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« Back to NewsLukas Krone to represent Oxford at the Global Young Scientists Summit
3 December 2020
Awards and Honours EDI News Head of Department's News Students Vyazovskiy Group News
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.
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
Postdoctoral Publication Research Students
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.
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
Awards and Honours EDI News Students Vyazovskiy Group News
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
Awards and Honours EDI News Students
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.
Sherrington Talks 2020 Prize Winners
19 June 2020
Awards and Honours EDI Events Students
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
Awards and Honours Cardiac Theme EDI News Students
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
EDI News Outreach Postdoctoral Students
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
Awards and Honours EDI News Students
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
Awards and Honours EDI News Students
Congratulations are in order to Britt Hanson and Dr Lukas Krone, who have won Goodger and Schorstein Awards from the Medical Sciences Internal Fund.
Oxford Medical Students and DPAG tutors are setting the standard for neuroanatomy teaching
5 March 2020
Awards and Honours EDI News Students Teaching
Pre-clinical Medicine Undergraduate students Kacper Kurzyp, Rafee Ahmed and Oliver Bredemeyer achieved Oxford University's best ever performance in The National Undergraduate Neuroanatomy Competition at the University of Southampton. Their participation was sponsored by DPAG with Professor Zoltán Molnár and Departmental Lecturer Dr Michael Gilder providing extra tuition to prepare them for their successful performances.
Communicating the messages of extracellular vesicles to the wider public
2 March 2020
DPAG's Denis Noble has collaborated with Wood Group researchers in the Department of Paediatrics to produce innovative podcast talks on a prominent global platform, the Future Tech Podcast, following the successful DPAG hosted fourth annual Oxosome meeting. Following the release of the final podcast talk in February 2020, today we chart the story leading to these innovative pieces of public engagement.
Cristina Blanco Duque is a CSF 2019 Award Winner
7 November 2019
Awards and Honours EDI News Students Vyazovskiy Group News
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.
Winners of the DPAG Student Poster Day 2019 announced
7 November 2019
Awards and Honours EDI Events Students Vieira Group News
"A Year of Progress" was held in the Sherrington Library on Wednesday 6 November 2019.
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
EDI News Long Read OPDC News Outreach Students
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.
DPAG members shine at the Oxford BHF CRE Annual Symposium 2019
17 October 2019
Awards and Honours Cardiac Theme EDI Events Heather Group News Postdoctoral Students
Congratulations are in order to Matthew Kerr, Andia Redpath, Susann Bruche, KC Park and Minahil Mujahid for their achievements at this major showcase for Oxford's British Heart Foundation funded Researchers.
Physiology Friday: a spotlight on Physiological Society membership
11 October 2019
Head of Department's News Postdoctoral Students
Find out more about our Physiological Society funded Head of Department Seminar Series, the opportunities available to those who join the Society, and DPAG's own Dr Mark Richards’ experiences as a Physiological Society member.
KC Park wins the OXION 2019 Poster Prize
1 October 2019
Awards and Honours EDI News Research Students
Congratulations are in order to KC Park, the winner of this year's OXION Poster Prize.