Super proud that *all three* of these projects were highly commended at the VC Awards!! 🤩🎉 A fantastic achievement for colleagues Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging and partners. And what an inspiring afternoon recognising fabulous work from across University of Oxford

We were delighted to welcome Irene Tracey CBE, Professor of Anaesthetic Neuroscience & University of Oxford Vice-Chancellor, who visited our Football on the Brain gazebo at the Bannister Mile anniversary event (shown here with our team members Prof. Heidi Johansen-Berg & Prof. Holly Bridge)

Director of Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging / lead researcher of Football on the Brain, Heidi Johansen-Berg, joined us at the Bannister Mile event in the afternoon - and jumped straight in engaging kids with neuroscience activities:

There is an exciting new postdoc opening for OPM-MEG analysis at OHBA, Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging. Come join us!

Risk factors for faster ageing in the brain revealed: Led by Gwenaëlle Douaud, researchers have found that diabetes, traffic-related air pollution and alcohol intake are the most harmful out of 15 modifiable risk factors for dementia:

ox.ac.uk/news/2024-03-2…

Prof Clare Mackay is researching hair pulling disorder, also known as trichotillomania, which she's experienced for 35 yrs.

She talks to SalonFocus Redactive to raise awareness among hair & beauty professionals.

See also Clare's blog nhbfsocial👇nhbf.co.uk/news-and-blogs…

Researchers from the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences have used data from the UK Biobank to reveal that diabetes, traffic-related air pollution and alcohol intake are the most harmful of 15 modifiable risk factors for dementia. nature.com/articles/s4146…
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I am beyond excited to share that I have been awarded an Erwin Schrödinger fellowship from the FWF to soon join the NeuroecologyLab at Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging as a postdoctoral researcher. Looking forward to studying the evolution of the canine and primate temporal lobe! 🧠🐕🐺🐒💃

10 years ago our lovely Charlotte Stagg started what would become the friendliest, most welcoming, and scientifically exciting lab. Last week we celebrated this huge milestone by inviting the PiNG lab alumni back to celebrate all together! Once a PiNGWIN, always a PiNGWIN 🧵

Anabelle Paulino Maya Georgia Prof. Kamaldeep Bhui CBE Chimes collaborative NIHR Oxford Health BRC Co-PACT Dr Roisin Mooney The Mental Elf Blavatnik School of Government Alan Stein Oxford Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Associate Professor Sana Suri leads the Heart & Brain Ageing Group.

She also founded an Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging network to promote diversity in academia.

Sana Suri was described as 'an incredibly impressive researcher' & a 'wonderful and supportive supervisor'.

psych.ox.ac.uk/team/sana-suri
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Registration is still open for #FSLCourse2024 , register now to secure your spot:

open.win.ox.ac.uk/pages/fslcours…

The course will be held in-person, June 17–21 in Japan, and it will cover lectures & practicals on structural, functional, diffusion and resting state brain image analysis.

Congrats to Karla Loreen Miller 🇺🇦 Maddie Welland & Medical Sciences staff who developed the “Medical Sciences Division Inclusive Leadership Programme” - shortlisted for 'Commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion' in the University of Oxford Vice-Chancellor's Awards: hr.admin.ox.ac.uk/vice-chancello…

📢Calling all motor neuroscientists and neuro-rehab clinicians 📢. Would you have been interested in a year-long masters programme with a substantial research project covering fundamental and translational motor neuroscience when you entered the field?! (all comments welcome!)

Amazing pictures were submitted for the Brainscapes Image Competition #OxNeuro2024 . The winners with Nick Irving, who runs it.

1st Greg Daubney Oxford ExpPsychology
2nd Demi Brizee Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences
3rd Cristina Martinez-Fernandez de la Camara Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences
Mats Van Es Oxford Psychiatry

As promised - here are the fantastic top three places in the Brainscapes competition #OxNeuro2024 (1/4)

In joint third place was Mats van Es from Oxford Psychiatry Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging with this creative picture of 'Tremella Mesenterica' a fungus also known as 'yellow brain'.

Proud supervisor moment! 🤩 Well done, Sarah Zhang for a great poster presentation. And a huge well done to ALL of our wonderful MSc students who presented their work today at the Oxford Neuroscience Symposium 👏 Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging Department of Physiology Anatomy & Genetics (DPAG) Charlotte Stagg Poly Frangou

If you're at #OxNeuro2024 , we have some lovely posters by some lovely researchers! Come talk to us!

🌟 Poster numbers: 36, 56, 62 🌟

Oxford Neuroscience

Harrison Ritz Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging Benjamin Charles Tendler Karla Loreen Miller 🇺🇦 Maddie Welland Check out this thread x.com/b_tendler/stat…