2018 Seminars & Events

List of the 2018 Seminars & Events at the Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences.

 

Targeting muscle and metabolic pathologies to develop new treatment strategies for spinal muscular atrophy

Dr Melissa Bowerman, Lecturer in Bioscience, School of Medicine, Keele University

Thursday 13th December 2018, 1pm, Gaddum Lecture Theatre

Host: Dr Lyndsay Murray

***Live streamed to: Seminar Room 6, Chancellor's Building***

Functional dynamics of interacting motor circuits during frog metamorphic development

Dr. John Simmers, Institut de Neurosciences cognitives et intégratives d'AquitaineUniversité Bordeaux 

Monday 3rd December 2018, 1pm, Lecture Theatre B, Chancellor's Building

Host: Dr HongYan Zhang

***Live streamed to: Room G6, Hugh Robson Building***

Fertility preservation in prepubertal boys diagnosed with cancer

Professor Ans van Pelt, Center for Reproductive Medicine,  UMC Amsterdam

Thursday 29th November 2018, 1pm, Hugh Robson Lecture Theatre

Host: Dr Federica Lopes

***Live streamed to: Seminar Room 6, Chancellor's Building***

Newt regeneration: regulation and evolution

Professor Andras Simon, Department of Molecular Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden

Monday 26th November 2018, 1:00 pm, Lecture Theatre B, Chancellor's Building

Host: Dr Thomas Becker

***Live streamed to: Room G6, Hugh Robson Building***

From photon to pipette: optical and electrophysiological tools for studying intact neural circuits

Professor Simon Schultz, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London

Thursday 22nd November 2018, 1:00 pm, Hugh Robson Lecture Theatre

Host: Prof Richard Morris

***Live streamed to: Seminar Room 6, Chancellor's Building***

The Physiological Society, GL Brown Lecture - Seeing depth with two eyes: the binocular physiology of 3D space

Prof Andrew Parker, University of Oxford

Thursday 15th November 2018, 1:00 pm, Hugh Robson Lecture Theatre

Host: Prof David Wyllie

***Live streamed to: Seminar Room 6, Chancellor's Building******

Illuminating the TRPC gating machinery  - novel aspects of photopharmacology and optochemical genetics of TRPC channels

Professor Klaus Groschner, Institute of Biophysics, Medical University of Graz

Thursday 8th November 2018, 1:00 pm, Hugh Robson Lecture Theatre

Host: Prof Mark Evans

***Live streamed to: Seminar Room 6, Chancellor's Building***

Peripheral macrophage control of microglia during CNS injury

Dr Andy Greenhalgh, University of Bordeaux

Thursday 1st November 2018, 1:00 pm, Hugh Robson Lecture Theatre

Host: Dr Barry McColl + Dr Laura McCulloch

***Live streamed to: Seminar Room 6, Chancellor's Building***

Role of microglia in the glioma biology

Dr Anne Régnier-Vigouroux, Faculty of Biology, JGU-Mainz, Mainz, Germany

Monday 29th October 2018, 1:00 pm, Lecture Theatre B, Chancellor's Building

Host: Dr Dirk Sieger

***Live streamed to: Room G6, Hugh Robson Building***

Investigating mechanisms of synaptic dysfunction in an organotypic slice culture model of Alzheimer’s disease

Dr Claire Durrant, University of Cambridge

Thursday 25th October 2018, 1:00 pm, Hugh Robson Lecture Theatre

Host:  Prof Tara Spires-Jones

***Live streamed to: Seminar Room 6, Chancellor's Building***

Mary Pickford Lecture - Alison Douglas Prize - Aggregation of tau and alpha-synuclein: towards a therapeutic target in neurodegenerative diseases

Professor Maria Spillantini, Professor of Molecular Neurology Dept Clinical Neurosciences - University of Cambridge

Thursday 18th October 2018, 12.30pm -  Anatomy Lecture Theatre - Doorway 3, Room 425, Teviot - Medical School

