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OxfordDPAG @oxforddpag.bsky.social · 8d

@OxfordPDCentre @oxfordpdcentre.bsky.social · Sep 9

📣 Job opportunity to work with our Clinical Research team based at the Oxford University Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences and Oxford University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (John Radcliffe Hospital). @ndcnoxford.bsky.social

Dementia Researcher @dementiaresearcher.bsky.social · Sep 9

Research post at Oxford, supporting PSP studies within the national Parkinson’s Plus network, using digital tools, biomarkers, and imaging to improve diagnosis. Closing date: 22nd September

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Research Practitioner: ExPRESS study - DEMENTIA RESEARCHER

Research post at Oxford, supporting PSP studies within the national Parkinson’s Plus network, using digital tools, biomarkers, and imaging to improve diagnosis.

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Wade-Martins Lab, University of Oxford @wademartinslab.bsky.social · Sep 2

A reminder that the closing date to apply for the Research Assistant post is Friday 5th Sept 25 at 12noon. bit.ly/4lURYW9

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ASAP CRN Team Cragg @craggasap.bsky.social · Aug 29

📣The Wade-Martins Lab is hiring 📣

Are you interested in developing novel biomarkers and testing therapeutic compounds using iPSC-derived dopamine neurons from PD patients? Join us as a Research Assistant at the University of Oxford.

Deadline is noon (UK time) on Sept 5th!

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ASAP CRN Team Cragg @craggasap.bsky.social · Aug 29

In case you missed it, be sure to watch July's instalment of the Discover ASAP!

Ricardo Márquez Gómez from Wade-Martins Lab discussed their scalable microfluidic platform that enables the study of human neuron microcircuitry, connectivity, and regeneration in vitro 🔬

#OpenScience #PD #iPSCs

Aligning Science Across Parkinson's @asapresearch.parkinsonsroadmap.org · Jul 28

This month’s Discover ASAP features Ricardo Márquez Gómez of @craggasap.bsky.social, discussing a fluid-wall microfluidic platform to model human corticostriatal circuits 🧪

This platform enables axon studies, long-term culture, & scalable testing for #Parkinsons.

📺 youtu.be/dutY_mxext4

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Wade-Martins Lab, University of Oxford @wademartinslab.bsky.social · Aug 28

📣Job opportunity: We are seeking a Research Assistant neuronal cell biologist to join the lab @kavlioxford.bsky.social within @oxforddpag.bsky.social. You will be working on a translational research project investigating lysosomal dysfunction in #Parkinson’s disease. Job Details: bit.ly/4lURYW9

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ASAP CRN Team Cragg @craggasap.bsky.social · Aug 27

Check out Katherine Brimblecombe's news article on outreach activities!

Katherine reflects on how her outreach work with primary school kids has led to changes in the way she thinks about science communication.

#SciComm #ScienceOutreach #WomenInSTEM #STEM

Outreach: How Science Week's 2025 theme made me reflect on how I talk about science (by Dr Katherine Brimblecombe)

Science week 2025 theme: Change and adapt

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ASAP CRN Team Cragg @craggasap.bsky.social · Aug 22

📣 New publication alert 📣

Check out our collaborative review on axonal molecular and circuit mechanisms governing dopamine exocytosis in health and PD. Congratulations to Kathryn Todd from Cragg Lab and Kaitlyn Cramb from Wade-Martins Lab for spearheading this publication!

New insights into axonal regulators of dopamine transmission in health and disease

Dopamine release in the striatum is credited with being critical to the selection and learning of motivated actions and outcomes. Dysregulation of str…

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Rory Cellan-Jones @rorycj.bsky.social · Aug 23

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/incurable-... The inimitable Paul Mayhew Archer can even make #parkinsons funny - don’t miss him when his show comes to Hastings on August 30

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Aligning Science Across Parkinson's @asapresearch.parkinsonsroadmap.org · Aug 25

CRN Team Cragg used array photometry in mice to reveal a topography of opposing changes in ACh release across distinct striatal regions. Reward prediction error encoding was localized to specific phases of ACh dynamics in anterior dorsal striatum.

🔗 Read the full #publication: bit.ly/3JjqQCE

Opposite ACh changes with learning at cue and reward are signal component selective and spatially concentrated in the anterior dorsal striatum.

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ASAP CRN Team Cragg @craggasap.bsky.social · Aug 19

📣 A new book announcement 📣

The Handbook of #dopamine, from Steph Cragg (@stephcragg.bsky.social) and Mark Walton, and a cover illustration from the talented Lucille Duquenoy from Cragg Lab, is available to pre-order now!

OxfordDPAG @oxforddpag.bsky.social · Aug 12

We have an exciting new book to announce! www.dpag.ox.ac.uk/news/oxford-...

Oxford Professors Cragg and Walton celebrate publication of new book, The Handbook of Dopamine

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Dementia Researcher @dementiaresearcher.bsky.social · Aug 19

Research Assistant Vacancy, University of Oxford. Join a translational project on lysosomal dysfunction in Parkinson’s, using iPSC models to develop biomarkers and test therapies. Closing date: 5th September

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Research Assistant: Lysosomal dysfunction in Parkinson’s

Research Assistant, University of Oxford, Oxford, iPSC Parkinson’s project developing biomarkers and testing therapies on lysosomal dysfunction.

