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.
Postdoctoral News
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.
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.
Latest publications
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Revisiting dopamine-acetylcholine imbalance in Parkinson’s disease: glutamate co-transmission as an exciting partner in crime
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CRAGG S. and Zhang Y-F., (2021), Neuron
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Thymosin β4 protects against aortic aneurysm via endocytic regulation of growth factor signaling.
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Munshaw S. et al, (2021), J Clin Invest
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L-Carnitine Stimulates In Vivo Carbohydrate Metabolism in the Type 1 Diabetic Heart as Demonstrated by Hyperpolarized MRI.
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Savic D. et al, (2021), Metabolites, 11
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Striatal dopamine transporter function is facilitated by converging biology of α-synuclein and cholesterol
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BRIMBLECOMBE K. et al, (2021), Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience
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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, 371
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Hyperpolarized 13 C magnetic resonance imaging for noninvasive assessment of tissue inflammation.
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Anderson S. et al, (2021), NMR Biomed, 34
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High-Throughput Screening Platforms in the Discovery of Novel Drugs for Neurodegenerative Diseases.
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Aldewachi H. et al, (2021), Bioengineering (Basel), 8
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The KCNJ11-E23K Gene Variant Hastens Diabetes Progression by Impairing Glucose-Induced Insulin Secretion.
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Sachse G. et al, (2021), Diabetes
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REST protects dopaminergic neurons from mitochondrial and α-synuclein oligomer pathology in an alpha synuclein overexpressing BAC-transgenic mouse model.
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Ryan BJ. et al, (2021), J Neurosci
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Functional analysis of a gene-edited mouse to gain insights into the disease mechanisms of a titin missense variant
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JIANG H. et al, (2021), Basic Research in Cardiology