Host: Prof David Wyllie

***Live streamed to: Seminar Room 6, Chancellor's Building***

Publishing in Nature Neuroscience

Shari Wiseman, Editor for Nature Neuroscience, NYC 

Tuesday 16th October 2018, 1:00 pm, Hugh Robson Lecture Theatre

Host: Dr Emily Osterweil

***Live streamed to: Boardroom 2nd Floor, Chancellor's Building***

Mechanisms of excitability defects in Fragile X Syndrome

Dr Vitaly Klyachko, Washington University School of Medicine

Friday 12th October 2018, 1:00 pm, Hugh Robson Lecture Theatre

Host: Prof Peter Kind

***Followed by a drinks reception in HRB common room***

Juvenile NMDA receptors: gate-keepers of brain development and cognition

Professor Isabel Pérez-Otaño, Instituto de Neurociencias de Alicante, Spain

Thursday 11th October 2018, 1:00 pm, Hugh Robson Lecture Theatre

Host: Prof David Wyllie

***Live streamed to: Seminar Room 6, Chancellor's Building***

Zebrafish Amygdaloid Complex and Eversion 

Dr Thomas Müller, Kansas State University, USA

Monday 1st October , 1:00 pm,  Lecture Theatre B, Chancellor's Building

Host: Prof Catherina Becker

***Live streamed to: Room 6, Hugh Robson Building***

Actinopathies: From Mutations To Treatment

Dr Julien Ochala, Reader in Muscle Physiology, Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, King's College London

Thursday 27th September, 1:00 pm, Hugh Robson Lecture Theatre

Host: Dr Robin Beaven 

***Live streamed to: Seminar Room 6, Chancellor's Building***

Olfactory Food Perception Rewires Organismal Proteostasis

Prof Thorsten Hoppe, CECAD Cologne and Institute for Genetics

Thursday 20th September 2018, 1:00 pm, Hugh Robson Lecture Theatre

Host: Dr Emanuel Busch

***Live streamed to: Seminar Room 6, Chancellor's Building***

Neural ensemble dynamics in the brainstem for global brain state regulation

Dr Shuzo Sakata, Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, The University of Strathclyde, Glasgow

Monday 17th September 2018, 1:00 pm, Lecture Theatre B, Chancellor's Building

Host: Dr Szu-Han Wang

***Live streamed to: Room G6, Hugh Robson Building***

Perturbed TDP-43 autoregulation: the key to disease in ALS-FTD

Dr Jemeen Sreedharan, Cambridge Neuroscience, University of Cambridge

Thursday 13th September, 1:00 pm, Hugh Robson Lecture Theatre

Host: Dr Chris Henstridge

***Live streamed to: Seminar Room 6, Chancellor's Building***

Epigenetic regulation of axon regeneration: the role of gene repression

Dr Valeria Cavalli, Associate Professor of Neuroscience, Hope Center for Neurological Disorders, Center of Regenerative Medicine Washington University

Monday 10th September, 1:00 pm, Hugh Robson Lecture Theatre

Host: Prof Giles Hardingham

***Live streamed to: Lecture Theatre B, Chancellor's Building, Little France***

Molecular mechanisms of glutamate receptor trafficking

Dr Victor Anggono, Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland, Australia

Friday 27th July 2018, 1:00 pm, Lecture Theatre , Hugh Robson Building

Host: Professor Mike Cousin

***Live streamed to: Room GU216, NRIE UoE Auditorium B, Chancellors Building****

Molecular and structural bases for synaptic plasticity - molecules and structure of PSD

Professor Tatsuo Suzuki, Department of Neuroplasticity, Shinshu University

5th July, 1:00pm, Lecture Theatre B, Chancellors Building

Host: Dr Noboru Komiyama

***Live streamed to: Room 174 - Hugh Robson Building, George Square***

Activity-dependent myelination and its role in learning

Professor William D Richardson, Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research, UCL

4th June 2018, 1:00 pm, Lecture Theatre B, Chancellors Building

Host: Professor David Lyons

***Live streamed to: Room G6 - Hugh Robson Building, George Square***

 

