Principal investigators in theme:
Name: Dr Richard Adams
Dept: Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
Email: rja46@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Quantitative analysis of morphogenesis using microscopy
WWW: http://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/staff/adams/
Themes: developmental and regenerative biology and medicine, neuroscience, psychology and mental health
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Professor Roger Barker
Dept: Department of Clinical Neurosciences (Cambridge Centre for Brain Repair)
Email: rab46@hermes.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Neural stem cells in Huntington's and Parkinson's disease
WWW: http://www.brc.cam.ac.uk/principal-investigators/roger-barker/
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health, infection and immunity, developmental and regenerative biology and medicine
Students: Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome
Name: Dr Mike Aitken
Dept: Department of Psychology
Email: m.aitken@psychol.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Associative theory; causal inference; categorisation; neuropychological testing; statistics; fMRI analysis
WWW: http://www.psychol.cam.ac.uk/people/mrfa100@cam.ac.uk
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Dr Jose Alcantara
Dept: Department of Psychology
Email: j.alcantara@psychol.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Psychoacoustics, speech perception, neurobiology of auditory processing, autism
WWW: http://www.psychol.cam.ac.uk/people/jia10@cam.ac.uk
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Dr Michael Anderson
Dept: MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit
Email: michael.anderson@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Memory, cognitive control and their interaction, from behavioural to neural levels; mechanism on mnemonic attention and inhibitory control; incidental and motivated forgetting; controlling unwanted memories of trauma
WWW: http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/michael.anderson
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Dr Duncan Astle
Dept: MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit
Email: duncan.astle@mrc-cbu.cam.uk
Topic: executive control, attention, short-term memory, working memory, development, MEG
WWW: http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/duncan.astle/
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Dr Tom Baer
Dept: Department of Psychology
Email: tb107@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Auditory psychophysics and speech enhancement for the hearing impaired
WWW: http://www.psychol.cam.ac.uk/hearing/
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Dr Sabine Bahn
Dept: Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology
Email: sb209@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Identification of a panel of prognostic/diagnostic biomarkers and novel targets related to mental/neurological disorders with an emphasis on schizophrenia, bipolar and major depressive disorders. Translation of biomarkers and targets to the clinical environment and the pharmaceutical industry to facilitate early diagnosis and drug discovery efforts
WWW: http://www.biot.cam.ac.uk/sb/
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Dr Clare Baker
Dept: Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
Email: cvhb1@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Development and evolution of the vertebrate peripheral sensory nervous system
WWW: http://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/staff/baker/
Themes: developmental and regenerative biology and medicine, neuroscience, psychology and mental health
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Dr Philip Buttery
Dept: Department of Clinical Neurosciences (Cambridge Centre for Brain Repair)
Email: pcb10@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Molecular and cellular analysis of mechanisms of synaptic homeostasis in hippocampal neurons and application to an epilepsy model
WWW: http://www.brc.cam.ac.uk/principal-investigators/phil-buttery/
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Professor Eric Barnard
Dept: Department of Pharmacology
Email: eb247@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Brain P2Y ATP receptors : locations ,functions,native dimerisations,transgenics
WWW: http://www.phar.cam.ac.uk/research/barnard/index.html
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology, neuroscience, psychology and mental health
Students:Sorry no students can be taken this year
Name: Professor Simon Baron Cohen
Dept: Department of Psychology/Department of Psychiatry
Email: s.baron-cohen@psychol.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Autism, Asperger Syndrome, sex differences and empathy
WWW: http://www.psychol.cam.ac.uk/people/sb205@cam.ac.uk
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health
Students: Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome
Name: Dr Margery Barrand
Dept: Department of Pharmacology
Email: mb10002@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Multidrug transporters at the blood-brain barrier
WWW: http://www.phar.cam.ac.uk/research/barrand/
Themes: metabolic medicine, integrative and comparative physiology, neuroscience, psychology and mental health
Students:Sorry no students can be taken this year
Name: Professor Mike Bate
Dept: Department of Zoology
Email: cmb16@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Developmental genetics of locomotor systems
WWW: http://www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/zoostaff/bate.htm
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health, developmental and regenerative biology and medicine
Students: Sorry no PhD students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential summer students are welcome
Name: Professor Sir Patrick Bateson
Dept: Department of Zoology
Email: ppgb@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Modelling of neural mechanisms of imprinting; the effects of stress on animals
WWW: http://www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/zoostaff/bateson.htm
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health
Students: Sorry no PhD students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential summer students are welcome
Name: Dr Tristan Bekinschtein
Dept: MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit
Email: tristan.bekinschtein@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Brain integrative mechanism. Neural mechanisms of conscious and unconscious processes in sleep, anaesthesia and its transitions from wakefulness. Emotion, decision-making and language processing in patients with disorders of consciousness. Attention and conscious modulation of learning and memory. Hd-EEG, EEG-fMRI and intracranial recordings.
