Tofaris Lab

Had lots of fun @TofarisLab summer outing last week!

Great #CRISPR workshop at #MertonCollege organised by @eyeMacLaren where our post doc, Dr. Ana Aragón @AnaAragonG presented her work on inducible CRISPRi gene silencing in iPSC-derived dopaminergic neurons from Parkinson’s patients 🧠 🔗shorturl.at/atoDj @NDCNOxford

Huge congratulations to Anis Sahoo @SahooAnis for winning the Oxford 10k @raceforlife today!! 🏃🏽‍♂️✨ Incredible achievement, well done 🎉 🔗36:36 shorturl.at/EYD42

Street Party 2025 @KavliOxford @OxfordDPAG @NDCNOxford @TofarisLab

Anis Sahoo @SahooAnis, a brilliant post-doc in our lab, is running for brain cancer research with @CR_UK #RaceForLife 🧠💜 🍰 Support him by buying his homemade cake & macarons, or simply donate: shorturl.at/kfNFt Find us at @KavliOxford @NDCNOxford

Congratulations to our Flash talk prize winner from Wednesday’s @AlzResearchUK Research day! @_SumanDutta from the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, for his talk: Extracellular vesicles as carriers of pathogenic α-synuclein in neurodegenerative diseases

Congratulations to @ShijunVictorYan @TofarisLab @NDCNOxford @KavliOxford for completing a very successful DPhil! With three first author papers & several awards he has been an exceptional graduate student. Well done Dr Yan! Thank you to Alex Thompson and Tim Bartels for examining

🎉 Congratulations to Dr Suman Dutta @_Suman_Dutta for winning the @AlzResearchUK TVN video and flash talk awards for his research on brain-derived EVs. #Parkinson @NDCNOxford @KavliOxford

OPDC hosts the 2025 Oxford Parkinson’s Research Day @KavliOxford dpag.ox.ac.uk/news/oxford-pa… @OxfordDPAG @OxNeuro @DPAGPostdoc @DPAGAthenaSwan @TofarisLab @NDCNOxford @MRCBNDU

Many congratulations to our #DPhil student Joanna Komorowska @TofarisLab @KavliOxford @NDCNOxford who was awarded the Gustav Born Scholarship in Biomedical Sciences @SPC_Oxford to study an iPSC-based model of #Parkinson's disease. Well done!

Well done to our #DPhil student Hung-Ju Chueh @TofarisLab who won the best poster prize for his work on Neuron-Microglia interactions in an iPSC-based model of #Parkinson's disease @OxfordPDCentre Research Day!

Did you know that probable corticobasal degeneration has a long preclinical phase? Together with @XinYouTai we identified a case with a decade-long prodrome on neuroimaging. …mentdisorders.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/md…

Ever wonder why your mood lifts after exercising or listening to good music? The answer is dopamine! Dopamine does a lot for our brains and bodies, but it is best known for its ability to help us feel pleasure and motivation! bit.ly/44Q8qSB Credit: Dr. Nick Gatford

First time at #ISEV2025 — a long-overdue moment. I’ve been working on EVs since late 2011, and this is my first time attending the #ISEV meeting. It’s a bit overwhelming, but also exciting to see how far the field has come. Grateful to be here and learning so much.

It’s #worldparkinsonsday and here at #Synuclein2025 we marked it with a 5K run through Cambridge #syn2025 #Cambridge2025 @ParkinsonsUK

Delighted to share my DPhil research on #extracellularvesicle biomarkers in #Parkinsons and meet distinguished colleagues at #synuclein2025!

✨Congrats to @ShijunVictorYan for his exciting talk about #EVs and early #Parkinson's biomarker detection tools. Followed by a great discussion and useful insights from all speakers at today's #synuclein2025 session about biomarkers and SAA. @NDCNOxford @KavliOxford

Second round of posters at #Synuclein2025! 🔎Stop by posters #160 (A.Castle) #134 (CL.Lam), LB04 (HJ.Chueh) and #74 (S.Dutta) to learn about our post docs and #DPhil students research on #Parkinson's @UniofOxford @NDCNOxford @KavliOxford