We are hosting Toby Hurd (University of Edinburgh) on 6th February at 4pm. Toby will tell us about his recent work on the molecular basis of ciliophaties.

We are delighted to announce the award of a CRF grant in collaboration with Prof Cammie McBride at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. With this project we will study the development of reading abilities comparing English and Chinese, using both behavioural and...

See our new paper proposing how handedness and neurodevelopmental disorders might be linked. Out now in Trends in Molecular Medicine

You can hear about our work and our latest results: 12 November: Conference on intervention for dyslexia and dyscalculia in Munich 14 November: Yale University, School of Public Health, hosted by Elena Grigorenko 16 November: ASHA Convention 2013 Chicago

Rebeca Diaz and Monika Gostic joined the group this month. Check out their exciting projects.

We report the results of our GWAS for a measure of handedness in PLoS Genetics. Our study shows that genes already known to control the establishment of left/right body asymmetries are also implicated in handedness. These results have important implications to...

We are looking forward to these two exciting seminars: Thursday 30th May @ 4pm, School of Medicine, Seminar room 2: Dr Chris Tyler-Smith, Sanger Institute "Studies of genetic variation in diverse human populations using large-scale genotyping and resequencing"...

Elizabeth Wootton and Yiwang Xu join the lab this week to work with us over the summer. Liz has already worked in the lab for her 3rd year dissertation and is keen to take forward some parts of the project, aimed at study dyslexia-associated genes. Specifically, she...