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\n \n\n \n12 August 2019
\n \n \n \nA new Medium article from our Department explores how optogenetics has transformed neuroscientific research and opened new possibilities for the treatment of brain disorders, and sheds light on the series of early research work undertaken by Professor Gero Miesenb\u00f6ck and his team to evolve this breakthrough technology.
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\n \n\n \n17 July 2019
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\n \n\n \n28 March 2019
\n \n \n \nProfessor Miesenb\u00f6ck's project will seek to understand why we need to sleep by studying how the brain responds to sleep loss.
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\n \n\n \n25 March 2019
\n \n \n \nThe Miesenb\u00f6ck Group have discovered a brain process common to sleep and ageing in research that could pave the way for new treatments for insomnia.
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\n \n\n \n16 January 2019
\n \n \n \nCongratulations are in order for Associate Professor Tim Vogels, who has been awarded a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellowship and an ERC Consolidator grant.
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\n \n\n \n31 October 2018
\n \n \n \nThe Waddell Group's paper \"Integration of Parallel Opposing Memories Underlies Memory Extinction\" has been published in Cell.
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\n \n\n \n31 October 2018
\n \n \n \nScott Waddell will give the 2018 Bindra Lectures on Friday 9th November 2018 in the Department of Psychology at McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
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\n \n\n \n17 October 2018
\n \n \n \nGero Miesenb\u00f6ck will give the 2018 Francis Crick Lecture on Wednesday 24th October 2018 at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge. The lecture, entitled \u201cLight Sleep\u201d is open to anyone in the local area who is interested in attending.
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\n \n\n \n4 June 2018
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\n \n\n \n24 April 2017
\n \n \n \nThe Waddell Group's paper \"Re-evaluation of learned information in Drosophila\" has been published in Nature.
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\n \n\n \n16 November 2016
\n \n \n \nScientists have identified the neural pathway in male fruit flies that allows them to perform their complex mating ritual, paving the way for deeper studies into sexual behavior and how it can be modified by social experience.
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\n \n\n \n28 January 2016
\n \n \n \nGero Miesenb\u00f6ck has won a BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award for the development of optogenetics. He shares the \u20ac 400,000 prize with Edward Boyden of MIT and Karl Deisseroth of Stanford University.
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\n \n\n \n28 September 2015
\n \n \n \nThe Department celebrated Professor Fran Ashcroft's DBE and Professor Gero Miesenboeck's FRS.
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\n \n\n \n28 September 2015
\n \n \n \nProf Gero Miesenb\u00f6ck will receive the Heinrich Wieland Prize 2015 for his conception and first experimental demonstration of optogenetics.
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\n \n\n \n3 June 2015
\n \n \n \nCongratulations to Professor Gero Miesenboeck and Professor Chris Ponting who both received Wellcome Trust Investigator Award in the April 2015 round.
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\n \n\n \n5 May 2015
\n \n \n \nEight Oxford academics were announced as Fellows of the Royal Society on Thursday 30 April 2015.
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\n \n\n \n27 January 2015
\n \n \n \nProfessor Stephen Goodwin has been awarded a Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator award to investigate the \u2018Genetic dissection of sexual behaviour'.
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\n \n\n \n23 December 2014
\n \n \n \nProf Scott Waddell is the recipent of the 2014 Prize. The aim of the Fondation Bettencourt Schueller is to help maintain and develop cultural, economic and humanitarian actions in France.
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\n \n\n \n3 September 2014
\n \n \n \nStephen Goodwin is an Associate Professor in Biomedical Sciences and a Tutorial Fellow in Medicine and Physiology Sciences at Magdalen College. His laboratory uses the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, to study the genetic, developmental, and neural mechanisms that underlie sex-specific behaviors.
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\n \n\n \n23 May 2014
\n \n \n \nFruit flies show a mark of intelligence in 'thinking' before they act, suggests a study by researchers from the University of Oxford's Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour.
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