Seminar Series
Seminars are held on Thursdays at 1:00 pm in the Hugh Robson Lecture Theatre and fortnightly on Monday at 1:00 pm in Chancellor's Building Lecture Theatre B, unless otherwise indicated.
Our seminars are sponsored in part by The Physiological Society, the Anne Rowling Regenerative Neurology Clinic, Alzheimer’s Research UK Scotland Network, the Edinburgh Centre for Multiple Sclerosis Research and the Euan MacDonald Centre.
The Physiological Society website
Anne Rowling Regenerative Neurology Clinic
Alzheimer’s Research UK Scotland Network
Mary Pickford Lecture/Alison Douglas Prize - 'Sex differences in the effects of early life stress'
Thursday 26th September, 2019, 12.30pm, Anatomy Lecture Theatre, Teviot
Host: Prof Tara Spires-Jones
***Live Streamed to: Seminar Room 6, Chancellor's Building***
SIDB Seminar - Altered somatosensory processing in autism spectrum disorders: mechanisms and emerging therapeutic approaches
Monday 30th September, 2019, 1pm, Anatomy Lecture Theatre, Teviot
Host: Prof Peter Kind
Title tbc
Dr Chih-Jen (Lance) Lin, Senior Research Fellow, MRC Centre for Reproductive Health, University of Edinburgh
Thursday 10th October, 2019, 1pm, Hugh Robson Building Lecture Theatre
Host: Prof Norah Spears
***Live Streamed to: Seminar Room 6, Chancellor's Building***
The role of olfactory system dysfunction in the pathogenesis of neurodegenerative diseases
Dr Rona Graham, Assistant Professor,Department of Pharmacology-Physiology, Université de Sherbrooke
Thursday 24th October, 2019, 1pm, Hugh Robson Building Lecture Theatre
Host: Prof Mike Ludwig
***Live Streamed to: Seminar Room 6, Chancellor's Building***
Title tbc
Prof Stephen B McMahon, Professor of Physiology at King’s College London
Monday 11th November 2019, 1pm, Lecture Theatre B, Chancellor's Building
Host: Prof Peter Brophy
***Live Streamed to: Room G6 HRB***
Unraveling fundamental aspects of motor neuron biology in health and disease
Dr Eva Hedlund, Associate Professor of Neurobiology at Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
Thursday 21st November 2019, 1pm, Hugh Robson Building Lecture Theatre
Host: Dr Lyndsay Murray
***Live Streamed to: Seminar Room 6, Chancellor's Building***
Title tbc
Dr Marianna Bugiani, Amsterdam Neuroscience, VU University Medical Centre Amsterdam
Monday 25th November 2019, 1pm, Lecture Theatre B, Chancellor's Building
Host: Prof Anna Williams
***Live Streamed to: Room G6 HRB***
Title tbc
Monday 16th December 2019, 1pm, Lecture Theatre B, Chancellor's Building
Host: Prof Seth Grant
***Live Streamed to: Room G6 HRB***
Title tbc
Prof Ellen Nollen, European Research Institute for the Biology of Ageing, ERIBA (Netherlands)
Thursday 23rd January 2020, 1pm, Hugh Robson Building Lecture Theatre
Host: Dr Maria Doitsidou
***Live Streamed to: Seminar Room 6, Chancellor's Building***
Title tbc
Dr Natalia Kononenko, Research Group Leader, CECAD Research Center, University of Cologne
Thursday 5th March 2020, 1pm, Hugh Robson Building Lecture Theatre
Host: Prof Mike Cousin
***Live Streamed to: Seminar Room 6, Chancellor's Building***