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16 November 2023

BBRF Young Investor Grant award for PDN Research Associate

23 October 2023

Postdoc Research Associate Dr Christian Wood was recently selected for a 2023 NARSAD Young Investigator Grant from the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation (BBRF; previously called the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia & Depression [NARSAD]. The BBRF is a US charity that funds research focusing on...

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A profile of Professor Christine Holt

20 October 2023

'You rarely get a black and white result in biology. But when I walked into the lab in the morning, there was Doug with the result – axons failed to navigate properly if they were prevented from making new proteins locally. Oh my goodness, I thought, we’ve just opened up a whole lot of new biology here.' PDN Professor...

A fully automated home cage for long-term continuous phenotyping of mouse cognition and behavior

8 August 2023

A new paper from the Krupic Lab , published in Cell Reports Methods, shows the development of a fully automated AI-driven home cage monitoring system. The system incorporates a T-maze test, novel object recognition as well as object-in-place recognition tests accompanied by measurement of other locomotion behaviours, all...

Unborn babies use ‘greedy’ gene from dads to ‘remote-control’ mums into feeding them extra food

7 August 2023

A new study from researchers from the Centre for Trophoblast Research at Cambridge’s Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience and the Medical Research Council Metabolic Diseases Unit, part of the Wellcome-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science, has discovered that fetuses use a copy of a gene inherited from their...

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PDN students and demonstrators win prizes at the BACA Summer Meeting

12 July 2023

A group of students and demonstrators from the Human Anatomy Centre attended the summer scientific meeting of the British Association of Clinical Anatomists on 6 July 2023. This was held at the School of Anatomy, University of Bristol with the theme of "Applied and Functional Anatomy". Four Part II PDN project students...

Simultaneous representation of multiple time horizons by entorhinal grid cells and CA1 place cells

12 July 2023

A new study from the Krupic lab, led by Dr Julija Krupic , shows that the network of entorhinal grid cells and hippocampal place cells show predictive coding and encode the future trajectories of an animal rather than its current location. Published in Cell Reports , the paper Simultaneous representation of multiple time...

A model of the post-implantation human embryo derived from pluripotent stem cells

30 June 2023

Congratulations to the Zernicka-Goetz lab, who can now share their human embryo-like model, published in Nature . Knowledge of the morphogenetic transformations undergone by a human embryo following its implantation into the uterus, is limited by the inability to observe the embryo in vivo . Stem cell-derived models of the...

Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz is awarded the 2023 Ogawa-Yamanaka Stem Cell Prize

30 June 2023

We are delighted to share the news that Professor Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz , PDN professor of mammalian development and stem cell biology, has been awarded the prestigious 2023 Ogawa-Yamanaka Stem Cell Prize by Gladstone Institutes. For the past 25 years, research from the Zernicka-Goetz lab has pioneered studies of the...

New Academic Promotions

19 June 2023

Our congratulations to Hugh Robinson (Professor G11), Benedicte Sanson (Professor G12) and David Bainbridge ( Professor G12), who have been awarded professorships in this years Academic promotions, as published in the University of Cambridge Reporter. Hugh and Benedicte were both recognised for their outstanding...

PhD Studentships

BBRF Young Investor Grant award for PDN Research Associate

A profile of Professor Christine Holt

A fully automated home cage for long-term continuous phenotyping of mouse cognition and behavior

Unborn babies use ‘greedy’ gene from dads to ‘remote-control’ mums into feeding them extra food

PDN students and demonstrators win prizes at the BACA Summer Meeting

Simultaneous representation of multiple time horizons by entorhinal grid cells and CA1 place cells

A model of the post-implantation human embryo derived from pluripotent stem cells

Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz is awarded the 2023 Ogawa-Yamanaka Stem Cell Prize

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