WWW: http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/tristan.bekinschtein
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health, medical imaging
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Dr Anne Bertolotti
Dept: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Email: aberto@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Cellular aspects of protein misfolding in neurodegenerative diseases
WWW: http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/a-to-g/a-bertolotti
Themes: cellular and molecular neuroscience
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Dr Brian Billups
Dept: Department of Pharmacology
Email: bjb41@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Mechanisms of neurotransmitter release and recycling
WWW: http://www.phar.cam.ac.uk/ri/billups.html
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Professor Andrea Brand
Dept: Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute (Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience)
Email: ahb@mole.bio.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Embryonic nervous system development: stem cells to synapses
WWW: http://www.gurdon.cam.ac.uk/brand.html
Themes: developmental and regenerative biology and medicine, neuroscience, psychology and mental health
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Professor Edward Bullmore
Dept: Department of Psychiatry
Email: etb23@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Methods for analysis of brain imaging data
WWW: http://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/directory/profile.php?etb23
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health, medical imaging
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Professor Malcolm Burrows
Dept: Department of Zoology
Email: mb135@hermes.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Neural processing in local circuits that control natural limb movements
WWW: http://www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/zoostaff/burrows.htm
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health
Students: Sorry no PhD students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential summer students are welcome
Name: Dr Timothy Bussey
Dept: Department of Psychology
Email: tjb1000@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Neural basis of learning, memory and perception; connectionist models; animal models of neuropsychiatric disorders
WWW: http://www.psychol.cam.ac.uk/people/tjb1000@cam.ac.uk
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Dr Andy Calder
Dept: MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit
Email: andy.calder@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Face processing; the recognition of human signals of emotion in healthy and brain-injured subjects; modelling face-processing using image-based analyses
WWW: http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/andy.calder/
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health, medical imaging
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Dr Bob Carlyon
Dept: MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit
Email: bob.carlyon@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Hearing ; perceptual integration of concurrent sounds; grouping and streaming; effects of attention on auditory perception; pitch perception; hearing by cochlear implantees
WWW: http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/bob.carlyon/
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Rev Dr Alasdair Coles
Dept: Department of Clinical Neurosciences (Neurology Unit)
Email: ajc1020@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Topic: The treatment of multiple sclerosis with a novel humanised antibody
WWW: http://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/directory/profile.php?Alcool
Themes: infection and immunity, neuroscience, psychology and mental health
Students:Sorry no students can be taken this year
Name: Professor Roger Carpenter
Dept: Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
Email: rhsc1@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Neural mechanisms of decision making in man; saccadic eye movements
WWW: http://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/staff/carpenter/
Themes: developmental and regenerative biology and medicine, neuroscience, psychology and mental health
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Dr Isabel Clare
Dept: Department of Psychiatry
Email: ichc2@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Intellectual and other developmental disabilities, including autism spectrum conditions in adults, particularly: responsibility for offending, decision-making, adult safeguarding, other socio-legal and clinico-legal studies that are relevant to practice, guidance, and policy.
WWW: http:\\www.CIDDRG.org.uk/people/principals.html#dr-isabel-clare
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health
Students: Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome
Name: Dr Luke Clark
Dept: Department of Psychology
Email: lc260@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Mental illness, addiction, brain mechanisms of decision-making and impulsivity
WWW: http://www.psychol.cam.ac.uk/people/lc260@cam.ac.uk
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Dr Hannah Clarke
Dept: Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
Email: hfc23@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Understanding the neural and neurochemical basis of behaviours mediated by the prefrontal cortex and their relevance to psychiatric disorders.
WWW: http://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/directory/profile.php?hfc23
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Professor Nicola Clayton
Dept: Department of Psychology
Email: nsc22@cam.ac.uk
Topic: The evolution and development of complex cognition (episodic memory, future planning, theory of mind)
WWW: http://www.psychol.cam.ac.uk/people/nsc22@cam.ac.uk
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Dr Michael Coleman
Dept: Babraham Institute
Email: michael.coleman@babraham.ac.uk
Topic: Molecular and cellular mechanisms of axon degeneration
WWW: http://www.babraham.ac.uk/signalling/coleman.html
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology, neuroscience, psychology and mental health
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Dr Anthony Coll
Dept: Institute of Metabolic Science (Department of Clinical Biochemistry)
Email: apc36@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Molecular control of appetite and obesity
WWW: http://www.mrl.ims.cam.ac.uk/staff/AI/Coll/
Themes: metabolic medicine, integrative and comparative physiology, neuroscience, psychology and mental health
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Dr Marek Czosnyka
Dept: Department of Clinical Neurosciences (Neurosurgery Unit)
Email: mc141@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Mathematical modelling of intracranial dynamics - brain injury and hydrocephalus
WWW: http://www.neurosurg.cam.ac.uk/
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Professor Andrew Crawford
Dept: Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
Email: ac151@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Sensory transduction mechanisms in the cochlea
WWW: http://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/staff/crawford/
Themes: metabolic medicine, integrative and comparative physiology, neuroscience, psychology and mental health, structural and molecular cell biology
Students:Sorry no students can be taken this year
Name: Dr Damian Crowther
Dept: Department of Genetics
Email: dcc26@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Protein misfolding, aggregation, diseases of old age, aging, Alzheimer's disease, neurodegeneration, genetic and compound screening
WWW: http://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/directory/profile.php?damiancrowther
Themes: functional genomics, systems biology and genetic medicine; neuroscience, psychology and mental health.
