Lisa's Lab Book

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1567724913002778 Unedited manuscript now available online!

Visit to Otley to see some bats, many thanks to Maggie Brown. We saw lots of Pipistrelles and a couple of Noctule bats. One species of bat, the Brandt's bat, has an incredible lifespan for such a small mammal - upto 41 years! http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2013/130820/ncomms3212/full/ncomms3212.html

Molecular Mechanisms of Neurodegeneration Meeting - Bath University June 2012

Paper accepted! Watch this space.....

presented at Mitochondrial Dynamics from Mechanism to Disease Sardinia 2011

Pollinator energetics  BBSRC DTP Project rotation Supervised by Dr Lisa Chakrabarti and Dr. Reinhard Stoger   http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/graduateschool/doctoral-training-centres/bbsrc-doctoral-training-programme-in-biosciences/prospective-students/available-projects/vet/pollinator-energetics.aspx

New research by a Nottingham academic linking the neurodegenerative disease Parkinson’s to changes in a protein in brain mitochondria is to receive support from a prestigious US funding agency. Dr Lisa Chakrabarti, at The University of Nottingham, will receive $75,000 for a one-year research project from The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research (MJFF), which is dedicated to finding a cure for Parkinson’s and funds promising research that could result in new treatments to slow, stop or reverse the progression of the disease. Dr Chakrabarti said: “We are trying to look at mitochondrial biology from a totally different perspective, which could have important implications for Parkinson’s and other neurodegenerative diseases. The funding from The Michael J. Fox Foundation will help us to confirm whether some of the protein changes we see in Parkinson’s are related to disease course.” http://exchange.nottingham.ac.uk/research/parkinsons-study-receives-fu