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Bladder research group

Our research aims to understand mechanisms of sensation from the bladder in health and diseases.

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GI Motility Research Laboratory

Our research aims to define the gut dysmotility associated with swallowing and colonic gut disorders.

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Integrative Neuroscience Lab

Our aim is the elucidate the brain mechanisms controlling autonomic functions and their response to stress.

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Childhood Dementia Research Group

Our goal is to develop safe and effective treatments for children with dementia.

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Gut Sensory Systems

Our research program is focused on enteroendocrine cell function and the role they play in health and disease. 

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Laboratory for Human Neurobiology

We make small human brains in vitro to research treatments for neurodegenerative disorders and brain cancers.

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Gut Hormones in Health and Disease Lab 

Our focus is on the release of gut hormones, and affects on health and diseases such as type 2 diabetes and Coeliac disease. 

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Immunomodulation Laboratory

Our focus is understanding the activation of T cells and how we can modulate the immune system during cancer and Type 1 diabetes.

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Molecular Memory and Dementia Research (aiLab)

Our team aims to provide new insights into how memory is formed and new treatment ideas for Alzheimer's disease.

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Motion vision lab

Our focus is understanding the processing of motion vision, and in particular how sensory selectivity is achieved.

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Pain and Sensory Cell Neurobiology Lab

Our research focuses on sensory nervous system activity and its underlying causes in the development of chronic pain conditions.

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Visceral Neurophysiology Laboratory

Our research aims at understand how internal organs (like the gut) communicate with the brain, in health and disease.

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Motor Neurone Disease and Neurotrophic Research Laboratory

Our focus is the discovery and development of non-invasive biomarkers and treatment strategies for Motor Neuron Disease.

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Swallowing Research Group

Our research focuses on oropharyngeal and oesophageal swallowing disorders in relation to pathophysiology, diagnosis, and treatment.

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Worm Neuroscience lab

Our work explores the molecular and circuit-level processes through which learning and memory take place using the compact brain of the nematode (worm) Caenorhabditis elegans.

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Neurogastroenterology Laboratory

Our lab investigates peripheral sensory and autonomic nerves in the gastrointestinal tract and other organs such as human tissue.

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Visceral Pain Research Group

We are investigating the causes of and treatments for chronic visceral pain such as in IBS, IBD, bladder pain and endometriosis.

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