Mechanisms of homeostatic plasticity in mouse visual cortex

Dr Tara Keck, Neuro, Physiology & Pharmacology, UCL

31st May 2018, 1:00 pm, Hugh Robson Building Lecture Theatre

Host: Dr Nathalie Rochefort

 

Molecular connection between calcium-regulated exocytosis and compensatory endocytosis in neuroendocrine cells and neurons

Dr. Stéphane Gasman, Cellular and Integrative Neurosciences Institute (INCI), Université de Strasbourg

24th May 2018, 1:00 pm, Hugh Robson Building Lecture Theatre

Host: Professor Mike Cousin

***Live streamed to: Room FU223 - Seminar Room 4, Chancellor's Building, Little France***

Brain oxygen sensing

Professor Alexander Gourine, Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology, UCL London

10th May 2018, 1:00 pm, Hugh Robson Building Lecture Theatre

Host:   Professor Mark Evans

***Live streamed to: Room FU223 - Seminar Room 4, Chancellor's Building, Little France***

Dynamic control of stress axis and pituitary endocrine excitability

Professor Mike Shipston, Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh

3rd May 2018, 1:00 pm, Gaddum Lecture Theatre (1 George Square) (Streamed to Rm G7, 1 GS if capacity is required)

Hosts: Dr. Karen Smillie and Dr. Emanuel Busch

***Live streamed to: Lecture Theatre B, Chancellor's Building, Little France***

A deep-superficial sublayer perspective of hippocampal function

 Dr Liset Menendez de la Prida

 26th April  2018, 1:00 pm, Lecture Theatre, Hugh Robson Building.

Host: Prof Matt Nolan

***Live streamed to: FU223 - Seminar Room 4, Chancellor's Building, Little France***

The mechanical control of neuronal development and regeneration

Dr. Kristian Franze, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge.

 23th April 2018, 1:00 pm, Lecture Theatre B, Chancellors Building.

Host:  Dr. Leah Herrgen

***Live streamed to: Room G6, Hugh Robson Building, George Square****

Facilities around Edinburgh University: what they can do for us

Prof Mark Blaxter (Edinburgh Genomics)Dr Andy Finch (IGMM Mass Spectrometry Facility), Dr Marja Karttunen and Mr Tim McBride (Research Support Office)

19th April 2018, 1:00 pm, Hugh Robson Building Lecture Theatre

Host:Dr. Karen Smillie and Dr. Emanuel Busch

***Live streamed to: Lecture Theatre A - Chancellor's Building, Little France*** 

The dynamic architecture of the visual cortex:  How to keep my brain young?

Professor Siegrid Löwel, University of Göttingen

16th April 2018, 4:00 pm, Hugh Robson Building Lecture Theatre

Host: Dr Nathalie Rochefort 

The Simons Initiative for the Developing Brain Seminar

Adaptive immune responses and post-stroke dementia

Dr. Marion S. Buckwalter, Department of Neurology, Stanford University Medical Center

16th April 2018, 1:00 pm, Lecture Theatre B, Chancellors Building.

Host: Dr Laura McCulloch

***Live streamed to: Room 174, Hugh Robson Building, George Square***

Dmrt transcription factors in the control of early cortical development

Professor Eric J. Bellefroid, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)

12th April 2018, 1:00 pm, Hugh Robson Building Lecture Theatre

Host: Dr Thomas Theil

***Live streamed to: FU223 - Seminar Room 4, Chancellor's Building, Little France***

Using the visual system to understand spatiotemporal memory in the cortical circuits

Dr Jeff Govornik , Boston University

5th April 2018, 1:00 pm, Hugh Robson Building Lecture Theatre

Host: Dr Emily Osterweil

***Live streamed to: Room FU223 - Seminar Room 4 Chancellors Building Little France***

It takes a brain to control immunity

Professor Asya Rolls, The Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of MedicineTechnion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa

Rappaport Medical School, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa

15th March 2018, 1:00 pm, Gaddum Lecture Theatre (1 George Square) 

Host: Professor Tara Spires-Jones

***Live streamed to: Undergraduate Teaching Room, Chancellor's Building, Little France ***

Developing new technology to treat pain and itch

Dr. Paul Heppenstall, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Italy

12th March 2018, 1:00 pm, Lecture Theatre B, Chancellors Building.

