Researcher Society
About Us
Run by and for researchers, The DPAG Researcher Society aims to promote interactions between postdocs, research assistants and other research scientists to create a friendly network of skills and expertise and to welcome new researchers to the Department.
All researchers will be added automatically to a mailing list when they start to be kept up to date with events etc.
Committee
Susann Bruche, Chair
Claudio Cortes Rodriguez, DPAG Research Staff Representative
Researcher News
Inaugural winners of the DPAG Prize for Public Engagement with Research announced
11 January 2023
Congratulations are in order for the winners Katherine Brimblecombe and Anna Kordala, and also to Jéssica Luiz and Andia Redpath who were highly commended for their outreach and public engagement work.
Strong performance for DPAG cardiac research at the Oxford BHF CRE Annual Symposium
30 November 2022
Congratulations are in order for Kaitlyn Dennis, Dr Ni Li and Dr KC Park on their awards at this year's major showcase for Oxford's British Heart Foundation funded researchers.
Key cause of type 2 diabetes uncovered
14 November 2022
Research led by Dr Elizabeth Haythorne and Professor Frances Ashcroft reveals high blood glucose reprograms the metabolism of pancreatic beta-cells in diabetes. They have discovered that glucose metabolites, rather than glucose itself, are key to the progression of type 2 diabetes. Glucose metabolites damage pancreatic beta-cell function, so they are unable to release enough of the hormone insulin. Reducing the rate at which glucose is metabolised, and these glucose metabolites build up, can prevent the effects of hyperglycaemia.
DPAG Myth Busters and Shaping Destiny teams engage the public at IF Oxford 2022
12 October 2022
Two DPAG-led teams of volunteers engaged hundreds of visitors at Wesley Memorial Church on Saturday 8 October 2022 as part of The Oxford Science and Ideas Festival’s Explorazone. The Myth Busters team assembled by DPAG’s Outreach and Public Engagement Working Group sought to discuss and debunk myths and misconceptions of biology. The Shaping Destiny team run by members of the Srinivas Group, IDRM, in collaboration with Prof Wes Williams at TORCH explored with the public what is human and how body forms have been historically perceived with a unique virtual reality experience.
Becky Carlyle funded by leading dementia research charity to reveal new targets for Alzheimer's
21 September 2022
Senior Postdoctoral Research Scientist Dr Becky Carlyle has been awarded a £420K funding boost from Alzheimer’s Research UK.
Latest publications
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Coincidence of cholinergic pauses, dopaminergic activation and depolarisation of spiny projection neurons drives synaptic plasticity in the striatum
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Reynolds JNJ. et al, (2022), Nature Communications, 13
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Altered glycolysis triggers impaired mitochondrial metabolism and mTORC1 activation in diabetic β-cells.
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Haythorne E. et al, (2022), Nat Commun, 13
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Cerebral Malaria and Neuronal Implications of
Plasmodium Falciparum
Infection: From Mechanisms to Advanced Models
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Akide Ndunge OB. et al, (2022), Advanced Science, 2202944 - 2202944
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'The MRI Education Course' -a free resource for the community to provide MRI education, across the Europe and Iran, established during the COVID-19 pandemic
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Grist J., (2022), Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
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Editorial for "Age-Dependent Changes in Knee Cartilage T1, T2, and T1p Simultaneously Measured Using MRI Fingerprinting".
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Axford A. and Grist JT., (2022), J Magn Reson Imaging
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Gliotransmission of D-serine promotes thirst-directed behaviors in Drosophila.
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Park A. et al, (2022), Curr Biol, 32, 3952 - 3970.e8
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Cardiometabolic risk factors vary with age differently in females and males
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Miller JJ. and Heather LC., (2022), Nature Cardiovascular Research, 1, 796 - 797
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Direct observation of the molecular mechanism underlying protein polymerization.
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Hundt N. et al, (2022), Sci Adv, 8
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Assessing the effect of anesthetic gas mixtures on hyperpolarized 13 C pyruvate metabolism in the rat brain.
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Healicon R. et al, (2022), Magn Reson Med, 88, 1324 - 1332
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Subthalamic nucleus exclusively evokes dopamine release in the tail of the striatum.
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Todd KL. et al, (2022), J Neurochem, 162, 417 - 429