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Professor James Fawcett
Dept: Department of Clinical Neurosciences (Cambridge Centre for Brain Repair)
Email: jf108@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Axon regeneration, plasticity, repair of spinal cord injury
WWW: http://www.brc.cam.ac.uk/principal-investigators/james-fawcett/
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health
Students: Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome
Name: Dr Tim Dalgleish
Dept: MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit
Email: tim.dalgleish@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Experimental investigation of cognition-emotion relationships; post-traumatic stress; functional theoretical modelling of emotions; depression
WWW: http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/tim.dalgleish/
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health, medical imaging
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Dr Jeff Dalley
Dept: Department of Psychology/Department of Psychiatry
Email: jwd20@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Neuromodulation and psychopharmacology of fronto-striatal systems; individual differences; translational neuroscience
WWW: http://www.psychol.cam.ac.uk/people/jwd20@cam.ac.uk
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Dr Greg Davis
Dept: Department of Psychology
Email: gjd1000@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Visual cognition, attention, awareness, perception in autism and dyslexia
WWW: http://www.psychol.cam.ac.uk/people/gjd1000@cam.ac.uk
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Dr Matt Davis
Dept: MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit
Email: matt.davis@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Neuro-anatomical and computational accounts of language comprehension; spoken and written word recognition; connectionist modelling; fMRI
WWW: http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/matt.davis/
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health, medical imaging
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Dr Bazbek Davletov
Dept: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Email: baz@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Molecular mechanisms of neurotransmitter release
WWW: http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/a-to-g/b-davletov
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Dr Mario de Bono
Dept: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Email: debono@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Neural networks and behaviour
WWW: http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/a-to-g/m-de-bono
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Dr John Deeks
Dept: MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit
Email: john.deeks@mrc-cbu.cam.uk
Topic: human audition, and in particular: pitch perception; speech recognition; auditory grouping and segregation; hearing through cochlear and auditory brainstem implants
WWW: http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/john.deeks/
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Professor Anthony Dickinson
Dept: Department of Psychology
Email: a.dickinson@psychol.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Human and animal learning and memory, motivation of instrumental behaviour
WWW: http://www.psychol.cam.ac.uk/people/ad15@cam.ac.uk
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Dr John Duncan
Dept: MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit
Email: john.duncan@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Selective attention from behavioural to cellular levels; action planning; frontal lobe function and intelligence; integration of cognitive and brain functions
WWW: http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/john.duncan/
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Dr Steve Edgley
Dept: Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
Email: sae1000@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Control of movement, analysis of information processing in spinal cord & cerebellar circuits
WWW: http://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/staff/edgley/
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Dr Mark Evans
Dept: Institute of Metabolic Science (Department of Medicine: Division of Diabetes and Endocrinology)
Email: mle24@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Glucose and nutrient sensing in the brain, non-invasive glucose sensing, hypoglycaemia and brain imaging
WWW: http://www.mrl.ims.cam.ac.uk/staff/PI/Evans/
Themes: metabolic medicine, integrative and comparative physiology; neuroscience, psychology and mental health, medical imaging
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Dr Peter Evans
Dept: Babraham Institute
Email: peter.evans@babraham.ac.uk
Topic: Novel G-protein coupled receptor signalling mechanisms
WWW: http://www.babraham.ac.uk/affiliate/evans.html
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology, neuroscience, psychology and mental health
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Professor Barry Everitt
Dept: Department of Psychology
Email: b.everitt@psychol.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Neural and psychological basis of drug addiction
WWW: http://www.psychol.cam.ac.uk/people/bje10@cam.ac.uk
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Dr Felix Evers
Dept: Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
Email: jfe22@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Development of synaptogenesis, specification of synaptic connections and microsopy of the nervous system in Drosophila
WWW: http://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/directory/profile.php?jfe22
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health, structural and molecular cell biology, medical imaging
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Professor Sadaf Farooqi
Dept: Institute of Metabolic Science (Department of Clinical Biochemistry)
Email: isf20@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Molecular mechanisms in human obesity
WWW: http://www.mrl.ims.cam.ac.uk/staff/PI/Farooqi
Themes: metabolic medicine, integrative and comparative physiology, structural and molecular cell biology, neuroscience, psychology and mental health
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Dr Paul Fletcher
Dept: Department of Psychiatry
Email: pcf22@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Functional MRI studies of episodic memory and associative learning
WWW: http://www.psychiatry.cam.ac.uk
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health
Students: Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome
Name: Dr Juliet Foster
Dept: Department of Psychology
Email: jlf1000@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Social psychological perspectives on mental ill health
WWW: http://www.psychol.cam.ac.uk/people/jlf1000@cam.ac.uk
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Professor Robin Franklin
Dept: Department of Veterinary Medicine/Cambridge Centre for Brain Repair
Email: rjf1000@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Cellular and molecular basis of CNS repair mechanisms
WWW: http://www.vet.cam.ac.uk/directory/rjf1000@cam.ac.uk/
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Dr Kristian Franze
Dept: Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
Email: kf284@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Using biophysical and cell biological approaches to understand the influence of physical cues on the functioning of the nervous system
WWW: http://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/staff/franze/
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health, structural and molecular cell biology, medical imaging
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Dr Peter Hutchinson
Dept: Department of Clinical Neurosciences (Neurosurgery Unit)
Email: pjah2@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Cerebral metabolism and imaging following acute brain injury
WWW: http://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/directory/profile.php?pjah2
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health, medical imaging
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Professor Susan Gathercole
Dept: MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit
Email: susan.gathercole@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Working memory and executive functions; developmental and acquired disorders of cognition and learning; cognitive training
WWW: http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/susan.gathercole
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Dr Maria Giannakou
Dept: Department of Zoology
Email: meg37@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Investigating Ageing and Alzheimer's Disease interactions using Drosophila
WWW: http://www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/zoostaff/giannakou.html
Themes: functional genomics, systems biology and genetic medicine, neuroscience, psychology and mental health
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Dr Brian Glasberg
Dept: Department of Psychology
Email: bg12@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Psychophysics of normal and impaired hearing
WWW: http://www.psychol.cam.ac.uk/hearing/
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Dr Michel Goedert
