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\n \n\n \n \n \nOxford Department of Pharmacology has been judged best in the world for the second year in a row in the QS World Rankings, published today.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nJohn Harris, who started work in the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Oxford in 1969, was awarded an MA by the Vice-Chancellor Louise Richardson at a ceremony in the Sheldonian Theatre on Saturday 29 February 2020. John was described at the ceremony as \"an essential pillar on whom to rely, to lean on in times of need, a craftsman of skill and imagination, a stalwart friend and steward to some of our most important scientific endeavours\".
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\n \n\n \n \n \nTwo year fellowship post available for early career researchers
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\n \n\n \n \n \nA collaboration between the Russell group (Chemistry and Pharmacology) and the Davies group (Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics) has identified, via a chemical proteomics and phenotypic profiling strategy, the arylhydrocarbon receptor (AhR) as the molecular target of ezutromid, the utrophin modulator that recently completed a Phase 2 clinical trial in Duchenne muscular dystrophy patients.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nThe Department of Pharmacology is seeking to appoint up to two Career Development Fellows by early 2020. Aimed at outstanding experienced and early career researchers, these posts will provide space, access to facilities and support to enable the postholders to establish their own independent research programme.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nMinas Salib, in the group led by Tim Viney and Peter Somogyi, has discovered a new type of neuronal pathway that may be important in memory.\r\nFor the encoding and recall of episodic memories, nerve cells in the cerebral cortex are activated in precisely timed sequences. Rhythmicity facilitates the coordination of neuronal activity and these rhythms are detected as oscillations of different frequencies, such as 5\u201312 Hz theta oscillations. Degradation of these rhythms, such as through neurodegeneration, causes memory deficits. The medial septum, a part of the basal forebrain that innervates the hippocampal formation, contains neurons that fire with a high degree of rhythmicity (HRNs) and others that fire with a low degree of rhythmicity (LRNs). These distinct types of neuron may contribute differentially to the coordination of cortical neuronal activity. Minas and colleagues discovered that GABAergic LRNs preferentially innervate the dentate gyrus and the CA3 area of the hippocampus, regions important for episodic memory. These neurons act in parallel with the HRNs mostly via transient inhibition of inhibitory neurons. A figure from the paper describing these results was chosen to illustrate the front cover of the 5 June issue of Journal of Neuroscience.
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