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Group Leader and Vice-Director
Centre for Neural Circuits & Behaviour
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Co-Director
Oxford Martin School Programme on Mind and Machine
Scott Waddell
FMedSci FRS
Deputy Head of Department
- Professor of Neurobiology
Scott Waddell studied biochemistry as an undergraduate at the University of Dundee, and researched cancer biology for his Ph.D. at the University of London. After postdoctoral study in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at Massachusetts Institute of Technology he spent 10 years leading a research group in the Department of Neurobiology at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Scott moved to Oxford as a Professor of Neurobiology and founding member of the Centre for Neural Circuits & Behaviour in November 2011. His group studies neural circuit properties of memory-directed behaviour, using the fruit fly.
Scott was a Wellcome Trust Senior then Principal Research Fellow in Basic Biomedical Science, he is a Fellow of the Royal Society, Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, a member of EMBO, and was awarded the 2014 Liliane Bettencourt Prize for the Life Sciences.
Recent publications
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Multisensory learning binds neurons into a cross-modal memory engram.
Journal article
Okray Z. et al, (2023), Nature
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Prior experience conditionally inhibits the expression of new learning in Drosophila.
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Jacob PF. et al, (2021), Curr Biol, 31, 3490 - 3503.e3
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The impact of the gut microbiome on memory and sleep in Drosophila.
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Silva V. et al, (2021), J Exp Biol, 224
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The connectome of the adult Drosophila mushroom body provides insights into function.
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Li F. et al, (2020), Elife, 9
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Magnesium efflux from Drosophila Kenyon cells is critical for normal and diet-enhanced long-term memory.
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Wu Y. et al, (2020), Elife, 9
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Transposon expression in the Drosophila brain is driven by neighboring genes and diversifies the neural transcriptome.
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Treiber CD. and Waddell S., (2020), Genome Res, 30, 1559 - 1569
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Complete Connectomic Reconstruction of Olfactory Projection Neurons in the Fly Brain.
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Bates AS. et al, (2020), Curr Biol, 30, 3183 - 3199.e6
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Input Connectivity Reveals Additional Heterogeneity of Dopaminergic Reinforcement in Drosophila.
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Otto N. et al, (2020), Curr Biol, 30, 3200 - 3211.e8