Recent Developments in the Patho-Physiological Molecular Clocks Lab
Soraia Silva has been awarded a BSN Research Visit Grant by the British Society for Neuroendocrinology.
Depression is a common mental disorder, affecting more than 300 million people of all ages and about twice as many women as men worldwide. Less than 50% of depressed patients achieve remission following several pharmacological interventions. For this reason, it becomes pivotal to better understand the underlying disease aetiology and explore approaches that improve the effectiveness of antidepressant drugs. This will reduce suicide and mortality rates, and promote mental health and well-being at all ages. Many depressed patients often have disrupted neuroendocrine rhythms. For example, cortisol loses its daily rhythm, which might in turn disrupt other peripheral clocks; a vicious cycle, which is understudied. Soraia will address this issue by combining expertise from her current lab in Coimbra on a bona fide model of depression with a novel method to analyse circadian function from single tissue samples developed at Warwick. This will allow to answer two main questions, relevant to understand depression: (1) Does a depression-like state shift peripheral clocks? (2) Do selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors effect the circadian clock?
In addition to the £5000 for consumables for this collaborative project with the Chrono Lab at Warwick, she has also won support from her home institution the University of Coimbra, Portugal, for travel expenses during her time at Warwick, which will start in October 2023. |
Welcome to our summer URSS student
Congratulations and welcome to Rithvik who has secured funding for a summer lab project in the Chrono Group!
Daniel at Warwick Graduate Entry Research in Medicine Conference 2021
Today, our URSS and BSN funded summer student Daniel Fox presented his project at this years GERMCon at Warwick, and they seem to have liked it.
- Highly commended for "Most Innovative Research Project"
- Highly commended for "Best Poster"
- Winner of "Best Research Project"
Well done Daniel! Congratulations!
Best poster pitch and best poster winners at Fall UK Clock Club 2021 in York
Ewan Stephenson (ARAP PhD student) and Ben Roberts (MRCDTP PhD student), two true sons of "The North", stepped it up a notch at 2021 in person (!) UK Clock Club in York and were voted fantastic Best Poster Pitch and Best Poster winners. Congratulations to both!
Good Luck Rachael!
MBio student Rachael has achieved a first in her degree and has been accepted a stipend to start on the MRC DTP in IBR in September. Well done Rachael and have fun in the next four years at Warwick!