Dept: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Email: mg@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Molecular mechanisms of neurodegeneration
WWW: http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/a-to-g/m-goedert
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Professor Susan Golombok
Dept: Department of Psychology (Centre for Family Research)
Email: seg42@cam.ac.uk
Topic: New family forms; parent-child relationships
WWW: http://www.cfr.cam.ac.uk/about/people/golombok.php
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health, epidemiology and public health, women's health
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Dr David Good
Dept: Department of Psychology
Email: dg25@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Social science approach to the design of new technologies
WWW: http://www.psychol.cam.ac.uk/people/dg25@cam.ac.uk
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Professor Ian Goodyer
Dept: Department of Psychiatry
Email: ig104@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Psychoendocine risk processes for psychopathology in adolescents
WWW: http://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/directory/profile.php?ig104
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Professor Usha Goswami
Dept: Department of Psychology
Email: ucg10@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Cognitive development including development of reading, spelling and dyslexia
WWW: http://www.psychol.cam.ac.uk/people/ucg10@cam.ac.uk
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Dr Seth Grant
Dept: Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
Email: sg3@sanger.ac.uk
Topic: Genes to Cognition programme
WWW: http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Teams/Team32/
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health, functional genomics, systems biology and genetic medicine, evolutionary biology
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Dr Ingo Greger
Dept: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Email: ig@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Glutamate-gated ion channels: biogenesis and trafficking
WWW: http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/a-to-g/i-greger
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Dr Fiona Gribble
Dept: Cambridge Institute for Medical Research (Department of Clinical Biochemistry)
Email: fmg23@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Stimulus-secretion coupling in gut neuroendocrine cells
WWW: http://www.cimr.cam.ac.uk/investigators/gribble/
Themes: metabolic medicine, integrative and comparative physiology, structural and molecular cell biology, neuroscience, psychology and mental health
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Professor Roger Hardie
Dept: Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
Email: rch14@hermes.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Phototransduction and ion channels in Drosophila retina
WWW: http://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/staff/hardie/
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health, structural and molecular cell biology
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Professor Bill Harris
Dept: Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
Email: harris@mole.bio.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Molecular embryogenesis of the vertebrate visual system
WWW: http://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/staff/harris/
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health, developmental and regenerative biology and medicine, women's health
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Dr Michael Hastings
Dept: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Email: mha@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Molecular neurobiology of circadian timing
WWW: http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/h-to-m/m-hastings
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Dr Olaf Hauk
Dept: MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit
Email: olaf.hauk@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Electrophysiological and metabloic imaging (EEG/MEG/fMRI/TMS) of visual word recognition; action (word) comprehension and mirror neurones; new methods of source estimation and analysis of electro-/magneto-encephalographic (EEG/MEG) data
WWW: http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/olaf.hauk/
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health, medical imaging
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Dr Berthold Hedwig
Dept: Department of Zoology
Email: bh202@cam.ac.uk
Topic: My lab works on auditory processing and signal generation in insects. Methods span from behavioural experiments to intracellular neural recordings in behaving animals and calcium imaging
WWW: http://www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/zoostaff/hedwig.htm
Themes: functional genomics, systems biology and genetic medicine, neuroscience, psychology and mental health
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Dr Rik Henson
Dept: MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit
Email: rik.henson@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Neural bases of recognition memory; episodic memory; priming; face and object perception using fMRI, EEG, computational modelling, statistical modelling and methods for multimodal integration
WWW: http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/rik.henson/
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health, medical imaging
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Professor Melissa Hines
Dept: Department of Psychology
Email: mh504@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Hormonal influences on human neural and behavioral development across the lifespan
WWW: http://www.psychol.cam.ac.uk/people/mh504@cam.ac.uk
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health, epidemiology and public health, women's health
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Professor Anthony Holland
Dept: Department of Psychiatry
Email: ajh1008@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Learning disabilities: biological, psychological, and social studies
WWW: http://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/directory/profile.php?TonyHolland
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Dr Emily Holmes
Dept: MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit
Email: emily.holmes@mrc-cbu.cam.uk
Topic: Mental imagery and emotion; mental health treatment innovation; clinical areas of post-traumatic stress disorder, depression and bipolar disorder
WWW: http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/emily.holmes/
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Dr Joni Holmes
Dept: MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit
Email: joni.holmes@mrc-cbu.cam.uk
Topic: Working memory and executive functions; developmental disorders and learning; cognitive interventions
WWW: http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/joni.holmes/
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Professor Christine Holt
Dept: Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
Email: ceh@mole.bio.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Wiring the brain: Axon guidance and synaptic specificity
WWW: http://www2.mrc-mbu.cam.ac.uk/people/holt
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health, developmental and regenerative biology and medicine, structural and molecular cell biology
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Professor Claire Hughes
Dept: Department of Psychology (Centre for Family Research)
Email: ch288@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Developmental change from age 2 to age 6 and familial predictors
WWW: http://www.cfr.cam.ac.uk/about/people/hughes.php
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health, epidemiology and public health
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Professor Felicia Huppert
Dept: Department of Psychiatry
Email: fah2@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Psychology and neuroscience of positive emotions and wellbeing
WWW: http://www.cambridgewellbeing.org/felicia.html
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Professor Peter Kirkpatrick
Dept: Department of Clinical Neurosciences (Neurosurgery Unit)
Email: pjk21@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Cerebral blood flow augmentation following spontaneous cerebral haemorrhage
WWW: http://www.neurosurg.cam.ac.uk/
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Dr Greg Jefferis
Dept: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Email: jefferis@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Structure, function and development of the olfactory system in Drosophila
WWW: http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/h-to-m/g-jefferis
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health, developmental and regenerative biology and medicine
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Professor Peter Jones
Dept: Department of Psychiatry
Email: pbj21@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Epidemiology, etiology and developmental dimensions of psychiatric disorders; schizophrenia and the psychoses
WWW: http://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/directory/profile.php?pbj21
