Up-to-date News within CDBS. Donia Arafa wins this year's Alison Douglas Prize - CDBS best PhD thesis The prize was presented at the R Jean Banister Prize Lecture + Mary Pickford Lecture afternoon event held at the Wellcome Auditorium, QMRI on Thursday 21st November. Prof Richard Morris delivers the 2024 Stephen Kuffler Lecture at Harvard Prof Richard Morris delivered this year's Stephen Kuffler Lecture at Harvard University 'The Making and Keeping of Memory' on 4th April . Constantinos Eleftheriou wins this year's Alison Douglas prize (best PhD thesis) Congratulations to Constantinos Eleftheriou (Duguid lab) who was presented with the Alison Douglas prize (best PhD thesis) at this year's Mary Pickford lecture with Prof Kate Jeffery. Wellcome Discovery Award success for Ian Duguid Congratulations to Prof Ian Duguid (Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences and SIDB Group Leader ) who has received a £3M Wellcome Discovery Award over 8 years to explore neural mechanisms underlying voluntary motor control. 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. Research Article 'NHA1 is a cation/proton antiporter essential for the water-conserving functions of the rectal complex in Tribolium castaneum' published in PNAS Congratulations to Dr. Marie Pronot, a new Marie-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow! Dr. Marie Pronot (Cousin lab) has been awarded a prestigious Marie-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship from Horizon Europe. New paper from the Cousin lab published in Science Advances The work uncovers how the non-canonical SNARE protein VAMP4 controls the probability of neurotransmitter release by coupling synaptic vesicle recycling to a major metabolic and signaling hub in neurons, the endolysosomal system. The Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge Rufus Mitchell-Heggs (research assistant and PhD student - Morris lab) has successfully landed in Antigua after rowing the Atlantic! Paper published by Dr Francesco Gobbo and Rufus Mitchell-Heggs (Morris lab) Gobbo and Mitchell-Heggs in collaboration with Prof Simon Schultz at ICL, have recently had a paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science Three new papers from the Denholm lab Well done to Robin Beaven, Luigi Zechini and Sybille Koehler (Denholm lab) on their latest publications. Prof Jamie Davies honoured as RSE (Royal Society of Edinburgh) Fellow The Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE), Scotland’s National Academy; has announced its 2022 intake of Fellows. Dr Rachel James of Gillingwater Lab features in Nature article The article tells Rachel's story of returning to Academia on a part-time fellowship after leaving it when her children were young. Commemorative plaque unveiling - sponsored by The Physiological Society 2021 Mary Pickford Lecture and Alison Douglas Prize (best PhD thesis) Rochefort lab article featured in Quanta Magazine 'Neocortex saves energy by reducing coding precision during food scarcity' Prince of Wales awards Evelyn Telfer CBE at an Investiture in Windsor Castle Huge congratulations from all at CDBS! Article 'Neocortex saves energy by reducing coding precision during food scarcity' published in Neuron Well done to all from the lab of @RochefortLab with @KatsanevakiD and Nathalie Dupuy, for this article which is now published in Neuron, looking at how the metabolically-expensive, mammalian brain adapts to food scarcity. CDBS and School of Engineering receive joint Technology Development Grant from the Wellcome Trust Congratulations to all! Dr Tian Tian (formerly Price now Nolan lab) to speak at 'Development presents....' Wednesday 12th May at 16.00 Picture that Research! 2021 G2PD Image competition G2PD Team announce "Picture that Research" - our first Postdoc Image Competition. This article was published on 2022-10-19
