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News from the Hughes Laboratory
June 2024
A very enjoyable afternoon delivering a talk with Craig Daly about how virtual reality landscapes help us understand real world clinical problems to the Glasgow West End u3a Science and Technology group.
The u3a is a UK-wide movement of locally-run interest groups. These groups provide a wide range of opportunities for around 4000 members to come together to explore new ideas together, develop new skills, engage in new activities and to learn for fun.
Find out more about u3a here.
May 2024
The excellent meeting on Pain Mechanisms and Therapeutics, held over six days in the beautiful city of Verona, was enlightening and also a fabulous opportunities to catch up with friends from around the world. Here's looking forward to the next one in 2026....
February 2024
Great to be involved in the resounding success that was the British Neuroscience Association's inaugural Careers and Talent Recruitment Fair. This is one of the many benefits that being a member of a vibrant, forward-thinking community of neuroscientists.
January 2024
A very enjoyable visit to Stanford University to meet Lu Chen and Bing Cao (Lu Chen lab; pictured) and to give a departmental seminar about our work on presynaptic inhibition of cutaneous afferents. Thank you all for the very warm welcome!
January 2024
A fun four days attending the Keystone Symposium on "Mammalian Somatosensation: Mechanisms of Itch, Touch, Pain and Interoception in Health and Disease" in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
September 2023
An exciting day contributing to the
fun-packed Explorathon 2023 event at the University of Glasgow's
Advanced Research Centre. This
video clip gives you an idea of the VR project we've been working on
with Craig Daly and XRLifeScience.
March 2023
It's always a real pleasure spending time on the beautiful West Coast of Ireland. Delighted to contribute to the University of Galway's
Centre for Pain Research Symposium.
December 2022
Overjoyed to share news of Brett Graham's
promotion to Professor. Celebrated in style with
coffee, cannoli and champagne at Brunetti's in
Melbourne, Australia. Well done BAGster!
September 2022
Truly honoured to have secured a Discovery Award from the Wellcome Trust to fund a
long-term collaborative project with
Ewan St John Smith (University of Cambridge).
This award will support our work up to 2031.
August 2022
Exciting day working alongside Craig Daly and students from the Sutton Trust Summer School, demonstrating the beauty and complexity of the spinal cord connectome using virtual reality scenes.
August 2022
Delighted to have secured BBSRC-funding for a project with Andrew Todd and Junichi Hachisuka from the Spinal Cord Group.
Very exciting times ahead for all concerned.
December 2021
Delighted to contribute a talk to the NIH Pain Seminar Series (on-line).
October 2021
Extremely proud, and very honoured, to give an "in-person" talk to the Instituto Cajal in Madrid during the Institute's centenary celebration - my first (and theirs!) since the COVID-19 pandemic.
Also very privileged to have been given time to study some of Cajal's work on display at the beautiful Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales at close quarters.
September 2021
Congratulations to Olivia Davis on the successful defence of her thesis - great job Dr D!
April 2021
Enjoyed chairing the session on "Neural Circuits for Pain" with additional talks from Carole Torsney, Kirsty Bannister and Liam Peck at the BNA Festival of Neuroscience.
March 2021
Pleased to give a talk (on-line!) at
the British Pain Society's BritSpine 2021.
November 2019
Delighted to give a talk at the Nuffield
Department of Clinical Neurosciences,
University of Oxford.
August 2019
Great fun being part of the inaugural
Montreal Pain Circuits Congress.
May 2019
Co-speaker at the panel workshop with Sarah Ross and Becky Seal at the 7th International Congress on Neuropathic Pain (NeuPSIG).
March 2019
Congratulations to Olivia Davis for winning the poster prize at the Challenge of Chronic Pain meeting, Wellcome Genome Campus.
March 2019
Congratulations to Marami Mustapa on the
successful defence of her thesis - very well
done Marami, great job!
September 2018
Co-speaker at the panel workshop on "Unlocking the molecular and functional organization of the spinal dorsal horn in healthy and injured states" with Becky Seal and Patrik Ernfors at the 17th World Congress on Pain.
June 2018
Great being part of the Pain Mechanisms and
Therapeutics Conference in beautiful Taormina.
November 2017
Delighted to contribute to the University
of Pittsburgh's Centre for Pain Research
Seminar Series.
November 2017
I'm proud to have contributed to the seminar series at McGil University's Department of Physiology, and thrilled to have walked along
Dr Penfield Avenue.
October 2017
A very warm to welcome Olivia Davis to the group. Olivia will start her PhD studying the neuroanatomical
features of calretinin-expressing inhibitory interneurons.
March 2017
Start of a new BBSRC-funded grant.
Very exciting times ahead for all concerned.
January 2017
Follow this link to the Research Highlights article in Nature Neuroscience discussing the Abraira et al., 2017 paper.
January 2017
Great start to 2017! Paper published in Cell defining the neuronal organisation to the
LTMRr zone. Follow this link to access.
September 2016
Our workshop on advances in studies of dorsal horn circuitry was well received at the IASP's
16th World Congress on Pain in Yokohama, Japan.
Hughes Laboratory
Supported by the BBSRC, the Wellcome Trust, NC3Rs and HMRC (Australia)
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