Neuroscience Seminar Schedule 2010/11
The Centre for Neuroregeneration presents a fortnightly seminar series which is co-sponsored by the Euan MacDonald Centre for Motor Neurone Disease research and the Centre for Multiple Sclerosis research in Edinburgh.
These seminars offer a wide range of internal and external speakers, from postgraduate students to internationally-renowned scientists.
Seminars take place on Monday afternoons at 4.00pm in Lecture Theatre B of the Chancellors building - unless otherwise specified.
Spinal Muscular Atrophy: U7 snRNA-based correction of SMN2 splicing and investigations into the pathogenic mechanism
Monday 23 August 2010, 3.00pm
Monday 23 August 2010, 4.00pm
Seminar Room 1, Chancellor's building
Gene hunting in ALS: you wait 15 years and two come along at once!
Speaker: Professor Chris Shaw, King's College London
Monday 27 September 2010, 3.00pm
Monday 27 September 2010, 4.00pm
Seminar Room 7, Chancellor's building
Glial development and myelination in zebrafish
SPECIAL FRIDAY SEMINAR. Speaker: Professor William Talbot, Stanford University
Friday 15 October 2010, 3.00pm
Friday 15 October 2010, 4.00pm
Multiple CNS progenitor cell types during homeostasis and regeneration of the adult zebrafish brain
Speaker: Professor Michael Brand, Biotechnology Centre TU Dresden
Monday 25 October 2010, 3.00pm
Monday 25 October 2010, 4.00pm
Axonal mRNA Transport: Role in Motor Neuron Function and Degeneration
Speaker: Professor Michael Sendtner, Institute for Clinical Neurobiology, Wurzburg
Monday 8 November 2010, 4.00pm
Monday 8 November 2010, 5.00pm
Good cop, bad cop: microglia in chronic neurodegeneration and delirium
Speaker: Dr. Colm Cunningham, Trinity College, Dublin
Monday 22 November 2010, 4.00pm
Monday 22 November 2010, 5.00pm
Mechanisms of myelin-membrane sheet biogenesis
Speaker: Professor Mikael Simons, University of Gottingen
Monday 6 December 2010, 4.00pm
Monday 6 December 2010, 5.00pm
Glial precursors in the developing PNS: Mechanisms of their differentiation and their odd eating habits
SPECIAL THURSDAY SEMINAR. Speaker: Professor Bruce Carter, Vanderbilt University
Thursday 16 December 2010, 4.00pm
Thursday 16 December 2010, 5.00pm
Homeostatic plasticity: from synapses to the axon initial segment
Speaker: Dr. Juan Burrone, King's College London
Monday 10 January 2011, 4.00pm
Monday 10 January 2011, 5.00pm
Claw Paw meets the Adams family: control of peripheral nerve development
Speaker: Dr. Dies Meijer, Erasmus University, Rotterdam
Monday 24 January 2011, 4.00pm
Monday 24 January 2011, 5.00pm
Role of the snoRNA snord115 in regulating serotonin 2C receptor function by post-transcriptional modification: behavioural and molecular analyses
Speaker: Dr. Anthony Isles, Cardiff University
Monday 7 February 2011, 4.00pm
Monday 7 February 2011, 5.00pm
Balancing self-renewal and differentiation during nervous system development
Speaker: Prof. Andrea Brand, The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge
Monday 21 February 2011, 4.00pm
Monday 21 February 2011, 5.00pm
Schwann cell polarization during myelination: molecular basis and relevance
Speaker: Dr. Nicholas Tricaud, Institute of Cell Biology, Zurich
Monday 7 March 2011, 4.00pm
Monday 7 March 2011, 5.00pm
White matter changes in myelin disease: lessons from genetic mouse models
Speaker: Dr. Julia Edgar, University of Glasgow
Monday 21 March 2011, 4.00pm
Monday 21 March 2011, 5.00pm
Regeneration of the peripheral nervous system - links to tumourigenesis
Speaker: Prof. Alison Lloyd, University College London
Monday 23 May 2011, 3.00pm
Monday 23 May 2011, 4.00pm
Spinal muscular atrophy: from gene and modifiers to therapy
Speaker: Prof. Brunhilde Wirth, Institute of Human Genetics, Cologne
Monday 6 June 2011, 3.00pm
Monday 6 June 2011, 4.00pm
**** Further dates and speakers to be confirmed soon ****
For more information about the seminar series and directions, please use the following links: