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

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

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

My collaborators from University of Florida and I are delighted to have been awarded the University of Kent DVC’s Partnership Fund. This will enable us … Read more

Shazia Islam and Janet Osisanya are Pharmacy students carrying out their research project in our lab. The aim of their project is to identify how … Read more

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

The Journal of Physiology commissioned a short commentary to highlight our manuscript that was accepted for publication in July 2018. The perspectives article, ‘Flowing from sense to … Read more

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

Our lab officially opened its doors on Monday 1st October with the arrival of our first PhD students, Michelle Larbi (left) and Giulia Messa. They’ve … Read more