Silvia was back to Hong Kong. The visit included meetings with collaborator Prof Cammie McBride (Chinese University of Hong Kong) and her team members. Silvia also delivered a guest lecture during a St Andrews Alumni event; it was very nice to meet people living so...
The international meeting Silvia has been organising is taking place this week! In the beautiful setting of the Kavli International Centre at Chicheley Hall and funded by the Royal Society, the meeting will cover the broad field of laterality research, under the title...
We are delighted our research has been covered in the latest issue of the Science Scotland magazine. You will find the article at pag 11. This month the magazine has the focus on the activities of some of the Young Academy of Scotland (YAS) memebrs. You can also read...
Our new paper describing a biological mechanism underlying the genetic association between the PCSK6 gene and handedness is out today in Human Molecular Genetics. This work takes forward the findings from our previuos GWAS studies (see here and here).This is the first...
Many congratulations to Rob Shore who succesfully defended his thesis on 17th February. Rob passed the viva with minor corrections and impressing the examiners (Dr Matt Holden – internal and Dr Nick Bray – external from Cardiff University). Rob is the...
Silvia will discuss handedness genetics at the next St Andrews Cafe’ Scientifique next Thursday 21 January, 7:30 pm at Aikmann’s Bar on Bell Street. Everybody can easily say which hand they prefer for writing but what determines hand preference is far from being...
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