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.

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...

A PhD project is available in our lab as part of the Multimorbidity DTP program. This scheme is open to health professionals registered in the UK. Get in touch if interested. More information can be found here...

Check out the last work led by Judith on the genetics of vision acuity and exploring the links between sensory and cognitive function https://psyarxiv.com/mnrdu/

First in-person meeting abroad since the pandemic! Silvia gave a seminar at CBM in Madrid, hosted by Dr Claudio Toma, where she had the opportunity to discuss projects and potential collaborations.

Our study invesitgating the link between dyslexia and language impairment is out in preprint https://psyarxiv.com/74jsd . A collaboration led by Filippo and made possible thanks to our GenLang partners.

New study led by Rebeca Diaz and Nils Krononberg reporting the characterisation of the KIAA0319 using a combination of biophotonics and cell biology assays is now out in Scientific Reports. Our work shows a role of this gene in cilia biology and in mediating...

The latest review on dyslexia genetics written with Florina Erbeli and Marianne Rice is now available at https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3425/12/1/27

The largest genetic screening for reading and language measures conducted to date is now out in preprint https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.11.04.466897v1. The results report on data collected over decades by the GenLang consortium a truly international and...