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

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.

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.

"Flaming June" painting depicts an image of a painting with a woman sleeping.

How brain networks cooperate to control our sleep

13 August 2020

Two new papers from the Vyazovskiy Group and both Oxford University and international collaborators have made important progress in bridging the gap between the local and global levels of sleep regulation.

Shaping our understanding of why we sleep

1 July 2020

Associate Professor Vladyslav Vyazovskiy has edited a special issue of Current Opinion of Physiology with Professor A. Jennifer Morton from the University of Cambridge. “Physiology of Sleep” compiles the latest developments in sleep research around the complex question of ‘why do we sleep?’

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.

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.

New study discovers the impact of environment on sleep patterns in wild primates

15 July 2019

Associate Professor Vladyslav Vyazovskiy has co-authored a paper based on a pioneering sleep study led by Oxford Brookes researchers. Their research into a nocturnal primate performed in the wild is the first of its kind and could enhance our understanding of human sleep.

Postdoctoral researchers and students shine at Neuroscience Theme Day

6 June 2019

The talks given by Postdoctoral Research Scientists and Graduate Students highlighted the full range of research in DPAG, spanning molecular and cellular neuroscience all the way to systems neuroscience.

Lukas Krone wins the Cambridge Neuroscience Seminar Poster Prize

29 March 2019

Congratulations are in order for Lukas Krone, who has just achieved the third in a recent trio of poster prizes.

New Vyazovskiy Group led project set to make a major advance in our understanding of how sleep restores our brain

26 February 2019

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."

Winners of the DPAG Poster Day 2018 announced

3 December 2018

Vladyslav Vyazovskiy joins the discussion on how hibernation and torpor can aid human health in spaceflight

2 November 2018

Last week Vladyslav Vyazovskiy gave a talk at a symposium entitled "Harnessing naturally evolved torpor to benefit human spaceflight" at the American Physiological Society Conference in New Orleans, alongside NASA astronaut Jessica Meir.

Night Shifter: DPAG Professor reflects on the conditions of nocturnal labour in new book

30 July 2018

DPhil student makes it to the front cover

27 April 2018

Could Humans Hibernate? DPAG's Vladyslav Vyazovskiy joins The Conversation

16 March 2016

Professor Vyazovskiy is part of a team of experts tasked by the European Space Agency with investigating whether and how we might be able to put humans into a state of stasis to enable long-distance space travel.

New Associate Professors and University Research Lecturers in DPAG

13 April 2015

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