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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