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Mootaz Salman smiling with award

Dr Mootaz Salman awarded the Bayliss-Starling Prize Lecture 2025 by The Physiological Society

Cecilia Velasco receives Wellcome Early-Career Award

The image shows a coronal section of an embryonic mouse brain with the Galectin-3 protein removed, visualized with immunofluorescence. The cortical neurons (pictured in red and yellow) showcase an emerging groove. The loss of Gal-3 induces abnormal gyrification, or brain tissue folding, in otherwise smooth cortices.

New research identifies Galectin-3 as a key regulator of neural development, establishing its contribution to brain growth

Raffaele Sarnataro and Peter Hasenhuetl selected for prestigious Emerging Neuroscientists Seminar Series.

Raffaele Sarnataro and Peter Hasenhuetl – selected as "Emerging Neuroscientists" for Neural Circuits and Behaviour (SWC)

Raffaele Sarnataro and Peter Hasenhuetl selected for prestigious Emerging Neuroscientists Seminar Series at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour in London.

Professor Ana Domingos awarded a Royal Society Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship

Dr Robert Duncan Campbell – A Life in Science, Family, and Friendship

Unsteady eye control causes blurring and miss sequencing of letters not only in neurodevelopmental disorders, but also in neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s

Professor John Stein on Visual Dyslexia

AI segmentation on skeletal muscle

AI-assisted Annotations for Histology

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The Physiological Society’s 'Undergraduate Prize for Physiology 2025' for Best Project awarded to Thomas Grills

Professors Sparrow, De Val and Wilkins. Headshots, all smiling

Congratulations to our three new Professors

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Oxford Professors Cragg and Walton celebrate publication of new book, The Handbook of Dopamine

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Inspiring future scientists at Science in the Park 2025

Report from the Global Climate and Health Summit

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Dr Mootaz Salman awarded Geoffrey Burnstock Prize by the British Pharmacological Society

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Anatomical Society Summer Meeting hosted at Oxford

Expression of the Alzheimer’s-associated Aβ-peptide disrupts the normal aggregation of proteins inside secretory compartments. Two fly cells (each outlined by a white-dashed line) with about 10 secretory compartments, normally characterised by a central dense-core granule containing aggregated proteins (green; left-hand cell). Aβ-peptide expression disrupts this process (right-hand cell). Magenta staining indicates acidic compartments and ‘n’ the nuclei of these binucleate cells.

Researchers Identify New Mechanism Linked to Early Cellular Defects in Alzheimer’s Disease

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Teacher’s residential 2025

Picasso’s sleeping ‘Woman with Yellow Hair’ (1931) becomes an arrangement of mitochondrial shapes. In a new study in Nature, Raffaele Sarnataro, Gero Miesenböck and colleagues identify mitochondrial electron flux as the root cause of sleep.

Why do we need sleep? Oxford researchers find the answer may lie in mitochondria

A New study uncovers how a metabolic “overload” in specialised brain cells triggers the need to sleep. Sleep may not just be rest for the mind - it may be essential maintenance for the body’s power supply.

Given sensory input delivered via layer 4, the “students” in layer 2/3 generate predictions (“Will the apple fall?”), which are then evaluated by comparing them to the actual sensory outcome provided by the “teacher” in layer 5. In this way, the sensory input itself supervises learning (self-supervision). Image shows illustration of man in profile with activities in brain

New research shows cortical layers implement AI-like predictive learning

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Soft microrobots bring precision drug delivery closer to clinical reality

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