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ASAP CRN Team Cragg @craggasap.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Our team had a fantastic time at the 2026 CRN Annual Investigators Meeting in Barcelona! It was inspiring to hear the bold ideas shaping the future of Parkinson's disease research and connect with both new and returning CRN Fellows. It remind us what we can achieve when we work together!

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ASAP CRN Team Cragg @craggasap.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

📣 New preprint alert 📣 A new study from Cragg Lab uncovers an unexpected off-target mechanism of a widely used serotonin 5-HT4 receptor agonist, with potential therapeutic implications for neurological disorders. Congratulations to Qinbo Qiao for leading this fantastic work! #serotonin #dopamine

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5-HT4 receptor ligand RS67333 modulates striatal acetylcholine and dopamine release via inhibition of acetylcholinesterase

Serotonin 5-HT4 receptors (5-HT4Rs) have emerged as potential therapeutic targets in neuropsychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders by modulating circuits that shape mood, cognition, and motor funct...

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Dementia Researcher @dementiaresearcher.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Project Manager role at the University of Oxford coordinating an international Parkinson’s research consortium on sleep, circadian rhythms and open science. Closing date: 29th May www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/job/project-...

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Project Manager: Aligning Science Across Parkinson’s

University of Oxford seeks a Project Manager to coordinate an ASAP funded Parkinson’s consortium on sleep, circadian rhythms and open science.

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ASAP CRN Team Cragg @craggasap.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Congratulations to Pete Magill, one of our ASAP core-PIs, on his appointment as a founding Group Leader at the new UK DRI Parkinson’s Research Centre. A fantastic step forward for #parkinsons research! Read more: www.ukdri.ac.uk/news-and-eve... @ukdri.ac.uk @rnd.ac.uk

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First Group Leaders announced for new dedicated Parkinson's Research Centre

In 2025, the UK DRI partnered with Parkinson’s UK to

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ASAP CRN Team Cragg @craggasap.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

🎉Exciting week for our ASAP Team Cragg at the 2026 GRC Basal Ganglia in beautiful Tuscany 🎉 We are proud that four of our PIs, Steph Cragg, Mark Howe, Dinos Meletis, and Yulong Li, are presenting talks in neural circuit function and dysfunction. Looking forward to a great meeting!

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2026 Basal Ganglia Conference GRC

The 2026 Gordon Research Conference on Basal Ganglia will be held in Lucca (Barga), Lucca Italy. Apply today to reserve your spot.

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ASAP CRN Team Cragg @craggasap.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

📣 New preprint alert 📣 A collaborative study from the Howe and Cragg labs reveals an anatomical hotspot in the striatum where #dopamine and #acetylcholine interact to shape learning and movement. Congratulations to Safa Bouabid and Mai-Anh Vu for leading this work! #openscience #collaboration

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ASAP CRN Team Cragg @craggasap.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Meet Linda Kaupp, a visiting Master student coming from the Karolinska Instituet! She will be conducting her master's thesis at the Cragg Lab on the interaction between astrocytes, cholinergic interneurons and dopaminergic neurons. #MeetOurTeam @oxforddpag.bsky.social @stephcragg.bsky.social

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ASAP CRN Team Cragg @craggasap.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

It is with deep sadness that we share the passing of Dr. Richard Exley. Richard was Steph Cragg's first postdoc, who is remembered as a brilliant scientist and a joyful colleague. Our thoughts are with his family and loved ones at this difficult time, and may his memory continue to inspire us all.

