Cognitive and Translational Neuroscience Lab
Ben's PhD viva
Congratulations to Ben on Successfully Defending His Dissertation!
Neuromod+ Early Career Researcher (ECR) award
Steven Errington have been awarded the EPSRC/MRC-funded Neuromod+ Early Career Researcher (ECR) award to present at the Optogen conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, and to advance the network with the optogenetic community.
New Paper
Our new paper 'Evolutionary constrained genes associated with autism spectrum disorder across 2,054 nonhuman primate genomes' has been published in Molecular Autism.
Marmoset Workshop on Biomedical Research 2025
Marmoset Workshop on Biomedical Research 2025 was organised on the 30th of January, 2025 at the Faculty of Medical Sciences at Newcastle University, funded by Neuromod + ECR and British Council RENKEI Mobility grants.
BBSRC-NSF/BIO lead agency grant from January 2025
The lab will be supported by a four-year BSRC-NSF/BIO Lead Agency US-UK partnership grant from 2025 January, "Neuronal Circuits and Mechanisms for Auditory Memory and Prediction".
Neuromod+ Early Career Researcher (ECR) awards
EPSRC-funded Neuromod+ ECR Awards Advance Marmoset Preclinical Models and International Marmoset Workshop
British Council RENKEI Mobility Grant
Advancing AI Voice Technology for Aging Populations: British Council RENKEI Mobility Grant fuels UK-Japan collaboration
Ben receives the Young Investigator Award from the EBBS
Ben receives the Young Investigator Award from the European Brain and Behaviour Society (EBBS) and presented at FENS 2024
Zhipeng was selected for ICPBR Summer School
Zhipeng was selected for the International Center for Primate Brian Research (ICPBR) Summer School in Shanghai, China.
NNN seminar “Molecular Mechanisms of Long-Term Memory Storage” by Prof Ted Abel
“Molecular Mechanisms of Long-Term Memory Storage” by Prof Ted Abel at Neuroscience Neurodisability and Neurological Disorders Theme Seminar
Holmes Lectures for 10- to 14-year-olds
The 2024 Holmes Lecture "HUMANS VS ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: Lecture 1: Humans: Can you learn to train your brain? "was given by Dr Yuki Kikuchi and Ben Slater on 17 January.
EPSRC/MRC-funded CloseNIT grant support on Marmoset Closed-loop Project
EPSRC/MRC-funded CloseNIT grant support on “Closed-loop Auditory Stimulation to Modulate Amygdala-Frontal Synchrony in Free-Moving Marmosets”
New Preprint
New Preprint: 'Evolutionary Constraint Genes Implicated in Autism Spectrum Disorder Across 2,054 Nonhuman Primate Genomes' Now Available on bioRxiv
SfN 2023 Washington DC
Society for Neuroscience Meeting 2023 Washington DC, USA
Computational Psychiatry Conference 2023
The Computational Psychiatry Conference was held in Dublin, Ireland from July 6-8, 2023. An incredible number of computational psychiatry approaches were presented to advance treatments for mental illnesses.
FMS REDA Funded Outreach Event at the Scent & Science Festival, Haltwhistle
Congratulations to our lab members on a successful science outreach event funded by the FMS Research Development Excellence Award
FMS Research Excellence Development Awards (REDA)
The lab has been awarded the FMS Research Excellence Development Awards (REDA) for our project "Development of public engagement platforms to disseminate translational neuroscience research using animal models."
University EDI Award 2023
Dr Yuki Kikuchi received the Univerity Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Champion Award
MRC Programme Grant support on ‘Neuronal Circuit for Perceptual Inference’
The lab will be supported by a four-year Multiple-PI MRC programme grant on ‘Neuronal Circuit for Perceptual Inference’ from January 2023, £1.8M
SfN 2022 San Diego
Society for Neuroscience Meeting 2022 San Diego, USA
Recruiting two Post-Doctoral Positions at Newcastle Univ. and Univ. of Iowa
Recruiting two Post-Doctoral Positions at Newcastle Univ. and Univ. of Iowa
