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A 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 Miesenböck and his team to evolve this breakthrough technology.

© Gero Miesenböck - in optogenetics, a light beam is used to write information to nerve cells in the brain
Image: Gero Miesenböck

Gero Miesenböck elected to the US National Academy of Sciences

Welcome to Professor James E Rothman, who will deliver our Sherrington Prize Lecture

Molnár, Mann, Bannerman and Lak Groups publish collaborative research on anxiety

New Research Uncovers Key Brain Cells Behind Anxiety and Stress Responses

Child heart disease may be more likely if mother has anaemia during pregnancy

New paper investigates CSF biomarkers for idiopathic Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus

OPDC researchers support World Parkinson’s Day 2025

The SnackerTracker: A novel home-cage monitoring device for measuring food-intake and food-seeking behaviour in mice

Journal special issue edited by and featuring DPAG scientists

New paper on sleep published in Current Biology by members of the Vyazovskiy Group and colleagues

Remembering the Need for Sleep

Sleep is the only ubiquitous behaviour whose function remains unknown. The Miesenböck group is looking for—and finding—clues to the mystery of sleep in the properties of sleep-inducing cells in the brain.

Professor Ana Domingos receives Wellcome Discovery Award

Florina Szabó makes the cover of the Journal of Anatomy

Two DPAG projects announced as part of ENCODE AI for Science Fellowship programme

A new method for detecting haemolysis, developed by DPAG’s Professor Pawel Swietach and Dr Alzbeta Hulikova, has been licenced to Muhdo Health and Camtech Innovations by OUI

Science Bazaar success

Jascha Achterberg receives St John's Career Development Research Fellowship

New Cragg lab paper published in Nature Neuroscience - Acetylcholine and dopamine: friends or foes?

DPAG retains top spot in QS World University Rankings by Subject for anatomy and physiology

Prize Lectures success

A special pacemaker that can reverse heart failure through switching its fuel from sugar to fat

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