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Posted by | 29 April 2021
VACANCIES: Postdocs and research associates

The Synaptic Plasticity and Repair Group will soon have available multiple postdoctoral and research associate positions in the broad areas of human cortical circuit development, degeneration and regeneration.  Potential candidates...

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Posted by | 11 July 2019
Cher Bass successfully defends her PhD thesis

Cher Bass successfully defends her PhD thesis. Congratulations Cher! https://www.instagram.com/p/Bz04m9ZnOr0/

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Posted by | 16 May 2019
Raquel Real successfully defends her PhD thesis

Raquel Real successfully defends her PhD thesis.  Congratulations 2 x Dr Real. https://www.instagram.com/p/BxkcXG1HMu1/

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Posted by | 1 February 2019
Beatrice da Via joins the Group

Beatrice da Via, from Trieste University, Italy, joins the Group as a MSc Erasmus+ student to characterise the pathological features of human cortical grafts derived from donors carrying mutations associated...

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Posted by | 15 November 2018
Crossed wires image is Biomedical Picture of the Day

Image showing human nerve cells growing and making connections inside a mouse brain is published on 15 November 2018 on the Biomedical Picture of the Day (BPoD) web site.

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Posted by | 16 October 2018
Vincenzo De Paola presents at Cold Spring Harbor Asia Conference

At the Cold Spring Harbor Asia (CSH Asia) Conference on "Advances in Optical Imaging of Living Cells & Organisms: Focus on the Brain," 15 – 19 October 2018 in Suzhou,...

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Posted by | 11 October 2018
New paper in Science on the modelling dynamics of human brain cell transplants

We have a new collaborative paper in Science on the modelling dynamics of human brain cells transplanted from individuals with and without Down's syndrome into mice. In vivo modeling of...

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Posted by | 21 August 2018
New paper on the effects of antipsychotic medication on microglia

Peter Bloomfield’s study on the effects of antipsychotic medication on microglia in vivo has been published in the Journal of Psychopharmacology. Congratulations Peter! The effects of haloperidol on microglial morphology...

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Posted by | 3 July 2018
New paper on ageing of the somatosensory cortex

We have a new paper in PLoS One comparing the neuropil ultrastructure and connectivity of aged and adult mice. The effects of aging on neuropil structure in mouse somatosensory cortex—A...

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Posted by | 30 May 2018
New collaborative Innovative Training Networks project

Vincenzo De Paola, along with Ramiro Almeida, Catalina Betancur, Daniel Choquet, Ana Luísa Carvalho, Peter Kind, Thomas Knöpfel, Emily Osterweil, Carmen Sandi, Eurotrials, Lundbeck, and The Zeiss Group, is part...

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