This issue contains 15 original articles, an overview and an editorial on Human Brain Development.
Richard Tyser awarded runner-up position in BHF image competition
Awards and Honours Postdoctoral Srinivas Group news
14 August 2019
This year's "Reflections of Research" competition, run by the British Heart Foundation, selects "The Forming Heart" by Dr Richard Tyser as the Judge's runner-up
Shedding light on the brain: the dawn of optogenetics
CNCB Research
12 August 2019
A new Medium article from our Department explores how optogenetics has transformed neuroscientific research and opened new possibilities for the treatment of brain disorders, and sheds light on the series of early research work undertaken by Professor Gero Miesenböck and his team to evolve this breakthrough technology.
DPAG researchers shine at the ARUK Oxford Network Dementia Research Day 2019
EDI News OPDC News Outreach Research Wade-Martins Group News
2 August 2019
Dr Nora Bengoa-Verginory and Bryan Ng from the Wade-Martins Group were invited to deliver talks showcasing their research at the annual event from the Alzheimer’s Research UK Oxford network.
Smartphone test predicts how symptoms develop in Parkinson’s
OPDC News
1 August 2019
Our researchers have found that a simple test carried out on a smartphone can help to predict future change in people in the early stages of Parkinson’s.
Understanding the role of little known gene in regulating our metabolism
Cell Physiology Publication Research
24 July 2019
Thousands of genes are involved in the regulation of our day-to-day metabolism and relatively little is understood about their function. One key protein, an ABC Transporter called ABCC5, has recently been predicted to be a susceptibility gene for Type 2 diabetes. In a new study selected as Editor's Choice in Obesity, Associate Professor Heidi de Wet has confirmed ABCC5's role in energy metabolism and identified the mechanism behind its metabolic impact for the first time.
Potential strategy identified to improve blood vessel growth after heart attack
De Val Group News Publication Research
22 July 2019
A collaborative paper from the De Val and Smart Groups has established multiple regulatory pathways responsible for the formation of blood vessels in the developing heart. In doing so they have identified a crucial pathway that is repressed in the adult heart after injury, which may hold the key to a new and improved strategy for repair.