Themes: epidemiology and public health, developmental and regenerative biology and medicine, neuroscience, psychology and mental health
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Dr Susan Jones
Dept: Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
Email: sj251@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Plasticity of glutamatergic synapses in brain function and dysfunction
WWW: http://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/staff/jones/
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health, structural and molecular cell biology
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Dr Raganhildur Karadottir
Dept: Department of Veterinary Medicine
Email: rk385@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Neurotransmitter signalling to oligodendrocytes and their progenitor cells, in both health and disease
WWW: https://www.vet.cam.ac.uk/directory/rk385@cam.ac.uk
Themes: Neurosciences
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Dr Ilias Kazanis
Dept: Department of Veterinary Medicine
Email: il255@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Neural stem cell-driven cytogenesis in the adult brain
WWW: https://www.vet.cam.ac.uk/directory/ik255@cam.ac.uk
Themes: Neurosciences
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Professor Roger Keynes
Dept: Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
Email: rjk10@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Development and repair of the nervous system, segmentation
WWW: http://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/staff/keynes/
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health, developmental and regenerative biology and medicine
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Professor John Pickard
Dept: Department of Clinical Neurosciences (Cambridge Centre for Brain Repair)
Email: jdpsecretary@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Brian injury and hydrocephalus: imaging
WWW: http://www.brc.cam.ac.uk/principal-investigators/john-pickard/
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health, medical imaging
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Dr Aleksandr Kogan
Dept: Department of Psychology
Email: ak823@cam.ac.uk
Topic: The biology and psychology of human kindness and well-being
WWW: http://www.psychol.cam.ac.uk/people/ak823@cam.ac.uk
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Dr Nikolaus Kriegeskorte
Dept: MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit
Email: nikolaus.kriegeskorte@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Higher-level visual object representations; investigated using fMRI in conjunction with novel pattern-information and representational similarity analysis as well as computational modelling.
WWW: http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/nikolaus.kriegeskorte
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health, medical imaging
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Dr Leon Lagnado
Dept: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Email: ll1@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Exocytosis and endocytosis at the synapse
WWW: http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/h-to-m/l-lagnado
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Dr Heike Laman
Dept: Department of Pathology: Cellular Molecular Pathology Division
Email: hl316@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Cell cycle regulation, lymphomagenesis, haematopoiesis, gamma-herpesvirus, Parkinson's disease
WWW: http://www.path.cam.ac.uk/pages/laman/
Themes: cancer, developmental and regenerative biology and medicine, infection and immunity, neuroscience, psychology and mental health, structural and molecular cell biology,
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Professor Michael Lamb
Dept: Department of Psychology
Email: mel37@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Forensic interviewing and the factors affecting children’s adjustment
WWW: http://www.psychol.cam.ac.uk/people/mel37@cam.ac.uk
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Dr Matthias Landgraf
Dept: Department of Zoology
Email: ml10006@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Morphogenesis and patterning of dendrites
WWW: http://www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/zoostaff/landgraf.htm
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health, developmental and regenerative biology and medicine
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Professor Simon Laughlin
Dept: Department of Zoology
Email: s.laughlin@zoo.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Visual information processing; eye design; cell signalling and neural design
WWW: http://www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/zoostaff/laughlin.htm
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Dr Sarah Lummis
Dept: Department of Biochemistry
Email: sl120@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Neurotransmitter receptors
WWW: http://www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/uto/lummis
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health, developmental and regenerative biology and medicine
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Dr Tom Manly
Dept: MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit
Email: tom.manly@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk
Topic: The cognitive neuropsychology of adult acquired attentional and executive disorders; attentional/executive function in children; neuropsychological rehabilitation
WWW: http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/tom.manly/
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health, medical imaging
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Professor William Marslen Wilson
Dept: Department of Psychology
Email: wdm10@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Cognitive science and neuroscience of language
WWW: http://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/directory/profile.php?wmarslen
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Dr Akhilesh Reddy
Dept: Institute of Metabolic Science (Department of Clinical Neurosciences)
Email: abr20@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Circadian rhythms
WWW: http://www.mrl.ims.cam.ac.uk/staff/AI/Reddy.php
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Dr Hugh Matthews
Dept: Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
Email: hrm1@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Electrophysiology of vertebrate photo- and chemo- transduction
WWW: http://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/staff/matthews/
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health, structural and molecular cell biology
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Dr Brian McCabe
Dept: Department of Zoology
Email: bjm1@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Neural mechanisms of learning and memory
WWW: http://www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/zoostaff/mccabe.htm
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health
Students: Sorry no PhD students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential summer students are welcome
Name: Dr Harvey McMahon
Dept: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Email: hmm@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Clathrin-mediated endocytosis
WWW: http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/h-to-m/h-mcmahon
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Professor Peter McNaughton
Dept: Department of Pharmacology
Email: pam42@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Mechanisms of pain at the cellular and molecular level
WWW: http://www.phar.cam.ac.uk/research/mcnaughton/index.html
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology, neuroscience, psychology and mental health
Students: Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome
Name: Professor David Menon
Dept: Department of Medicine: Division of Anaesthesia
Email: dkm13@wbic.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Physiological imaging of acute brain injury, reactive processes (including inflammation) in CNS injury, mechanisms of coma and anaesthesia, stem cell therapy in brain injury
WWW: http://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/directory/profile.php?dkm13
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health, medical imaging
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Dr Su Metcalfe
Dept: Department of Surgery
Email: smm1001@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Use of nanotechnology to deliver growth factors in vivo to promote brain repair
WWW: http://www.immunology.cam.ac.uk/directory/smm1001@cam.ac.uk
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health, infection and immunity
Students:Sorry no students can be taken this year
Name: Dr Amy Milton
Dept: Department of Psychology
Email: alm46@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Neurochemical mechanisms underlying appetitive memory reconsolidation
WWW: http://www.psychol.cam.ac.uk/people/alm46@cam.ac.uk
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Professor John Mollon
Dept: Department of Psychology
Email: j.mollon@psychol.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Visual perception. Perceptual polymorphisms. History of optics and of experimental psychology. Colour Vision.
