Shea Heaney and Teresa Simoes Steyn win poster prizes at Brainbox Conference
Shea Heaney and Teresa Simoes Steyn win poster prizes at Brainbox Conference

We congratulate both Unit students, Shea Heaney and Teresa Simoes Steyn, for winning poster prizes at the Brainbox Initiative Conference on the 26th of September!
Teresa, a DPhil student supervised by Dr. Joram van Rheede at the Unit and Dr. Melanie Fleming, won the Best Methods Poster Award for her poster entitled "Closed-Loop Brain Stimulation Targeting Slow Waves for Memory Consolidation During Sleep".
Shea, an MBiomedsci in Neuroscience student supervised by Dr. Polytimi Frangou and Prof. Charlotte Stagg at the Unit, won the People's Choice Poster Award for his poster entitled "Effects of Donepezil on attentional processing and TMS measures of GABAergic and Cholinergic signalling".



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After the viva voce: A happy D.Phil. candidate with proud supervisors.