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ASAP CRN Team Cragg @craggasap.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Welcome to the team, Mara Wuelfing! Mara is completing her Biochemistry Part II Project in the Cragg Lab, where she will be investigating the source of tonic adenosine in the nucleus accumbens under the supervision of Kat Todd, an ASAP-funded postdoc. #MeetOurTeam

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ASAP CRN Team Cragg @craggasap.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Welcome to the team, Katherine Wang and Isabella Wijsmann! Katherine joins as an MRC-funded Research Assistant and Isabella as a DPhil student at Cragg Lab, where they will be working on how novel glycine receptors shape #dopamine and #acetylcholine signalling in health and #PD. #MeetOurTeam

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ASAP CRN Team Cragg @craggasap.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

🎉Congratulations Dr. Qinbo Qiao of the Cragg lab! 🎉 Your hard work has paid off, and Team Cragg is so proud of you. We can't wait to see where life takes you, and good luck at your new position in Shanghai! @stephcragg.bsky.social @oxforddpag.bsky.social

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ASAP CRN Team Cragg @craggasap.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

We were thrilled to (mostly) meet in-person last week for the 3rd Annual Symposium of ASAP Collaboration for Team Cragg! Thank you all for an inspiring meeting of science, sharing and #collaboration. We have built a great momentum, and we are ready for new discoveries in #Parkinsons research!

Members of Team Cragg from Oxford and Karolinska gathered at the Sherrington Library, joined remotely by colleagues from Boston.

Professor Stephanie Cragg with Oxford and Karolinska colleagues at Christ Church College, celebrating the close of an inspiring first day of the symposium.

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ASAP CRN Team Cragg @craggasap.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Meet Tony Barbay, our new MRC-funded Postdoctoral Researcher at Cragg Lab! He will explore the role of astrocytes as neuromodulators in the striatum in health and PD. We look forward to working with you! Learn more: www.dpag.ox.ac.uk/team/tony-ba... #Parkinsons #astrocytes #The_MRC #MeetOurTeam

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Tony Barbay

PhD Tony Barbay - Postdoctoral Research Scientist

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ASAP CRN Team Cragg @craggasap.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

📣The Wade-Martins Lab is hiring 📣 Are you interested in developing novel biomarkers and testing therapeutic compounds using iPSC-derived dopamine neurons from PD patients? Join us as a Research Assistant at the University of Oxford. Deadline is noon (UK time) on Sept 5th! bit.ly/4lURYW9

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Coalition for Aligning Science @aligningscience.com · 07/08/2025

We're kicking off our new series: Initiative Spotlight 🔦 starting with Aligning Science Across Parkinson's (ASAP)! @asapresearch.parkinsonsroadmap.org aims to speed discovery and drive progress toward a #ParkinsonsDisease cure through collaboration and open science. Learn more: bit.ly/3Ys7sIo

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ASAP CRN Team Cragg @craggasap.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

In case you missed it, be sure to watch July's instalment of the Discover ASAP! Ricardo Márquez Gómez from Wade-Martins Lab discussed their scalable microfluidic platform that enables the study of human neuron microcircuitry, connectivity, and regeneration in vitro 🔬 #OpenScience #PD #iPSCs

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ASAP CRN Team Cragg @craggasap.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Fantastic work spearheaded by @safabouabid.bsky.social from Mark Howe Lab!

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ASAP CRN Team Cragg @craggasap.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Check out Katherine Brimblecombe's news article on outreach activities! Katherine reflects on how her outreach work with primary school kids has led to changes in the way she thinks about science communication. #SciComm #ScienceOutreach #WomenInSTEM #STEM

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Outreach: How Science Week's 2025 theme made me reflect on how I talk about science (by Dr Katherine Brimblecombe)

Science week 2025 theme: Change and adapt

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ASAP CRN Team Cragg @craggasap.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

📣 New publication alert 📣 Check out our collaborative review on axonal molecular and circuit mechanisms governing dopamine exocytosis in health and PD. Congratulations to Kathryn Todd from Cragg Lab and Kaitlyn Cramb from Wade-Martins Lab for spearheading this publication!

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New insights into axonal regulators of dopamine transmission in health and disease

Dopamine release in the striatum is credited with being critical to the selection and learning of motivated actions and outcomes. Dysregulation of str…

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ASAP CRN Team Cragg @craggasap.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Are you at the ISN-ASN Meeting held in New York this week? Don't miss out the talk from our very own Steph Cragg this Friday from 3 to 5 pm EDT! The "Flowing Neurochemicals in the Brain" symposium is being chaired by CRN members Yulong Li and Lin Tian.

