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Dr Elke Ulbricht
My current work focuses on development, mechanics and optics of cells of the nervous system. I am mainly using traction force microscopy and confocal microscopy to investigate development of neuronal cells and the behaviour of glial cells under va...
Dr Jernej Ule
Alternative pre-mRNA splicing increases the ability of our body to produce various cell types with diverse proteomes. We take a three-pronged strategy to study splicing regulation on a genome-wide scale. We use computational approaches, assays to ...
Dr Nigel Unwin
I am interested in finding out how ion channels work, using electron microscopy to analyse their structures trapped in different physiological states. Current research focuses on the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor, the transmitter-gated ion chan...
Dr Gonzalo P. Urcelay
I am interested in learning theories and the neurobiological substrates of acquired behaviour. I am currently conducting studies to assess the involvement of the prefrontal cortex in the transition from goal-directed to habitual behaviours and its...
Dr Lourdes Valencia Torres
I currently investigate the role of 5-HT2c receptors and dopamine on food-motivated behavior. My PhD thesis investigated the neural substrates of impulsive choice. During this time I also researched the role of the orexin system on the regulation ...
Natalie Valle Guzman
I work at the Brain Repair Centre as a neuropsychologist. I work with Parkinson´s and Huntington's diaease patients, doing the neuropsychological assessments in the clinic. I´m involved in several studies conducted at our centre.
Charlotte van Coeverden MSc
I am interested in how rewards are coded in the brain and how this reflects on social behaviour.
Miss Rianne van der Linde
I study the course, causes and impact of behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia in the older population, using population-based cohort studies, including MRC CFAS. I am funded by a CLAHRC studentship
Dr Gert Van Dijck
Cell type identification is traditionally obtained using juxtacellular labelling or by means of intracellular techniques to assess membrane properties. These techniques are determined in anaesthetised animals. I developed a technique in which we a...
Mr Jurgen Van Gael
My interest is at the intersection of machine learning and neuroscience. Central to my research are Bayesian methods for learning and reasoning under uncertainty.
Mrs Anne-Laura van Harmelen
I investigate the cognitive, neurobiological and behavioral consequences of childhood emotional maltreatment. To investigate this I use paradigms such as thought suppression, implicit association, social exclusion, reading the mind in the eyes, em...
Mr Georgios Varsos
Mathematical modelling of brain haemodynamics and pressure-volume compensation. Dynamical properties of cerebral blood flow (CBF) and cerebrospinal fluid circulation (CSF) can be modelled by a structure of nonlinear differential equations. Models ...
Deniz Vatansever
Extensive neuroimaging research has identified a network of brain regions which increase their activity during “no task” baseline conditions, collectively known as the default mode network. The regions involved in the DMN and their connectivity ar...
Dr Bert Vaux
--grounding of phonological learning in a mathematical implementation of evolutionary information theory. --phonological cognition. --implications of selective aphasias, first and second language acquisition phenomena, processing and production ef...
Djuke Veldhuis
My research concerns perceptions of ‘stressors' and cultural concomitants of stress as well as subsequent physiological (endocrine) responses. This research is set in a multifaceted, interdisciplinary framework which envelopes evolutionary anthro...- Michele Veldsman
Individual differences in Visual Short Term Memory. The nature of neural coding of object representations in the brain. Using: Behavioural studies fMRI Multi-voxel pattern analysis Dynamically Adaptive Imaging 
Mike Vella
I work on computational modelling of synaptic integration. Presently I am interested in utilising numerical optimisation techniques to explore the parameter space of single-neuron models.
Professor Michele Vendruscolo
My research is aimed at taking full advantage of an approach that exploits effectively the synergy between experiment and theory in order to advance towards a full characterisation of the process of protein aggregation. We have developed a metho...
Dr Petra Vertes
After a first degree in theoretical physics, I recently completed a PhD investigating the effect of network topology on neuronal encoding mechanisms, under the supervision of Prof Tom Duke. Since then, I have joined the group of Prof Ed Bullmore, ...
Dr Martin Vestergaard
I investigate relationships among theoretical constructs of vocal communication in humans. I use psychophysical paradigms in behavioural studies of auditory perception and brain imaging techniques to identify indices of the early stages of auditor...- Dr Bruno Vilar
I am currently researching changes in HCN ion channel genes of people who feel extremes pain. Pathogenic mutations are identified by subjecting all potential mutations to electrophysiology and/or intra-cellular trafficking studies to discover whi... 
Miss Anastasia Vishnivetskaya
Age is the main risk factor for dementia, as the risk of developing the disease doubles every five years after the age of 65 (LaFerla and Oddo, 2005). Alzheimer’s disease is the most common form of dementia with its hallmark being the presence of ...- Mrs Marta Vitorino
I work with cell fate decisions in the zebrafish retina. We use transgenic zebrafish lines that express different fluorescent proteins under the control of retina specific genes to follow cell division and neuron differentiation in vivo. 
Mr David Vogelsang
I am interested in the role of the prefrontal cortex in source memories (the ability to remember contextual information). Brain areas of particular interest are the medial anterior prefrontal cortex, dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, and the tempora...- Dr Octavian Voiculescu
Main interest in the principles of building and shaping the central nervous system in higher vertebrates, and the relationship between morphogenesis and patterning of embryo. 
Dr Elisabeth von dem Hagen
My research interests involve using functional MRI to study the neural mechanisms behind emotional processing and social cognition more generally. Currently, I am looking at how these processes might differ in Autism Spectrum Conditions.
Dr Valerie Voon
I am an Honorary Consultant Neuropsychiatrist and Wellcome Trust Fellow with the Department of Psychiatry. I focus on mechanisms underlying impulsive and compulsive disorders such as substance and behavioural addictions and obsessive compulsive d...
Miss laura vuillier
My PhD research is about the understanding of the relationship between emotion, emotion regulation and executive function in children. I am using EEG to look at the development of inhibitory control in children and how it is link to their abiliti...
Mr Nikola Vukovic
My work is concerned with establishing the involvement and role of functionally differentiated brain areas in processing and representing language. Specifically, I am looking at how the automatic activation of sensory-motor representations during ...
Dr Romina Vuono
My research interests include: 1)Molecular mechanisms involved in the pathogenesis of Huntington's disease 2)Embryonic stem cells as a source for cell therapy in Parkinson's disease 3)Sleep and Circadian rhytm dysruption in Parkinson’s disease
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