As part of Brain Awareness Week 2014, the auditory neuroscience group in DPAG is putting on a series of interactive activities that include visualizing your own speech sounds and demonstrating how are ears and brains process these sounds.
The switch in the brain that sends us off to sleep has been identified by researchers at Oxford University\u2019s Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour in a study in fruit flies.
Dame Kay Davies has been named one of Britain\u2019s top ten \u2018Explorer Scientists\u2019 in a list of Britain\u2019s top 100 scientists compiled by the Science Council.
Congratulations to Esther Becker, Carolyn Carr and Peter Oliver for the award of the title of University Research Lecturer in recognition of their outstanding academic contribution to DPAG and to the wider University.
Grants totalling almost \u00a3350,000 will be made to three Oxford University scientists for their research to combat a devastating muscle-wasting condition, a national charity has announced today.
Dame Kay Davies, Professor of Anatomy and Deputy Chair of the Wellcome Trust, discusses the challenges faced by women who pursue an academic career, in this New Statesman article.
Research lead by scientists in DPAG (Stephen Goodwin group) and the Department of Zoology demonstrates that male fruit flies like to have a variety of sexual partners, whereas females prefer to stick with the same mate \u2013 or move on to his brothers.
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