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Wade-Martins Lab members took part in the 2.6 challenge to raise vital funds for Parkinson's UK. Challenges included running for 2.6 miles, baking 26 cookies, 260 sit ups and 2600 steps.
Inaugural winners of the DPAG Prize for Public Engagement with Research announced
Awards and Honours Cragg Group News EDI News Head of Department's News Outreach Postdoctoral Smart Group News Students
11 January 2023
Congratulations are in order for the winners Katherine Brimblecombe and Anna Kordala, and also to Jéssica Luiz and Andia Redpath who were highly commended for their outreach and public engagement work.
Winners of the DPAG Student Poster Day 2022 announced
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11 November 2022
"A Year of Progress" was held in the Sherrington Library on Wednesday 9 November 2022.
Oxford Parkinson’s Disease Centre awarded £3.8 million to reveal the role of calcium in Parkinson’s
Awards and Honours Cragg Group News OPDC News Research Wade-Martins Group News
29 April 2022
A collaborative research team led by the Oxford Parkinson’s Disease Centre (OPDC) has been awarded a £3.8 million Wellcome Trust Collaborative Award to study the function of calcium in dopamine neurons, and how this is plays a role in Parkinson’s. Their research will help explain how and why dopamine neurons are vulnerable in the disease and look at how they may be preserved.
My Primary School Visit for Science Week
Cragg Group News OPDC News Outreach
21 April 2022
On 2 March 2022, Dr Katherine Brimblecombe visited two primary school classes (ages 8-11) as part of their “Science week”. Read her interview to learn more about public engagement with school children in the local Oxford community.
OPDC researchers welcome Parkinson’s UK and the Oxford Branch committee
Cragg Group News OPDC News Wade-Martins Group News
13 April 2022
Researchers from the Oxford Parkinson’s Disease Centre (OPDC) recently hosted Caroline Rassell, Parkinson’s UK Chief Executive; David Dexter, Associate Research Director; Trustee Board members, Gary Shaughnessy (Chair) and Sally Bromley; together with members of the Parkinson’s UK Oxford Branch committee, for a visit to showcase the research being carried out in Oxford.
New insights into the role of dopamine in reinforcement learning
Cragg Group News OPDC News Postdoctoral Publication Research
11 March 2022
A new study from Dr Yanfeng Zhang has uncovered the first evidence that dopamine-dependent long-term potentiation is also gated by the pause of striatal cholinergic interneurons and the depolarisation of the striatal spiny projection neurons. This discovery overturns previous ideas that the phasic dopamine release is the only factor gate corticostriatal synaptic plasticity, thus changing our understanding of dopamine functions in reinforcement learning.
Mapping uncharted networks in the progression of Parkinson’s
Cragg Group News OPDC News Research Wade-Martins Group News
26 October 2021
A major new $9 million project funded by the Aligning Science Across Parkinson’s (ASAP) initiative will map the original circuits vulnerable to Parkinson’s on an unprecedented scale. The project is a collaboration between core investigators Stephanie Cragg, Richard Wade-Martins, and Peter Magill at Oxford, Mark Howe at Boston University and Dinos Meletis at the Karolinska Institutet, as well as collaborators Yulong Li at Peking University and Michael Lin at Stanford University.
Mapping uncharted networks in the progression of Parkinson’s
Cragg Group News OPDC News Research Wade-Martins Group News
26 October 2021
A major new $9 million project funded by the Aligning Science Across Parkinson’s (ASAP) initiative will map the original circuits vulnerable to Parkinson’s on an unprecedented scale. The project is a collaboration between core investigators Stephanie Cragg, Richard Wade-Martins, and Peter Magill at Oxford, Mark Howe at Boston University and Dinos Meletis at the Karolinska Institutet, as well as collaborators Yulong Li at Peking University and Michael Lin at Stanford University.
Bridging the gap between basic research and people with Parkinson's
Cragg Group News OPDC News
26 July 2021
Sites of early dysfunction in Parkinson's identified
Cragg Group News OPDC News Postdoctoral Publication Research Wade-Martins Group News
2 October 2020
A new collaborative study from the Oxford Parkinson’s Disease Centre led by Prof Stephanie Cragg and Dr Bradley Roberts has revealed that GABA transporters on astrocytes, the brain's lesser known yet critically important cells, support dopamine release and are sites of early dysfunction in parkinsonism.
Caution when looking at cell recycling in Parkinson’s
Cragg Group News OPDC News Publication Research Wade-Martins Group News
4 November 2019
Our Researchers at the Oxford Parkinson’s Disease Centre have shown that cell recycling in Parkinson’s may play a more complex role than previously thought.
New light shed on what controls our motivated actions
Cragg Group News Publication Research
20 September 2019
The release of dopamine in the brain plays a key role in determining how we respond when we perceive a potential reward or benefit. But so far little has been understood about the mechanism behind this. A new collaborative paper from Prof Stephanie Cragg's Group and Prof Ed Mann published in Nature Communications has uncovered a dominant regulator of the dynamics of dopamine output.
Postdoctoral researchers and students shine at Neuroscience Theme Day
Cragg Group News EDI Events Goodwin Group News Head of Department's News Integrative Neuroscience OPDC News Postdoctoral Research Students Vyazovskiy Group News Wade-Martins Group News
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.
Viral tweet helps find Oxford medical student and former DPAG member Samaritan
Cragg Group News General
11 April 2019
An Oxford University medical student who stepped in to help a stranger off a train has been identified following a viral appeal to find and thank her. Rebecca te Water Naude was once a member of Stephanie Cragg's Group here in DPAG.
Professor Annette Dolphin FRS gives the 2019 Mabel FitzGerald lecture
Cragg Group News EDI Events Head of Department's News
23 January 2019
The annual lecture is held in honour of the pioneering physiologist and clinical pathologist, Mabel Purefoy FitzGerald.
Profiles of Women in Science: Professor Stephanie Cragg
Cragg Group News EDI News
30 July 2018
OPDC's Prof. Stephanie Cragg featured in Profiles of Women in Science series in European Journal of Neuroscience
Cartoon wins 2nd Year DPhil Poster Day Prize
Awards and Honours Cragg Group News EDI Events Heather Group News Research Students
28 November 2017
Sherrington Talks 2016 : Prize Winners
Awards and Honours Cragg Group News EDI Events OPDC News Research Riley Group News Students Wade-Martins Group News
28 June 2016
On 24 June 12 students presented talks about their works to their peers and colleagues. At the close of the event, prizes were presented to the following students: