Miss Annabel MacFarlane Neural landmarks for Developmental Dyslexia through auditory entrainment tasks
Lucy MacGregor My research explores the neurocognitive processes involved in spoken language comprehension, using mainly MEG, EEG and behavioural methodologies.
Alexis MacIntyre I am interested in temporal cognition and how auditory and motor rhythmic processes relate to speech production and perception. I currently work with Dr. Tobias Goehring on a project investigating the neural correlates of speech perception in coch...
Dr Marwa Mahmoud My research interests lie in the field of social signal processing and human behaviour understanding, which includes expressions of emotions or medical conditions. My research draws on computer vision, machine learning, Human Computer Interaction ...
Dr Omar Mahroo MA, MB, BChir, PhD, FRCOphth, FHEA I investigate human retinal function in health and disease, using electrophysiology and complementary approaches including retinal imaging, genetic investigation and machine learning.
Key current areas of investigation:
-Retinal structure and fu...
Elijah Mak I am a Gates Cambridge scholar working on my PhD at the Department of Psychiatry. Broadly, my research interest relates to the use of multi-modal neuroimaging techniques to characterise structural and functional deficits in dementia and related co...
Professor Tamar Makin My main interest is in understanding how our body representation changes in the brain (brain plasticity). My primary model for this work is studying hand function and dysfunction, with a focus on how we could use technology to increase hand functi...
Dr Nina Maliar I am interested in mutations in DNA single-strand break repair pathway resulting in neurological phenotypes, and role of glia in the corresponding diseases.
Professor George Malliaras My research is in bioelectronics, specifically the application of organic electronic materials to interfacing with the brain, aiming to understand how the brain works and to develop new tools for the diagnosis and treatment of brain diseases. Amon...
Professor Giovanna Mallucci FMedSci My lab is interested in understanding mechanisms of neurodegeneration. The central theme is the identification of common pathways across the spectrum of these disorders (which include Alzheimer's and related diseases) that are relevant for both me...
Maura Malpetti I am a Race Against Dementia & ARUK fellow at the Cambridge Centre for Frontotemporal Dementia and Related disorders. I am interested in the study of neuropathology, biomarkers and clinical features of neurodegenerative diseases, with special inte...
Dr Flavia Mancini Chronic pain affects 1 in 5 people and is the leading cause of disability in the world. There are unresolved questions that urgently require answers to treat pain effectively, a crucial one being how the brain processes pain signals and gives rise...
Dr Kanad Mandke I am a Research Associate at the Centre for Neuroscience in Education, Department of Psychology. My research interests include the analysis of brain networks and understanding the neurophysiological basis of speech processing in children. To this ...
Anne Manktelow I work part-time in the Division of Anaesthesia as a Research Assistant conducting the follow-up studies with patients recovering from traumatic brain injury (including MRI scanning and neuropsychological testing).
I am also undertaking a part-ti...
Dr Tom Manly Our research relates to understanding impairment and rehabilitation in attentional and executive function. Our work with stroke patients mainly focuses on spatial neglect and its relationship to executive/frontal impairment. Our work with patients...
Dr Luis Manssuer BSc, MSc, PhD I work in the research group of Professor Valerie Voon. The lab uses a range of methods to understand the neural basis of neuropsychiatric disorders. My primary role in the lab is to make sense of intracranial neurophysiological data acquired from...
Dr Silvana Mareva Silvana is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Centre for Attention, Learning, and Memory (https://calm.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/). Her work focuses on studying neurodevelopmental difficulties transdiagnostically aiming to understand how and why chi...
Oriane Marguet My main research interests are dementia and neurodegenerative disorders, especially Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease. I am interested in studying towards potential novel treatments, as well as computational methods to improve diagnosis ...
Dr Giorgio Marinato My Phd investigated the role of object-based auditory attention in naturalistic soundscapes, exploiting the Magnetoencephalography(MEG) signal through univariate and multivariate analysis techniques.
Currently I am working in Lorraine Tyler's lab...
Dr Theo Markettos We're building Bluehive, a large-scale neural network computer, aimed at simulating millions of neurons in real time on custom (FPGA) hardware. We're collaborating with the universities of Manchester, Sheffield and Southampton as part of the BIMP...
Professor Hugh Markus I use molecular genetic and neuroimaging (MRI and Transcranial Doppler) techniques to investigate the pathogenesis of, and develop treatments for, cerebrovascular disease. A particular interest is in cerebral small vessel disease, a major cause of...
Laura Marsh My work focuses on how control mechanisms shape what we remember. In particular, I'm interested in how disrupted retrieval control relates to dysfunctional autobiographical memory tendencies in mental health disorders such as depression. I am exam...
Dr William Marslen-Wilson My research interests are in the cognitive science and neuroscience of language. I study the comprehension of human language in the mind and the brain using interdisciplinary neuroimaging and multivariate analysis techniques aimed at identifying ...
Miss Jessica Martin My research is interested in understanding early temperament and its relationship to emotional and behavioural difficulties in later childhood in rare genetic disorders and Intellectual Disability.
