News — Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics (DPAG)

Sherrington Talks 2022 Prize Winners

17 June 2022

The 2022 Sherrington talks were presented by graduate students in their third year of DPhil research study.

Peregrine Green honoured by British Cardiovascular Society

9 June 2022

Congratulations are in order for Dr Peregrine Green, who was won a prestigious abstract award at the BCS Annual Conference.

Winners of DPAG Image Competition announced

21 January 2022

A department-wide image competition has yielded a range of stunning images showcasing the diversity and breadth of DPAG's science. Three prize winners and eight commended pictures are announced.

Winners of the DPAG Student Poster Day 2021 announced

19 November 2021

"A Year of Progress" was held in the Sherrington Library and Sherrington PCR Café on Thursday 18 November 2021.

DPAG Researchers honoured for their work in cardiac metabolism

27 September 2021

Kaitlyn Dennis, Ujang Purnama and Kerstin Timm have won prizes across each of the three award categories at this year’s Society for Heart and Vascular Metabolism conference, demonstrating DPAG's continued excellence in cardiac metabolism research.

Gosia Cyranka and Sian Wilcox honoured by The Physiological Society

6 August 2021

DPAG DPhil students Gosia Cyranka and Sian Wilcox have been awarded prestigious Early Career Researcher Prizes at Physiology 2021, The Physiological Society's Annual Conference celebrating first-class physiology.

Oxford Medical Students shine in National Undergraduate Neuroanatomy Competition 2021

28 July 2021

Preclinical Medicine Undergraduate students Thomas Henning, Ivan Jim Paul and Owen Sweeney have helped Oxford build on last year to achieve the University's best ever performance in The National Undergraduate Neuroanatomy Competition. Preparation for their successful participation was assisted by DPAG's Professor Zoltán Molnár, Dr Michael Gilder and Samuel Snowdon.

Sherrington Talks 2021 Prize Winners

21 June 2021

The 2021 Sherrington talks were presented by graduate students in their third year of DPhil research study.

Nchimunya Nelisa Tebeka wins Diabetes UK Early Career Investigator Award

10 May 2021

Congratulations are in order to Rhodes Scholar Nchimunya Nelisa Tebeka, who has been awarded this year's Diabetes UK Early Career Investigator Award for her DPhil work. This award is awarded for the best basic or clinical science oral abstract presentation at the Diabetes UK Professional Conference.

Lukas Krone to represent Oxford at the Global Young Scientists Summit

3 December 2020

Congratulations are in order for Dr Lukas Krone who is one of just five University of Oxford researchers selected to attend the Global Young Scientists Summit 2021.

Antara Majumdar, Ester Paolocci, Naroa Ibarra-Aizpurua and Sonali Munshaw

100 Years of Oxford Degrees for Women

23 October 2020

Meet four of DPAG's female graduate students as the department joins celebrations for the Centenary of women making history at Oxford.

Researchers reveal surprising simplicity behind our ability to hear

23 October 2020

A computational modelling study from the King Group demonstrates that the way sounds are transformed from the ear to the brain’s auditory cortex may be simpler than expected. These findings not only highlight the value of computational modelling for determining the principles underlying neural processing, but could also be useful for improving treatments for patients with hearing loss.

Damaged mitochondria are shown to scale in small areas within the centre and edges of a large mass of healthy mitochondria.

New insights into mitochondria quality control could hold the key to treating metabolic disorders

21 October 2020

The Zaccolo Group has identified a new mechanism that regulates mitochondria quality control, a process that is crucial to maintaining healthy cells and preventing disease.

Lukas Krone honoured by the World Sleep Society

16 October 2020

Congratulations are in order for Lukas Krone, who has been presented the 2020 Christian Guilleminault Young Investigator Award by the World Sleep Society.

Sonali Munshaw is an IVBM E-poster Award Winner

2 October 2020

Congratulations are in order to Graduate Student Sonali Munshaw, whose abstract submitted to the 21st International Vascular Biology meeting was selected for E-Poster presentation and awarded.

Image showing all 17 students who took part in the talks.

Sherrington Talks 2020 Prize Winners

19 June 2020

The 2020 Sherrington talks were presented by graduate students in their third year of DPhil research study.

Oliver Neely wins Peter Beaconsfield Prize

16 June 2020

Congratulations are in order for DPhil student Oliver Neely of the Paterson and Domingos labs, who has been awarded the Peter Beaconsfield Prize in Physiological Sciences 2020.

Reporting on the first DPAG sponsored International Women's Day Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon

23 April 2020

An international event held on Saturday 7 March and organised by DPAG's Cristiana Vagnoni and Tai-Ying Lee aimed to increase visibility of women in academia by creating or enhancing their online presence in the form of Wikipedia profiles. A new report from the organisers shows some impressive statistics, including 160,000 views of newly edited and created articles, demonstrating a strong effort to raise the profiles of many female academics.

Crowning achievement for DPAG in BRAINScapes 2020

23 April 2020

The winners of Oxford Neuroscience's BRAINScapes 2020 Image competition have been announced. Congratulations to Francis Szele, Auguste Vadisiute, Robert Lees and Andrew Shelton.

DPAG Students win 2020 Goodger and Schorstein Awards

20 March 2020

Congratulations are in order to Britt Hanson and Dr Lukas Krone, who have won Goodger and Schorstein Awards from the Medical Sciences Internal Fund.

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