Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences

Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences (CDBS) is an interdisciplinary research centre within the College of Medicine & Veterinary Medicine’s Deanery of Biomedical Sciences.  CDBS, along with other university-wide, often philanthropically funded, themed research centres, make up Edinburgh Neuroscience: the vibrant interdisciplinary research structure that facilitates interaction and collaboration between researchers across groups, centres, schools and colleges.

The Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences explores fundamental physiological mechanisms and pathways, from single genes to complex behaviour.  

• Wellcome Discovery Award Success for Prof Ian Duguid
• Robin Beaven and Sheng-yuan Su in the Denholm lab have contributed to the discovery of how one of nature’s most powerful water-conservation systems works.
• Congratulations to Dr. Marie Pronot, a new Marie-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow!
• Rufus Mitchell-Heggs (research assistant and PhD student - Morris lab) has successfully landed in Antigua after rowing the Atlantic!
• The Physiological Society event 'A parliamentary celebration of world-leading Scottish research' - Wed 08 Feb, 18:00 - 20:00 at the Scottish Parliament: Scotland at the Heart of Meeting Global Challenges.
• Paper published by Dr Francesco Gobbo and Rufus Mitchell-Heggs (Morris lab)
• Three new papers from the Denholm lab
• Rochefort lab interview and article 'Neocortex saves energy by reducing coding precision during food scarcity' featured in Quanta Magazine  
• Prof Jamie Davies honoured as RSE (Royal Society of Edinburgh) Fellow

Upcoming Seminars:  

Thursday 5th October 2023, 13:00, HRB Lecture Theatre (Hybrid): 

'Inhibitory top-down projections from zona incerta mediate neocortical memory'

Dr Anna Schroeder, Institute of Physiology, University of Freiburg, Germany