NEUROGENETICS
Silvia Paracchini Research GroupNews
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...
Welcome back Chiara!
We are very excited Chiara Diquigiovanni is back! Chiara arrives from the University of Bologna and is visiting us thanks to the support provided by a EuFishBioMed travel scholarship. Chiara spent time with us before to develop cellular models for genes underlying...
Welcome Karolina! Thank you Europe
We welcome Karolina Dziewulska who joins the lab today. Karolina arrives from the University of Warsaw and will spend the summer with us as part of the ERASMUS programme. Karolina will work on the functional characterisation of dyslexia candidate genes. She will...
Dr Rob Shore
Robert Shore is officially the first student from our lab to be awarded a PhD. Rob received his well-deserved PhD title during the graduation ceremony today. We are all very proud and wish Rob all the best at his next destination; a post-doc at Harvard.
New paper!
We just published a new study in the Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders. With this work we have followed up the results from a previous GWAS that reported associations with language impairment at the NOP9 gene under a parent of origin effect. We provide further...
Photo prize for Angela!
Congratulations to Angela who won second prize in the Spring photo competition organised by Step Count Challenge 2016. The Challenge – promoted by the Wellbeing & Engagement Group in March – aims to get people more active through walking more in their day-to-day...
Welcome Ece!
Ece Zini joins the lab arriving from Instanbul. Ece will stay with us for three months working mainly on our zebrafish project. We are very excited to have a new lab member and we wish Ece to enjoy her stay in our group and to have a great time in Scotland.
Trip to Hong Kong
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...
International meeting, 28-29 April
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...
Science Scotland
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...