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Website redesign

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Replace the text of the key areas of the PDN Homepage with clickable images Add the PDN Talks webpage List of webpages on UCam that we will want to include links to from our PDN staff webpages, including sites about staff development, staff wellbeing, diversity & equality, dignity in the workplace, benefits, promotion, postdoc information, etc Better identification of retired academics	Christmas Break
Dedicated academic staff pages and professional services staff pages Clickable icons for the ‘People overview’ page, above the list of contacts Re-organize the Intranet pages to determine what information should stay here, and making sure it is all up to date	January
Redesign of the Postdoc page with input from the Postdoc committee Redesign of the undergrad page	February
Finish updating the Intranet pages Finish the academic staff page Finish the professional services staff webpage Set up profile pages for any professional services staff who would like them	March
Finish the Postdoc page Finish the undergraduate page Finish Retired staff page	April

Events	Public Engagement
PDN organises key events throughout the year to share information with its members and the University, including Coffee chalk talks (Fridays 10am, to volunteer email ad865@cam.ac.uk) Postdoc & Graduate Student annual Symposium Adrian seminars in Neuroscience with drinks reception (Mondays 4:30pm) Foster seminars with drinks reception (Thursday 4pm) Happy Hours (Fridays 5pm) Welcome Coffee for Newcomers and Visitors – (last Friday of each month at 9.30 am)	We organise a number of public engagement activities throughout the year, including Science Festival (March): one of the largest science festivals in the UK, with hundreds of visitors coming to PDN every year for talks and hands-on Festival of Ideas (October): University-run festival of lectures in science and humanities Pint of Science (May): science talks delivered in local pub If you would like to volunteer to any of these activities please email Roberto, our Communications Officer, at comms@pdn.cam.ac.uk
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Website redesign Online Science Festival Event Departmental brochure	What's on Further training: Personal and Professional Development & Institute of Continuing Education Working with the media

The Communications Committee
The Communications Committee was set up in 2014 with the purpose of facilitating internal and external communication and to ensure all members of PDN have access to relevant information If you would like to get involved or provide feedback about any of the communications activities of PDN, please get in touch with the Communications Committee.

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Latest news

Brief sensory deprivation triggers cell type-specific structural and functional plasticity in olfactory bulb neurons

Feb 15, 2021

A new study by Elisa Galliano and colleagues in the Grubb lab at King’s College London was recently published in the Journal of Neuroscience. The authors investigated how a short-lived loss of smell (akin to a mild cold) induces functional and structural plasticity in a specific sub-population of dopaminergic interneurons in the mouse olfactory bulb.

If you would like to share your research story or an upcoming paper, please email Roberto Inchingolo at comms@pdn.cam.ac.uk

Upcoming talks

Thu 04 Mar 16:00: How cells integrate chemical and mechanical cues during cell migration in vivo

Feb 25, 2021

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