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.

Committee

Stefania Monterisi, Postdoc Representative

Susann Bruche

Claudio Cortes Rodriguez

Zhilian Hu

Jacinta Kalisch-Smith

Featured Interview with Dr Dayne Beccano-Kelly

Postdoctoral News

Fellowship awarded to Huriye Atilgan to enhance our understanding of value-based decision-making

7 July 2021

Congratulations are in order for Postdoctoral Research Scientist Dr Huriye Atilgan who has been awarded a prestigious Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellowship funded by the Wellcome Trust.

Iron deficiency anaemia in early pregnancy increases risk of heart defects, suggests new research

8 June 2021

In animal models, iron deficient mothers have a greatly increased risk of having offspring with congenital heart disease (CHD). The risk of CHD can be greatly reduced if the mother is given iron supplements very early in pregnancy. Additionally, embryos from a mouse model of Down Syndrome were particularly vulnerable to the effects of maternal iron deficiency, leading to a higher risk of developing severe heart defects.

Betina Ip's daughters pictured laughing and holding a copy of Book of the Brain in the park.

Researcher publishes children's book of the brain

4 March 2021

Betina Ip, a Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Research Fellow based in NDCN, formerly a postdoctoral research scientist in DPAG, has written a book for children: The Usborne Book of the Brain and How it Works.

A medical professional wearing a mask and safety gloves prepares COVID-19 Vaccine

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.

Frontal view of a developing mouse heart used in the study

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.

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