Dr Thiago B. Burghi Devices that interface with the nervous system are improving dramatically, but the complexity and variability of neuronal systems make it difficult to reliably control the activity of living neurons. In my research, I am developing a method for dr...
Julie Bailey My doctoral research project at the Faculty of Education focuses on the experience of autistic pupils in mainstteam education, through an investigation of the behavioural indicators of engagemnet with classroom learning. This study applies finding...
Professor Clare Baker We are investigating a broad range of questions relating to the development of neurogenic placodes and the neural crest, two embryonic cell populations in vertebrates that together build the entire peripheral nervous system. Current projects inclu...
Dr Kate Baker Genomic technology is now enabling the identification of many novel causes of neurodevelopmental disorder. This provides a new starting point for understanding the relationships between specific genetic mutation, neuronal function, brain developm...
Dr Sara Baker I am interested in the role of pre-frontal functions (i.e., impulse control) in the formation and expression of beliefs especially during early childhood. I use behavioral and physiological measures (eye-tracking) to examine how children learn to...
Dr Gemma Bale Gemma is the head of the Neuro Optics Lab, a new, multidisciplinary research group that operates jointly between the Departments of Physics and Engineering at the University of Cambridge. We develop and validate new optical methods to monitor brai...
Dr Gabriel Balmus My lab is interested in understanding the roles of DNA Damage Repair (DDR) in mature neurons and its links to neurodegenerative disorders (including Alzheimer's and related diseases) and ageing. We are using a variety of tools including CRISPR-Ca...
Dr Paula Banca My research is aimed at understanding the neural mechanisms underlying action control with the purpose of developing more effective treatments in psychiatric diseases. I am interested in compulsive disorders, particularly Obsessive-Compulsive Diso...
Professor Manohar Bance I am a clinician-scientist interested in disorders of hearing and balance
In particular, we are interested in how cochlear implants stimulate the auditory system, ways to improve stimulation, measuring outcomes and measures of hearing and balance ...
Dr Koby Baranes I am using forward reprogramming methods to generate oligodendrocytes and other glial cells from human pluripotent stem cells. The main goal of my research is to establish a model system which will allow to study myelination both in normal and in...
Dr Emma Barker Emma is a Senior Commercialisation Associate in Life Sciences at Cambridge Enterprise responsible for identifying, managing, developing and commercialising a variety of life science IP.
Prior to joining Cambridge Enterprise, Emma spent 10 years i...
Professor Roger Barker I work on:
Clinical aspects of Parkinson's and Huntington's disease including the study of disease heterogeneity using cognitive testing, functional imaging and genetic biomarkers.
Examining the value of different biomarkers to assess disease onse...
Dr Philip Barnard My programme of work focuses mainly on Executive Control and Emotional Meanings in Cognitive and Neural systems. Current work is organised under four project headings:
[a] Core Theoretical work on Interacting Cognitive Subsystems - a macro-theory...
Dr Jennifer Barnett I'm a psychologist and cognitive neuroscientist with some training in genetics and epidemiology. I’m interested in how genetic and environmental factors affect cognitive functions and mental health throughout life. This includes the development of...
Professor Jean-Claude Baron My research focuses on the pathophysiology of ischaemic stroke and the mechanisms underlying subsequent deterioration or recovery, including neuronal damage, tissue inflammation and long-term plasticity processes. In terms of methodology, my appro...
Professor Simon Baron-Cohen The Autism Research Centre (ARC), of which I am Director, has 6 programs of research, all focusing on Autism Spectrum Conditions (ASC):
(a) Perception and Cognition (investigating social and non-social cognition and sensory processing);
(b) Neu...
Dr Damiano G. Barone Due to the inability of the nervous system to regenerate itself, injuries to the brain, spinal cord and peripheral nerve can have a profound impact on patients, their families and society. Current treatment options remain limited.
Bioelectronics...
Professor Michael Bate My research is concerned with the way in which the machinery underlying coordinated movement is genetically specified and assembled during embryonic development. On the one hand this involves an analysis of the way in which muscles are assembled, ...
