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.
Postdoctoral News
Tiny brain “tweezers” could hold the key to treat Parkinson’s
28 September 2020
A collaborative study led by the OPDC's Dr Nora Bengoa-Vergniory has shown that compounds known as molecular tweezers could become a promising disease modifying therapy for Parkinson’s.
Dayne Beccano-Kelly appointed World Parkinson Coalition Science Ambassador
22 September 2020
The World Parkinson Coalition has brought in eight new Science Ambassadors to increase outreach to researchers ahead of their next major Congress.
Natalie Connor-Robson widens access to STEM skills with In2scienceUK
14 August 2020
OPDC Career Development Fellow Natalie Connor-Robson was first generation in her family to go to university and is now delighted to be sharing STEM career advice with students taking part in the In2scienceUK programme.
Richard Tyser is British Science Association Award Lecturer on finding the first heartbeat
11 August 2020
Congratulations are in order to Dr Richard Tyser, who is the 2020 Charles Darwin Award Lecture winner for Agriculture, Biological and Medical Sciences.
Reporting on the first DPAG sponsored International Women's Day Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon
23 April 2020
An international event held on Saturday 7 March and organised by DPAG's Cristiana Vagnoni and Tai-Ying Lee aimed to increase visibility of women in academia by creating or enhancing their online presence in the form of Wikipedia profiles. A new report from the organisers shows some impressive statistics, including 160,000 views of newly edited and created articles, demonstrating a strong effort to raise the profiles of many female academics.
Committee
Stefania Monterisi, Postdoc Representative
Jennifer Allen
Latest publications
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Nicotinic acid receptor agonists impair myocardial contractility by energy starvation.
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Watson WD. et al, (2020), FASEB J
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Establishment of a relationship between blastomere geometry and YAP localisation during compaction.
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Royer C. et al, (2020), Development
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Probing hepatic metabolism of [2-13C]dihydroxyacetone in vivo with 1H-decoupled hyperpolarized 13C-MR.
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Marco-Rius I. et al, (2020), MAGMA
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A 3D hybrid-shot spiral sequence for hyperpolarized 13C imaging
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TYLER D. et al, (2020), Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
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A 3D hybrid-shot spiral sequence for hyperpolarized
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imaging.
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Tyler A. et al, (2020), Magn Reson Med
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Rescue of myocardial energetic dysfunction in diabetes through the correction of mitochondrial hyperacetylation by honokiol.
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Kerr M. et al, (2020), JCI Insight, 5
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CLR01 protects dopaminergic neurons in vitro and in mouse models of Parkinson’s disease
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BENGOA-VERGNIORY N. et al, (2020), Nature Communications
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Transforming machine translation: a deep learning system reaches news translation quality comparable to human professionals.
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Popel M. et al, (2020), Nat Commun, 11
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A balancing act: using small molecules for therapeutic intervention of the p53 pathway in cancer.
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Miller JJ. et al, (2020), Chem Soc Rev
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GABA uptake transporters support dopamine release in dorsal striatum with maladaptive downregulation in a parkinsonism model
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ROBERTS B. et al, (2020), Nature Communications