WWW: http://www.psychol.cam.ac.uk/people/jm123@cam.ac.uk
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Professor Brian Moore
Dept: Department of Psychology
Email: b.moore@psychol.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Mechanisms of normal and impaired hearing and hearing aid design and fitting
WWW: http://www.psychol.cam.ac.uk/people/bcjm@cam.ac.uk
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Professor Jenny Morton
Dept: Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
Email: ajm41@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Mechanisms underlying neurological dysfunction in Huntington's disease
WWW: http://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/directory/profile.php?ajm41
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Dr Ruth Murrell-Lagnado
Dept: Department of Pharmacology
Email: rdm1003@cam.ac.uk
Topic: P2X purinoceptor trafficking, structure, function and regulation
WWW: http://www.phar.cam.ac.uk/research/murrell-lagnado/index.html
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology, neuroscience, psychology and mental health
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Dr Dennis Norris
Dept: MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit
Email: dennis.norris@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Psycholinguistics; visual and spoken word recognition; short term memory;computational modelling
WWW: http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/dennis.norris/
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health
Students: Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome
Name: Dr Cahir O'Kane
Dept: Department of Genetics
Email: c.okane@gen.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Synaptic signalling and neurodegeneration in Drosophila
WWW: http://www.gen.cam.ac.uk/Research/okane.htm
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology, neuroscience, psychology and mental health
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Dr Birgitta Olofsson
Dept: Department of Zoology
Email: bmo21@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Foraging behaviour in C.elegans
WWW: http://www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/zoostaff/olofsson.htm
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Dr Swidi Ott
Dept: Department of Zoology
Email: sro21@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Mechanics of neural plasticity during swarm-formation in the locust
WWW: http://www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/zoostaff/ott.html
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health, evolutionary biology
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Dr David Parker
Dept: Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
Email: djp27@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Synaptic plasticity in spinal cord
WWW: http://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/staff/parker
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Professor Ole Paulsen
Dept: Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
Email: op210@cam.ac.uk
Topic: The relation between network oscillations and synaptic plasticity in the cortex, and impact on encoding and retrieval of information
WWW: http://noggin.pdn.cam.ac.uk/Group/OlePaulsen
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health, integrative and comparative physiology
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Dr Anna Philpott
Dept: Department of Oncology
Email: ap113@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Developmental biology, cell cycle, cancer, neurogenesis
WWW: http://www.hutchison-mrc.cam.ac.uk/Research/Anna_Philpott/index.html
Themes: cancer, developmental and regenerative biology and medicine, neuroscience, psychology and mental health, structural and molecular cell biology
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Dr Hugh Richards
Dept: Department of Clinical Neurosciences (Neurosurgery Unit)
Email: hkr10@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Clinical data management and hydrocephalus
WWW: http://www.neurosurg.cam.ac.uk/
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Dr Kate Plaisted Grant
Dept: Department of Psychology
Email: k.plaisted@psychol.cam.ac.uk
Topic: The cognitive neuroscience of autism
WWW: http://www.psychol.cam.ac.uk/people/kcp1000@cam.ac.uk
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Dr Stephen Sawcer
Dept: Department of Clinical Neurosciences (Neurology Unit)
Email: sjs1016@cam.ac.uk
Topic: The Genetic Analysis of Multiple Sclerosis
WWW: http://www-gene.cimr.cam.ac.uk/MSgenetics/
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Dr Lucy Raymond
Dept: Cambridge Institute for Medical Research (Department of Medical Genetics)
Email: flr24@cam.ac.uk
Topic: The genetic basis of intellectual disability
WWW: http://www.cimr.cam.ac.uk/investigators/raymond/
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health, functional genomics, systems biology and genetic medicine
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Dr Maria Grazia Spillantini
Dept: Department of Clinical Neurosciences (Cambridge Centre for Brain Repair)
Email: mgs11@hermes.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Mechanisms of protein aggregation in neurodegenerative diseases
WWW: http://www.brc.cam.ac.uk/principal-investigators/maria-spillantini/
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Dr Frank Reimann
Dept: Institute of Metabolic Science (Department of Clinical Biochemistry)
Email: fr222@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Stimulus-secretion coupling in gut neuroendocrine cells
WWW: http://www.mrl.ims.cam.ac.uk/staff/AffiliatePI/Reiman.php
