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Spotlight on shared parental leave for universal childrens day 2019

Shared Parental Leave Spotlight for Universal Children's Day

18 November 2019

Oxford University's Shared Parental Leave (SPL) scheme enables parents to share a period of leave and pay following the birth or adoption of their child. Several departmental members who have used the scheme report valuable increased bonding with their children.

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In Remembrance of distinguished former Oxford Physiology students who were awarded the Victoria Cross for their actions in the First World War

8 November 2019

On Remembrance Day 2019, 101 years on from the ending of the First World War, we remember two of our former students who were awarded the highest and most prestigious award of the British honours system.

Winners of the DPAG Student Poster Day 2019 announced

8 November 2019

"A Year of Progress" was held in the Sherrington Library on Wednesday 6 November 2019.

Cristina Blanco Duque is a CSF 2019 Award Winner

7 November 2019

Congratulations are in order for Wellcome Trust doctoral student Cristina Blanco Duque, the winner of the Travel Award and the Award for Best Contribution at the International Conference of Advanced Sleep Modulation Technologies.

Caution when looking at cell recycling in Parkinson’s

4 November 2019

Our Researchers at the Oxford Parkinson’s Disease Centre have shown that cell recycling in Parkinson’s may play a more complex role than previously thought.

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Research Spotlight: ‘I want to get high enough up the chain to pull others over the wall with me’

1 November 2019

Continuing their series celebrating ‘amazing people at Oxford who you should know about’, Central University's Science Blog talks to Dayne Beccano-Kelly, an electrophysiologist and Career Development Fellow in our department and part of the Oxford Parkinson’s Disease Centre.

Professor Dame Pamela Shaw delivers the GL Brown Prize Lecture 2019

31 October 2019

The GL Brown Prize Lecture series from The Physiological Society is aimed at an early career audience to stimulate an interest in physiology.

New Cortex Club Committee

29 October 2019

Two DPAG graduate students, Raffaele Sarnataro (Co-President) and Maria Claudia Caiazza (Social Secretary) are elected members of the committee.

NIH-OxCam: a graduate student's journey to Oxford

29 October 2019

Stewart Humble came to the Wade-Martins Lab at DPAG from Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in New Orleans during Michaelmas Term in October 2016 as part of the National Institutes of Health Oxford-Cambridge Scholars Programme (NIH-OxCam), an accelerated, individualised doctoral training programme, to help him make the transition to a Physician-Scientist career path. This opened up the world of basic science, translational research, and international collaboration. Over the summer of 2019, Stewart organised a lab symposium to encourage and inspire students from his home university to consider the opportunities available to them. This is the story of his journey to Oxford and what he has discovered here.

Research Spotlight for Black History Month: Pavandeep Rai

28 October 2019

October is Black History Month, which is celebrated nationwide every year to recognise the contributions that people from BAME backgrounds have made to this country. Here at DPAG, we get to know one of our Researchers - Pavandeep Rai, a Postdoctoral Research Scientist working in the Wade-Martins Group. Pavandeep is working at the forefront of an industry/academia collaborative project aimed at developing potential new drugs to treat Parkinson’s.

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Zoltán Molnár is an Elected Member of Academia Europaea

27 October 2019

Membership of the Academia Europaea is an award conferred to individuals that have demonstrated "sustained academic excellence".

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DPAG researchers engage the public at IF Oxford 2019

25 October 2019

A team of volunteers from four research groups, alongside Wellcome Trust funded Advanced Imaging Unit Micron, engaged more than 200 visitors at Weston Library on Friday 18 October 2019 as part of The Oxford Science and Ideas Festival.

Probing the genetics of advanced prostate cancer in fruit flies

25 October 2019

A new collaborative study involving DPAG's Wilson and Goberdhan Groups and the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences (NDS) has revealed surprising parallels between ‘prostate’ cells in flies and cancer patients.

Manuela Zaccolo honoured by the Royal Society of Biology

21 October 2019

Congratulations are in order to Professor Manuela Zaccolo on being elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology.

DPAG Researchers participate at the Parliamentary launch of The Physiological Society's new ageing report

18 October 2019

The new Physiological Society report "Growing Older, Better" highlights physiology's role in meeting the UK Government's healthy ageing mission. Associate Professor Vladyslav Vyazovskiy and Novo Nordisk Postdoctoral Fellow Laura McKillop contributed a research spotlight at the report's launch at the Houses of Parliament.