NEUROGENETICS
Silvia Paracchini Research GroupNews
Welcome Heather!
We welcome in the lab Heather Tiernan who has started her PhD in the Neurogenetics group!
New Paper
New paper reporting our GWAS analysis for grip strength is now out https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/gbb.70003
Neurogenetics at the BDA conference
From 20-21 June, the Neurogenetics Group had a successful trip to Guildford for the 13th British Dyslexia Association International Conference. The conference had more than 300 participants from all continents, bringing together researchers, clinicians, educators, and...
Welcome to our new lab members
We really excited to welcome three new PhD students in our lab. Priyatam Dutta has been awarded a Global PhD scholarship in collaboration with the University of Bonn. Xueyu Guo has been awarded a Tenovus scholarship to start a new project in collaboration with Dr...
Fully funded PhD scholarship
We are inviting applications for a fully funded PhD opportunity to dissect the role of rare variants in language-related conditions. More information at the following link and get in touch for more information...
SLDN Public Event
The Specific Learning Difficulties Network (SLDN) hosted their first public event at the Royal Society of Edinburgh focusing on education. The event included a lecture by Prof Brian Butterworth, a panel discussion, an exhibition and a workshop with focus on teachers'...
More PhD opportunities
Check out these new opportunities to join our group. We are inviting applications for a PhD in cardiovascular genomics in collaboration with Sam Pitt's group https://t.ly/sfeq and a EngD project in cancer genomics using AI approaches hosted by Canon Medical Research...
New PhD opportunity
We are inviting application for a PhD in psychiatric genomics in collaboration with the University of Bonn. The deadline is on 31 March. More details here:...
Congratulations Filippo!
Well done Filippo for a successful PhD viva! Many thanks to the examiners Dr Claudio Toma and Dr Michail Papathomas. We are very proud but sad we could not celebrate in person.
New Consortium Papers
After years of hard work from international and cross-disciplinary research teams, we are happy to see two papers from the GenLang Consortium published in recent weeks. The studies report the GWAS results for reading/literacy measures and for dyslexia. Read more about...