New publication
A collaborative team of researchers from the Platt lab and the Isacson lab (McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School) has found that elevated levels of certain types of lipids in the brain, called glycosphingolipids, may be…
Visit by NPSuisse hosted at Academy of Medical Sciences
Christoph and Hanny Poincilit from NPSuisse visited the Academy of Medical Sciences and our lab in Oxford. Please visit their webpage for more information: https://www.npsuisse.ch/en/ From left to right at the Academy of Medical Sciences:…
Newton International Fellowship
Congratulations to Maria, who started her prestigious Newton International Fellowship in our lab. The scheme provides the opportunity for the best early stage post-doctoral researchers from all over the world to work at UK research…
Poster Prize at Oxford Neuroscience Symposium
Congratulations to Mylene, who won second prize for her poster, titled ‘Glycosphingolipid levels and glucocerebrosidase activities are altered in healthy ageing and Parkinson’s disease’ at last week’s Oxford Neuroscience Symposium. This annual event was held on Wednesday…
GRC on Glycolipid and Sphingolipid Biology 2018
Fran, David and Mylene participated at the Gordon Research Conference Glycolipid and Sphingolipid Biology in Galveston, Texas. Our former lab member Doris Höglinger also participated and it was great to meet with her again. During…
Talk at Parkinson’s UK Oxford Branch
Fran and Mylene were invited to give a talk at the Parkinson’s UK Oxford Branch in Botley on the 7th February 2018. Their talk, titled ‘Lysosomes and Enzymes’, informed about new insights into Parkinson's disease…
Christmas Party
This year the Platt lab celebrated Christmas on the 6th of December. We started the day with a relaxing breakfast at the Turl Street Kitchen. Then Secret Santa passed by the Department of Pharmacology and left some…
New publication
Review from Fran published in Nature Reviews Drug Discovery titled 'Emptying the stores: lysosomal diseases and therapeutic strategies.' Please follow link to read the paper: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29147032
NPUK Annual Family Conference 2017
The NPUK Annual Family Conference & Interactive is a highlight in the Niemann-Pick UK calendar, and as a result is well-known and well-loved by each and every member of our community. Fran Platt and members…
Huygens Imaging Contest 2017
Congratulations to Gokhan, who won the Huygens Imaging Contest 2017. Huygens is a Dutch company working on software development for deconvolution and advanced light microscopy. The prize winning image shows the filopodia of human Niemann-Pick…