Seminar Room, John van Geest Centre for Brain Repair, Forvie Site


2023-07-11 16:00: “Energy Matters: Programming axonal mitochondrial maintenance and bioenergetics to power neural regeneration” (Dr Zu-Hang Sheng, NINDS, NIH)

2023-07-11 16:00: “Energy Matters: Programming axonal mitochondrial maintenance and bioenergetics to power neural regeneration” (Dr Zu-Hang Sheng, NINDS, NIH)

2023-10-05 12:00: “Thoughts on the interaction of different memory systems: evidence from semantic dementia”  (Professor Karalyn Patterson, University of Cambridge )

2023-10-10 16:30: “Unexpected physiologic role of alpha-synuclein Serine-129 phosphorylation” (Professor Subhojit Roy, University of California, San Diego)

2023-11-09 12:00: “Translational applications of human brain charts: from clinical to population neuroscience” (Dr Richard Bethlehem, University of Cambridge)

2024-01-11 12:00: “Are Toll-like receptors and inflammasomes therapeutic targets for neuroinflammation?”  (Prof Clare Bryant, University of Cambridge)

2024-01-19 13:00: "The Importance of Behavioural Bioassays in Neuroscience" (Prof Richard Brown, Dalhousie University, Canada )

2024-01-25 12:00: “Ambient Mass Spectrometry in Neuroscience: From spatial biology to neurosurgery”  (Prof Zoltan Takats, Imperial College London)

2024-02-01 12:00: “Complement in Alzheimer’s Disease” (Dr Wioleta Zelek, Cardiff University)

2024-02-22 12:00: “Enhancing Insight into Neurodegenerative Disease-Associated Genes via Long-Read RNA-Sequencing”  (Dr Emil Gustavsson, University College London)

2024-02-29 12:00: “Biomarkers for Alzheimer’s disease in clinical routine - a pretty Swedish perspective” (Prof Michael Schöll, University of Gothenburg)

2024-03-07 14:00: “Atomic pathology of neurodegenerative diseases by cryo-EM of amyloid filaments” (Benjamin Ryskeldi-Falcon, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Cambridge)

2024-03-18 12:00: “The all ‘A’s: ageing, Alzheimer, autophagy, AI, and an ‘A’ compound in brain health and longevity”  (Dr Evandro Fei Fang, University of Oslo)

2024-03-28 12:00: “Tools for studying variation in the dark genome” (Dr Michael Eberle, PacBio Computational Biology Group)

2024-04-11 12:00: “Translational applications of human brain charts: from clinical to population neuroscience”  (Dr Richard Bethlehem, University of Cambridge)

2024-05-02 12:00: “On Brains and Vessels: How perivascular fibroblasts contribute to ALS neurodegeneration”  (Sebastian Lewandowski, Karolinska Institutet)

2024-05-09 13:00: “Protecting and regenerating the diseased nervous system: Lessons from development”  (Prof Michel Cayouette, Montreal Clinical Research Institute (IRCM))

2024-05-14 12:00: “Herpes and dementia: the enemy within”  (Prof Ruth Itzhaki)

2024-06-13 12:00: “Rincell-1: first-in-human, pluripotent stem cell-based therapy for hearing loss”  (Profs Marcelo Rivolta & Douglas Hartley, University of Sheffield / University of Nottingham)

2024-06-20 12:00: “Leveraging transcriptomics to understand neurodegeneration”  (Prof Mina Ryten, UK-DRI, Cambridge Centre & University College London)

2024-07-04 12:00: “A novel role at organelle contacts for protrudin, a protein that promotes axonal regeneration”  (Prof Evan Reid, University of Cambridge)

2024-07-19 13:00: “Compartmentalized intrathecal inflammation in multiple sclerosis as driver of disease progression: from neuropathology to clinical correlates” (Prof Roberta Magliozzi, University of Verona & Imperial College London)

2024-07-25 12:00: “Psychedelics: how do they work?” (Prof Robin Carhart-Harris, University of California San Francisco)