AcademiaNet

Silvia has been interviewed by AcademiaNet about our work on dyslexia genetics. AcademiaNet is a portal aimed at highlighting the achievements of female researchers based across Europe. You can read the interview here.

BNA2017

Silvia will chair a symposium on language genetics at the forthcoming BNA2017 conference, Birmingham 10-13 March.. The aim of the symposium is to cover the most recent advances in language genetic research going from phenotype definitions to the functional dissection...

New grant!

We are extremely grateful for the continuing support to our work by the Royal Society. We have been awarded a 15k  research grant funding new developments in our project aimed at modeling candidate genes for dyslexia in zebrafish. This grant will provide us with...

Carnegie Collaborative Award

This week we are very excited to start a project supported by a Carnegie Collaborative Award. This award will allow us to apply state-of-the-art technologies to the analysis of candidate genes for neurodevelopmental disorders. The project will combine our work in...

Light on the Dark Side of the Genome

Silvia was invited to give a talk at a meeting organised by f-Tales (Flanders Training Network Life Science) aim at the discussing research in functional non-coding genomic regions. The event took place in the beautiful city of Gent, 15-16 September.

Summer Science Exhibition 2016

Silvia has given a series of talks about handedness genetics at the Summer Science Exhibition 2016 held at the Royal Society in London. The talks were mainly attend by pupils from different secondary schools as well as visitors of all ages. It has been a great honour...
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