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Silvia Paracchini Research GroupNews
ESHG 2015
The group will be at ESHG 2015, which this year will be in Glasgow. We will present two posters: Sam will present our work just published on the genetics of mathematical abilities and Rob will show case his unpublished results describing the functional...
Welcome Dilsad!
Today we welcome a new lab member: Dilsad Kilicoglu from Turkey. Dilsad is a Molecular Biology and Genetics student at Bogazici University in İstanbul and will spend the summer with us working on the functional characterization of dyslexia candidate genes. So we are...
New Travel Award
Congratulations Monika Gostic for the award of a travel fellowship by the European Society for Fish Models in Biology and Medicine! Monika is using zebrafish to study the function of candidate genes for dyslexia. She will use the fellowship to visit Dr Patrick...
Our work in the media
Last week there has been quite a bit of media covarage for our handednes work. We have not published anything new (yet!), but the very popular site IFLScience covered Silvia's prsentation at Royal Society with a piece that got over 30,000 shares on Facebook. This was...
New podcast
We have inaugurated a new podcast series at the School of Medicine. Silvia discusses in this short video our research and tells you a bit about her career journey. Watch out for Monika's guest appearance.
New paper!!!
Our new paper on the genetics of maths abilities is now out in Genes Brain and Behaviour. We conducted the first replication study for the myosin-18B gene which was found to be associated with maths abilities through a GWAS study. The study was led by Kerry and Sam...
Congratulations Sam!
Sam Valles won first prize for poster presentation at the National Student Association of Medical Research annual conference in Cardiff. Sam presented the work she conducted in our lab during her dissertation placement. She analysed candidate genes for mathematical...
Cafe Scientifique
Silvia will be discussing the genetics of handedness at the next Cafe Scientifique at the Royal Society in London, 16th February 6pm.
Welcome Angela and Kara
We are very excited to welcome two new lab members today. Kara Lekuse is a third year Medicine undergraduate student carrying out her dissertation project with us. Angela Martinelli, from the University of Bologna, is visiting the lab for a few months to work on our...
New funding! Hong Kong : Scotland Collaborative Research Partnerships
We are delighted to announce we have awarded a research grant by the Scottish Funding Council in partnership with the Hong Kong Research Council. Our lab will be working in partnership with Prof Cammie McBride at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. With this project...