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OxfordDPAG @oxforddpag.bsky.social · Aug 12

We have an exciting new book to announce! www.dpag.ox.ac.uk/news/oxford-...

Oxford Professors Cragg and Walton celebrate publication of new book, The Handbook of Dopamine

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@OxfordPDCentre @oxfordpdcentre.bsky.social · Aug 12

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Coalition for Aligning Science @aligningscience.com · Aug 7

We're kicking off our new series: Initiative Spotlight 🔦 starting with Aligning Science Across Parkinson's (ASAP)!

@asapresearch.parkinsonsroadmap.org aims to speed discovery and drive progress toward a #ParkinsonsDisease cure through collaboration and open science.

Learn more: bit.ly/3Ys7sIo

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Aligning Science Across Parkinson's @asapresearch.parkinsonsroadmap.org · Jul 28

This month’s Discover ASAP features Ricardo Márquez Gómez of @craggasap.bsky.social, discussing a fluid-wall microfluidic platform to model human corticostriatal circuits 🧪

This platform enables axon studies, long-term culture, & scalable testing for #Parkinsons.

📺 youtu.be/dutY_mxext4

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Kavli Institute for Nanoscience Discovery, University of Oxford @kavlioxford.bsky.social · Jul 28

🌿 We’re delighted to share that Higgins Group at Kavli Oxford has been awarded a Gold LEAF Award!

Led by lab manager Hannah Ivison, the team has taken impressive steps to reduce waste, improve efficiency, and build a more sustainable lab.

One more Gold for #KavliOxford! ✨
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Higgins Group Awarded Gold LEAF Award for Sustainability Efforts

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Wade-Martins Lab, University of Oxford @wademartinslab.bsky.social · Jul 29

🥳 We are celebrating achieving a LEAF Gold award for the 3rd year in a row! 🥳Thanks to everyone for their support in adhering to more sustainable practices. A special thank you to Feodora Bertherat for her tireless efforts & the extra work she puts in to help us achieve this.

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Dementia Researcher @dementiaresearcher.bsky.social · Jul 24

Full time technician post at Oxford Brain Bank. Support tissue processing, staining, archiving and admin for major neuro research cohorts. Lab skills essential. Closing date: 22nd August

www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/job/oxford-b...

Oxford Brain Bank Research Technician - DEMENTIA RESEARCHER

Full time technician post at Oxford Brain Bank. Support tissue processing, staining, archiving and admin for major neuro research cohorts. Lab skills essential

www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk

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Kavli Institute for Nanoscience Discovery, University of Oxford @kavlioxford.bsky.social · Jul 15

#TuesdayReads:
The @WadeMartinsLab shows how antisense oligonucleotides targeting SARM1 protect human neurons from axon degeneration—highlighting a promising therapeutic approach for neurodegenerative disease.

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SARM1 activation induces reversible mitochondrial dysfunction and can be prevented in human neurons by antisense oligonucleotides

SARM1 is a key regulator of a conserved program of axon degeneration increasingly linked to human neurodegenerative diseases. Pathological SARM1 activ…

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@OxfordPDCentre @oxfordpdcentre.bsky.social · Jul 10

Our thanks to Briana De Miranda‬ @bdemira.bsky.social who joined us online today to give a talk to the OPDC on Initiating & persisting mechanisms of #Parkinson’s #neurodegeneration from environmental risk factors. @kavlioxford.bsky.social @oxforddpag.bsky.social talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/061...

Initiating and persisting mechanisms of Parkinson’s neurodegeneration from environmental risk factors

Dr. Briana De Miranda is a Neurotoxicologist and Assistant Professor of Neurology within the Killion Center for Neurodegeneration and Experimental Therapeutics at University of Alabama at Birmingham (...

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OxfordDPAG @oxforddpag.bsky.social · Jul 9

and congratulations Bethan!

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OxfordDPAG @oxforddpag.bsky.social · Jul 9

Congratulations Lucille!

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University of Oxford @ox.ac.uk · Jun 30

A new Medical Research Council Centre of Research Excellence (MRC CoRE) aims to develop brain stimulation devices to treat conditions such as Parkinson’s, dementia, stroke and childhood epilepsy.

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Oxford to lead new £50m MRC Centre to develop brain stimulation

A new Medical Research Council Centre of Research Excellence (MRC CoRE) aims to develop brain stimulation devices to treat conditions such as Parkinson’s, dementia, stroke and childhood epilepsy.

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ASAP CRN Team Cragg @craggasap.bsky.social · Jul 7

A new #MRC CoRE will focus on developing brain stimulation devices to treat conditions such as Parkinson’s, dementia, stroke and childhood epilepsy.

🎉Many congratulations to our co-PI, Professor Peter Magill, who will be the Director of the MRC CoRE in Restorative Neural Dynamics! 🎉

Oxford to lead new £50m MRC Centre to develop brain stimulation

A new Medical Research Council Centre of Research Excellence (MRC CoRE) aims to develop brain stimulation devices to treat conditions such as Parkinson’s, dementia, stroke and childhood epilepsy.

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