Helin did an outstanding job presenting her research project at the MPHARM Year 4 poster presentations. She received great questions and had lengthy discussions with … Read more
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New publication
Our recent, open access publication in Photoacoustics discusses the use of a compact all-fibre, high pulse energy supercontinuum laser to perform multi-spectral photoacoustic microscopy imaging of … Read more
Research Grant Success!
Stella Koutsikou has been awarded a Physiological Society UK research grant to support the lab’s work in identifying the ‘Neural substrates underlying simple decision-making in the … Read more
Giulia delivers her first lecture!
Our PhD student, Giulia Messa, delivered her first research-led lecture on the Advanced Neuropharmacology module (PHAR1041; Module Lead: Dr. Stella Koutsikou). PHAR1041 is a final … Read more
Pharmacy students showcase their tadpole research
After a few months of hard work in the lab, it was great seeing our final year Pharmacy students enjoying the presentation … Read more
Stella Koutsikou acts as internal PhD examiner
The following post is written by Kevin Cunningham, who recently defended his PhD thesis in front of Dr. Stella Koutsikou (internal examiner) and Dr. Philip … Read more
Journal Club: November 2018
For this month’s journal club, I presented two papers ‘A possible pathway connecting the photosensitive pineal eye to the swimming central pattern generator in young … Read more
Meet a member of the lab
Michelle graduated from Medway School of Pharmacy, with a First Class Bachelor’s (BSc) degree in Pharmacology and Physiology. She spent a sandwich year working within … Read more
Journal Club: October 2018
The newly formed Koutsikou Lab had their first journal club this week. I presented the paper ‘A simple decision to move in response to touch … Read more
Meet a member of the lab
Giulia is originally from Italy and moved to the UK earlier this month to join the Koutsikou lab and start her PhD in Neuroscience. She … Read more