Professor Keith Martin The main goal of our group is to understand better the mechanisms of retinal ganglion cell (RGC) death in glaucoma, the leading cause of irreversible blindness worldwide. We aim to develop methods to protect RGC thus slowing the progression of gla...
Dr Matthew Mason I investigate the function and evolution of the middle ear apparatus in vertebrates. Comparative anatomy is backed up with more recent techniques, such as micro-CT and laser interferometry, in order to visualise the middle ear structures and exami...
Dr Sarah Mason My research interests are:
1) Better defining the neuropsychological profile of presymptomatic and early Huntington's disease using fMRI scanning and behavioural testing. With a particular interest in determining the factors which underpin the cog...
Dr Liria Masuda-Nakagawa I am interested in the circuit mechanisms of odor discrimination learning in the higher brain. The mushroom bodies (MBs) of insect brains are centers for associative olfactory learning. Using Drosophila larva, I have characterized the input region...
Dr Hugh Matthews Phototransduction and olfactory transduction. Calcium homeostasis in vertebrate photoreceptors and olfactory receptors, and its role in modulating their electrical responses to stimulation. Light-induced calcium release within the photoreceptor ou...
Dr Brian McCabe The neural mechanisms of learning and memory, particularly imprinting in the domestic chick. The young of many species, when exposed to a conspicuous object, rapidly learn the object's characteristics and subsequently narrow their social preferenc...
Dr Carmel McEniery I have two major research interests. One is arterial stiffness, and in particular, the role of the vascular endothelium in the regulation of arterial stiffness. The other is discovering more about the mechanisms leading to the development of hyper...
Dr Will McEwan The ability to selectively destroy harmful proteins could represent a powerful therapeutic approach in several diseases. Our work focusses on a newly discovered arm of immunity that operates in the intracellular environment. Viruses that import an...
Mr Colin McKenzie I am in charge of the Neurobiology Labs in the Department of Psychology
Mollie McKeon I am a 1st Year MRes + PhD Student at the Multiple Sclerosis Society Cambridge Centre for Myelin Repair (Wellcome - MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute).
Dr Elizabeth McKiernan BA, MSc. MBChB, MRCPsych I am an Old Age Psychiatry trainee and Alzheimer's Society Clinical Research Fellow working towards a PhD in Psychiatry under Professor John O'Brien. My primary research interest is in using ultrahigh resolution MRI to investigate neurodegenerativ...
Dr Mary McLean I perform magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy studies on patients with brain tumours (as well as tumours of other parts of the body). The aim is to improve non-invasive diagnosis and the prediction and monitoring of response to treatment. ...
Dr Harvey McMahon FRS Molecular mechanisms of vesicle exocytosis, endocytosis and membrane trafficking in neurons.
We are interested in understanding basic mechanisms of vesicle trafficking, especially at the synapse, where synaptic vesicle exocytosis and endocytosis ...
Ailie McWhinnie I am interested in dopamine heterogeneity and will be focussing on the connectivity and physiology of the dopaminergic neurons in the olfactory bulb, with some comparison to those in the midbrain.
Using tracing, optogenetics and patch clamp elect...
Professor David Menon The research program of the University Division of Anaesthesia has aimed to understand regional cerebral pathophysiology to advance the care of critically ill patients after brain injury, from initial ictus, through recovery from coma and rehabili...
Dr Staci Meredith weiss My objective as a postdoctoral fellow within the Perinatal Imaging Partnership is to reconcile neural indicators of body maps, such as the somatosensory mismatch negativity and social body fNIRS, with behavioral profiles of infant spontaneous move...
Dr Florian Merkle My laboratory uses pluripotent stem cells to model human diseases that arise from the loss of aberrant function of neurons in the hypothalamus that regulate essential physiological and behavioural processes. In particular, obesity is thought to re...
Miss Elisa Merlini My research focuses on understanding how environmental toxins cause axon degeneration by triggering programmed axon death, a well characterised and preventable pathway associated with axonal injury and disease.
Dr Su Metcalfe The application of nanotechnology to healthcare - nano-medicine - is now recognised worldwide as a new era in clinical medicine. By loading biocompatible, biodegradable nano-particles with growth factor, and targeting to sites of tissue damage, a ...
Dr Emmanouil Metzakopian My group is interested in understanding the effect of environmental stress, including oxidative stress, on the progress of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. Our aim is to identify novel therapeutic targets to protect ...
Dr Susanna Mierau My research focuses on the fundamental rules that govern the development of synaptic and network activity in the cortex and how this process is disrupted in autism and related disorders, with the ultimate goal of developing novel therapies.
I com...
Miss Chantal Miller My research aims to identify the mechanisms underlying different stages of psychotic illness. In particular, I am interested in the idea that the brain relies on hierarchical Bayesian inference, a process that may become derailed in disorders such...
