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Transient neurones match the spontaneous and sensory driven activities to shape cortical circuits: a landmark collaborative review published in Science from Professor Zoltán Molnár, Professor Patrick Kanold and Professor Heiko Luhmann.
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Professor Zoltán Molnár
A clue to how a memory-enhancing pill might work
CNCB Publication Research
27 November 2020
Hundreds of dietary supplements have been reported to improve cognitive and emotional function in humans, but few have scientific foundation. A new study from the Waddell group provides fresh insight into how dietary Magnesium supplementation can influence memory performance.
Nervous system cells defined in unprecedented detail
CNCB Publication Research
22 May 2020
The collaborating groups of Professor Stephen Goodwin and Professor Scott Waddell based in The Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour (CNCB) are shedding new light on what precisely constitutes a neuronal cell type.
Gero Miesenböck receives Shaw Prize 2020
Awards and Honours CNCB
21 May 2020
Professor Gero Miesenböck, the Waynflete Professor of Physiology and Director of the Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour, is one of three scientists awarded The Shaw Prize in Life Science and Medicine.
Shedding light on the brain: the dawn of optogenetics
CNCB Research
12 August 2019
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 awarded a European Research Council Advanced Grant
Awards and Honours CNCB Research
28 March 2019
Professor Miesenböck's project will seek to understand why we need to sleep by studying how the brain responds to sleep loss.
Sleep and ageing: two sides of one coin?
CNCB Publication Research
25 March 2019
The Miesenböck Group have discovered a brain process common to sleep and ageing in research that could pave the way for new treatments for insomnia.
Tim Vogels awarded two major grants from the Wellcome Trust and the European Research Council
Awards and Honours CNCB Research
16 January 2019
Congratulations are in order for Associate Professor Tim Vogels, who has been awarded a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellowship and an ERC Consolidator grant.
Waddell Group Research Published in Cell
CNCB Publication Research
31 October 2018
The Waddell Group's paper "Integration of Parallel Opposing Memories Underlies Memory Extinction" has been published in Cell.
2018 Bindra Lectures to be given by Scott Waddell
Awards and Honours CNCB
31 October 2018
Scott Waddell will give the 2018 Bindra Lectures on Friday 9th November 2018 in the Department of Psychology at McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
2018 Francis Crick Lecture to be given by Gero Miesenböck
Awards and Honours CNCB
17 October 2018
Gero Miesenböck will give the 2018 Francis Crick Lecture on Wednesday 24th October 2018 at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge. The lecture, entitled “Light Sleep” is open to anyone in the local area who is interested in attending.
Waddell Group Research Published in Nature
CNCB Publication Research
24 April 2017
The Waddell Group's paper "Re-evaluation of learned information in Drosophila" has been published in Nature.
Neural pathways in complex mating rituals identified in fruit flies
CNCB Research
16 November 2016
Scientists 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.
Gero Miesenböck Wins Frontiers of Knowledge Award
Awards and Honours CNCB Research
28 January 2016
Gero Miesenböck has won a BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award for the development of optogenetics. He shares the € 400,000 prize with Edward Boyden of MIT and Karl Deisseroth of Stanford University.
Celebration for Professors Dame Fran Ashcroft and Gero Miesenboeck
Awards and Honours CNCB EDI News
28 September 2015
The Department celebrated Professor Fran Ashcroft's DBE and Professor Gero Miesenboeck's FRS.
Gero Miesenböck receives 2015 Heinrich Wieland Prize
Awards and Honours CNCB
28 September 2015
Prof Gero Miesenböck will receive the Heinrich Wieland Prize 2015 for his conception and first experimental demonstration of optogenetics.
Profs Miesenboeck and Ponting recipients of Wellcome Trust Investigator Awards
Awards and Honours CNCB
3 June 2015
Congratulations to Professor Gero Miesenboeck and Professor Chris Ponting who both received Wellcome Trust Investigator Award in the April 2015 round.
Prof Gero Miesenboeck elected new Fellow of the Royal Society
Awards and Honours CNCB
5 May 2015
Eight Oxford academics were announced as Fellows of the Royal Society on Thursday 30 April 2015.
Stephen F. Goodwin receives Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator Award
Awards and Honours CNCB
27 January 2015
Professor Stephen Goodwin has been awarded a Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator award to investigate the ‘Genetic dissection of sexual behaviour'.