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 mechanisms of memory-directed behaviour.

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.

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Twists to Classical Conditioning of Adult Drosophila.

Classical Conditioning of Adult Drosophila.

Sexually dimorphic mechanisms of VGLUT-mediated protection from dopaminergic neurodegeneration.

Whole-brain annotation and multi-connectome cell typing of Drosophila.

Neuronal wiring diagram of an adult brain.

Compensatory enhancement of input maintains aversive dopaminergic reinforcement in hungry Drosophila.

Dopaminergic systems create reward seeking despite adverse consequences.

Multisensory learning binds neurons into a cross-modal memory engram.

Differential coding of absolute and relative aversive value in the Drosophila brain.

Gliotransmission of D-serine promotes thirst-directed behaviors in Drosophila.

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