List of the 2021 Seminars & Events at the Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences. 'Microglia in neurovascular interactions and sexually dimorphic behaviour' Dr Eyo Ukpong, University of Virginia, USA Monday 13th December 2021, 14:00 Host: Dr Blanca Diaz + Lida Zoupi 'Firing Rate Homeostasis in Neural Circuits: From Basic Principles to Malfunctions' Prof Inna Slutsky, Chair, Department of Physiology & Pharmacology, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University Thursday 2nd December 2021, 13:00 Host: Dr Nathalie Rochefort 'GL Brown Lecture - 2021 'Cystic Fibrosis: From Gene to Precision Medicines' Prof David Sheppard, Professor of Physiology, School of Physiology, Pharmacology & Neuroscience, University of Bristol Thursday 25th November 2021, 13:00 Host: Prof David Wyllie + Dr Carole Torsney 'Reverse engineering a cortical inhibitory interneuron axon' Dr Hua Hu, Section of PhysiologyDepartment of Molecular MedisinUniversity of Oslo Monday 22nd November 2021, 13:00 Host: Dr Jian Gan 'Insights into the function of ciliopathy proteins gained through zebrafish models' Prof Ruxandra Bachmann-Gagescu, Institute of Medical Genetics, University of Zurich Thursday 18th November 2021, 13:00 Host: Dr Thomas Theil 'Optical Dissection of Brain Capillary Function' Dr Andy Shih, Seattle Children's Research Institute, USA Monday 8th November 2021, 16:00 Host: Dr Axel Montagne 'Regulation of spinal cord excitability in translational models of acute and chronic pain' Dr Michael Hildebrand, Department of Neuroscience, Carleton University Thursday 4th November 2021, 13:00 Host: Dr Carole Torsney 'Identification and manipulation of individual memories following age-related cognitive decline or Alzheimer’s disease' Prof Christine Ann Denny, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, USA Monday 25th October 2021, 14:00 Host: Dr Szu-Han Wang 'Drugs for healthier ageing' MARY PICKFORD LECTURE AND ALISON DOUGLAS PRIZE (best PhD thesis) Dame Linda Partridge, University College London, and Founding Director of the Max Planck Institute for the Biology of Ageing, Cologne, Germany Friday 22nd October (click here for full details) Host: Prof David Wyllie 'Hippocampal neurogenesis and forgetting' Prof Paul Frankland, Hospital for Sick Children Research, University of Toronto Thursday 7th October, 2021, 13.00 Host: Prof Richard Morris 'Experience-Dependent Myelination: Neuropeptides as Axonal Signals for Oligodendrocyte Differentiation and Myelination' Prof Jonah Chan, Neuroimmunology and Glial Biology, University of California, San Francisco Monday 27th September, 2021, 4pm Host: Prof David Lyons 'Neural episode generators driving hormone secretion' Professor Allan Herbison, Professor of Neuroendocrinology, Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow, University of Cambridge Thursday 10th June, 2021, 1pm Host: Dr Nicola Romano 'Targeting critical regulators of neuroinflammation in hypoxic brain injury in neonates' Dr Jennifer Dowling, Royal college of Surgeons, Dublin Thursday 27th May, 2021, 1pm Host: Dr Karen Smillie 'A Network-based Approach for Understanding and Treating Cognitive Aging' Dr Sara N Burke, Associate Professor of Neuroscience and Associate Director of the Cognitive Aging and Memory Center, Florida, USA Monday 17th May, 2021, 1pm Host: Dr Szu-Han Wang 'Biomolecular condensates of Tau proteins and their potential physiological and pathological roles' Dr Suze Wegmann, DZNE, Berlin, Germany Thursday 13th May, 2021, 1pm Host: Prof Tara Sprires-Jones 'Experience-Dependent Myelination: Neuropeptides as Axonal Signals for Oligodendrocyte Differentiation and Myelination' CANCELLED - Prof Jonah Chan, Department of Neurology , Weill Institute for Neurosciences, University of California, San Francisco. Monday 19th April 2021, 4pm Host: Prof David Lyons 'Decoding motor neuron resilience, vulnerability and regeneration in motor neuron diseases to develop therapeutic strategies' Prof Eva Hedlund, Associate Professor of Neurobiology at Karolinska Institutet Thursday 15th April 2021, 1pm Host: Dr Lyndsay Murray 'Regulating the ups and downs, and ins and outs of synaptic receptors in health and disease' Prof Jeremy Henley, Centre for Synaptic Plasticity, University of Bristol, UK Monday 22nd March 2021, 1pm Host: Prof Peter Brophy 'Genomic profiling for prediction of Alzheimer’s disease risk' Prof Valentina Escott-Price, UK Dementia Research Institute, Cardiff, UK Monday 8th March 2021, 1pm Host: Dr Blanca Díaz-Castro 'How the immune system affects synaptic function' Prof Michela Matteoli,CNR Institute of Neuroscience and Humanitas Neuro Center, Milano Thursday 4th March 2021, 1pm Host: Makis Tzioras 'Effects of stroke beyond the brain' Prof Connie Wong, Centre for Inflammatory Disease Monash Health, Monash University, Australia. Monday 22nd February 2021, 9am Host: Dr Laura McCulloch 'The role of the ventral pallidum and globus pallidus in motivation and outcome evaluation' Dr Marcus Stephenson-Jones, Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, London, UK Thursday 18th February 2021, 1pm Host: Prof Ian Duguid ‘Spatial representation in the hippocampal-entorhinal network’ Dr Guifen Chen, Queen Mary University of London, UK Monday 8th February 2021, 1pm Host: Dr Jian Gan 'The intrinsic mechanisms promote axon regrowth and locomotor circuit re-establishment after spinal cord injury in adult zebrafish' Prof Jianren Song: School of Medicine, Tongji University, Shanghai Monday 25th January 2021, 12pm Host: Dr Thomas Becker This article was published on 2022-10-17