Professor Andrew Bateman In June 2019 I left "Oliver Zangwill Centre for Neuropsychological Rehabilitation" where I developed my research strategy that has three themes: i) development of assessments, ii) development and immplementation innovative therapeutic interventi...
Miss Izabele Batkovskyte My primary research interests concern the mechanisms underlying the heterogeneity of presentations and outcomes in psychosis. I am also working on the Psychosis Risk Outcomes Network (ProNET) study, which aims to identify multimodal biomarkers sp...
Robert Batt MSt, MSc, Professor (H.C.) The use of A.I. and other digital health solutions to enable the provision of psychological support to those who might not usually be able to access these services.
Urte Beatrice Baublyte I am investigating rates of protein synthesis in different hippocampal neuron types. Despite protein synthesis-dependent forms of synaptic plasticity having been studied extensively, there is limited direct evidence of protein synthesis happening ...
Dr Howard Baylis We are investigating the functions of genes involved in Alzheimer’s disease using C. elegans. We have focussed on presenilin genes as presenilin mutations in human cause familial Alzheimer’s disease. We aim to address the mechanism by which presen...
Professor Paul Bays In order to interact with the world, our brains construct and sustain their own internal representations of it. Our aim is to understand the nature of these representations and the computations the brain performs on them to achieve behavioural goa...
Saashi Bedford My research focuses on using neuroimaging to try to parse the heterogeneity observed in autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders. I am particularly interested in sex differences, subgrouping, and brain-behaviour relationships.
Dr Tristan Bekinschtein I am interested in non-classic approaches to study the physiology and cognition of consciousness.
I have wide Interests in Cognition and neurophysiology. In the last few years I have been mainly concentrating in describing different states of con...
Dr David Belin Our research is interested in the neural, cellular and molecular substrates of inter-individual vulnerability to develop impulsive/compulsive disorders such as drug addiction, Obsessive / Compulsive Disorder, Tourette’s syndrome, pathological gamb...
Dr Aude Belin-Rauscent My research is interested in the neurophysiological and neuropharmacological substrates of compulsive disorders such as drug addiction and obsessive compulsive disorder.
Dr Steven Bell I am an Epidemiologist based at the Stroke Research Group with an interest in cardiovascular disease and related conditions.
At present my work utilises genome-wide association studies (GWAS) alongside bioinformatic approaches to obtain insights ...
Dr Riccardo Beltramo We aim to understand how the brain transforms sensory signals into the neural representations of the outside world that guide our behaviour.
Our lab uses the mouse visual system as a model and studies the contribution of parallel visual pathways ...
Professor German Berrios I am interested in the study of psychiatric symptoms (e.g. hallucinations, delusions, obsessions) appearing in the context of neurological disease.
Since the 19th century, the view that 'mental symptoms' seen in the context of neurological diseas...
Dr Anne Bertolotti Diverse neurodegenerative diseases share a common cause: aggregation of a specific protein in selective regions of the brain.
The disease-causing proteins are expressed throughout life but neurodegenerative diseases are mostly late-onset. In fac...
Richard Bethlehem I am director of neuroimaging at the Autism Research Centre and will be joining the department of psychology as an assistant professor of neuroinfomatics in 2023. My work focuses on understanding lifespan changes in brain development and ageing fr...
Dr Giacomo Bignardi I'm a developmental scientist working in the The Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience (Sarah-Jayne Blakemore) Group.
I'm broadly interested in how the environment influences the brain, behaviour and cognition, and in adolescent health. I'm also ...
Timothy Birkle Within the lab of Prof. Guy Brown, I investigate druggable targets within microglial cells which may be useful for tackling neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease. In particular, we are interested in targets which modulate inflamma...
Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore Our research focuses on the development of social cognition, peer influence and decision making in adolescence, and adolescent mental health. We run large scale behavioural studies in schools and in the lab, as well as neuroimaging studies, with a...
