News and fun
November 19, 2025
In what some are calling the lab’s greatest accomplishment to date, the lab wins the Royal Oak Pub Quiz!
Evidence of the win! (Not pictured: Carolina, Cristiana, and Cristiana’s partner Luke, who made a crucial ID of the Enigma Machine for the picture round)
November, 2025
Subham passes his Upgrade exam and officially becomes the lab’s first PhD candidate
Congrats! This is a terrific and well-earned accomplishment
October 3, 2025
Friend of the lab Jacques Carolan’s paper using 2p voltage imaging to study synaptic plasticity in Purkinje cells, to which Dimitar and Maxime made a minor contribution, is published in Nature Comms!
October, 2025
Ren official matriculates to being a PhD student in the lab, after having spent the previous 2 years as a Research Technician
Her PhD work will focus on cerebello-cortical interactions in the context of neurodevelopmental disorders
September 15-16, 2025
The lab attends the annual CDN Scientific retreat at Hinxton Hall near Cambridge
Carolina presents the progress of her PhD work
September, 2025
Emily Hallsworth official joins the lab as a Research Technician
July 6-11, 2025
Dimitar and Subham attend and present at the 2025 Cerebellum Gordon Conference in Les Diablerets, Switzerland
Dimitar’s talk
Subham’s poster
Beautiful Les Diablerets
Full lab participation
Disco la Pote
July, 2025
Huma Ozbek joins the lab as an undergraduate research assistant
She will work with Carolina to interrogate cerebellum-basal ganglia interactions during decision making behaviour
June 11, 2025
Subham presents his PhD work at the CDN internal seminar
June 4, 2025
Neuropixels recordings in thalamus
May 15, 2025
Lab karaoke at the Old School Yard
Unverified song but probably Linkin Park
March 18, 2025
Dimitar presesents the lab’s work to an external audience for the first time at the Johns Hopkins Cerebellar Series
February 28, 2025
Maxime’s paper on cell-type classification in the cerebellum is published in Cell
This is Maxime’s first lead-author paper, and Dimitar’s first (co-)senior author paper.
January and February, 2025
Carolina and Subham each rock their first committee meetings!
December 13, 2024
The (now expanded) lab performs our Hercules-themed skit at at the CDN Christmas party
The theme was mythology.
October 5-9, 2024
Dimitar, Carolina, Ren, and Subham attend SfN in Chicago. Dimitar gives a talk at the Cerebellar Predictive Encoding in Health and Disease Minisymposium.
Minisymposium speaker photo with organizers
Group photo with The Bean
July 9, 2024
The lab hosts local London students as part of this year’s Dev Neuro Academy.
Pizza
October 1, 2024
Carolina and Subham official start their PhDs in the lab!
They will investigate how cerebellar output influences dynamics in the basal ganglia and motor cortex during behaviour.
September 1, 2024
Cristiana Iosif joins the lab as a postdoc.
She will focus on how neuromodulators influences instructive signals in the cerebellar cortex.
July 3, 2024
Dimitar gives the lab’s first CDN internal seminar
May 15, 2024
Dimitar presents the labs research plans at the IoPPN Research Festival.
April 22, 2024
Dimitar serves as a thesis examiner for Ana Gonçalves from Megan Carey’s lab at the Champalimaud in Lisbon.
She did an amazing job.
April 12, 2024
Lab beers at the Miller
April 8, 2024
Subham Ganguly (MRC-ITND PhD program) starts his rotation in the lab.
February 26, 2024
Carolina Soares (LIDo PhD program) starts her rotation in the lab.
January 31, 2024
Maxime Beau’s cerebellar cell-type classification paper is posted on bioRxiv!
This is Maxime’s first first-author paper and Dimitar’s first senior author paper.
December 15, 2023
The lab’s performance of 2023: A PhD Odyssey at the CDN Christmas party is a smash hit.
The theme was SPACE
Hal and Dave at the photo booth.
Cast photo including Grubb and Sahara lab members.
October 1, 2023
Ceren (Ren) Arslan joins the lab as a Research Assistant, becoming the lab’s first member.
August - September, 2023
Dimitar and Dale (Cosys, Ltd.) build the lab’s first 2-photon microscope.
Some prententious pictures of the rig getting built.
First images coming out of the microscope.
July - August, 2023
The air table and lasers get delivered and installed.
July 1, 2023
Dimitar starts as a Group Leader in CDN.
Many red carpets were rolled out, and there was a parade.