Host:  Professor Peter Brophy

***Live streamed to: Room G6, Hugh Robson Building, George Square****

Axonal remodeling following spinal cord injury

Dr. Florence Bareyre, Institute of Clinical Neuroimmunology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

5th March 2018, 1:00 pm, Lecture Theatre B, Chancellors Building.

Host: Professor Catherina G. Becker

***Live streamed to: Room G35, Link Hugh Robson Building***

New optical probes for TRP channels ­ spotlight on the lipid-gating machinery

Professor Klaus Groschner, Institute of Biophysics, Medical University of Graz

1 March 2018, 1:00 pm, Hugh Robson Building Lecture Theatre

Host:  Professor Mark Evans

***Live streamed to: Lecture Theatre B, Chancellor's Building, Little France***

Regulation of Optic Pathway Development by Down’s Syndrome Cell Adhesion Molecule (DSCAM)

Professor Lynda Erskine, The Institute of Medical Sciences, University of Aberdeen

26th February 2018, 1:00 pm, Lecture Theatre B, Chancellors Building.

Host:  Dr Thomas Becker

***Live streamed to: Room G6, Hugh Robson Building, George Square***

Synthetic Biology tools to manipulate dynamic biomedical systems

Prof. Andrew Millar, SynthSys, University of Edinburgh

22nd February 2018, 1:00 pm, Hugh Robson Building Lecture Theatre

Host: Dr. Karen Smillie and Dr. Emanuel Busch

***Live streamed to: FU224 - SR3, Chancellor's Building, Little France***

Network topology analysis reveals substructures within the synaptic proteome associated with complex human phenotypes

Prof. Douglas Armstrong, Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation, University of Edinburgh

15th February 2018, 1:00 pm, Hugh Robson Building Lecture Theatre

Host: Dr. Karen Smillie and Dr. Emanuel Busch

***Live streamed to: GU303 - Micro lab 2, Chancellor's Building, Little France***

​​​​​Schwann cells and the control of peripheral nerve repair

Neural circuits underlying prey-capture behavior in mice

Professor Jennifer Hoy, University of Nevada, Reno

8 February 2018, 1:00 pm, Hugh Robson Building Lecture Theatre

Host:  Dr Nathalie Rochefort

***Live streamed to: SR5, Chancellor's Building, Little France***

Synaptic pruning by microglia in health and disease

Dr. Rosachiara Paolicelli (University of Zurich)

1 February 2018, 1:00 pm, Hugh Robson Building Lecture Theatre

Host:  Dr Chris Henstridge

***Live streamed to: Lecture Theatre B, Chancellor's Building, Little France***

Hindbrain centers that control and coordinate breathing and vocalization

Professor Carmen Birchmeier-Kohler, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC)

29th January 2018, Lecture Theatre B, Chancellors Building, at 13:00.

Host: Professor Catherina Becker

***Live streamed to: Room G6, Hugh Robson Building, George Square***

Cryo-electron tomography of intact human spermatozoa reveals TAILS - an interrupted helical structure in the microtubule lumen

Professor Johanna Höög (University of Gothenburg, Sweden)

25 January, 1:00 pm, Gaddum Lecture Theatre (1 George Square) 

Host: Dr Emanuel Busch

Molecular mechanisms of cortical interneuron diversity and plasticity

Professor Oscar Marin, Director of the MRC Centre for Developmental Neurobiology (CDN), King's College London.

15th January 2018, Lecture Theatre B, Chancellors Building, at 13:00.

Host: Professor Catherina Becker

***Live streamed to: Room 174, Hugh Robson Building, George Square***

Noninvasive Deep Brain Stimulation via Delivery of Temporally Interfering Electric Fields

Professor Nir Grossman (Imperial College London)

11 January, 1:00 pm, Hugh Robson Building Lecture Theatre

Host: Professor Giles Hardingham

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