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S27 T#2 Flowing Neurochemicals in the Brain - ISN

Room: Hall C – Parallel 2 Chair: Yulong Li (China) Lin Tian (United States) Designs, applications and limitations of genetically encoded indicators in imaging neurotransmitters in vivo Stephanie Cragg...

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ASAP CRN Team Cragg @craggasap.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

📣 A new book announcement 📣 The Handbook of #dopamine, from Steph Cragg (@stephcragg.bsky.social) and Mark Walton, and a cover illustration from the talented Lucille Duquenoy from Cragg Lab, is available to pre-order now!

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ASAP CRN Team Cragg @craggasap.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Congratulations to Shinil Raina, who left her position as a RA in the Cragg Lab to take up an MRC iCase funded DPhil position in the Yeo lab at University of Cambridge. We will miss you dearly and wish you the best of luck on your endeavours! Who will win the best poster awards for our team now?

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ASAP CRN Team Cragg @craggasap.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

A new #MRC CoRE will focus on developing brain stimulation devices to treat conditions such as Parkinson’s, dementia, stroke and childhood epilepsy. 🎉Many congratulations to our co-PI, Professor Peter Magill, who will be the Director of the MRC CoRE in Restorative Neural Dynamics! 🎉

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Oxford to lead new £50m MRC Centre to develop brain stimulation

A new Medical Research Council Centre of Research Excellence (MRC CoRE) aims to develop brain stimulation devices to treat conditions such as Parkinson’s, dementia, stroke and childhood epilepsy.

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ASAP CRN Team Cragg @craggasap.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Team Cragg was out in full-force at the 2025 Oxford Parkinson's Research Day hosted by OPDC earlier this month! 📣 Shoutout to our presenters, Kaitlyn Cramb, Katherine Brimblecombe, Ollie Curry, Rasha Elghaba, and Camille Loiseau, for sharing their fantastic work with the PD community! 📣

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ASAP CRN Team Cragg @craggasap.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Congratulations to our Project Manager Cláudia Mendes for being nominated as ASAP #OpenScience Champion this month! Claudia is deeply committed to make science more open and transparent at all stages of scientific discovery. Thank you for her hard work for making our articles fully ASAP-compliant!

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ASAP CRN Team Cragg @craggasap.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

🎉Many congratulations to Dr. Bethan O'Connor, and Dr. Lucille Duquenoy from the Cragg Lab who recently passed their DPhil Vivas 🎉 Your hard work and effort has paid off, and Team Cragg is proud of all you have accomplished! @stephcragg.bsky.social @oxforddpag.bsky.social

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ASAP CRN Team Cragg @craggasap.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

The Cragg lab is going to NeuroFrance 2025 in Montpellier! Our very own PI Steph Cragg will give a plenary lecture on astrocytes, dopamine and acetylcholine, and lab members Simon Bossi and Lucille Duquenoy will present posters on their impressive work. Come say hi! www.neurosciences.asso.fr/SN25/

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Home - NeuroFrance 2025

Every two years, neuroscientists from all over France get together to share their research, discover new ideas and exchange views and opinions.

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ASAP CRN Team Cragg @craggasap.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Congratulations to Katherine Brimblecombe from Cragg Lab! Her study on L-type calcium channels and striatal dopamine release (doi.org/10.1111/ejn....) is among the most widely read papers published by EJN in 2023! A fantastic recognition of her work within the community! @stephcragg.bsky.social

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Aligning Science Across Parkinson's @asapresearch.parkinsonsroadmap.org · 11/04/2025

🧠 Today on #WorldParkinsonsDay, we honor those living with Parkinson’s and the scientists advancing our understanding of #neurodegeneration, from alpha-synuclein to inflammation. Every insight brings us closer to breakthroughs.

