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Gut Feelings About α-Synuclein in Gastrointestinal Biopsies
31 March 2016
New review published by OPDC scientists Claudio Ruffmann and Laura Parkkinen in the journal Movement Disorders.
Dopamine nerve cells pause to signal movement
31 March 2016
New paper published by OPDC Senior Research Fellow Paul Dodson et al in PNAS
Could Humans Hibernate? DPAG's Vladyslav Vyazovskiy joins The Conversation
16 March 2016
Professor Vyazovskiy is part of a team of experts tasked by the European Space Agency with investigating whether and how we might be able to put humans into a state of stasis to enable long-distance space travel.
DPAG'S Dr Tastan in "I'm a scientist, get me out of here!"
15 March 2016
Dr. Omur Tastan from the Liu Lab is taking part in a free online event where school students meet and interact with scientists.
DPAG to Host the UK's First White Fibre Dissection Course
11 March 2016
From 21st to 23rd March 2016, the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics will host a white fibre dissection course covering the cortical and subcortical white fibre anatomy, which is the first of its kind in the country.
Gero Miesenböck Wins Frontiers of Knowledge Award
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.
Winners of the DPAG 2nd year D.Phil. Poster Competition
30 November 2015
Congratulations to the winners of the Michaelmas term poster competition.
DPAG Academics Publish MRCP Textbook
17 November 2015
Robert Wilkins, Associate Professor of Epithelial Physiology and Neil Herring, Associate Prefessor of Cardiovascular Physiology have joined forces to publish a textbook via OUP on "Basic Sciences for Core Medical Training".
Researchers learn how to steer the heart – with light
20 October 2015
We depend on electrical waves to regulate the rhythm of our heartbeat. When those signals go awry, the result is a potentially fatal arrhythmia. Now, a team of researchers from the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics and Stony Brook University has found a way to precisely control these waves – using light. Their results are published in the journal Nature Photonics.
How the zebrafish could hold the key to heart disease cure
13 October 2015
Stimulating the heart to repair itself is within scientific touching distance, thanks in large part to the work of Professor Paul Riley and his team in the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics
Cancer tumours could be starved to death after discovery of how they hunt for food
5 October 2015
Dr Deborah Goberdhan and her team have identified a protein used by tumours to help them detect food supplies. Initial studies show that targeting the protein could restrict cancerous cells’ ability to grow.
Athena SWAN Silver Award for DPAG
1 October 2015
The Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics has been awarded an Athena SWAN Silver Award for its commitment to advancing women's careers.
Celebration for Professors Dame Fran Ashcroft and Gero Miesenboeck
28 September 2015
The Department celebrated Professor Fran Ashcroft's DBE and Professor Gero Miesenboeck's FRS.