September 2013

We are pleased to welcome Laura Covill into our lab. Laura will be working with us for the next year as a research assistant.

August 2013

A review of FOXP2 research written by Ron, a DPhil student in the lab, is now available online.

July 2013

We have just been awarded a grant from the John Fell Fund to study genetic and environmental correlates of speech and language impairments in school-entry-aged children. We are very pleased to be working with the Surrey Communication and Language in Education (SCALES) team on this exciting project!

June 2013

We are pleased to be hosting five work experience students in the lab this week. We hope they will enjoy the experience. Blogs of their time in the lab can be found on our website.

June 2013

We presented two posters at the European Society of Human Genetics in Paris in June.

Nuala presented a poster investigating the frequency of sex chromosome aneuploidies in language impaired children.

Fabiola presented a poster describing deletions in the ZNF277 gene in language impaired individuals.

April 2013

Last month I spoke to Kat Arney of the Naked Scientists about specific language impairment (SLI) and our research. You can now download the podcast.

March 2013

You can now access news from the lab on twitter by following @DianneNewbury. We will post updates and news from the lab as well as interesting stories regarding genetics and language disorders.

March 2013

Dianne gave a talk about the genetic contributions to SLI at Science Oxford as part of their “Healthy season”. The session consisted of a 20 minute talk followed by an open forum discussion. This talk will be made into a podcast and available from our website.

January 2013

We are pleased to say that we have a new lab member. Rose Reader has joined us from the University of Aberystwyth. You can view Rose's profile on the group members page.

December 2012

Our new paper showing that a dyslexia-associated loci influences general IQ and white matter structure is now available to view at the PLosOne website.

November 2012

We are currently recruiting a research assistant to help in the lab. We are looking for someone with lab experience and experience of either cell culture or bioinformatics.

October 2012

The BBC have an article describing life on the Robinson Crusoe Island. In collaboration with the Univeristy of Chile, have an MRC project grant to investigate language impairment in this population. See our research pages for further details.

September 2012

Our new paper describing a 16p11.2 deletion in a child with developmental verbal dyspraxia is now available to view at the European Journal of Human Genetics.

June 2012

Lab members will be presenting at both the Behavior Genetics Association meeting and the European Society of Human Genetics meeting next week. Nuala Simpson and Fabiola Ceroni will present a poster describing preliminary copy number variant analyses in the SLIC cohort. Dianne Newbury will present a poster describing the Robinson Crusoe exome sequencing study. Both posters will be available from the website following the meetings.

May 2012

Yesterday, the cell, cell, cell show premiered at INTECH planetarium in Winchester. This is a Wellcome Trust funded planetarium show that explores the human body and looks inside cells. The show opens to the public on June 2nd and will be launched at other planetariums around the country later in the summer.

May 2012

The RALLI youtube channel has been launched to promote better awareness of SLI and related disorders. It includes videos that explain what a language impairment is, the impact it can have and how to get help.

February 2012

We have just recieved a project grant from the MRC to continue our studies of the Robinson Crusoe population in collaboration with the University of Chile. Thus funding will allow a better genetic characterisation of this population and hopefully allow the identification of genetic variables that contribute to SLI. See 'Research projects' for a description of this project.

October 2011

Two members of the SLI team presented findings from the lab at the International Congress of Human Genetics. Ron Nudel presented information about the Chile project and Dianne presented an overview of the SLIC work. A webcast of Dianne's presentation (mp4 format) can be downloaded by clicking here.

September 2011

We now have a podcast about our research.