The MRC Unit was well represented in this year’s Paton Prize Talks, with three D.Phil. students (Federica Vinciati, Colin McNamara and Marie Dalzell) each giving a presentation about their ongoing thesis research. Federica, a second-year student in the Magill Group, was jointly awarded this year’s Paton Prize for her presentation entitled “In vivo electrophysiological properties of neurochemically-identified striatal neurons in dopamine-intact and Parkinsonian rats”.
The Paton Prize is named in honour of the late Professor Sir William Paton, former Head of the University Department of Pharmacology, and is awarded annually on the basis of general research excellence, the quality of presentation and the ability to deal with the adjudicators’ questions.