Postdoctoral Society
About Us
Run by and for Postdocs, The Postdoctoral Society aims to promote interactions between postdocs to create a friendly network of skills and expertise and to welcome new postdocs to the Department.
All postdocs will be added automatically to a mailing list when they start to be kept up to date with events etc.
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Postdoctoral News
Just over half of British Indians would take COVID vaccine
21 January 2021
University of Oxford researchers from the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics (DPAG) and the Department of Psychiatry, in collaboration with The 1928 Institute, have published a major new study on the impact of COVID-19 on the UK’s largest BME population.
Earliest origins of the forming heart identified
8 January 2021
The earliest known progenitor of the outermost layer of the heart has been characterised for the first time and linked to the development of other critical cell types in the developing heart in a new paper from the Srinivas group led by BHF Immediate Fellow Dr Richard Tyser.
Covid-19 lung damage identified in study
2 December 2020
In a new study into the longer-term damage amongst patients recovering from COVID-19, DPAG Research Fellow Dr James Grist of the Tyler Lab has been running a novel scanning technique that shows a dramatic decrease in the ability of the lungs to diffuse gas in to the blood stream after COVID infection. This work may shed light on the problem of breathlessness after COVID infection and help guide us in understanding therapeutic selection and efficacy.
New MRI technique could detect early signs of heart failure in cancer patients following chemotherapy
19 November 2020
New research led by Oxford BHF CRE Intermediate Transition Fellow Dr Kerstin Timm shows that a recently developed imaging technique pioneered by the Tyler Group can detect early metabolic changes in the heart caused by a commonly used chemotherapy drug, which is known to increase risk of heart failure in cancer survivors.
Researchers reveal surprising simplicity behind our ability to hear
26 October 2020
A computational modelling study from the King Group demonstrates that the way sounds are transformed from the ear to the brain’s auditory cortex may be simpler than expected. These findings not only highlight the value of computational modelling for determining the principles underlying neural processing, but could also be useful for improving treatments for patients with hearing loss.
Latest publications
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Hyperpolarized magnetic resonance shows that the antiischemic drug meldonium leads to increased flux through pyruvate dehydrogenase in vivo resulting in improved postischemic function in the diabetic heart
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SAVIC D. et al, (2021), NMR in Biomedicine
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Characterization of a common progenitor pool of the epicardium and myocardium.
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Tyser RCV. et al, (2021), Science
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Inhibition of the SUV4-20 H1 histone methyltransferase increases frataxin expression in Friedreich's ataxia patient cells.
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Vilema-Enríquez G. et al, (2020), J Biol Chem, 295, 17973 - 17985
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Calcein Fluorescence Quenching to Measure Plasma Membrane Water Flux in Live Mammalian Cells.
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Kitchen P. et al, (2020), STAR Protoc, 1
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Glassy Behavior of Sticky Spheres: What Lies beyond Experimental Timescales?
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Fullerton CJ. and Berthier L., (2020), Physical Review Letters, 125
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Mitochondrial Dysfunction and Mitophagy in Parkinson's Disease: From Mechanism to Therapy.
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Malpartida AB. et al, (2020), Trends Biochem Sci
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Hyperpolarized 13 C magnetic resonance imaging for noninvasive assessment of tissue inflammation.
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Anderson S. et al, (2020), NMR Biomed
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Lysosomal perturbations in human dopaminergic neurons derived from induced pluripotent stem cells with PARK2 mutation
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Okarmus J. et al, (2020), Scientific Reports, 10
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Continuous and non-invasive thermography of mouse skin accurately describes core body temperature patterns, but not absolute core temperature.
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van der Vinne V. et al, (2020), Sci Rep, 10
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Rapid, $B_1$-insensitive, dual-band quasi-adiabatic saturation transfer
with optimal control for complete quantification of myocardial ATP flux
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Miller JJ. et al, (2020), Magnetic Resonance in Medicine