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Spatika Jayaram

  • Scholar
  • India
  • 2023 PhD Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
  • Magdalene College
Spatika Jayaram

Spatika Jayaram

  • Scholar
  • India
  • 2023 PhD Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
  • Magdalene College

There is as much poetry in understanding the brain, as there is science. I had the opportunity to pursue both these during my undergraduate degree at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali. After working on Schizophrenia at the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, I completed my final year thesis on memory formation at the Indian Institute of Science. My graduate research at Oxford interested me in examining how brain circuits contribute to mood disorders. The ways in which early-life experiences predispose individuals towards mental illnesses require examining changes in a developing brain. In my Ph.D., I hope to explore how such changes in the prefrontal cortex can lead to the early onset of neuropsychiatric disorders, by examining their impacts on behaviours that are commonly dysregulated across these conditions. Through my research, I hope to identify critical periods of development and arrive at a better understanding of specific prefrontal circuits that can be targets of early intervention.

Previous Education

University of Oxford Neuroscience 2023
Indian Institute of Science Ed & Research Mohali Biology 2022

Smruthi Jayasundar

  • Alumni
  • India
  • 2008 PhD Surgery
  • St John's College
Smruthi Jayasundar

Smruthi Jayasundar

  • Alumni
  • India
  • 2008 PhD Surgery
  • St John's College

My doctoral research at Cambridge University is in the rapidly advancing field of stem cell biology focussing on understanding the early stages of development of haematopoietic (blood) stem cells. My long-term career plan is to carry out clinically useful research and thus contribute significantly not only to science but also society at large.

Jayant Ravalia

  • Alumni
  • Kenya
  • 2008 MBA Management Studies
  • Trinity College
Jayant Ravalia

Jayant Ravalia

  • Alumni
  • Kenya
  • 2008 MBA Management Studies
  • Trinity College

I spent most of my childhood in a small Kenyan town before being awarded the opportunity to pursue my tertiary education at Cambridge University, UK. I then joined Microsoft at the Redmond headquarters and my most recent success has been in the corporate citizenship arena amalgamating Microsoft research efforts with my technical standards work for developing countries. But even though, I have been exposed to great advances in science, I keenly believe that humanity’s greatest advances are not in its discoveries – but in how these discoveries are applied to reduce the atrocious disparities of health, and wealth, and opportunity that condemn millions of people to lives of despair. It is, consequently, my fervent hope that the Cambridge MBA will give me a cavernous multifaceted insight into business economics to design business models that can make market forces work better in applying the existing technologies to solve the world’s deepest inequities.

Jaya Savige

  • Alumni
  • Australia
  • 2008 PhD English
  • Christ's College
Jaya Savige

Jaya Savige

  • Alumni
  • Australia
  • 2008 PhD English
  • Christ's College

Born in Sydney, Jaya Savige is an award-winning poet and critic and is currently the Poetry Editor for The Australian newspaper. From 2013-2021 he was Assistant Professor in English and Creative Writing at the New College of the Humanities in London, where he founded the Creative Writing degree. He read for his PhD on James Joyce at Christ’s College, Cambridge, on a scholarship from the Bill and Melinda Gates Cambridge Trust (2009-13). Savige's first collection of poetry, Latecomers (UQP 2005), won the NSW Premier’s Kenneth Slessor Prize and the Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize, was highly commended for the Dame Mary Gilmore Prize and was shortlisted for several other awards. His second volume, Surface to Air (UQP 2011), was shortlisted for The Age Poetry Book of the Year and the West Australian Premier’s Prize. His most recent collection, Change Machine (UQP 2020), was shortlisted for the Australian Prime Minister's Literary Award for Poetry and several other awards. His work appears in The Penguin Anthology of Australian Poetry, Thirty Australian Poets, Contemporary Australian Poetry and elsewhere. He has given readings by invitation in London, New York, Berlin, Prague, Verona, Bali and throughout Australia, and he has held Australia Council writing residencies in Rome (B.R. Whiting Studio) and Paris (Cité Internationale des Arts).

Links

http://www.jayasavige.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaya-savige-62aa9915
http://www.jayasavige.blogspot.com