2011 seminars & events

Archived list of the 2011 seminars & events at the Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences.

January

Mechanisms of actin patch assembly and disassembly during endocytosis in fission yeast

Wednesday 12 January 2011, 1.30pm
Dr. Julien Berro (Yale University)

 

4th Facility Manager Meeting/BioImaging UK

The CALM and IMPACT imaging facilities will be hosting the annual BioImaging UK Facility Manager Meeting in the CIP on the 6th and 7th January 2011.

BioImaging UK

Molecular mechanisms controlling synapse formation and stability

Friday 21 January 2011, 1.30pm
Dr Jan Pielage (Friedrich Miescher Institute, Basel)

Cellular calcium signalling: how many compartments, where and when?

Friday 28 January 2011, 1.30pm
Professor Mark Evans (Centre for Integrative Physiology)

Involvement of neurotrophic factors in neurodegenerative disorders

Friday 28 January 2011, 1.30pm
Dr Liliana Minichiello (Centre for Neuroregeneration)

February

Intracellular functions of myosin VI in exocytic membrane traffic and cell motility

Friday 4 February 2011, 1.30pm
Dr Folma Buss (Cambridge Institute for Medical Research)

Cell-cell interactions during myelinated axon formation in vivo

Friday 11 February 2011, 1.30pm
Dr David Lyons (Centre for Neuroregeneration)

Social brain function in the autism and schizophrenia spectrums

Friday 11 February 2011, 1.30pm
Dr Andrew Stanfield (CCBS)

Pharmacological rescue of social and learning deficits in the oxytocin receptor null mice: implications for autism

Friday 18 February 2011, 1.30pm
Dr Bice Chini (Institute of Neuroscience)

Purkinje cell degeneration: the beta-III spectrin connection

Friday 25 February 2011, 1.30pm
Dr Mandy Jackson (Centre for Integrative Physiology)

Function and plasticity in the vestibular system and cerebellum

Friday 25 February 2011, 1.30pm
Professor Mayank Dutia (Centre for Integrative Physiology)

March

 

UK Cerebellum Club

3rd Annual Meeting - Friday 4th March 2011

UK Cerebellum Club

Vesicle pool dynamics at central synapses

Friday 4 March 2011, 1.30pm
Dr Kevin Staras (University of Sussex)

The rules of synaptic plasticity

Friday 11 March 2011, 1.30pm
Dr Mark van Rossum (School of Informatics)

Molecular pathways regulating synaptic degeneration

Friday 11 March 2011, 1.30pm
Professor Tom Gillingwater (Centre for Integrative Physiology)

Building thalamo-corticol projections: roles of migrating guidepost cells

Friday 18 March 2011, 1.30pm
Dr Sonia Garel (INSERM, Paris)

Neurobiology of social bonding: Implications for autism spectrum disorders

Friday 25 March 2011, 1.30pm
Dr Larry Young (University of Atlanta)

April

Synaptic plasticity in cortex and hippocampus: mechanisms and function

Friday 1 April 2011, 12.30pm
Professor Zafar Bashir (University of Bristol)

 

Molecular mechanisms of Exocytosis & Endocytosis

The eighth meeting to bring together young scientists working on the common theme of exocytosis and endocytosis will be held on 3rd-5th April 2011

Molecular mechanisms of Exocytosis & Endocytosis

Spider web-fishing in the brain: a new receptor pair and synapse activation

Wednesday 27 April 2011, 12.30pm
Professor Yuri Ushkaryov (Imperial College London)

May 2011

Role of glia in establishing neuronal domains

Friday 13 May 2011, 12.30pm
Professor Peter Brophy (Centre for Neuroregeneration)

Tuberous sclerosis, is haploinsufficiency sufficient?

Friday 13 May 2011, 12.30pm
Dr Lynsey Meikle (Centre for Integrative Physiology)

Zinc Finger Nuclease technology: A new paradigm for the creation of knockout and transgenic models

Tuesday 17 May 2011, 12.30pm
Dr David Cleaver (Sigma-Sage)

High-resolution localization reveals unique cell-surface distribution patterns of ion channels

Friday 20 May 2011, 12.30pm
Dr Zoltan Nusser (Institute of Experimental Medicine, Hungary)

August

Joint Research Symposium

The Inaugural symposium aims to facilitate both Research Collaborations and a Post-Graduate Exchange Programme, and will be held on 23-24th August 2011.

Joint Research Symposium

October

A random walk in integrative physiology

Friday 7 October 2011, 12.30pm
Prof Gareth Leng (Centre for Integrative Physiology)

Synaptic integration in cerebellar behaviours: dissecting the roles of HCN1 channels'

Friday 14 October 2011, 12.30pm
Dr Matt Nolan (Centre for Integrative Physiology)

How early patterning affects axon pathfinding in the developing forebrain

Friday 14 October 2011, 12.30pm
Dr Thomas Theil (Centre for Integrative Physiology)

Bridging the gap to the superhighway in cells

Friday 21 October 2011, 12.30pm
Dr Tim Levine (University College, London)

Adventures in integrative physiology: harnessing Drosophila genetics to model renal function in health and disease

Friday 28 October 2011, 12.30pm

Professor Julian Dow (University of Glasgow)

November

Early-life programming of affective behaviour : Imaging the conscious brain

Friday 4 November 2011, 1.30pm
Professor Megan Holmes (Centre for Cardiovascular Science)

Invadolysin: what's a nice metalloprotease like you doing in a place like this

Friday 4 November 2011, 1.30pm
Professor Margarete Heck (Centre for Cardiovascular Science)

Pre- and postsynaptic NMDA receptors in neocortical synaptic plasticity

Friday 18 November 2011, 1.30pm
Professor Ole Paulsen (University of Cambridge)

Novel mechanism controlling central neuropeptide action physiological degradation of oxytocin

Friday 25 November 2011, 1.30pm
Professor Alison Douglas (Centre for Integrative Physiology)

Genes and networks in development and disease

Friday 25 November 2011, 1.30pm
Professor Veronica van Heyningen (School of Molecular, Genetic and Population Health Sciences)

December

Dual role of endocytic molecules during the synaptic vesicle cycle

Friday 2 December 2011, 1.30pm
Professor Oleg Shupliakov (Karolinska Institute, Sweden)

Can’t move to the rhythm? Inappropriate neuronal synchrony and oscillations in Parkinson’s disease

Friday 9 December 2011, 1.30pm
Dr Peter Magill (University of Oxford)