Dr Clemence Blouet Impairments in central pathways regulating energy homeostasis can cause profound metabolic dysfunctions, but current knowledge is insufficient to develop safe and efficient therapies targeting these pathways.
Brain metabolic sensing is based on th...
Dorothea Boeken I am interested in using single-molecule techniques to study soluble tau aggregates in tauopathy models, such as iPSC-derived neurons and cerebral organoids. These techniques include TIRF microscopy as well as super-resolution microscopy (dSTORM, ...
Dr Giulia Bonetto Studies of neural circuit plasticity focus almost exclusively on functional and structural changes of neuronal synapses. In recent years, however, myelin plasticity has emerged as a potential modulator of neuronal networks. Indeed, myelination of ...
Dr Daniel Bor My current main research focus is on the effects of drowsiness and conscious level (both measured neurally) on cognition, and how this is modulated by age and disease (Alzheimer's). I am using MEG, fMRI and structural imaging techniques to examine...
Mr Robin Borchert I work with fMRI to investigate how drug treatments, which target the cognitive deficits in Parkinson's Disease, affect network connectivity. This provides a great opportunity to understand and optimize these treatments for patients.
Dr Alexander Boys My work focuses on developing tissue engineered and bioelectronic devices for recording neural signals in the gut. I am specifically interested in the gut-brain axis and the transfer of signals along this axis.
Dr Mirjana Bozic I study language as a cognitive and a neural system. My research focuses on the neural mechanisms that support spoken language comprehension. Using behavioural and neuroimaging techniques, I investigate how different properties of the speech input...
Dr Abbie Bradshaw My research is interested in speech production and perception, and the interactions between these at both the behavioural and the neural level.
I currently hold a Leverhulme Trust Early Career fellowship within Matt Davis’ group for a project en...
Professor Andrea Brand FRS FMedSci Uncovering the molecular mechanisms that control neural stem quiescence and reactivation is crucial for understanding tissue regeneration under normal and pathological conditions and in response to ageing. It is critical to learn not only how stem...
Dr Dennis Bray How do bacteria find distant sources of food, and avoid noxious and potentially damaging environments? We seek answers to these questions by developing computer simulations of swimming bacteria exposed to gradients of different substances. Our pro...
Professor Sarah Bray We are interested in understanding the signalling pathways that co-ordinate the decisions made by cells during development. The ultimate fate of a cell is dictated in part by its heredity and in part through interactions with neighbouring cells. O...
Professor Carol Brayne My research programme is based around longitudinal population based studies of people aged 65 and above, running since 1985. They include collections of blood, and are linked to the Cambridge Brain Bank. Opportunities exist for translation from la...
Dr Emily Breese I am currently researching phenotypic trait differences and their impact on habitual behaviours. Specifically, this research examines individuals differences in responsiveness to environmental cues that predict rewards, using a range of online and...
Mr Jonathan Breiter I focus on the investigation of early-stage aggregates of alpha-synuclein in the human brain, which have been found to be a major contributor to the pathogenesis of Parkinson's Disease and other synucleinopathies. We are working on improving our u...
Dr Jack Brelstaff Ph.D Our work focuses on the cellular and molecular consequences of tau pathology in neuronal cultures. Our primary model is derived from the dorsal root ganglia of mice transgenic for P301S mutant human tau. These ganglia are dissociated and grown in ...
Professor Peter Bright 1. Neuroimaging and neuropsychological investigations of object processing (with an emphasis on the role of medial temporal lobe structures).
2. Disease progression and cognitive decline in semantic dementia.
3. Retrograde amnesia in brain dama...
Professor Kevin Brindle We have developed non-invasive magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques that enable us to track labelled cells that have been implanted in the CNS. This work has been conducted in collaboration with Robin Franklin. In addition we are developi...
Dr Emma Brock My research is focused on creating a map of alpha-synuclein oligomers in the human brain with the aim of improve understanding of the pathogenesis of Parkinson's disease. Large alpha-synuclein aggregates are commonly used as an indicator for Parki...
