The Nottingham IMAGEN Team

  • Penny is based at the Sir Peter Mansfield Magnetic Resonance Centre in Nottingham, where she conducts research in magnetic resonance imaging. She is particularly interested in quantitative MRI and the capabilities of functional and anatomical ultra-high field MRI in neuroscience.

  • The Sir Peter Mansfield Imaging Centre is an interdisciplinary, cross-faculty centre for innovative imaging in experimental and translational medicine, bringing together researchers who develop new medical imaging techniques with clinicians and scientists who use them.

    We are interested both in the dynamics of normal development from pregnancy, through childhood and adolescence to adulthood and old age, as well as in the long-term consequences of various environmental events that occur before birth but “program” the brain and body for the rest of life.

    We hope that this work will lead to new discoveries relevant for disorders of the brain, such as addiction or depression, and the body, such as obesity or hypertension.

  • Phone: 07964 976 054 

    Mobile: 0776 586 6886 

    Email: imagen.nottingham@gmail.com 

    Twitter: @IMAGENStudy 

    Facebook: IMAGEN Facebook 

    z  During its early life, Trinity was a university exclusively for the Protestant Ascendancy class of Dublin. 

Following the first steps of Catholic Emancipation, Roman Catholics were first admitted in 1793 (prior to Cambridge and Oxford, upon which Trinity was modelled). In 1873 all religious tests were abolished, except for the Divinity School. However, it was not until 1970 that the Roman Catholic Church, through the Archbishop of Dublin John Charles McQuaid, lifted its policy of excommunication for Roman Catholics who enrolled without special dispensation, at the same time as the Trinity authorities allowed a Roman Catholic chaplain to be based in the college. Trinity College, Dublin is a sister college to Oriel College, University of Oxford and St John’s College, University of Cambridge. Women were admitted to Trinity as full members for the first time in 1904, thus making it the first ancient university in Ireland or Britain to do so. The first female professor was appointed in 1934.

Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience, TCIN, is an interdisciplinary research and teaching institute with a unique niche of investigators whose mission is captured in the phrase ‘from molecules to mind’, emphasising the vision stretching across differing levels of investigation of brain function.  The philosophy of the institute is that an innovative approach to research in neurosciences crosses traditionally distinct academic boundaries focusing on and anticipating the needs at the cutting edge of neuroscience, a quality that is necessary to be internationally competitive in the challenge of delivering molecule to mind to society.  The main areas of research are Behavioural/Systems/Cognitive Neuroscience, Development/Plasticity/Repair, Molecular/Cellular Neuroscience, Translational/Clinical.