Dr Paul Miller I use electrophysiology and structural biology to understand GABA-A receptors and ligands that target them. I am also using these approaches to develop novel small molecule and antibody tools against GABA-A receptor signalling and to study these t...
Dr Leonor Miller-Fleming My interest is to understand the basic molecular mechanisms that contribute for neurodegenerative diseases. Currently I am focusing on the RNA metabolism dysregulation associated with motor neuron disease and in parallel I am studying the mechanis...
Professor Amy Milton Memory is a critical function of the brain, but little is known about the mechanisms by which memories are modified, adapted, and persist. Memories are known to 'reconsolidate' undergoing updating and strengthening following their destabilisation ...
Dorian Minors My current research interests lie in the neural mechanisms that underpin intelligent behaviour. Many relatively unsophisticated animals appear to show glimpses of the highest orders of cognitive ability, once thought to be out of reach of such tin...
Dr Eric Miska We are interested in all aspects of gene regulation by regulatory RNA. Current research themes include: miRNA biology and pathology, miRNA mechanism, piRNA biology and the germline, endo-siRNAs in epigenetic inheritance and evironmental conditioni...
Dr Daniel Mitchell My research focuses on visual object representations in the human brain. I am interested in the flexible nature of such representations, their limited capacity and resolution in perception, visual working memory, and imagery, and their links with ...
Professor John Mollon My research interests are in the visual perception of colour, motion, form and depth; the genetic basis for individual variations in perception; the nature of the information carried by the cerebral bus; and the history of neuroscience and of colo...
Marcella Montagnese My main area of theoretical interest is reality distortion in psychosis and its underlying neurocognitive and physiological mechanisms. My current work focuses on the application of computational models of reinforcement learning (RL) in patients w...
Dr Anna Moore Developing earlry identification tools for child mental health by linking administrative, biomarker, genetic and phenotypic information.
Professor Brian Moore Mechanisms of normal hearing and hearing impairments; relationship of auditory abilities to speech perception; design of signal processing hearing aids for sensorineural hearing loss; fitting of hearing aids to suit the individual; electrical stim...
Dr Sharon Morein-Zamir My research integrates approaches from experimental psychology, psychiatry and cognitive neuroscience to enable more effective interventions and ultimately prevention of mental health conditions relating to compulsivity and impulsivity.
I study pe...
Dr Laura Moreno-López I am interested in the study of the neuroanatomical mechanisms of resilient functioning in adolescents and young adults exposed to early life adversities.
Dr Marta Morgado Correia My research focuses on the use of quantitative MRI methods to understand the brain in health and pathology. I have a particular interested in diffusion MRI, an imaging modality which has been shown to provide useful information about the microstru...
Dr Sarah Morgan My research applies machine learning, network science and Natural Language Processing to better understand and predict brain development, cognition and mental health. I am an Accelerate Science Research Fellow at the Department of Computer Science...
Dr Paul Morris My interests lie in the mechanisms underlying neuronal and network function (and dysfunction), focusing on receptors and ion channels.
Following my PhD in NMDA receptor function and regulation in midbrain dopaminergic neurons at Cambridge (under ...
Miss Emily Mort BSc MRes The field of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease has shown that in utero environment can have long lasting consequences for offsrping health. More recent work has shown that maternal obesity can cause changes to the neurodevelopment of off...
Professor Jenny Morton Our research is focused on understanding the mechanisms underlying neurodegeneration and on developing strategies to delay or prevent the death of neurones in injured or degenerating brain, particularly in Huntington's disease. We are also interes...
Alexa Mousley I am passionate about understanding brain organisation as it relates to behaviour, learning, and cognition in childhood. I am especially interested in the early emergence of structural brain organisation, which I currently research using generativ...
Dr Kevin Mulvihill Current research involved in investigating the prefrontal circuitry associated with negative emotional regulation. Aim is to provide key insights into elements of cognitive and emotional dysregulation potentially involved in neuropsychiatric illne...
Dr Nicholas Mundy We study the evolutionary genetics of brain size and sensory systems in primates. In particular, we are interested in the evolution and selection of colour vision polymorphisms in New World monkeys and lemurs, the evolution of vomeronasal recept...
Alexander Murley I am a clinical fellow in Professor Rowe's group. I run the PIPPIN study, which aims to improve our understanding of the epidemiology, clinical features and neurobiology of frontotemporal dementia, progressive supranuclear palsy and corticobasal s...
Dr Fionnuala Murphy My research focuses on how cognition and emotion interact - in healthy individuals, in individuals that suffer from mood disorders, and in brain-injured individuals. Executive control over neutral and emotional materials has featured prominently i...
Dr Graham Murray I work on the causes, brain mechanisms and treatments of mental disorder. I utilize a variety of neuroscience techniques, including statistical genomics, brain imaging, computational psychiatry, pharmacological and neuropsychological studies in pa...
Clara Mutschler My research focusses on the interaction of Schwann cells and neurons after peripheral nervous system injury. After injury, axons degenerate and Schwann cells transform into repair Schwann cells, which digest myelin using myelinophagy, attract macr...
