Professor Dame Kay Davies to deliver the 2019 Croonian Lecture in April
15 March 2019
The prize lecture is the premier lecture in the biological sciences, delivered annually at The Royal Society in London.
Gregor Sachse delivers hands-on microscopy to school children for British Science Week
12 March 2019
Supported by the BBSRC, Dr Sachse will encourage Oxfordshire state school pupils to discover the otherwise invisible in a unique interactive experience.
Filipa Simões is one of ten women shortlisted for a Knono Award in honour of International Women's Day
8 March 2019
The Knomo Award is a platform to celebrate extraordinary and entrepreneurial women. Dr Filipa Simões' nomination reflects her commitment to producing leading research, the hard work she puts into her flourishing career alongside raising a young family, while also finding time for outreach.
DPAG celebrates International Women's Day 2019
8 March 2019
A multimedia celebration of the women in our Department.
Professor David Bannerman gives the 2019 Marianne Fillenz Lecture
6 March 2019
Athena SWAN Head of Department's News
The annual lecture is held in honour of Marianne Fillenz, DPAG alumni and one of the great physiologists of the last century, who had a remarkable influence on generations of science and medical students.
Duncan Sparrow helps demonstrate striking new evidence into the cause of the most common type of birth defect in babies
1 March 2019
Dr Sparrow has published a new paper in collaboration with the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute entitled "Gene-environment interaction impacts on heart development and embryo survival."
World Rankings for Anatomy and Physiology announced for 2019
28 February 2019
General Head of Department's News
World leading position for DPAG in a photo finish with Cambridge.
New Vyazovskiy Group led project set to make a major advance in our understanding of how sleep restores our brain
26 February 2019
Research Vyazovskiy Group News
A collaborative Medical Research Council project grant awarded to DPAG's Vladyslav Vyazovskiy, UCL's Kenneth Harris and the Department of Pharmacology's Colin Akerman will explore “Local sleep homeostasis and single cell rest."
Ma Group research aims to reveal the clinical ability of Chinese herbal medicine XSN to treat cardiac arrhythmia in patients
21 February 2019
Athena SWAN Publication Research
Yu-Ling Ma and her team's paper "Ion Channel Targeted Mechanisms of Anti-arrhythmic Chinese Herbal Medicine Xin Su Ning" has been published in Frontiers in Pharmacology.
DPAG cake sales raise funds for local charities
15 February 2019
Athena SWAN Mommersteeg Group News Riley Group News
Three of our research groups, and the Athena SWAN team, organised two delicious cake sales for Homeless Oxfordshire and Oxfordshire Mind respectively.
Krug Group research published in PNAS widens our understanding of social influence bias in children
1 February 2019
Athena SWAN Publication Research
Kristine Krug and her team's paper, "Developmental trajectory of social influence integration into perceptual decisions in children," shows how neurotypical and autistic children develop different susceptibility to social influence.
Deborah Goberdhan teams up with Elizabeth Bird-Lieberman to tackle Oesophageal cancer
1 February 2019
Athena SWAN Goberdhan Group News Research
A new Cancer Research grant will help them develop early detection methods for one of the leading causes of cancer death in the UK.
De Val Group research published in Nature Communications advances our knowledge of vascular development
31 January 2019
Athena SWAN Publication Research
Sarah De Val's paper "Venous Identity Requires BMP Signalling Through ALK3" reveals a major player in establishing vein identity.
Professor Annette Dolphin FRS gives the 2019 Mabel FitzGerald lecture
23 January 2019
Athena SWAN Cragg Group News Head of Department's News
The annual lecture is held in honour of the pioneering physiologist and clinical pathologist, Mabel Purefoy Fitgerald.
Vladyslav Vyazovskiy awarded NC3Rs studentship
23 January 2019
Associate Professor Vyazovskiy's studentship, ‘Fasting-induced torpor in mice: effects on sleep and behaviour’ offers a fantastic new opportunity for early career researchers.
Frances Ashcroft delivers keynote lecture to Somerset school pupils at Millfield's major annual symposium
17 January 2019
Professor Dame Frances Ashcroft gives talk entitled "The spark of life - the story of ion channels" at Millfield School's Biology and Psychology Symposium to over 250 students from 11 local schools.
Tim Vogels awarded two major grants from the Wellcome Trust and the European Research Council
16 January 2019
Congratulations are in order for Associate Professor Tim Vogels, who has been awarded a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellowship and an ERC Consolidator grant.
Sir Henry Dale Fellow Dr Armin Lak is joining DPAG this summer
14 January 2019
Dr Lak has recently been awarded a Wellcome Trust Henry Dale Fellowship to start his research group studying the circuit mechanisms of learning and decision making.