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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...

students and demonstrators from the Human Anatomy Centre

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...

First PDN tree added to the Forest of Biologists

13 June 2023

We have planted our first tree in the Forest of Biologists! - a living forest, created as part of a biodiversity initiative from The Company of Biologists, with support from The Woodland Trust. For each Research Article or Review article published, a living tree will be planted in a UK forest. The initiative will also fund...

Schematic of zebrafish inducible gene expression system.

An inducible expression system for the manipulation of autophagic flux in vivo

13 June 2023

A new paper by the Fleming lab, and published in Autophagy , presents their findings from the development of an inducible expression system to up- or downregulate autophagy in vivo , in zebrafish. Autophagy is a process that occurs inside cells that allows them to clear damaged, misfolded or aggregated proteins and damaged...

New Gates Scholar Spatika Jayaram

16 May 2023

Congratulations go to Spatika Jayaram on being a 2023 recipient of a Gates Scholarship We will be welcoming Spatika in October when she will be joining us from India, via Oxford, to begin a PhD with Professor Angela Roberts https://www.gatescambridge.org/biography/18697/ https://www.gatescambridge.org/about/news/gates-...

New paper published by Julija Krupic

16 May 2023

Unsupervised, frequent and remote: A novel platform for personalised digital phenotyping of long-term memory in humans A short study description: Krupic lab developed a novel hAge platform (healthy Age) for remote and unsupervised testing of long-term memory in humans, which has the potential to be used as an early digital...

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

New Academic Promotions

First PDN tree added to the Forest of Biologists

An inducible expression system for the manipulation of autophagic flux in vivo

New Gates Scholar Spatika Jayaram

New paper published by Julija Krupic

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