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The annual PDN Symposium is back for 2024 on Friday 19 th April ! All 1st year PhD students and MPhil Research students will be giving a short talk in the Symposium, and it is a great opportunity to hear about all the amazing work going on in the department. There will be a poster exhibition held during the conference with...

Our congratulations to PDN Emeritus Professor of Neuroscience, Professor Roger Keynes , who has been awarded the prestigious Anatomical Society Prize for 2023. This biennial prize consists of a medal, and is awarded to a distinguished morphological scientist. Professor Keynes visited the Anatomical Society's Winter Meeting...

PDN Professor of Behavioural Neuroscience, Professor Angela Roberts, and her colleague Professor Diego Pizzagalli have been awarded the NEAR prize from Neuropsychopharmacology for the review, ‘Prefrontal Cortex and Depression’. The award is given by the Editors of Neuropsychopharmacology for the top review type article in...

'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...