Biography
Charlie is Professor of Human Neurophysiology at the Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging (WIN) and the MRC Brain Network Dynamics Unit (BNDU). She holds a Senior Research Fellowship, funded by the Wellcome Trust.
Charlie trained in Physiology and Medicine at Bristol University in the UK. She did her DPhil (PhD) research at the Oxford Centre for Functional MRI of the Brain (FMRIB), using advanced neuroimaging to study how the brain learns new motor skills. She was then awarded a Junior Research Fellowship at St Edmund Hall in Oxford, continuing to be based at FMRIB for her post-doctoral work, with research periods at University College London and the University of Miami, Florida.
Her inter-disciplinary group uses multi-modal neuroimaging and brain stimulation approaches in rodents and humans to understand motor plasticity, both in the context of learning new motor skills and regaining function after a stroke. Her work has two overarching themes: to understand the mechanisms underpinning human motor learning, and to use that understanding to develop novel therapeutic approaches. Her work is currently funded by funders including the MRC, BBSRC, EPSRC, and the Wellcome Trust.
Charlie has taught pre-clinical medicine at a number of colleges in the University and has been at St Hilda’s since 2021. As well as her college role, she teaches postgraduate students for the taught MSc Neuroscience courses at Oxford and is the External Examiner for Neuroscience for the University of Glasgow. Charlie is also the 2024 Physiological Society GL Brown Prize Lecturer, allowing her to visit Physiology Departments across the UK.
Recent Publications:
Martin E, Roberts M, Grigoras IF, Wright O, Nandi T, Rieger SR, Campbell J, den Boer T, Cox BT, Stagg CJ*, Treeby BE* (2024) Ultrasound system for precise neuromodulation of human deep brain circuits. BiorXiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.06.08.597305
Tang CW, Zich C, Quinn AJ, Woolrich MW, Hsu SP, Juan CH, Lee IH & Stagg CJ (2024) Post-stroke upper limb recovery is correlated with dynamic resting-state network connectivity Brain Communications
Nettekoven C, Mitchell L, Clarke WT, Emir U, Campbell J, Johansen-Berg H, Jenkinson N & Stagg CJ. (2022) Cerebellar GABA Change during Visumotor Adaptation Relates to Adaptation Performance and Cerebellar Network Connectivity: A Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopic Imaging Study. Journal of Neuroscience
Akkad H, Dupont-Hadwen J, Frese A, Tetkovic I, Barrett L, Bestmann S & Stagg CJ (2021) Increasing motor skill acquisition by driving theta-gamma coupling eLife.
Johnstone A, Grigoras I, Stagg CJ (2021) A single, clinically relevant dose of the GABAB agonist baclofen impairs visuomotor learning. Journal of Physiology. 599(1) 307-322
Tang CW, Hsiao FJ, Lee PL, Tsai YA, Hsu YF, Chen WT, Lin YY, Stagg CJ, Lee IH (2020) β-Oscillations Reflect Recovery of the Paretic Upper Limb in Subacute Stroke. Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair 34(5): 450–462. PMC7250642
Clarke WT, Stagg CJ, Jbabdi S. FSL-MRS: An end-to-end spectroscopy analysis package. Magn Reson Med. 2021 Jun;85(6) 2950-2964. PMCID: PMC7116822. doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2019.12.20.883926
Positions
- Tutorial Fellow in Pre-Clinical Medicine
Subjects
- Pre-Clinical Medicine
