Officially Dr Gostic!

At the winter graduation we celebrated Monika who received officially the well deserved PhD title. Happy days!

EXPLORATHON 2018

We did it! Our group took part to the Explorathon 2018, at a science fair hosted at the Dundee Science Centre on Saturday 29th September as part of the European Researchers’ Night and supported by the European Commission. We presented for the first time the ePeg, a...

Dr Rebeca Diaz!!!

Many congratulations Rebeca for succesfully defending your PhD thesis! And many thanks to the examinars Dr Gareth Miles (internal) and Prof Richard Wade-Martins (University of Oxford); and special mention to Angela who made it possible to celebrate with proper Italian...

Firbush Scientific Retreat

Last week Angela Martinelli, currently a research assistant in our group about to start her PhD with us took part to the Firbush Scientific Retreat organised every year by the BSRC. This is an excellent way to speak about science in a relaxed environment, surrounded...

BNA 2017

Next week (10-13 April) we will showcase our research at BNA 2017, Birmingham!!! Silvia will present at a symposium dedicated to the latest advances in the field of language genetics (Tuesday at 13.20). We have two posters on brain imaging (P-M142; P-W133) discussing...

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...

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...