College of Medicine & Veterinary Medicine

Neuroscience Seminar Schedule 2012/13

CNR 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 1pm in either a Lecture Theatre in the Chancellors building or the Wellcome auditorium at the Queens Medical Research Institute (QMRI), both situated at Little France Crescent .

Synaptic organisation of neural circuits for encoding location

Speaker: Dr Matthew Nolan, Centre for Integrative Physiology, University of Edinburgh

Monday 13 May 2013, 1.00pm

Monday 13 May 2013, 2.00pm

Lecture Theatre B, Chancellors Building

Modelling and Gene-Based Therapeutics for neurodegenerative diseases - CANCELLED

Speaker: Prof. Mimoun Azzouz, Professor of Translational Neuroscience, University of Sheffield THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED

Monday 6 May 2013, 1.00pm

Monday 6 May 2013, 2.00pm

Lecture Theatre B, Chancellors Building

Living a life of Stress: Consequences on affective and cognitive behaviours

Speaker: Prof. Megan Holmes, University/BHF Centre for Cardiovascular Science, Edinburgh.

Monday 29 April 2013, 1.00pm

Monday 29 April 2013, 2.00pm

Lecture Theatre B, Chancellors Building

Seeing what the brain sees: functional imaging in the zebrafish visual system

Speaker: Dr Martin Meyer, King's College London.

Monday 15 April 2013, 1.00pm

Monday 15 April 2013, 2.00pm

Seminar Room 2, Chancellors Building

A novel partner for GluN2A containing NMDA receptors, RNF10: a spine to nucleus signal

Speaker: Prof. Monica Di Luca, Department of Pharmacological Sciences, University of Milan.

Monday 25 March 2013, 2.00pm

Monday 25 March 2013, 3.00pm

Lecture Theatre B, Chancellors Building

Optogenetic dissection of spinal circuits

Speaker: Dr Andrew Jackson, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh.

Monday 11 March 2013, 2.00pm

Monday 11 March 2013, 3.00pm

Lecture Theatre B, Chancellors Building

The Na pump as an activity-dependent memory device embedded in spinal motor networks

Speaker: Prof. Keith Sillar, Professor of Neuroscience, University of St Andrews.

Monday 25 February 2013, 2.00pm

Monday 25 February 2013, 3.00pm

Lecture Theatre B, Chancellors Building

Development and function of Brain commissures

Speaker: Dr. Alain Chedotal, Institute of Vision, Paris.

Monday 11 February 2013, 2.00pm

Monday 11 February 2013, 3.00pm

Seminar Room 2, Chancellors Building

A murine myelin reporter system reveals dynamic refinement of sheath length following spinal cord injury

Speaker: Dr. Phil Horner, Center on Human Development and Disability, University of Washington

Monday 28 January 2013, 2.00pm

Monday 28 January 2013, 3.00pm

Lecture Theatre B, Chancellors Building

Frontotemporal Dementia: from fibs to FUS

Speaker: Prof. John Hodges, Professor of Cognitive Neurology, University of New South Wales

Monday 14 January 2013, 2.00pm

Monday 14 January 2013, 3.00pm

Lecture Theatre B, Chancellors Building

Origin, properties and homeostasis of adult neural stem cells in the adult zebrafish telencephalon

Speaker: Prof. Laure Bally-Cuif

Monday 17 December 2012, 2.00pm

Monday 17 December 2012, 3.00pm

Lecture Theatre B, Chancellors Building

Glia, axons and injury

Speaker: Prof. Robert Fern

Monday 3 December 2012, 2.00pm

Monday 3 December 2012, 3.00pm

Lecture Theatre B, Chancellors Building

Gene-environment interactions and experience-dependent plasticity in mouse models of brain disorders

Speaker: Dr Anthony Hannan

Monday 12 November 2012, 2.00pm

Monday 12 November 2012, 3.00pm

Lecture Theatre B, Chancellors Building

Inherited neuropathies: from molecular biology to therapy

Speaker: Dr. Angelo Schenone, University of Genoa

Monday 5 November 2012, 2.00pm

Monday 5 November 2012, 3.00pm

Lecture Theatre B, Chancellors Building

Genetic considerations for clinical application of human iPS cells

Speaker: Dr Kosuke Yusa, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge

Tuesday 30 October 2012, 2.00pm

Tuesday 30 October 2012, 3.00pm

Lecture Theatre B, Chancellors Building

Mechanism of protein secretion: conventional and unconventional

Speaker: Prof. Vivek Malhotra, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Barcelona

Monday 22 October 2012, 1.00pm

Monday 22 October 2012, 2.00pm

Lecture Theatre B, Chancellors Building

Optogenetic dissection of spinal circuits

Speaker: Dr. Claire Wyart, Brain & Spine Institute (ICM), Paris

Monday 24 September 2012, 1.00pm

Monday 24 September 2012, 2.00pm

Lecture Theatre B, Chancellors Building

Synapse Molecular Diversity: Why It Matters and How to Measure It

Speaker: Prof. Stephen Smith, Stanford University

Monday 17 September 2012, 1.00pm

Monday 17 September 2012, 2.00pm

Lecture Theatre A, Chancellors Building

**** Further dates and speakers to be confirmed soon ****

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