Past News

Our DiVErSe Lab supervisors Joana Gonçalves and João Martins participated in the 6th Annual Meeting of ISMRM Iberian, which took place in our home city of Coimbra. Both presented the work of the DiVErSe Lab in two posters: "Olfactory and visual stimulus paradigms for brain network activity study" and "Multimodal imaging reveals NPY-associated excitation/inhibition imbalance in a mouse model of autism", reaffirming our commitmment to brain research. 

The DiVErSe Lab is dedicated to increasing scientific literacy in our community, and on 20 May we once more reinforced this commitment. Our PhD candidate Francisco Ribeiro was an invited speaker at the Pint of Science Coimbra, an international SciComm event, in the session "Eu Nasci Assim" ("I Was Born Whis Way"). Francisco gave a talk entitled "Redes Plásticas em Autismo" ("Plastic Networks in Autism"), shared his ongoing research and connected with many curious minds in the public. Great work!

The BRAIN Centre, a preclinical and neuroimaging institute of King's College London and host laboratory of our PhD student Helena, has celebrated 10 years on the past 16th April. To mark the occasion, a full-day open event was organized, where researchers and students of the BRAIN Centre shared ongoing work and future projects with the wider research community, funders and collaborators. Helena gave a talk concerning the work she will be developing at BRAIN during this year. Congrats!

The DiVErSe team has joined together over a home-cooked meal to celebrate its most recent milestones. Our group leader Doctor Joana Gonçalves has taken up a role as Assistant Professor of the Faculty of Pharmacy of University of Coimbra, and the group wishes all the best for this new deserved position. We also used this opportunity to say goodbye to Helena Ferreira, who soon will be going to King's College London to work on her PhD project for one year. Best of luck in her experiments!