Congratulations!
Alistair successfully defended his thesis this month (February 2024) and will be heading off soon to Canada to take up a position as a postdoctoral research assistant. Good luck, Alistair, we will miss you. Thank you Ed and Neil for acting as examiners. Congratulations too to Marieke, for successfully supervising your first PhD student.
Best paper
We won ‘Most outstanding paper published in J Anatomy in 2021’ for our manuscript ‘Río-Hortega’s drawings revisited with fluorescent protein defines a cytoplasm-filled channel system of CNS myelin’. Thanks to the Anatomical Society and all co-authors, especially Eleanor McGowan for her beautiful 3D renderings. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/joa.13577
Publication
A century ago this year (2021), Pío del Río-Hortega, coined the term ‘oligodendroglia’. We revisited some of his intricate drawings of the cytoplasmic channels of myelin, using fluorescent reporters.
Congratulations!
Congratulations Colin Crawford and Lorna Hayden following your successful PhD vivas on 3rd and 10th December 2021, respectively.
Publication
Some children with proven intrauterine Zika virus (ZIKV) infection who were born asymptomatic subsequently manifested neurodevelopmental delays.
Our data, using an in vivo model of prenatal infection, demonstrates a vulnerability of early myelinating oligodendrocytes (see Fig. 4 from our manuscript below, showing evidence that oligodendrocytes are dying following ZIKV infection). Could myelin deficits explain transient neurodevelopmental delays? https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/glia.24010
