Silvia will host a seminar by Chris McManus on 9th March, 1-2Pm, Seminar Room 1 Why are most people right-handed but some are left-handed? Abstract: Most people are right-handed, but about one in ten is left-handed. Handedness also relates to language asymmetry, most...

We are inviting application for a PhD project aimed at characterising genetic variants associated with language disorders. This is a three year project funded by the Cunningham Trust. Email Silvia ([email protected]) for informal enquiries. See here for more...

We are delighted to have contributed a chapter to a new book edited by Lesley Rogers and Giorgio Vallortigara. The book groups a collection of methods used to study laterality in different organisms. Our chapter describes recent advances in mapping genes contributing...

Silvia has been interviewed by AcademiaNet about our work on dyslexia genetics. AcademiaNet is a portal aimed at highlighting the achievements of female researchers based across Europe. You can read the interview here.

Silvia will chair a symposium on language genetics at the forthcoming BNA2017 conference, Birmingham 10-13 March.. The aim of the symposium is to cover the most recent advances in language genetic research going from phenotype definitions to the functional dissection...

We are extremely grateful for the continuing support to our work by the Royal Society. We have been awarded a 15k  research grant funding new developments in our project aimed at modeling candidate genes for dyslexia in zebrafish. This grant will provide us with...

This week we are very excited to start a project supported by a Carnegie Collaborative Award. This award will allow us to apply state-of-the-art technologies to the analysis of candidate genes for neurodevelopmental disorders. The project will combine our work in...

Silvia was invited to give a talk at a meeting organised by f-Tales (Flanders Training Network Life Science) aim at the discussing research in functional non-coding genomic regions. The event took place in the beautiful city of Gent, 15-16 September.