Final Report Summary - NEURO-GLIAL SYNAPSES (Neuronal Activity: Targets for Stimulating Myelin Formation and Repair in the Brain)
During the project Dr Fulton moved his CIG project to the University of Birmingham where he took up a new position as a Birmingham Fellow. This competitively awarded tenure-tracked fellowship provides 5-years of protected research time (limited teaching load) and is equivalent to an academic appointment at the lecturer grade. The fellowship delivered significant support for Dr Fulton to start his lab, and also provided funds to employ a postdoctoral fellow for 2 years. His new appointment provides all of the research independence and institutional research support expected of a regular lecturer appointment. He has the freedom to supervise his own PhD students, and apply for his own independent project grants. Overall, the combination of career security and excellent institutional support provided by this position indicate that Dr Fulton’s career integration is proceeding well and he has very good prospects for a stable research career at the University of Birmingham.
Throughout the project Dr Fulton has engaged in a number of dissemination and training and supervisory roles that have enabled effective transfer of his knowledge and expertise to the Universities of Warwick, Birmingham, and the regional neuroscience community. These include hosting a live-imaging workshop, mentoring research students, the delivery of undergraduate lectures on myelin biology, and the training of researchers on confocal imaging and the analysis of oligodendrocyte development.