ASAP CRN Team Cragg interested in DA & ACh neuromodulation in PD.
Steph Cragg, Richard Wade-Martins, Peter Magill @University of Oxford
Dinos Meletis @Karolinska Institutet
Mark Howe @Boston University
Managed by Cláudia Mendes & Alicia Twisselmann.
ASAP CRN Team Cragg
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📣 New publication alert 📣
Check out the exciting work from Howe Lab published in @nature.com exploring how #dopamine supports goal-directed navigation in mice!
Huge congratulations to Eleanor Brown, Mai-Anh Vu, and Safa Bouabid for leading this work!
🎉 The Meletis lab is hiring 🎉
Are you interested in neuron subtypes and motivated behaviour? Join us as a fully funded PhD student at Karolinska Institutet.
📅 Application deadline: February 10
More details ⬇️
@ki.se @meletis.bsky.social
#basalganglia #phd #neuroscience
Congratulations to Dr. Kathryn Todd on being selected as an ASAP CRN Discovery Fellow!
Her project will investigate how vulnerable versus resistant dopamine neurons are regulated in Parkinson’s disease.
Read more ⬇️
@asapresearch.parkinsonsroadmap.org
@oxforddpag.bsky.social
At #SfN25 in San Diego this week? #Adenosine fans, this one is for you! Catch Dr. Kathryn Todd at MIN40 | Room 6CR on Wednesday at 2:30 pm PST!
Want more? Dive deeper with the must-read review by the full group of speakers and chairs!
@stephcragg.bsky.social
Meet Linda Kaupp, a visiting Master student coming from the Karolinska Instituet! She will be conducting her master's thesis at the Cragg Lab on the interaction between astrocytes, cholinergic interneurons and dopaminergic neurons.
#MeetOurTeam
@oxforddpag.bsky.social @stephcragg.bsky.social
Congratulations to Pete Magill, one of our ASAP core-PIs, on his appointment as a founding Group Leader at the new UK DRI Parkinson’s Research Centre.
A fantastic step forward for #parkinsons research!
Read more: www.ukdri.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
@ukdri.ac.uk @rnd.ac.uk
📣 New preprint alert 📣
A collaborative study from the Howe and Cragg labs reveals an anatomical hotspot in the striatum where #dopamine and #acetylcholine interact to shape learning and movement.
Congratulations to Safa Bouabid and Mai-Anh Vu for leading this work!
#openscience #collaboration
ASAP CRN Team Cragg
ASAP CRN Team Cragg
Although adenosine was identified in the brain many decades ago, our understanding of when, where, and how it functions has expanded rapidly in recent years, driven in part by innovative technological...
🎉Exciting week for our ASAP Team Cragg at the 2026 GRC Basal Ganglia in beautiful Tuscany 🎉
We are proud that four of our PIs, Steph Cragg, Mark Howe, Dinos Meletis, and Yulong Li, are presenting talks in neural circuit function and dysfunction.
Looking forward to a great meeting!
ASAP CRN Team Cragg
Project Manager role at the University of Oxford coordinating an international Parkinson’s research consortium on sleep, circadian rhythms and open science. Closing date: 29th May
www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/job/project-...