Themes: metabolic medicine, integrative and comparative physiology, structural and molecular cell biology, neuroscience, psychology and mental health
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Dr Jason Rentfrow
Dept: Department of Psychology
Email: pjr39@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Links between basic psychological characteristics and common social psychological processes
WWW: http://www.psychol.cam.ac.uk/people/pjr39@cam.ac.uk
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Dr Liz Warburton
Dept: Department of Clinical Neurosciences (Neurology Unit)
Email: eaw23@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Stroke medicine
WWW: http://www.neurology.cam.ac.uk/stroke/warburton/
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Dr Martin Richards
Dept: Department of Psychology (Centre for Family Research)
Email: mpmr@cam.ac.uk
Topic: The meaning of genetic connection in families
WWW: http://www.psychol.cam.ac.uk/people/mpmr@cam.ac.uk
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Dr Howard Ring
Dept: Department of Psychiatry
Email: har28@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Neuropsychiatric aspects of seizure disorders and semantic processing in people with autism
WWW: http://www.psychiatry.cam.ac.uk
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Professor Trevor Robbins
Dept: Department of Psychology
Email: t.robbins@psychol.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Functions of prefrontal-striatal systems, psychopharmacology of cognition and reinforcement
WWW: http://www.psychol.cam.ac.uk/people/twr2@cam.ac.uk
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Professor Angela Roberts
Dept: Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
Email: acr4@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Neural and neurochemical basis of cognitive and emotional behaviour
WWW: http://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/staff/roberts/
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Dr Hugh Robinson
Dept: Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
Email: hpcr@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Neural dynamics, synaptic integration and functional analysis of cell types in the cortex
WWW: http://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/staff/robinson/
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health, structural and molecular cell biology, functional genomics, systems biology and genetic medicine
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Dr John Rogers
Dept: Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
Email: jhr11@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Regeneration of injured neurons; gene therapy
WWW: http://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/staff/rogers/
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health, developmental and regenerative biology and medicine
Students:Sorry no students can be taken this year
Name: Dr James Rowe
Dept: MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit
Email: james.rowe@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk
Topic: The relationship between motor and cognitive processes in healthy subjects and neurodegenerative disease; overlap between disorders of movement and cognition; functional changes associated with disease; assessment of potential surrogate indices of the efficacy of candidate therapies; cognitive architecture for response selection and voluntary action; fMRI, PET, rTMS, and MEG.
WWW: http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/james.rowe/
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health, medical imaging
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Professor David Rubinsztein
Dept: Cambridge Institute for Medical Research (Department of Medical Genetics)
Email: dcr1000@cam.ac.uk
Topic: The pathogenesis of diseases caused by codon reiteration mutations (like Huntington's disease and oculopharangeal muscular dystrophy). Biology of autophagy.
WWW: http://www.cimr.cam.ac.uk/investigators/rubinsztein/
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health, structural and molecular cell biology
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Dr James Russell
Dept: Department of Psychology
Email: jr111@hermes.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Developmental commonalities between mental concepts, executive inhibition, self-awareness, episodic memory
WWW: http://www.psychol.cam.ac.uk/people/jr111@cam.ac.uk
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Professor John Rust
Dept: Department of Psychology
Email: jnr24@cam.ac.uk
Topic: All aspects of both pure and applied psychometrics
WWW: http://www.psychol.cam.ac.uk/people/jnr24@cam.ac.uk
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Professor Barbara Sahakian
Dept: Department of Psychiatry
Email: bjs1001@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Clinical neuroscience and neuropsychiatry
WWW: http://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/directory/profile.php?barbara
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Dr Lisa Saksida
Dept: Department of Psychology
Email: lms42@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Connectionist modelling of the neural systems underlying learning, memory and perception; cognitive testing of animal models of neuropsychiatric and neurological disorders
WWW: http://www.psychol.cam.ac.uk/people/lms42@cam.ac.uk
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Dr Colin Watts
Dept: Department of Clinical Neurosciences (Cambridge Centre for Brain Repair)
Email: cw209@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Effect of injury and disease on the biology and behaviour of endogenous progenitors (stem cells) in the adult brain.
