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\u2b50 Huge congratulations to Sammy Hollings, who has been awarded the 2026 Technician Commitment Award for Contribution to Research, in recognition of her outstanding work supporting the NEON Lab’s research programme. Read the press release here<\/a>. Well deserved, Sammy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n July 15, 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n \ud83c\udf93 Congratulations to our 2025-26 BSc cohort on graduating this week! Kareem Abonde-Adigun, Sophia Almonte, Maisie Horne, Sam Oliver and Sophie Tranter completed their final-year research projects in the NEON Lab. We wish them all the best with their next steps!<\/p>\n\n\n\n July 14, 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2b50 Congratulations to former NEON Lab intern Joan Kolo, who graduated today and was awarded the MSci Final Year Prize for outstanding performance in her fourth year! Joan has also been awarded a competitive PhD studentship at Queen Mary University of London, which she will commence this autumn. We wish her continued success in this next chapter! <\/p>\n\n\n\n July 13, 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n \ud83d\udcdd Dr Sana Hannan and Dr Francesca Chaloner (Imperial College London) have written a feature article on the Navigator Symposium on Late-Onset Epilepsy, which they co-organised and chaired in April 2026. Here, they discuss the key themes and outcomes from the Symposium, as well as priorities and next steps for advancing research in this important and rapidly developing area. Read the full feature here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n July 9, 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n \ud83c\udfa4 Sofia Antoniazzi has had an exciting week! Sofia gave a talk on her research exploring the links between late-onset epilepsy and dementia at the Biomedical and Life Sciences Research Symposium at Lancaster University and then presented a poster at the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS) Forum 2026 in Barcelona, which brought together over 8,000 attendees from 92 countries! Click here<\/a> to view the LinkedIn post and photos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n May 22, 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2b50 Congratulations to Lottie Roscoe-Lee, our former third-year dissertation student, who has been awarded a competitive Defying Dementia scholarship to undertake a summer research internship in the NEON Lab! We look forward to welcoming Lottie back!<\/p>\n\n\n\n April 30, 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n \ud83c\udfa4 Dr Sana Hannan co-chaired and co-organised the Navigator Symposium on Late-Onset Epilepsy in Liverpool alongside Dr Francesca Chaloner (Imperial College London), in partnership with the Epilepsy Research Institute. The Symposium was attended by several NEON Lab members and brought together leading researchers, clinicians and people with lived experience of this condition. It was a fantastic day of stimulating discussion and excellent presentations from 12 speakers, highlighting the latest advances in understanding and managing late-onset epilepsy \u2014 one of the fastest-growing brain health challenges in our ageing population. Click here<\/a> and here<\/a> to see LinkedIn posts about the event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n April 9, 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n \ud83d\udcdd Former MSci student Tamzin Holden contributed to an international multicentre research effort during her MSci project in the NEON Lab. The study, which uncovered key predictors of epilepsy surgery outcomes, has now been published in the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry<\/em>! Read the article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n March 26, 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2b50 Sofia Antoniazzi presents her poster at the Faculty of Health and Medicine Postgraduate Research Symposium!<\/p>\n\n\n\n February 16, 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n \ud83d\udcdd Our new paper on the impact of anti-seizure medications on the neural dynamics of epileptic activity has been published in Epilepsia<\/em>! In this study, we used intracranial EEG recordings to compare the location and spatiotemporal patterns of seizures in patients with epilepsy as their anti-seizure medication was tapered from high to low dosages. Read the article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n January 28, 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n \ud83d\udc4b A warm welcome to our new lab members, Raina Hill and Elen Jones! They are joining our team as casual Research Assistants through the Psychology Employability Programme, and will be supporting our sleep EEG studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n December 3, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n \ud83d\udc4b We were delighted to host Professor Edwin Robertson from the Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging (CCNi), University of Glasgow for two days! In his thought-provoking talk – titled \u2018Sharing information between human memory systems<\/em> \u2019 – Professor Robertson discussed how different memory systems interact in the brain, sparking many questions and insightful conversations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n November 3, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n \ud83d\udc4b This week, we hosted PhD student Vojt\u011bch Tr\u00e1vn\u00ed\u010dek in the NEON Lab! Vojt\u011bch visited us from the Institute of Scientific Instruments of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Brno, Czech Republic. We had a great week discussing ideas and sharing methods to address important questions in EEG, epilepsy and dementia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n October 1, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n \ud83d\udc4b A warm welcome back to Sofia Antoniazzi, who returns to the NEON Lab today as an MRes student after previously completing her third-year BSc dissertation with us! Sofia’s project will focus on investigating the complex links between late-onset epilepsy and dementia in older adults.