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Engagement, outputs and awards
We're thrilled to announce that NUAcT fellow Claudia Soares has been awarded with a prestigious .
Srikanth Ramaswamy, NUAcT Fellow/Marie Curie Fellow/Lister Institute Prize Fellow and Principal Investigator of the Neural Circuits Laboratory in the Faculty of Medical Sciences has just been awarded a prestigious grant from the . The award will enable Srikanth, one of our brilliant neuroscientists, to consolidate his impressive research programme on how neuromodulators enable adaptive learning in neural networks.
The brain continuously adapts and learns to respond to ever-changing behavioural demands. It achieves this by controlling the function of neural networks through the release of neuromodulators. Neuromodulators 鈥� acetylcholine, serotonin or dopamine 鈥� are chemical messengers that govern the emergence of brain oscillations by controlling the activity of cells, synapses and microcircuits to regulate shifts between behavioural states. Srikanth鈥檚 research integrates experiments and computational modelling to bridge the multiscale mechanisms through which neuromodulators act across spatiotemporal scales on cells and synapses to shape cortical computations in mouse, monkey and human brains.
This is the first-ever award by the US Air Force Office of Scientific Research to 缅北禁地. Srikanth plans to begin this research grant in 2024. Please get in touch if you are interested in being involved.
Christopher Stewart has been named as this year鈥檚 winner of the which is presented to a scientist who has used microbiology to make a significant contribution to One Health advancements.
Listen to NUAcT fellow Dr Jane Scott discusses if fungus-filled textiles could become the new cutting-edge approach to interior design on the From 缅北禁地 Podcast Listen now at or wherever you find your podcasts.
Catherine Walker, whose research centres on climate justice and young people, reviews the inclusion of young people at global climate summits and considers to what extent leaders have taken heed of their messages. .
Well done to James Dawson who has been successful in securing a Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council (ERC). The grant will support James to research and help develop next-generation batteries to achieve the performance required for the electrification of transport and the grid-scale storage of energy from renewable resources.
Huge congratulations to our two NUAcT fellows Kate Beckham and Kesha Josts (both based in the Biosciences Institute) who have been awarded ! These fellowships are awarded to outstanding scientists with the potential to become leaders in their fields.
Dr Oskar Jensen has been shortlisted for a prestigious history prize for his book Vagabonds. He is one of six authors in the running for the 拢50,000 Wolfson History Prize. The book brings the Dickensian city vividly to life. From beggars and thieves to musicians and missionaries, porters and hawkers to sex workers and street criers, Dr Jensen unites original research, first-hand accounts and testimonies to tell their stories in their own words.
Dr Jensen is a NUAcT Fellow who is researching the history of song at 缅北禁地鈥檚 International Centre for Music Studies.
We are delighted to announce that Srikanth Ramaswamy has been selected for a . Srikanth鈥檚 research seeks to understand the mechanisms through which neuromodulators shape cognition in mammalian brains and utilize this knowledge to build computational models of how the brain implements cognitive functions.
The flexibility of funding provided by a Lister Prize will empower me to build a multidisciplinary team to open up a new research direction at the interface of biological and artificial neural networks.
Congratulations to the NUAcT fellows shortlisted at the 缅北禁地 Open Research Awards. Great to see the inspiring work they are doing to make their research more transparent, robust and inclusive.
- Jordan Cuff, 1st prize (starting his fellowship later this year)
- Christopher Hackney, 3rd prize
- Louise Rayne, Commendation
Welcome to the NUAcT fellows that have started in 2023 and 2024!
- Olga Smith, School of Arts & Culture, Ecocritical Studies of Landscape Representations in Contemporary Art.
- Jake McClements, Engineering, Wearable Sensors for Multimorbidity
- Sanchari Deb, Engineering, Accessible Smart Sustainable Charging Infrastructure topromote transportation electrification incities
- Catherine Walker, GPS, From theory toaction: Exploring, enabling and enactingyouth-led climate justice
- Emily Jones, Law, 鈥淗uman鈥� Rights for Nature: Responding to Environmental Challenges Posed by Deep-Sea Mining and Developments in Outer Space
- Malene Jacobsen, GPS, Geographies of Displacement
- Brian Ortmann, NUBI, Dissecting the cellular response to hypoxia and inflammation
- Hannah Bloomfield, Engineering, Climate-resilient energy systems for the net-zero transition
- Julia Heslop, Socio-spatial Justice & the Rights of Nature within Urban Planning
- Rachel Queen, Single cell analysis in human development & disease: novel bioinformatics approaches to investigate temporal & spatial affect of cellular environment
- Amy Vincent, Mitochondria and muscle fibre structure and function: a new avenue in neuromuscular disease pathology
- Luke Bashford, Using recordings from inside the human brain to diagnose and treat neurological disorders
- Prachi Bhatnagar, Developing the evidence base for city-based solutions to reduce inequalities in the determinants of obesity
- Lizeth Sloot, Staying grounded: Measuring and understanding dynamic balance in the elderly to reduce falls
- Jordan Cuff, Increasing efficacy of nature-based solutions for sustainable agriculture by unravelling the molecular mechanisms of prey choice
- Inokentijs Josts (Kesha), Novel siderophore uptake pathways in bacteria and their exploitation for the delivery of antimicrobial agents
- Katherine Beckham, The ins and outs of mycobacteria: in search of novel outer membrane transport proteins
- Tiago Costa, High performance computing discovers the Universe: how did galaxies and their central supermassive black holes form?
- Lydia Dan Wu, Decolonising 鈥楢sia鈥� through Film Festival Curation
- Helen Devine, Motor Neuron Disease: understanding pathogenesis and developing treatments
- Fabrice Stephenson, Using Spatial Estimates of Ecosystem Services for Equitable Conservation of Multiple Values Under a Changing Climate
- Shoko Sugasawa, Handling without hands: object manipulation by insects
- Sheng Wang, Resilience quantification and enhancement of energy system operations with hydrogen integration
- Sarah Najm, Creative Sector Valuation in Lower-income Households
- Susanna Mills, Identifying and addressing unhealthy weight amongst people living with severe mental illness in hospital and the wider community