Scott Waddell

FMedSci FRS

Deputy Head of Department

Professor of Neurobiology

Scott Waddell studied biochemistry as an undergraduate at the University of Dundee, and researched cancer biology for his Ph.D. at the University of London. After postdoctoral study in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at Massachusetts Institute of Technology he spent 10 years leading a research group in the Department of Neurobiology at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Scott moved to Oxford as a Professor of Neurobiology and founding member of the Centre for Neural Circuits & Behaviour in November 2011. His group studies neural circuit mechanisms of memory-directed behaviour.

Scott was a Wellcome Trust Senior then Principal Research Fellow in Basic Biomedical Science, he is a Fellow of the Royal Society, Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, a member of EMBO, and was awarded the 2014 Liliane Bettencourt Prize for the Life Sciences.

Ion Channels and Membrane Transport in Health and Disease (OXION)

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Twists to Classical Conditioning of Adult Drosophila

Classical Conditioning of Adult Drosophila

Sexually dimorphic mechanisms of VGLUT-mediated protection from dopaminergic neurodegeneration.

Neuronal wiring diagram of an adult brain

Whole-brain annotation and multi-connectome cell typing of Drosophila

Compensatory enhancement of input maintains aversive dopaminergic reinforcement in hungry Drosophila

Dopaminergic systems create reward seeking despite adverse consequences

Multisensory learning binds neurons into a cross-modal memory engram

CMTr cap-adjacent 2′-O-ribose mRNA methyltransferases are required for reward learning and mRNA localization to synapses

Differential coding of absolute and relative aversive value in the Drosophila brain

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