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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 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.
Recent publications
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Classical Conditioning of Adult Drosophila.
Okray Z. et al, (2024), Cold Spring Harb Protoc
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Twists to Classical Conditioning of Adult Drosophila.
Okray Z. and Waddell S., (2024), Cold Spring Harb Protoc
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Neuronal wiring diagram of an adult brain.
Dorkenwald S. et al, (2024), Nature, 634, 124 - 138
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Whole-brain annotation and multi-connectome cell typing of Drosophila.
Schlegel P. et al, (2024), Nature, 634, 139 - 152
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Compensatory enhancement of input maintains aversive dopaminergic reinforcement in hungry Drosophila.
Meschi E. et al, (2024), Neuron, 112, 2315 - 2332.e8
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Dopaminergic systems create reward seeking despite adverse consequences.
Jovanoski KD. et al, (2023), Nature, 623, 356 - 365
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Sexually dimorphic mechanisms of VGLUT-mediated protection from dopaminergic neurodegeneration.
Buck SA. et al, (2023), bioRxiv
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Multisensory learning binds neurons into a cross-modal memory engram.
Okray Z. et al, (2023), Nature, 617, 777 - 784
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Differential coding of absolute and relative aversive value in the Drosophila brain.
Villar ME. et al, (2022), Curr Biol, 32, 4576 - 4592.e5
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Gliotransmission of D-serine promotes thirst-directed behaviors in Drosophila.
Park A. et al, (2022), Curr Biol, 32, 3952 - 3970.e8