<\/p>\n\n\n\n August 6, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n \ud83d\udcdd Our latest review on the role of slow-wave sleep in offline memory processing has been published in Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience<\/em>! We draw on evidence from human EEG studies and discuss how slow-wave sleep supports the consolidation of both declarative and procedural memories and contributes to higher cognitive functions. Read the article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n August 4, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n \ud83d\udc4b A huge welcome to Samantha-Jo Hollings, who joins the NEON Lab today as our new Research Technician! Sammy will be supporting our experimental studies on the role of sleep in memory processing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n July 14, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n \ud83c\udf93 Congratulations to our 2024-25 BSc cohort on graduating this week! Yuan Sagala, Sofia Antoniazzi, Ella Spencer and Umar Suleman completed their final-year research projects in the NEON Lab. We wish them all the best with their next steps!<\/p>\n\n\n\n July 1, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n \ud83c\udfa4 Dr Sana Hannan performed stand-up comedy at the Royal Society this evening! This event was part of the Royal Society\u2019s Summer Science Exhibition 2025 \u2013 a public engagement initiative aimed at making science accessible to a broad audience. Huge thanks to Steve Cross and the Royal Society for the kind invitation! Click here<\/a> to view the LinkedIn post and photos from the event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n May 28, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n \ud83d\udc4b A warm welcome to Andrea Mosqueda-Jolly and Summer Rickard, who are joining the NEON Lab this week as casual Research Assistants, as part of the Psychology Employability Programme. We\u2019re excited to have them on board!<\/p>\n\n\n\n April 11, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n \ud83d\udcac Dr Sana Hannan, along with Professor Hedley Emsley (Lancaster Medical School) and Dr Clare Gordon (University of Central Lancashire), formally launch the Collaboration for Late-Onset and Vascular Epilepsy Research (CLOVER) \u2013 a new network focused on epilepsy that begins later in life. The event was marked by holding a Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) workshop to bring together individuals with lived experience of late-onset, post-stroke, and vascular epilepsies to help shape the top research priorities. Click here<\/a> to find out more about CLOVER.<\/p>\n\n\n\n April 7, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2b50 Dr Sana Hannan has been awarded funding from the Academy of Medical Sciences! This award will support a new project investigating how the sleeping brain supports offline processing of memories. Click here<\/a> to see the press release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n April 4, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2b50 Leanna Keeble presents her poster at the Faculty of Health and Medicine Postgraduate Research Symposium!<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n November 28, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n \ud83c\udfa4 Dr Sana Hannan delivers an invited public lecture to celebrate the 100-year anniversary of EEG at the \u2018I Love EEG\u2019 event in Vilnius, Lithuania. In her talk, she discussed the importance of EEG as a tool for helping us understand the complex links between epilepsy and sleep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n November 22, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n \ud83d\udcac Dr Sana Hannan organised and chaired a Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) workshop on epilepsy and Alzheimer’s Disease, bringing together volunteers from the Epilepsy Research Institute and Alzheimer’s Society patient networks. The workshop provided a platform for individuals with lived experience to offer valuable feedback on planned research in the NEON Lab, to help ensure our work is aligned with the needs and perspectives of those affected by these conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n November 14, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n \ud83c\udfa4 Dr Sana Hannan performs a science-themed stand-up comedy set at a sold-out Bright Club! She talked about research in the NEON Lab and used humour to engage a diverse audience and promote public understanding of science. Click here<\/a> to view the LinkedIn post and photos from the event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n October 1, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n \ud83d\udc4b A huge welcome to Leanna Keeble, who joins the NEON Lab today as a PhD student funded by the BBSRC NorthWestBio Doctoral Training Partnership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n July 17, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n \ud83c\udf93 Congratulations to our MSci students, Tamzin Holden and Laura Yianni, who graduated this week! Both completed their final-year research projects in the NEON Lab. We wish them every success in their next chapters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n July 15, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2b50 Congratulations to Joan Kolo who has been awarded a competitive BLS scholarship to undertake a summer research internship in the NEON Lab!<\/p>\n\n\n\n July 1, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n \ud83d\udcdd Our new paper on the clinical utility of sleep recordings during pre-surgical evaluation with stereo-EEG has been published in the Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology<\/em>! This systematic review compiles evidence on the important bidirectional links between sleep and various types of epileptic activity. Read the article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n March 15, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2b50 Dr Sana Hannan has been awarded the Professional Development Fund from the Faculty of Health and Medicine, Lancaster University to present her study on the link between sleep fragmentation and epileptic activity at the 15th<\/sup> European Epilepsy Congress in Rome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n October 18, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n \ud83d\udc4b A warm welcome to MSci students Tamzin Holden and Laura Yianni, who join the NEON Lab this week to begin their final-year research projects!<\/p>\n\n\n\n September 1, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2b50 Dr Sana Hannan joins Lancaster University as a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Neuroscience and receives start-up funding from the Division of Biomedical and Life Sciences to build her research programme and set up the NEON Lab.<\/p>\n\n\n\n NEON News \ud83d\udcf0 2026 August 4, 2026 \u2b50 Huge congratulations to Sammy Hollings, who has been awarded the 2026 Technician Commitment Award for Contribution to Research, in recognition of her outstanding work supporting the NEON Lab’s research programme. Read the press release here. Well deserved, Sammy! 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