Find out more about the history of the Neuroscience Careers Network, its aims, and committee members.
The Early Career Neuroscience Forum was established in late 2010, changing its name in 2014 to the Neuroscience Careers Network (NCN) to encompass the work it does to support group leaders as well as PhD/post-docs. The aim of the Neuroscience Careers Network is to identify and engage with neuroscientists across the Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Neuroscience Domain
The Neuroscience Careers Network is supported, administratively and financially, by the Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Neuroscience Domain Steering Group. Their work is specifically aligned to the Neuroscience Domain's key strategic goal to educate, develop, recruit and retain outstanding neuroscientists trained in multiple disciplines.
The Network encourages interaction and mentoring by organising career-advice seminars and grant writing workshops and is very open to talk suggestions from the neuroscience community. Typical seminars/workshops include:
- Grant writing workshops
- Presentation skills workshops
- Interview skills workshops
- Supervision skills workshopsÌý
- Alternative Careers for Scientists
- Resilience and overcoming adversityÌý
- What does an academic career look like?Ìý
Committee members
ChairÌýof the Network
Sandrine Géranton
Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Research Department of Cell and Developmental Biology
Sandrine has always been keen on applying her multidisciplinary background to further her understanding of the molecular biology of pain states and she has been at the forefront of the investigation of the role of epigenetic mechanisms in the development of pain states. Her team has recently uncovered an important role for the stress regulator FKBP51 in the control of chronic pain states and the outcome of their research was published in Science Translational Medicine.
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NCN Communications Officer
Juliana Sporrer
Max planck Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê centre for computational psychiatry and Aging Research
Outside of her research, she is passionate about encouraging other postgraduate students to think about their future career, both within and outside of academia. Juliana is particularly excited by entrepreneurship and novel neurotechnologies.
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NCN Committee members
Paige Mumford,Ìý
UK Dementia Research Institute
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Asaph Zylbertal,Ìý
Department of Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology
Asaph studied Biology for his BSc at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and stayed there for his MSc and PhD in neuroscience. His thesis (2017) focused on long-timescale information processing in the rodent accessory olfactory bulb, using whole-cell recordings, imaging and neuronal simulations.
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Freya Lygo-Frett,Ìý
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience
On completing her PhD in 2019, Freya took up a position as an Associate Lecturer in the Department of Psychology at the University of York, before joining Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê in 2020. Her current role is mainlyÌýresponsible forÌýprovidingÌýteaching and supervision of students on the MSc / MRes Cognitive Neuroscience and BSc Psychology programmes. Additionally, she is actively involved with two research groups based at Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê: the Plasticity Lab (led by Prof Tamar Makin) and ChildÌýVision Lab (led by Dr Tessa Dekker).Ìý
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Humma Andleeb,Ìý
Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê-WELLCOME MENTAL HEALTH SCIENCE PHD PROGRAMME
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Lorenzo Fabrizi,
Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Research Department of Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology (NPP)
Lorenzo is now a group leader funded by the Medical Research Council UK working at Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê and King's College London in collaboration with their main university hospitals to study the development of spontaneous neuronal activity and of the somatosensory system in premature neonates integrating EEG and functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging information.
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Barbara Frias,
Department of Neurodegenerative Diseases at Queen Square Brain Bank (QSBB)
She completed her PhD in Neurosciences in Portugal. During her PhD, she studied the contribution of neurotrophins NGF and BDNF to the development of bladder dysfunction in vivo in an animal model of spinal cord injury. She then moved to the International Collaboration on Repair Discoveries (ICORD), a spinal cord injury research centre in Vancouver, Canada, where she studied the effects of chronic high-level spinal cord injury on bowel dysfunction in animals. After two years, she moved to Umea, Sweden, to study the dynamics of brain structural plasticity during learning processes and postulating the hyposthesis of dopamine as an important link between changes in central myelination and Parkinson’s disease in vivo.
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Nicole Vissers,
SAINSBURY WELLCOME CENTRE
NicoleÌýis mainly interested in inhibition, plasticity, perception, and dynamical/complex systems. She is also passionate about philosophy and science education and communication
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