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Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience

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About us

  • About us overview
  • Contact details
  • Heads of Department
  • Map and directions
  • ED&I

History of PDN

  • History of PDN overview
  • Anatomy past and present
  • History of the Physiological Laboratory
  • History of Veterinary anatomy
  • The merger of Anatomy and Physiology
  • Past events

Centenary of the physiological laboratory

  • Centenary of the physiological laboratory overview
  • Edgar Adrian
  • Joseph Barcroft
  • Robert Edwards
  • Michael Foster
  • Archibald Hill
  • Alan Hodgkin and Andrew Huxley
  • John Langley
  • Bryan Matthews
  • Roger Tsien

People

  • People overview
  • Contact details
  • Professional Services Staff
  • Academics
  • Postdocs and Research Staff
  • Emeritus Academics

Undergraduate teaching

  • Undergraduate teaching overview
  • Undergraduate Teaching Contact Details
  • Part II courses
  • Dedicated Teaching
  • Part IA Courses
  • Part IB courses
  • Prize Winning Teaching

Information for supervisors

  • Information for supervisors overview
  • General advice about supervising physiological subjects
  • MedST 1A Functional Architecture of the Body (FAB)
  • MedST & VetST IA Histology
  • VetST IA Veterinary Anatomy and Physiology (VAP)
  • VetST IB Comparative Vertebrate Biology (CVB)
  • MedST IB Head and Neck Anatomy (HNA)
  • MedST IB Human Reproduction (HR)
  • MedST IB Neurobiology and Human Behaviour (NHB)
  • VetST IB Neurobiology & Animal Behaviour (NAB)
  • VetST IB Veterinary Reproductive Biology (VRB)
  • Part II courses

Postgraduate

  • Postgraduate overview
  • Information for current Postgraduate students
  • PDN Postgraduate projects

How to apply

  • How to apply overview
  • Introduction
  • Our courses

Research

  • Research overview
  • Physiology and Reproduction
  • Cell and Developmental Biology
  • Neuroscience
  • PDN Talks
  • PDN Postdoc Advisors

Specialist groups

  • Specialist groups overview

FlyBase

  • FlyBase overview
  • FlyBase group members

Human Anatomy Centre

  • Human Anatomy Centre overview
  • Application FAQs
  • People
  • Integration with clinical medicine
  • Conferences and educational activities
  • Public engagement

Teaching, prizes and dissection courses

  • Teaching, prizes and dissection courses overview
  • NST Part II PDN Anatomy Projects
  • Dissection courses and Klenerman prize

External courses

  • External courses overview
  • Current and previous courses
  • Run a course with us

Research

  • Research overview
  • Junior Anatomy Demonstrators
  • Other Collaborations

Virtual museum

  • Virtual museum overview
  • Introduction to the Virtual Museum
  • Thorax
  • Upper limb
  • Pelvis
  • Lower limb
  • Contributors
  • Human anatomy virtual museum

Cranium

  • Cranium overview
  • Cranium, general and pathological collection
  • Ear collection
  • Cranium, historical collection

Canine Weight Management Handbook - GOdogs Project

  • Canine Weight Management Handbook - GOdogs Project overview
  • 1. About us
  • 2. Introduction
  • 3. Diet planning
  • 4. Managing treats
  • 5. Getting fit
  • 6. Committing to your dog's weight loss journey
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  • Undergraduate teaching

    Undergraduate teaching

    Undergraduate teaching overview
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    • Part II courses
    • Information for supervisors
    • Dedicated Teaching
    • Part IA Courses
    • Part IB courses
    • Prize Winning Teaching
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    • Cell and Developmental Biology
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  2. About PDN
  4. The History of PDN
  5. Past Events

About us

  • About us overview
  • Contact details
  • Heads of Department
  • History of PDN
    • Anatomy past and present
    • History of the Physiological Laboratory
    • History of Veterinary anatomy
    • The merger of Anatomy and Physiology
    • Centenary of the physiological laboratory
    • Past events
  • Map and directions
  • ED&I

Past events

Picture of building plaque for Bob Edwards

Centenary of the physiological laboratory

PDN Symposium

Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience

Contact Information

Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience Downing Street Cambridge CB2 3EG
reception@pdn.cam.ac.uk
01223 333899

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