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ASAP CRN Team Cragg @craggasap.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

🎉 The Cragg lab is hiring 🎉 Are you interest in striatal neurobiology and have relevant lab experience? Join us as an MRC-funded Research Assistant at the University of Oxford. Deadline is noon (UK time) on May 2nd. @stephcragg.bsky.social @oxforddpag.bsky.social my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

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ASAP CRN Team Cragg @craggasap.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

🎉 The Cragg Lab is hiring 🎉 Are you interested in astrocytes and striatal neurobiology? Join us as an MRC-funded Postdoctoral Research Scientist at the University of Oxford! Deadline is noon (UK time) on May 2nd. @stephcragg.bsky.social @oxforddpag.bsky.social my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

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ASAP CRN Team Cragg @craggasap.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Two of our postdocs were selected to present their findings at the ASAP CRN 2025 Collaborative Meeting in Phoenix! Many thanks to Katherine Brimblecombe from Cragg Lab and Mai-Anh Vu from Howe Lab for sharing your findings! @stephcragg.bsky.social @asapresearch.parkinsonsroadmap.org

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ASAP CRN Team Cragg @craggasap.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

The ASAP CRN 2025 Collaborative Meeting was filled with wonderful talks. Many thanks to our PIs Steph, Richard, and Dinos for sharing the Team's findings with the CRN community! @stephcragg.bsky.social @wademartinslab.bsky.social @meletis.bsky.social @asapresearch.parkinsonsroadmap.org

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ASAP CRN Team Cragg @craggasap.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

The ASAP CRN 2025 Collaborative Meeting gave us the opportunity to come together in person for an intense, inclusive, and inspiring experience. Always a pleasure to see everyone in person! @stephcragg.bsky.social @wademartinslab.bsky.social @meletis.bsky.social @asapresearch.parkinsonsroadmap.org

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ASAP CRN Team Cragg @craggasap.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Congratulations to our very own Shinil Raina from Cragg Lab on her poster prize at the ASAP CRN 2025 Collaborative Meeting in Phoenix, AZ! @stephcragg.bsky.social @oxforddpag.bsky.social @asapresearch.parkinsonsroadmap.org #posterwinner #collaboration #openscience

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ASAP CRN Team Cragg @craggasap.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

A new publication from Cragg Lab is out in @natureneuro.bsky.social revisiting old friends/foes #dopamine and #acetylcholine. Congrats to Yanfeng Zhang, Qinbo Qiao, and the rest of the team on a great paper! @stephcragg.bsky.social @asapresearch.parkinsonsroadmap.org #openscience #collaboration

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ASAP CRN Team Cragg @craggasap.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Our lead-PI Steph Cragg and Early Career Investigator Mark Howe will give a webinar on Cholinergic Interneurons hosted by the Swedish Basal Ganglia Society | SWEBAGS. Join us this Friday, March 28th at 3 pm GMT | 4 pm CET | 11 am EDT! Everyone is welcome! swebags.ebrains.se/events/choli...

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ASAP CRN Team Cragg @craggasap.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

We are trilled for the continued support from ASAP and the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research (MJFF) to further advance our understand of the neuronal circuits that become dysfunctional in Parkinson’s! @asapresearch.bsky.social #dopamine #ParkinsonsDisease #openscience #collaboration

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Aligning Science Across Parkinson's @asapresearch.parkinsonsroadmap.org · 06/11/2024

In her latest #blog, Dana Lewis explores how research outcomes often differ due to hidden analytical decisions. ASAP requires analytical code sharing to tackle this uncertainty, promoting transparency and reproducibility🧪. Learn more here: bit.ly/3OhOlvf

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A hidden universe of uncertainty: Sharing analysis pipelines reveals previously hidden decision points

Reproducibility is when others can produce the same results when provided with the data, code, and documentation [1]. Computational reproducibility is increasingly viewed as a minimum standard for sci...

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