WWW: http://www.brc.cam.ac.uk/principal-investigators/colin-watts/
Themes: cancer, neuroscience, psychology and mental health
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Dr William Schafer
Dept: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Email: wschafer@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Cellular and molecular mechanisms of behaviour
WWW: http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/n-to-s/w-schafer
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Dr Simone Schnall
Dept: Department of Psychology
Email: ss877@cam.ac.uk
Topic: The relationship between cognitive and affective processes
WWW: http://www.psychol.cam.ac.uk/people/ss877@cam.ac.uk
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Professor Wolfram Schultz
Dept: Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
Email: ws234@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Neurophysiology of the reward systems
WWW: http://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/staff/schultz/
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Dr Christof Schwiening
Dept: Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
Email: cjs30@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Neuronal intracellular pH microdomains and their functional importance
WWW: http://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/directory/profile.php?cjs30
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health, structural and molecular cell biology
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Dr Yury Shtyrov
Dept: MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit
Email: yury.shtyrov@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Neural mechanisms and time course of spoken language processing in the brain, from phonology to syntax and semantics; automaticity and attention control in language comprehension; linguistic processes in the malfunctioning brain
WWW: http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/yury.shtyrov/
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health, medical imaging
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Dr Jon Simons
Dept: Department of Psychology
Email: jss30@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Cognitive neuroscience, particularly the role of the frontal lobes in the cognitive control of human long-term memory
WWW: http://www.psychol.cam.ac.uk/people/jss30@cam.ac.uk
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Dr Stefano Pluchino
Dept: Department of Clinical Neurosciences (Cambridge Centre for Brain Repair)
Email:
Topic: Tissue repair in central nervous system diseases
WWW: http://www.brc.cam.ac.uk/principal-investigators/stefano-pluchino/
Themes: developmental and regenerative biology and medicine, neuroscience, psychology and mental health
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Dr Martin Stevens
Dept: Department of Zoology
Email: ms726@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Behavioural ecology; avian vision; adaptive and protective colouration
WWW: http://www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/zoostaff/stevens.htm
Themes: ecology and conservation, neuroscience, psychology and mental health
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Dr Michael Stone
Dept: Department of Psychology
Email: m.stone@psychol.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Perceptual consequences of hearing-aid processing and use, diagnostic tools for human hearing
WWW: http://www.psychol.cam.ac.uk/hearing/
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Dr John Suckling
Dept: Department of Psychiatry
Email: js369@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Brain imaging methods and analysis
WWW: http://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/directory/profile.php?js369
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Dr Dénes Szücs
Dept: Department of Psychology
Email: s377@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Cognitive neuroscience; numerical cognition and Dyscalculia, conflict detection/resolution, fMRI, EEG
WWW: http://www.psychol.cam.ac.uk/people/ds377@cam.ac.uk
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health, medical imaging
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Dr Robert Tasker
Dept: Department of Paediatrics
Email: rct31@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Head-injury in childhood: long-term cognitive and structural deficits
WWW: http://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/directory/profile.php?rct31181
Themes: developmental and regenerative biology and medicine, neuroscience, psychology and mental health
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Dr David Tolhurst
Dept: Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
Email: djt12@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Sensorimotor physiology and visual processing mechanisms in man
WWW: http://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/staff/tolhurst/
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health, metabolic medicine, integrative and comparative physiology
Students: Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome
Name: Professor Lorraine Tyler
Dept: Department of Psychology
Email: lktyler@csl.psychol.cam.ac.uk
Topic: The functional and neural structure of the language system
WWW: http://www.psychol.cam.ac.uk/people/lkt10@cam.ac.uk
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health
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Name: Dr An Vanhaesebrouck
Dept: Department of Veterinary Medicine
Email: av354@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Neuromuscular disorders
WWW: https://www.vet.cam.ac.uk/directory/av354@cam.ac.uk
Themes: Neurosciences
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Name: Dr Octavian Voiculescu
Dept: Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
Email: ogv20@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Building and shaping the central nervous system in higher vertebrates
WWW: http://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/staff/voiculescu/index.html
Themes: developmental and regenerative biology and medicine, neuroscience, psychology and mental health, medical imaging
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Name: Dr Keith Martin
Dept: Department of Clinical Neurosciences (Cambridge Centre for Brain Repair)
Email: krgm2@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Mechanisms of retinal ganglion cell death in glaucoma and the development of new treatment approaches using stem cell therapy
WWW: http://www.brc.cam.ac.uk/principal-investigators/keith-martin/
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health, developmental and regenerative biology and medicine
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Name: Dr Piotr Smielewski
Dept: Department of Clinical Neurosciences (Neurosurgery Unit)
Email: ps10011@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Computerised monitoring and diagnostics of intracranial dynamics: brain injury and hydrocephalus
WWW: http://www.neurosurg.cam.ac.uk/
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health
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Name: Professor Peter St George-Hyslop
Dept: Cambridge Institute for Medical Research (Department of Clinical Neurosciences)
Email: phs22@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Molecular dissection of the mechanisms of neurological diseases
WWW: http://www.cimr.cam.ac.uk/investigators/st-george-hyslop/
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Dr Ian Winter
Dept: Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
Email: imw1001@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Sensory systems, central processing of auditory signals
WWW: http://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/staff/winter/
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health, metabolic medicine, integrative and comparative physiology
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Name: Professor Geoffrey Woods
Dept: Cambridge Institute for Medical Research (Department of Medical Genetics)
Email: cw347@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Neuro-developmental and neuro-degenerative disorders
WWW: http://www.cimr.cam.ac.uk/investigators/woods/
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health
Students: You may enquire about possible places
Name: Dr John Xuereb
Dept: Department of Pathology: Molecular Histopathology Division
Email: jhx1000@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Neuropathology of dementia
WWW: http://www.path.cam.ac.uk/pages/xuereb/
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health
Students:Sorry no students can be taken this year
Name: Dr Giles Yeo
Dept: Institute of Metabolic Science (Department of Clinical Biochemistry)
Email: gshy2@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Molecular control of appetite and obesity
WWW: http://www.mrl.ims.cam.ac.uk/staff/Ai/Yeo/
Themes: metabolic medicine, integrative and comparative physiology, structural and molecular cell biology, neuroscience, psychology and mental health
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Name: Dr Chao Zhao
Dept: Department of Veterinary Medicine
Email: cz213@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Cellular and molecular neuroscience
WWW: http://www.vet.cam.ac.uk/directory/cz213@cam.ac.uk/
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health
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