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DPAG at the Oxford Digital Festival
General Outreach Srinivas Group news
24 November 2023
DPAG researchers participated in the Oxford Digital Festival to showcase a virtual reality (VR) experience created by the interdisciplinary Shaping Destiny public engagement project.
DPAG researchers host week-long teacher residential in collaboration with Oxford Colleges
Carlyle Group News EDI News Lakhal-Littleton Group News Mommersteeg Group News Outreach Srinivas Group news Stone Group News Wade-Martins Group News
5 July 2023
Five school teachers joined researchers from the Carlyle, Lakhal-Littleton, Mommersteeg, Srinivas, and Stone groups, based in the Institute of Developmental and Regenerative Medicine (IDRM), Kavli Institute for Nanoscience Discovery, and Sherrington Building, in a project run in collaboration with Jesus College and Trinity College between 19 and 22 June 2023.
A human egg looks nothing like a human: Professor Shankar Srinivas on 'Made The Same Way' Podcast
EDI News Outreach Srinivas Group news
31 March 2023
Professor Shankar Srinivas and hip-hop artist Aubz discuss human developmental biology on 'Made the Same Way', a new podcast series from HDBI, Reform Radio and The Gurdon Institute.
Shaping Destiny team showcases virtual reality experience
Outreach Srinivas Group news
16 December 2022
DPAG researchers based at the IDRM joined Body Politic dance group members at Pegasus Theatre on Monday 21 November 2022 to showcase a unique virtual reality (VR) experience created by the interdisciplinary Shaping Destiny public engagement project.
DPAG Myth Busters and Shaping Destiny teams engage the public at IF Oxford 2022
EDI News Outreach Postdoctoral Srinivas Group news Students
12 October 2022
Two DPAG-led teams of volunteers engaged hundreds of visitors at Wesley Memorial Church on Saturday 8 October 2022 as part of The Oxford Science and Ideas Festival’s Explorazone. The Myth Busters team assembled by DPAG’s Outreach and Public Engagement Working Group sought to discuss and debunk myths and misconceptions of biology. The Shaping Destiny team run by members of the Srinivas Group, IDRM, in collaboration with Prof Wes Williams at TORCH explored with the public what is human and how body forms have been historically perceived with a unique virtual reality experience.
DPAG Postdoctoral Researcher acknowledged for developmental and cell biology research
Awards and Honours Postdoctoral Srinivas Group news
19 April 2022
Dr Matthew Stower was selected to give an oral presentation of his work and his abstract won the second prize at the Joint Spring Meeting of the British Society for Developmental Biology (BSDB) and the British Society for Cell Biology (BSCB).
Winners of DPAG Image Competition announced
Awards and Honours CNCB EDI News Head of Department's News Integrative Neuroscience Molnar Group News Postdoctoral Riley Group News Srinivas Group news Students Vieira Group News
21 January 2022
A department-wide image competition has yielded a range of stunning images showcasing the diversity and breadth of DPAG's science. Three prize winners and eight commended pictures are announced.
Enriching Engagement grant set to transform public understanding of the human form
Awards and Honours Outreach Srinivas Group news
7 January 2022
A Srinivas Group-led collaborative public engagement project has been awarded more than £188k to bring a multi-disciplinary approach to the concepts of ‘destiny’ and ‘embodiment’ to the local Oxford community.
Oxford-led research maps milestone stage of human development for the first time
Postdoctoral Publication Research Srinivas Group news
18 November 2021
Scientists have shed light on an important stage of early embryonic development that has never been fully mapped out in humans before.
Richard Tyser and Jack Miller honoured by the British Society of Cardiovascular Research
Awards and Honours Cardiac Theme Postdoctoral Srinivas Group news
14 September 2021
Dr Richard Tyser is this year’s winner of the Bernard and Joan Marshall Early Career Investigator Prize, and Dr Jack Miller has received a runner-up award, at the British Society of Cardiovascular Research Autumn Meeting.
Earliest origins of the forming heart identified
Postdoctoral Publication Research Srinivas Group news
8 January 2021
The earliest known progenitor of the outermost layer of the heart has been characterised for the first time and linked to the development of other critical cell types in the developing heart in a new paper from the Srinivas group led by BHF Immediate Fellow Dr Richard Tyser.
Richard Tyser is British Science Association Award Lecturer on finding the first heartbeat
Awards and Honours EDI News Postdoctoral Srinivas Group news
11 August 2020
Congratulations are in order to Dr Richard Tyser, who is the 2020 Charles Darwin Award Lecture winner for Agriculture, Biological and Medical Sciences.
Richard Tyser awarded runner-up position in BHF image competition
Awards and Honours Postdoctoral Srinivas Group news
14 August 2019
This year's "Reflections of Research" competition, run by the British Heart Foundation, selects "The Forming Heart" by Dr Richard Tyser as the Judge's runner-up
Srinivas Group members enhance public understanding of embryo development with virtual reality at local school festival
EDI Events Outreach Postdoctoral Srinivas Group news
2 April 2019
Three members of the Srinivas Group attended Cheney School's Iris Festival of Natural History, Classics, Art and More, bringing a stall of virtual reality and 3D printed models of embryos to engage students and the general public with how they study embryogenesis and heart development.
Dr Shankar Srinivas receives Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator Award
Awards and Honours EDI News Research Srinivas Group news
6 May 2014