Paul Brooks My area of research focuses on how the cellular skeleton is formed and maintained.
Fundamentally, microtubules are comprised of just 3 proteins, however, their functions are diverse. During cell division MTs lock onto and pull apart chromosomes, ...
Professor Donald Broom Developing and using methods of evaluating animal welfare.
Behaviour development, social behaviour, abnormal behaviour.
Assessing cognitive ability in domestic animals including cattle, pigs, sheep and dogs.
Sentience, awareness, emotions, feeling...
Professor Guy Brown We are interested in the mechanisms of neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration in the brain. We use mouse models of disease and cultured brain cells to investigate how microglia become activated by inflammatory stimuli and how such microglia dama...
Dr Stephanie Brown I am interested in studying the degenerative brain changes in people with Down’s syndrome using sophisticated brain scanning techniques. Recent advances in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) allow high resolution images of the brain using 7 Tesla MR...
Dr Will Brown The Brown Group focuses on reducing disability in multiple sclerosis, one of the most common causes of disability in the young. We use real-world data to optimise the use of existing disease-modifying therapies and to explore novel repair strategi...
Dr Lizzie Buchanan-Worster I am interested in how children perceive spoken language and how this relates to language and literacy development. I completed my PhD at UCL in 2019, supervised by Professor Mairéad MacSweeney and Professor Charles Hulme. My PhD research focussed o...
Dr Clare Buckley The vertebrate brain arises from a tube-like structure made from polarised neuroepithelial cells. These have a strict apico-basal orientation; they align their apical ends along a centrally located lumen. This organisation is important for later n...
Dr Raymond Bujdoso Prion diseases such as scrapie of sheep and goats, BSE of cattle and CJD of humans are transmissible neurodegenerative diseases. The research of our prion group is concerned with providing knowledge to try and answer some of the important question...
Miss Sophie Buller Our group studies hypothalamic nutrient sensing and its role in the regulation of energy balance.
Professor Ed Bullmore I am interested in understanding human brain network organization from neuroimaging data in health and disease. My recent methodological work has focused on graph theory to measure aspects of brain network topology.
I am also interested in bette...
Dr Simon Bullock Our primary goal is to understand how cellular components are sorted and dispersed by microtubule-based motor complexes, and how these transport processes contribute to the functions of cells in situ (i.e. within organisms). We have long-standing ...
Dr David Bulmer Abdominal pain is a leading cause of morbidity in gastrointestinal disease. Despite this we still know little of how pain is triggered in “functional” gastrointestinal disorders such as irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and gastrointestinal diseases ...
Michael Burkhart Within Zoe Kourtzi's Adaptive Brain Lab, I study the application of machine learning techniques to improve the early diagnosis of neurodegenerative disease, specifically Alzheimer's. Previously, I worked with the BrainGate project to develop Bayes...
Professor Malcolm Burrows I work on the properties of neurons and the circuits they form to understand how they control behaviour.
1. Motor control. How do nonspiking local interneurons organise motor neurons to generate limb movements? How do spiking interneurons proce...
Dr Folma Buss We study the cellular roles of myosin motor proteins and how they mediate the organization of cellular compartments and control intracellular transport along actin filaments. One of our major aims is to understand the mechanism of cargo selection ...
Simon Butler Puberty is associated with a period of psychological change concomitant with structural changes in the brain. An endocrinological association has been proposed. In the context of education, the effects on executive function, particularly the socia...
Miss Emilia Butters My work focuses on applying optical neuroimaging (near-infrared spectroscopy and high-density diffuse optical tomography) in dementia with the ultimate goal of developing biomarkers for use in the clinic, as well as to explore brain oxygenation an...
Dr Paula Buttery The application of natural language engineering techniques to augment neuro-imaging analysis and experimental design.
Dr Philip Buttery We work on the role of rho family GTPases and their regulators in the plasticity of CNS synapses, as related to brain disease and recovery from brain injury. We are currently focussing on a regulator of the GTPase Rac1 which is upregulated with n...
