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 - 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***
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***
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***
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 Laura McCulloch
***Live streamed to: TBC, 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: TBC, Chancellor's Building***
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******
Title TBC
Thursday 22nd November 2018, 1:00 pm, Hugh Robson Lecture Theatre
Host: Prof Richard Morris
***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
***Live streamed to: Room G6, Hugh Robson Building***
Title TBC
Professor Ans van Pelt, Center for Reproductive Medicine, UMC Amsterdam
Thursday 29th November 2018, 1:00 pm, Hugh Robson Lecture Theatre
Host: Dr Federica Lopes
***Live streamed to: Seminar Room 6, Chancellor's Building***
Functional dynamics of interacting motor circuits during frog metamorphic development
Monday 3rd December 2018, 1:00pm, Lecture Theatre B, Chancellor's Building
Host: Dr HongYan Zhang
***Live streamed to: Room G6, Hugh Robson Building***
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, 1:00 pm, Gaddum Lecture Theatre
Host: Dr Lyndsay Murray
***Live streamed to: Seminar Room 6, Chancellor's Building***
Title TBC
Monday 14th January 2019, 1:00pm, Lecture Theatre B, Chancellor's Building
Host: Prof Peter Brophy
***Live streamed to: Room G6, Hugh Robson Building***
Title TBC
Professor Heidi Johansen-Berg, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford
Monday 28th January 2019, 1:00 pm, Lecture Theatre B, Chancellor's Building
Host: Prof David Lyons
***Live streamed to: Room G6, Hugh Robson Building***
Title TBC
Professor Michael Sendtner, Institute for Clinical Neurobiology, University of Würzburg
Monday 11th February 2019, 1:00 pm, Lecture Theatre B, Chancellor's Building
Host: Prof Sidharthan Chandran
***Live streamed to: Room G6, Hugh Robson Building***
Mechanisms involved in dopaminergic circuitry formation and maintenance
Dr Lia Panman, MRC Toxicology Unit, Leicester
Thursday 21st February 2019, 1:00 pm, Hugh Robson Lecture Theatre
***Live streamed to: Seminar Room 6, Chancellor's Building***
Title TBC
Professor Corinne Houart, MRC Centre - Developmental Neurobiology, Kings College London
Monday 25th February 2019, 1:00 pm, Lecture Theatre B, Chancellor's Building
Host: Prof Catherina Becker
***Live streamed to: Room G6, Hugh Robson Building***
Title TBC
Monday 11th March 2019, 1pm, Lecture Theatre B, Chancellor's Building
Host: Prof Seth Grant
***Live streamed to: Room G6, Hugh Robson Building***
Neural dynamics of a memory trace in the hippocampus circuit, and beyond
Dr David Dupret, University of Oxford
Thursday 21st March 2019, 1pm, Hugh Robson Lecture Theatre
Host: Dr Emma Wood & Prof Matt Nolan
***Live streamed to: Chancellor's Building***
Title TBC
Monday 25th March 2019, 1pm, Lecture Theatre B, Chancellor's Building
Host: Prof David Lyons
***Live streamed to: Room G6, Hugh Robson Building***
Title TBC
Professor Clea Warburton, School of Physiology, Pharmacology & Neuroscience, University of Bristol
Monday 29th April 2019, 1pm, Lecture Theatre B, Chancellor's Building
Host: Dr Szu-Han Wang
***Live streamed to: Room G6, Hugh Robson Building***
Title TBC
Dr Martin Meyer, Reader of Neuroscience, King's College London
Monday 20th May 2019, 1pm, Lecture Theatre B, Chancellor's Building
Host: Dr Leah Herrgen
***Live streamed to: Room G6, Hugh Robson Building***